JavaScript was never meant to be the most important programming language
in the world. It was hacked together in ten days, with ideas from Scheme
and Self packed into a C-like syntax. Even its name was an awkward fit,
referring to a language with little in common besides a few keywords.1 But
once JavaScript was released, there was no...
Clustering is an important unsupervised classification technique where a set of patterns,
usually vectors in multidimensional space, are grouped into clusters based
on some similarity or dissimilarity criteria. In crisp clustering, each pattern is assigned
to exactly one cluster, whereas in fuzzy clustering, each pattern is given a...
While SAS and SPSS have many things in common, R is very different. My
goal in writing this book is to help you translate what you know about SAS or
SPSS into a working knowledge of R as quickly and easily as possible. I point
out how they differ using terminology with which you are familiar, and show
you which add-on packages will...
JavaScript is a client-side scripting language that allows Web page
authors to develop interactive Web pages and sites. Although
JavaScript is considered a programming language, it is also a critical
part of Web page design and authoring. Th is is because the JavaScript
language “lives” within a Web page’s elements....
The Shelly Cashman Series® offers the fi nest textbooks in computer education. We are
proud of the fact that our previous HTML books have been so well received. With each
new edition of our HTML books, we have made signifi cant improvements based on the
comments made by instructors and students. The HTML, XHTML, and CSS, Sixth...
Conventional object-oriented data models are "closed". Although they allow users to define
application-specific classes, they usually come with a fixed set of modeling primitives. This
constitutes a major problem as different application domains have different requirements on
a data model. For example, database integration...
It is my pleasure and privilege to write the foreword for this book, whose results I
have been following and awaiting for the last few years. This monograph represents
the outcome of an ambitious project oriented towards advancing our knowledge of
the way the human visual system processes images, and about the way it combines
high...
Layout concerns the placement of text and image elements within a design.
How these elements are positioned, both in relation to one another and within
the overall design scheme, will affect how the content is viewed and received
by the readers, as well as their emotional reaction towards it. Layout can help or
hinder the receipt of...
Speed. Aside from caffeine, nothing quickens the pulse of a programmer as
much as the blazingly fast execution of a piece of code. How can we fulfill
the need for computational speed? Moore’s law takes us some of the way,
but multicore is the real future. To take full advantage of multicore, we need
to program with concurrency...
Computability has played a crucial role in mathematics and computer science
– leading to the discovery, understanding and classification of decidable/
undecidable problems, paving the way to the modern computer era
and affecting deeply our view of the world. Recent new paradigms of computation,
based on biological and physical...
Machine audition is the field of the study of algorithms and systems for the automatic analysis and
understanding of sound by machine. It plays an important role in many applications, such as automatic
audio indexing for internet searching, robust speech recognition in un-controlled natural environment,
untethered audio communication...
The New Perspectives Series’ critical-thinking, problem-solving approach is the ideal way
to prepare students to transcend point-and-click skills and take advantage of all that
Microsoft Office 2010 has to offer. In developing the New Perspectives Series, our goal was
to create books that give students the software concepts and...
