Learn IT - Today Books

Enhancing E-Learning with Media-Rich Content and Interactions

IGI Global, 2008

Online learning is transcending from the text-rich educational experience of the past to a video- and audio-rich learning transformation. The greater levels of media-rich content and media-rich interaction that are currently prevalent in online leisure experiences will help to increase e-learning s future efficiency and effectiveness....

Two Bits: The Cultural Significance of Free Software

Duke University Press, 2008

In "Two Bits", Christopher M. Kelty investigates the history and cultural significance of Free Software, revealing the people and practices that have transformed not only software, but also music, film, science, and education. Free Software is a set of practices devoted to the collaborative creation of software source code that is made...

Foundations of Empirical Software Engineering: The Legacy of Victor R. Basili

Springer, 2005

Although software engineering can trace its beginnings to a NATO conference in 1968, it cannot be said to have become an empirical science until the 1970s with the advent of the work of Prof. Victor Robert Basili of the University of Maryland. In addition to the need to engineer software was the need to understand software. Much like other...

Pattern Recognition and Image Analysis: Third Iberian Conference, IbPRIA 2007, Girona, Spain, June 6-8, 2007, Proceedings, Part I

Springer, 2007

The two-volume set LNCS 4477 and 4478 constitutes the refereed proceedings of the Third Iberian Conference on Pattern Recognition and Image Analysis, IbPRIA 2007, held in Girona, Spain in June 2007.

The 48 revised full papers and 108 revised poster papers presented together with 3 invited talks were carefully reviewed and selected from 328...

Human computer Interaction And Management Information Systems: Foundations (Advances in Management Series)

M.E. Sharpe, 2006

"Human-Computer Interaction and Management Information Systems: Foundations" offers state-of-the-art research by a distinguished set of authors who span the MIS and HCI fields. The original chapters provide authoritative commentaries and in-depth descriptions of research programs that will guide 21st century scholars, graduate students,...

The Spreadsheet at 25: 25 Amazing Excel Examples that Evolved from the Invention that Changed the World

Holy Macro! Books, 2005

From the 1979 invention by two MIT students of the visible calculator to the war between Lotus and Microsoft for dominance in the spreadsheet market, this book is a fascinating look at the software application that helped spur the entire computer industry. This loving look back at the early computer and technology evolution will teach anyone...

Trust and Security in Collaborative Computing (Computer and Network Security)

World Scientific Publishing, 2008

Computer networks are compromised by various unpredictable factors, such as hackers, viruses, spam, faults, and system failures, hindering the full utilization of computer systems for collaborative computing one of the objectives for the next generation of the Internet. It includes the functions of data communication, resource sharing, group...

Pattern Recognition Using Neural and Functional Networks (Studies in Computational Intelligence)

Springer, 2008

Biologically inspired computing is different from conventional computing. It has a different feel; often the terminology does not sound like it’s talking about machines. The activities of this computing sound more human than mechanistic as people speak of machines that behave, react, self-organize, learn, generalize, remember and even to...

Computable Models of the Law: Languages, Dialogues, Games, Ontologies (Lecture Notes in Computer Science / Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence)

Springer, 2008

Information technology has now pervaded the legal sector, and the very modern concepts of e-law and e-justice show that automation processes are ubiquitous. European policies on transparency and information society, in particular, require the use of technology and its steady improvement.

Some of the revised papers presented in this book...

Probability, Statistical Optics and Data Testing (Springer Series in Information Sciences)

Springer, 1991

Scientists in optics are increasingly confronted with problems that are of a random nature and that require a working knowledge of probability and statistics for their solution. This textbook develops these subjects within the context of optics using a problem-solving approach. All methods are explicitly derived and can be traced back to three...

Hands-On ZigBee: Implementing 802.15.4 with Microcontrollers (Embedded Technology)

Newnes, 2007

"I recommend this book to anyone doing 802.15.4 or ZigBee development. It is likely that Eady touches on the platform you are or will be using and it contrasts it well with everything else out there." - William Wong, Electronic Design, August 2007

Since its recent introduction, the ZigBee protocol has created an...

Sketching User Experiences: Getting the Design Right and the Right Design (Interactive Technologies)

Morgan Kaufmann, 2007

There is almost a fervor in the way that new products, with their rich and dynamic interfaces, are being released to the public-typically promising to make lives easier, solve the most difficult of problems, and maybe even make the world a better place. The reality is that few survive, much less deliver on their promise. The folly? An absence of...

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