What is the theory of computation all about? The theory of computation embodies the principle by which computers have become the basis of modern digital technology, which makes a computer perform as desired, and which, consequently, has led to the prosperity of our advanced information society (just as physical sciences constitute the...

This is a book about algorithms for performing arithmetic, and their implementation on modern computers. We are concerned with software more than hardware – we do not cover computer architecture or the design of computer hardware since good books are already available on these topics. Instead, we focus on algorithms for...

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Programming isn't hard. But it is hard to find learning materials that teach you to do interesting things with programming. Other computer books go over many topics that most newbie coders don't need. This book will teach you how to program your own computer games. You will learn a useful skill and have fun games to show for...

Audit and Trace Log Management: Consolidation and Analysis is both a timely and much needed compilation of useful information around a topic that is becoming more and more critical to not only IT professionals and security practitioners, but to many other departments, such as legal, risk, and compliance, as well as auditors and...

DEAR READER, thank you for picking up this book! You have probably heard about WordPress already, the most popular self - hosted content management system (CMS) and blogging software in use today. WordPress powers literally millions of Web sites on the Internet, including high profi le sites such as TechCrunch and CNN ’ s blog....

Office 2011 has some dazzling new features. This book explains everything in...

In the last few years SharePoint has taken the world by storm. In fact, the product is one of the fastest growing products in the history of Microsoft. Companies of all sizes are rapidly implementing SharePoint and moving it to the center of their organization. The interesting thing about SharePoint, however, is that if you ask ten...

Projec t manageme nt has been around for centuries. After all, how do you think the Pyramids were built? Organizations have come to recognize that a lot of the work they do is project-oriented. And when they realize that good project management can save both time and money, that’s about the time that people like you receive the...

In this textbook, I take an unconventional approach to data analysis. Its contents are heavily influenced by the idea that data analysis should help in enhancing and augmenting knowledge of the domain as represented by the concepts and statements of relation between them. According to this view, two main pathways for data analysis are...

Game playing is a powerful metaphor that fits many situations where interaction between autonomous agents plays a central role. Numerous tasks in computer science, such as design, synthesis, verification, testing, query evaluation, planning, etc. can be formulated in game-theoretic terms. Viewing them abstractly as games reveals the...

Welcome to the wild, wacky, and wonderful possibilities of the World Wide Web, or more simply, the Web. In this book, we reveal the ins and outs of the markup languages that are the Web’s lifeblood — the Hypertext Markup Language (HTML) and its cousin, XHTML, along with the Cascading Style Sheet (CSS) language used to make...