General Computing category: 15796 books
CUDA Fortran for Scientists and Engineers
Best Practices for Efficient CUDA Fortran Programming
Language: English
Release Date: September 11, 2013
CUDA Fortran for Scientists and Engineers shows how high-performance application developers can leverage the power of GPUs using Fortran, the familiar language of scientific computing and supercomputer performance benchmarking. The authors presume no prior parallel computing experience, and cover...
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Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2011
Wireless ad hoc sensor networks has recently become a very active research subject. Achieving efficient, fault-tolerant realizations of very large, highly dynamic, complex, unconventional networks is a real challenge for abstract modelling, algorithmic design and analysis, but a solid foundational...
SciPy Recipes
A cookbook with over 110 proven recipes for performing mathematical and scientific computations
Language: English
Release Date: December 20, 2017
Tackle the most sophisticated problems associated with scientific computing and data manipulation using SciPy
Key Features
Covers a wide range of data science tasks using SciPy, NumPy, pandas, and matplotlib
Effective recipes on advanced scientific computations, statistics, data wrangling, data...
Julia Programming Projects
Learn Julia 1.x by building apps for data analysis, visualization, machine learning, and the web
Language: English
Release Date: December 26, 2018
A step-by-step guide that demonstrates how to build simple-to-advanced applications through examples in Julia Lang 1.x using modern tools
Key Features
Work with powerful open-source libraries for data wrangling, analysis, and visualization
Develop full-featured, full-stack web applications
Learn...
Quantitative Semantics and Soft Computing Methods for the Web
Perspectives and Applications
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2011
The Internet has been acknowledged as a recent technological revolution, due to its significant impact on society as a whole. Nevertheless, precisely due to its impact, limitations of the current Internet are becoming apparent; in particular, its inability to automatically take into account the meaning...
Programmed Inequality
How Britain Discarded Women Technologists and Lost Its Edge in Computing
Language: English
Release Date: February 3, 2017
How Britain lost its early dominance in computing by systematically discriminating against its most qualified workers: women.
In 1944, Britain led the world in electronic computing. By 1974, the British computer industry was all but extinct. What happened in the intervening thirty years holds...
by David R. Kaeli, Perhaad Mistry, Dana Schaa
Language: English
Release Date: June 18, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: June 18, 2015
***Heterogeneous Computing with OpenCL 2.0***teaches OpenCL and parallel programming for complex systems that may include a variety of device architectures: multi-core CPUs, GPUs, and fully-integrated Accelerated Processing Units (APUs). This fully-revised edition includes the latest enhancements...
Parallel Programming
Concepts and Practice
Language: English
Release Date: November 20, 2017
Parallel Programming: Concepts and Practice provides an upper level introduction to parallel programming. In addition to covering general parallelism concepts, this text teaches practical programming skills for both shared memory and distributed memory architectures. The authors’ open-source system...
Computing and Combinatorics
23rd International Conference, COCOON 2017, Hong Kong, China, August 3-5, 2017, Proceedings
Language: English
Release Date: July 25, 2017
This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 23rd International Conference on Computing and Combinatorics, COCOON 2017, held in Hiong Kong, China, in August 2017. The 56 full papers papers presented in this book were carefully reviewed and selected from 119 submissions.Â
The papers...
Advances in Visual Computing
11th International Symposium, ISVC 2015, Las Vegas, NV, USA, December 14-16, 2015, Proceedings, Part II
Language: English
Release Date: December 17, 2015
The two volume set LNCS 9474 and LNCS 9475 constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 11th International Symposium on Visual Computing, ISVC 2015, held in Las Vegas, NV, USA in December 2015.
The 115 revised full papers and 35 poster papers presented in this book were carefully reviewed and...
Advances in Visual Computing
11th International Symposium, ISVC 2015, Las Vegas, NV, USA, December 14-16, 2015, Proceedings, Part I
Language: English
Release Date: December 17, 2015
The two volume set LNCS 9474 and LNCS 9475 constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 11th International Symposium on Visual Computing, ISVC 2015, held in Las Vegas, NV, USA in December 2015.
The 115 revised full papers and 35 poster papers presented in this book were carefully reviewed and...
by Douglas Walton
Language: English
Release Date: August 26, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: August 26, 2013
Argumentation, which can be abstractly defined as the interaction of different arguments for and against some conclusion, is an important skill to learn for everyday life, law, science, politics and business. The best way to learn it is to try it out on real instances of arguments found in everyday...
Grid Technologies for E-Health
Applications for Telemedicine Services and Delivery
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2010
Grid computing has emerged as an important new field, distinguished from conventional distributed computing by its focus on large-scale resource sharing and innovative applications as well as an establishment for the creation of e-health networks. Grid Technologies for E-Health: Applications for Telemedicine...
Entertainment Computing and Serious Games
International GI-Dagstuhl Seminar 15283, Dagstuhl Castle, Germany, July 5-10, 2015, Revised Selected Papers
Language: English
Release Date: October 5, 2016
The aim of this book is to collect and to cluster research areas in the field of serious games and entertainment computing. It provides an introduction and gives guidance for the next generation of researchers in this field.
The 18 papers presented in this volume, together with an introduction,...