General Computing category: 15796 books
Augmented Reality Art
From an Emerging Technology to a Novel Creative Medium
Language: English
Release Date: February 23, 2018
This is the second edition of the first ever book to explore the exciting new field of augmented reality art and its enabling technologies. The new edition has been thoroughly revised and updated, and contains 5 new chapters. As well as investigating augmented reality as a novel artistic medium the...
by Wolfgang Lehner, Kai-Uwe Sattler
Language: English
Release Date: April 6, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: April 6, 2013
The efficient management of a consistent and integrated database is a central task in modern IT and highly relevant for science and industry. Hardly any critical enterprise solution comes without any functionality for managing data in its different forms.
Web-Scale Data Management for the Cloud...
by Potter, Geoff
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2012
This is the second book in a series of ten electronic books designed to educate young children and school-age students about information technologies and the digital world they live in. Who will benefit from this book? This book is most suitable for young people in their second or third grade levels.For...
ICT Innovations 2017
Data-Driven Innovation. 9th International Conference, ICT Innovations 2017, Skopje, Macedonia, September 18-23, 2017, Proceedings
Language: English
Release Date: September 6, 2017
This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Data-Driven Innovation, ICT Innovations 2017, held in Skopje, Macedonia, in September 2017.
The 26 full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 90 submissions. They cover the following topics:...
Validated Numerics
A Short Introduction to Rigorous Computations
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2011
This textbook provides a comprehensive introduction to the theory and practice of validated numerics, an emerging new field that combines the strengths of scientific computing and pure mathematics. In numerous fields ranging from pharmaceutics and engineering to weather prediction and robotics, fast...
by Martin Bach
Language: English
Release Date: January 23, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: January 23, 2014
Expert Consolidation in Oracle Database 12c is your key to reducing data management costs and increasing data center efficiency. Consolidation and cloud computing are converging trends sweeping the industry. The same technologies enabling cloud computing enable consolidation as well, leading to savings...
Advances in Intelligent Networking and Collaborative Systems
The 9th International Conference on Intelligent Networking and Collaborative Systems (INCoS-2017)
Language: English
Release Date: August 14, 2017
The aim of this book is to provide the latest research findings, innovative research results, methods and development techniques from both theoretical and practical perspectives related to intelligent social networks and collaborative systems, intelligent networking systems, mobile collaborative systems,...
by Robert Warner
Language: English
Release Date: September 23, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: September 23, 2015
"What information do these data reveal?" "Is the information correct?" "How can I make the best use of the information?" The widespread use of computers and our reliance on the data generated by them have made these questions increasingly common and important. Computerized...
by Erol Gelenbe, Jean-Pierre Kahane
Language: English
Release Date: February 6, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: February 6, 2009
This book presents fundamental contributions to computer science as written and recounted by those who made the contributions themselves. As such, it is a highly original approach to a “living history” of the field of computer science. The scope of the book is broad in that it covers all aspects...
Social Semantics
The Search for Meaning on the Web
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2012
*Social Semantics: The Search for Meaning on the Web *provides a unique introduction to identity and reference theories of the World Wide Web, through the academic lens of philosophy of language and data-driven statistical models. The Semantic Web is a natural evolution of the Web, and this book...
A Science of Operations
Machines, Logic and the Invention of Programming
Language: English
Release Date: February 14, 2011
Today, computers fulfil a dazzling array of roles, a flexibility resulting from the great range of programs that can be run on them.
A Science of Operations examines the history of what we now call programming, defined not simply as computer programming, but more broadly as the definition of...
Coordination Models and Languages
20th IFIP WG 6.1 International Conference, COORDINATION 2018, Held as Part of the 13th International Federated Conference on Distributed Computing Techniques, DisCoTec 2018, Madrid, Spain, June 18-21, 2018. Proceedings
Language: English
Release Date: June 9, 2018
This book constitutes the proceedings of the 20th International Conference on Coordination Models and Languages, COORDINATION 2018, held in Madrid, Spain, in June 2018, as part of the 13th International Federated Conference on Distributed Computing Techniques, DisCoTec 2018.
The 12 full papers included...
Programming Massively Parallel Processors
A Hands-on Approach
Language: English
Release Date: November 24, 2016
Programming Massively Parallel Processors: A Hands-on Approach, Third Edition shows both student and professional alike the basic concepts of parallel programming and GPU architecture, exploring, in detail, various techniques for constructing parallel programs.
Case studies demonstrate the...
by Bob Reeves
Language: English
Release Date: June 24, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: June 24, 2011
Are you a late beginner but want to get the best out of your computer? Get a kick-start with this little book which will give you just enough to get you going...