Morgan Kaufmann imprint: 454 books
Network Algorithmics
An Interdisciplinary Approach to Designing Fast Networked Devices
Language: English
Release Date: December 31, 2004
In designing a network device, you make dozens of decisions that affect the speed with which it will perform—sometimes for better, but sometimes for worse. Network Algorithmics provides a complete, coherent methodology for maximizing speed while meeting your other design goals.
Author George...
by Federico Alberto Pozzi, Elisabetta Fersini, Enza Messina
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2016
The aim of Sentiment Analysis is to define automatic tools able to extract subjective information from texts in natural language, such as opinions and sentiments, in order to create structured and actionable knowledge to be used by either a decision support system or a decision maker. Sentiment analysis...
Analyzing Social Media Networks with NodeXL
Insights from a Connected World
Language: English
Release Date: September 14, 2010
Businesses, entrepreneurs, individuals, and government agencies alike are looking to social network analysis (SNA) tools for insight into trends, connections, and fluctuations in social media. Microsoft’s NodeXL is a free, open-source SNA plug-in for use with Excel. It provides instant graphical...
by Trevor van Gorp, Edie Adams
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2012
Design for Emotion introduces you to the why, what, when, where and how of designing for emotion. Improve user connection, satisfaction and loyalty by incorporating emotion and personality into your design process. The conscious and unconscious origins of emotions are explained, while real-world examples...
Visual Thinking
for Design
Language: English
Release Date: July 27, 2010
Visual Thinking brings the science of perception to the art of design. Designers increasingly need to present information in ways that aid their audience’s thinking process. Fortunately, results from the relatively new science of human visual perception provide valuable guidance.
In this...
Mobile Technology for Children
Designing for Interaction and Learning
Language: English
Release Date: March 16, 2009
Children are one of the largest new user groups of mobile technology -- from phones to micro-laptops to electronic toys. These products are both lauded and criticized, especially when it comes to their role in education and learning. The need has never been greater to understand how these technologies...
Communicating the UX Vision
13 Anti-Patterns That Block Good Ideas
Language: English
Release Date: February 19, 2015
This book identifies the 13 main challenges designers face when they talk about their work and provides communication strategies so that a better design, not a louder argument, is what makes it into the world.
It is a fact that we all want to put great design into the world, but no product...
Rapid Contextual Design
A How-to Guide to Key Techniques for User-Centered Design
Language: English
Release Date: December 31, 2004
Is it impossible to schedule enough time to include users in your design process? Is it difficult to incorporate elaborate user-centered design techniques into your own standard design practices? Do the resources needed seem overwhelming?
This handbook introduces Rapid CD, a fast-paced, adaptive...
The Art and Science of Digital Compositing
Techniques for Visual Effects, Animation and Motion Graphics
Language: English
Release Date: May 24, 2008
The classic reference, with over 25,000 copies in print, has been massively expanded and thoroughly updated to include state-of-the-art methods and 400+ all-new full color images!
"At ILM, compositing is one of the most important tools we use. If you want to learn more, this excellent...
The UX Book
Process and Guidelines for Ensuring a Quality User Experience
Language: English
Release Date: January 25, 2012
The UX Book, winner of a 2013 Most Promising New Textbook Award from the Text and Academic Authors Association, is a comprehensive textbook on designing interaction to ensure a quality user experience. Combining breadth, depth, and practical applications, this book takes a time-tested process-and-guidelines...
Computer Animation Complete
All-in-One: Learn Motion Capture, Characteristic, Point-Based, and Maya Winning Techniques
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2009
A compilation of key chapters from the top MK computer animation books available today - in the areas of motion capture, facial features, solid spaces, fluids, gases, biology, point-based graphics, and Maya. The chapters provide CG Animators with an excellent sampling of essential techniques that...
by Tom McReynolds, David Blythe
Language: English
Release Date: February 17, 2005
Language: English
Release Date: February 17, 2005
Today truly useful and interactive graphics are available on affordable computers. While hardware progress has been impressive, widespread gains in software expertise have come more slowly. Information about advanced techniques—beyond those learned in introductory computer graphics texts—is not...
Broadband Cable Access Networks
The HFC Plant
Language: English
Release Date: November 25, 2008
Broadband Cable Access Networks focuses on broadband distribution and systems architecture and concentrates on practical concepts that will allow the reader to do their own design, improvement, and troubleshooting work. The objective is to enhance the skill sets of a large population that designs...
FTTx Networks
Technology Implementation and Operation
Language: English
Release Date: November 18, 2016
FTTX Networks: Technology Implementation and Operation provides an in-depth treatment of the technology and implementation of FTTX networks, discusses the environment that gave rise to FTTX, provides a survey of the available FTTX technologies, and gives users the state-of-the-art knowledge needed...