On March 10, 1876, Alexander Graham Bell made the first successful telephone call. As
with many things, the test was purely accidental. Graham spilled acid on his leg, and
Watson, his assistant, heard his call for help through the telephone. So, what has changed
over the last 129 years? It would be easier to discuss what hasn’t...
Moodle 2.0 Multimedia Cookbook provides a plethora of recipes showing you how to manage,
link, and embed different multimedia resources into your Moodle course. An ideal choice
if you don't have the time to read a long tutorial and want quick ways to enhance your
Moodle course.
Maybe you've heard the story—or probably urban legend—about the university that didn't lay any grass or pour any concrete when it first opened, leaving the campus grounds as solid dirt. Then, as students began to traverse the campus from one class to the next, campus planners mapped the common paths they took, and then...
Fortran remains one of the principal languages used in the fields of scientific, numerical,
and engineering programming, and a series of revisions to the standard defining successive
versions of the language has progressively enhanced its power and kept it competitive with
several generations of rivals.
For me, this book has become all about change. In the time that I have been watching the mobile
computing marketplace and developing software solutions for it, there has never been a time when there
has been a more rapid series of shifts and changes. A good friend of mine tells me that this is because of
market consolidation. As of...
Hero of Alexandria had a great idea. In the first century ad, Hero’s design of the fi rst steam engine was ingenious and workable. Indeed, classical scholars have argued that it could have been combined with other inventions of the era to create a steam locomotive and railroad, transforming commerce and military affairs in the ancient...
The purpose of this book is to provide up-to-date progress both in Multiple Criteria
Programming (MCP) and Support Vector Machines (SVMs) that have become powerful
tools in the field of data mining. Most of the content in this book are directly
from the research and application activities that our research group has conducted
over the...
In 2009, Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates announced the company's leading web application platform for organizations, SharePoint, has exceeded 1 billion dollars in profits with over 100 million licenses sold. I was in the audience when he said that and couldn't help but reflect on how far SharePoint has come in less than a decade. In the...
Das Buch behandelt umfassend Grundlagen der Konzeption und Gestaltung visueller Systeme sowie interaktiver Dienstleistungen. Es hilft dabei, die interaktiven Eigenschaften und das Interface analoger und digitaler Produkte zu analysieren und projekt- und adressatenspezifische Konzepte für Website-, Game-, und Produktdesign, aber auch...
Ziel des Buchs ist es, Lesern die Andersartigkeit der Gestaltung für elektronische Medien bewusst zu machen und Wege zu einem mediengerechten Entwurf aufzuzeigen: von der Sitearchitektur über die kreative Entwurfsphase bis zum Navigations- und Screendesign und der Umsetzung eines Internetauftritts mit (X)HTML und CSS. Begleitend...
Yatta, we did it! We wrote a book about Entity Framework! It’s not our first book, but
it’s the first one written in English and distributed worldwide. It was a great challenge,
but having the opportunity to spread the word about Entity Framework made it worth
the effort. Entity Framework is a great tool that speeds up the...
This has been a very long journey. We found that writing this book was a challenging
task, a much harder one than we had anticipated, but there were also moments of joy
and discovery along the way! The idea for the book first came to us 18 months ago,
and many days and nights have come and gone between the first sentence we wrote
and...
