It is a great pleasure for me to write this foreword about a book that comes out
of one of the first research projects funded by ANR, the French National Research
Agency. ANR was established by the French government in 2005 to fund research
projects, based on competitive schemes giving researchers the best opportunities to
realize...
The rapid growth of the Web in the past two decades has made it the largest
publicly accessible data source in the world. Web mining aims to discover
useful information or knowledge from Web hyperlinks, page contents,
and usage logs. Based on the primary kinds of data used in the
mining process, Web mining tasks can be categorized...
I used to think plug-ins were for people who could afford to buy creativity. Then I realized it
was for those who had creativity, but were burdened and held back by the process, or lack
of tools, for their creativity. After Effects plug-ins are not someone’s project files or templates
for you to copy, but rather tools for...
Welcome to the sixth edition of Learning Perl, updated for Perl 5.14 and its latest
features. This book is still good even if you are still using Perl 5.8 (although, it’s been
a long time since it was released; have you thought about upgrading?).
If you’re looking for the best way to spend your first 30 to 45 hours...
The availability of geographic and geo-spatial information and services, especially
on the openWeb, has become abundant in the last several yearswith the proliferation
of online maps, geo-coding services, geospatial Web services and geospatially enabled
applications. Concurrently, the need for geo-spatial reasoning has significantly...
After meeting so many readers of the original book on the forum that supports
this book (www.3D-For-Games.com/forum), as well as a lot of them in person,
we came to the decision that a bit of an update to 3ds Max Modeling for Games
was in order. Not only had the software moved on but so had the expectations
from employers looking to...
This is a textbook for a first- or second-year graduate course for electrical and computer
engineering (ECE) students in the area of digital image and video processing
and coding. The course might be called Digital Image and Video Processing (DIVP)
or some such, and has its heritage in the signal processing and communications areas
of...
"If you are looking for an introductory book on how to do PP coaching, this will give you an excellent, clearly written, practical introduction with some useful references in the bibliography."
AICTP Newsletter, November 2012
"Coaching Positively is the book that the coaching profession...
HTML5: Everyone’s using it, nobody knows what it is. I realize that sounds more like a line out of an existential movie — maybe Waiting for Godot or a screenplay by Sartre — than a statement about HTML5. But it’s really...
Developing educational software requires thinking, problematizing, representing, modeling, implementing and analyzing pedagogical objectives and issues, as well as conceptual models and software architectures. Computer scientists face the difficulty of understanding the particular issues and phenomena to be taken into account in...
Websites continue to evolve, growing in scope and complexity every year,
with new features popping up all the time to make the Web look and
work better. Even people building personal websites use various programming
languages and server technologies to dish up content.
Throughout its history, Dreamweaver has managed to keep...
Microsoft SharePoint and Windows Azure are two sizeable platforms unto themselves.
SharePoint is one of Microsoft’s leading server productivity platforms—a collaborative platform
for the enterprise and the web. Windows Azure is Microsoft’s operating system in the
cloud. Separately, they have their own strengths, market...
