Computers category: 49053 books
X-Machines for Agent-Based Modeling (Open Access)
FLAME Perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: August 30, 2017
From the Foreword:
"This book exemplifies one of the most successful approaches to modeling and simulating [the] new generation of complex systems. FLAME was designed to make the building of large scale complex systems models straightforward and the simulation code that it generates is...
by Adidas Wilson
Language: English
Release Date: February 12, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: February 12, 2019
Originally, the term "hacker" referred to a programmer who was skilled in computer operating systems and machine code. Today, it refers to anyone who performs hacking activities. Hacking is the act of changing a system's features to attain a goal that is not within the original purpose of...
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Language: English
Release Date: February 20, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: February 20, 2017
This pioneering text/reference explores how innovative new modes of computation may provide exciting new directions for future developments in the music industry, guiding the reader through the latest research in this emerging, interdisciplinary field. This work includes coverage of electronic music...
Tangible Interactive Systems
Grasping the Real World with Computers
Language: English
Release Date: April 21, 2016
Distinguishing between tangible user interfaces (TUI) and tangible interactive systems (TISs), this book takes into account not only the user interfaces but also looks at how interaction can be enabled by using digital information through the physical environment. TISs go far beyond the concept of...
Ethics, Medicine, and Information Technology
Intelligent Machines and the Transformation of Health Care
Language: English
Release Date: January 14, 2016
Information technology is transforming the practices of medicine, nursing, and biomedical research. Computers can now render diagnoses and prognoses more accurately than humans. The concepts of privacy and confidentiality are evolving as data moves from paper to silicon to clouds. Big data promises...
Grand Thieves & Tomb Raiders
How British Video Games Conquered the World
Language: English
Release Date: November 8, 2012
Gaming: it’ s the greatest British invasion of them all. Lara Croft is an international icon and the British-born Grand Theft Auto and i****ts spin-offs have sold more than 100 million copies worldwide. The UK’ s games industry is now bigger than either its cinema or its music.
Yet the...
This Changes Everything – ICT and Climate Change: What Can We Do?
13th IFIP TC 9 International Conference on Human Choice and Computers, HCC13 2018, Held at the 24th IFIP World Computer Congress, WCC 2018, Poznan, Poland, September 19–21, 2018, Proceedings
Language: English
Release Date: September 10, 2018
This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 13th IFIP TC 9 International Conference on Human Choice and Computers, HCC13 2018, held at the 24th IFIP World Computer Congress, WCC 2018, in Poznan, Poland, in September 2018
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The 29 revised full papers presented were carefully reviewed...
Cross-Cultural Design
8th International Conference, CCD 2016, Held as Part of HCI International 2016, Toronto, ON, Canada, July 17-22, 2016, Proceedings
Language: English
Release Date: July 4, 2016
This book constitutes the proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Cross-Cultural Design, CCD 2016, held as part of the 18th International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction, HCII 2016, held in Toronto, ON, Canada, in July 2016 and received a total of 4354 submissions, of which 1287...
by Stefan H Unger PhD
Language: English
Release Date: September 12, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: September 12, 2014
Computers are wonderful. The internet is fantastic. You are not safe online … unless you work at it.
Every week there are several new revelations about security weaknesses in our hardware and software, theft of millions of pieces of personal information, and new software and techniques to...
by Wes Noonan, Ido Dubrawsky
Language: English
Release Date: June 2, 2006
Language: English
Release Date: June 2, 2006
The essential guide to understanding and using firewalls to protect personal computers and your network An easy-to-read introduction to the most commonly deployed network security device Understand the threats firewalls are designed to protect against Learn basic firewall architectures, practical deployment...
by John-Robert Funck
Language: English
Release Date: May 6, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: May 6, 2008
Seminar paper from the year 2006 in the subject Computer Science - Internet, New Technologies, grade: 1,0, University of Applied Sciences Südwestfalen in Iserlohn, course: English Publications and Presentations, 7 entries in the bibliography, language: English, abstract: Nowadays data processing...
A Multiple-Testing Approach to the Multivariate Behrens-Fisher Problem
with Simulations and Examples in SAS®
Language: English
Release Date: February 26, 2013
In statistics, the Behrens–Fisher problem is the problem of interval estimation and hypothesis testing concerning the difference between the means of two normally distributed populations when the variances of the two populations are not assumed to be equal, based on two independent...
Computer Science
The Hardware, Software and Heart of It
Language: English
Release Date: December 2, 2011
Computer Science: The Hardware, Software and Heart of It focuses on the deeper aspects of the two recognized subdivisions of Computer Science, Software and Hardware. These subdivisions are shown to be closely interrelated as a result of the stored-program concept. Computer Science: The Hardware, Software...
by Syngress
Language: English
Release Date: January 2, 2002
Language: English
Release Date: January 2, 2002
"Bluetooth (enabled devices) will ship in the billions of units once it gains momentum." - Martin Reynolds, Gartner Group
Bluetooth is the most exciting development in wireless computing this decade! Bluetooth enabled devices can include everything from network servers, laptop computers...