Embedded computer systems are electronic systems that include a microcomputer to perform specific dedicated tasks. The computer is hidden inside these products. Embedded systems are ubiquitous. Every week millions of tiny computer chips come pouring out of factories like Freescale, Microchip, Philips, Texas Instruments, Silicon Labs,...

Why is astronomy considered a science while astrology is considered only a pseudoscience? In other words, how can we prove that a theory faithfully describes reality, and that this theory can then be used to predict unknown facts? Karl Popper, the well-known philosopher, studied these problems and summarized his conclusions in one...

The decade of the 80's saw the dramatic expansion of high performance computer graphics into domains previously able only to irt with the technology. Among the most dramatic has been the incorporation of real-time interactive manipulation and display for human gures. Though actively pur- sued by several research groups, the...

Still, the same challenges that existed in the past apply to the new world of e-mail marketing. Namely,...

The text attempts to place emphasis on numerical methods, not...

Studying the history of consumer electronics is nothing short of fascinating. The landscape is filled with countless stories of product successes and failures— fickle consumer adoptions, clever marketing campaigns that outsmart the best technologies, better packaging winning over better technology, and products that are simply...

Grid Computing was a vision of using and sharing computers and data in the early 1990s. The integration, coordination, and sharing of computer resources which are geographically disperse among different physical domains and organizations became an every day reality. This emerging infrastructure aims to provide a mechanism for sharing...

At last, here is a book about the computers that people really use, with practical tips about how to use them. Practical PC provides a state-of-the-art introduction to Windows-based PCs, written in an easy-to-read style. In addition to the printed book, you receive a multimedia version of the entire textbook with videos and interactive...

A wide spectrum of research areas have contributed to the development of objectoriented analysis and design methods. Within computing sciences objectorientation has been developed in the fields of databases, programming languages, and system engineering. Some indications of this development include the proliferation of objectoriented...

Microsoft Visual C# 2010, Fourth edition provides the beginning programmer with a guide to developing programs in C#. C# is a language developed by the Microsoft Corporation as part of the .NET Framework and Visual Studio platform. Th e .NET Framework contains a wealth of libraries for developing applications for the Windows family...

In developing the New Perspectives Series, our goal was to create books that give students the software...

This book is intended for an object-oriented course in data structures and algorithms. The implementation language is Java, and it is assumed that students have taken a first course in programming, not necessarily in Java. That course should have covered the fundamental statements and data types, as well as arrays. Chapter 0 supplies...