I still remember how I first got to know C++ and Qt. It was around 15 years ago while working on my diploma thesis. Most of the development we did at that time was done in Fortran and C. I was working on a Linux system with FVWM as a window manager. One day I read an article about KDE—a cool, new open source project...

The marketer is taken step-by-step through the key phases...

Measurement and Instrumentation introduces undergraduate engineering students to the measurement principles and the range of sensors and instruments that are used for measuring physical variables. Based on Morris's Measurement and Instrumentation Principles, this brand new text has been fully updated with coverage of...

How did today's rich states first establish modern fiscal systems? To answer this question, Political Transformations and Public Finances by Mark Dincecco examines the evolution of political regimes and public finances in Europe over the long term. The book argues that the emergence of efficient fiscal institutions was the result of two...

The new Sony Alpha DSLR-A580 and A560 are innovative new, mid-level dSLR models that will replace the A550 and A500 models. They are the first from Sony to include full HDTV video as well as sophisticated features such as 7 frames-per-second continuous shooting and Sweep Panorama, 16.7 (A580) and 14.6 (A560) megapixel resolutions. David...

Portable and precise, this pocket-sized guide delivers ready answers for optimizing the performance of your Windows 7-based PC. Zero in on core tuning, customization, and troubleshooting tasks using quick-reference tables, instructions, and lists. Topics include system boot and startup, software and hardware, search and indexing, system...

Over the last few decades, energy minimization methods have become an established paradigm to resolve a variety of challenges in the fields of computer vision and pattern recognition. While traditional approaches to computer vision were often based on a heuristic sequence of processing steps and merely allowed a very limited...

This volume collects the proceedings of two related international conferences on foundations and practical applications of mathematical methods of data analysis, of Formal Concept Analysis and of methods for information extraction from natural language texts. The first conference, named Knowledge - Ontology - Theory 2007 (KONT 2007),...