Computer Science category: 2288 books

A guide to cloud computing for students, scientists, and engineers, with advice and many hands-on examples. The emergence of powerful, always-on cloud utilities has transformed how consumers interact with information technology, enabling video streaming, intelligent personal assistants, and...

The book serves as a first introduction to computer programming of scientific applications, using the high-level Python language. The exposition is example and problem-oriented, where the applications are taken from mathematics, numerical calculus, statistics, physics, biology and finance. The book...

The book serves as a first introduction to computer programming of scientific applications, using the high-level Python language. The exposition is example and problem-oriented, where the applications are taken from mathematics, numerical calculus, statistics, physics, biology and finance. The book...

This contributed volume explores the emerging intersection between big data analytics and genomics. Recent sequencing technologies have enabled high-throughput sequencing data generation for genomics resulting in several international projects which have led to massive genomic data accumulation at...

The first textbook to teach students how to build data analytic solutions on large data sets using cloud-based technologies. This is the first textbook to teach students how to build data analytic solutions on large data sets (specifically in Internet of Things applications) using cloud-based...

This invaluable volume ends the quest to uncover the secret recipes for predicting the long-term evolution of a ring of identical elementary cells where the binary state of each cell during each generation of an attractor (i.e. after the transients had disappeared) is determined uniquely by the state...

"All-in-One is All You Need." Get complete coverage of all material included on the CompTIA Strata IT Fundamentals exam inside this comprehensive resource. Written by leading CompTIA certification and training experts, this authoritative guide covers exam FC0-U41 in full detail. You'll find...

Want to uncover the mystery of the Internet of Things?  Do you want to feel like you have an insiders knowledge of the IOT?  Then you want to read this book. With Internet of Things Volume II – you'll get a clear understanding about the building blocks used to make the Internet of Things....

Agriculture has experienced a dramatic change during the past decades. The change has been structural and technological. Structural changes can be seen in the size of current farms; not long ago, agricultural production was organized around small farms, whereas nowadays the agricultural landscape...

Hacking is both an art and the hallmark of the true computer geek; ethical hacking, practiced by experts to protect companies’ systems, can also be used to protect your own computer system and to regain access to accounts of yours that have been hacked by others. Although many people think...

Biometric indicators, such as the subject's photograph have been used by border control for decades to manually identify travelers. However security now requires more stringent tests, so passport control are experimenting with other biometric indicators, such as voice, ear and facial recognition....

Processing opened up the world of programming to artists, designers, educators, and beginners. This short book gently introduces the core concepts of computer programming and working with Processing. Written by the co-founders of the Processing project, Reas and Fry, Getting Started with Processing...

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 8th Mexican Conference on Pattern Recognition, MCPR 2016, held in Guanajuato, Mexico, in June 2016. The 34 revised full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 60 submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections...

Summary of No Place to Hide by Glenn Greenwald | Includes Analysis   Preview: Chapter 1 Edward Snowden first contacted Glenn Greenwald on December 1, 2012, using the alias name Cincinnatus. Snowden is a former Senior Advisor to the NSA, a former Field Officer...