Morgan Kaufmann imprint: 454 books
Top-Down Digital VLSI Design
From Architectures to Gate-Level Circuits and FPGAs
Language: English
Release Date: December 4, 2014
Top-Down VLSI Design: From Architectures to Gate-Level Circuits and FPGAs represents a unique approach to learning digital design. Developed from more than 20 years teaching circuit design, Doctor Kaeslin’s approach follows the natural VLSI design flow and makes circuit design accessible for professionals...
Refactoring for Software Design Smells
Managing Technical Debt
Language: English
Release Date: November 11, 2014
Awareness of design smells – indicators of common design problems – helps developers or software engineers understand mistakes made while designing, what design principles were overlooked or misapplied, and what principles need to be applied properly to address those smells through refactoring....
Querying XML
XQuery, XPath, and SQL/XML in context
Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2011
XML has become the lingua franca for representing business data, for exchanging information between business partners and applications, and for adding structure–
and sometimes meaning—to text-based documents. XML offers some special challenges and opportunities in the area of search: querying...
Principles of Big Data
Preparing, Sharing, and Analyzing Complex Information
Language: English
Release Date: May 20, 2013
Principles of Big Data helps readers avoid the common mistakes that endanger all Big Data projects. By stressing simple, fundamental concepts, this book teaches readers how to organize large volumes of complex data, and how to achieve data permanence when the content of the data is constantly changing....
Physically Based Rendering
From Theory to Implementation
Language: English
Release Date: September 28, 2004
Physically Based Rendering, Second Edition, describes both the mathematical theory behind a modern photorealistic rendering system as well as its practical implementation.
A method known as literate programming combines human-readable documentation and source code into a single reference that...
Structured Parallel Programming
Patterns for Efficient Computation
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2012
Structured Parallel Programming offers the simplest way for developers to learn patterns for high-performance parallel programming. Written by parallel computing experts and industry insiders Michael McCool, Arch Robison, and James Reinders, this book explains how to design and implement maintainable...
Curves and Surfaces for CAGD
A Practical Guide
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2001
This fifth edition has been fully updated to cover the many advances made in CAGD and curve and surface theory since 1997, when the fourth edition appeared. Material has been restructured into theory and applications chapters. The theory material has been streamlined using the blossoming approach;...
Understanding Virtual Reality
Interface, Application, and Design
Language: English
Release Date: September 10, 2002
Understanding Virtual Reality arrives at a time when the technologies behind virtual reality have advanced to the point that it is possible to develop and deploy meaningful, productive virtual reality applications. The aim of this thorough, accessible exploration is to help you take advantage of this...
Systems Programming
Designing and Developing Distributed Applications
Language: English
Release Date: February 25, 2015
Systems Programming: Designing and Developing Distributed Applications explains how the development of distributed applications depends on a foundational understanding of the relationship among operating systems, networking, distributed systems, and programming. Uniquely organized around four viewpoints...
Application Administrators Handbook
Installing, Updating and Troubleshooting Software
Language: English
Release Date: September 16, 2013
An application administrator installs, updates, optimizes, debugs and otherwise maintains computer applications for an organization. In most cases, these applications have been licensed from a third party, but they may have been developed internally. Examples of application types include enterprise...
Light and Skin Interactions
Simulations for Computer Graphics Applications
Language: English
Release Date: March 4, 2010
Light and Skin Interactions immerses you in one of the most fascinating application areas of computer graphics: appearance simulation. The book first illuminates the fundamental biophysical processes that affect skin appearance, and reviews seminal related works aimed at applications in life and health...
by John Buford, Heather Yu, Eng Keong Lua
Language: English
Release Date: March 11, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: March 11, 2009
Peer-to-Peer (P2P) networks enable users to directly share digital content (such as audio, video, and text files) as well as real-time data (such as telephony traffic) with other users without depending on a central server. Although originally popularized by unlicensed online music services such as...
by Berthold Daum
Language: English
Release Date: April 29, 2003
Language: English
Release Date: April 29, 2003
XML Schema is the new language standard from the W3C and the new foundation for defining data in Web-based systems. There is a wealth of information available about Schemas but very little understanding of how to use this highly formal specification for creating documents. Grasping the power of Schemas...
Joe Celko's SQL for Smarties
Advanced SQL Programming
Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2014
SQL for Smarties was hailed as the first book devoted explicitly to the advanced techniques needed to transform an experienced SQL programmer into an expert. Now, 20 years later and in its fifth edition, this classic reference still reigns supreme as the only book written by a SQL master that teaches...