One of the most debated consequences regarding the increased availability and use
of information and communication technologies (ICTs), especially since the early
1990s, have been their impact on economic growth. Generally speaking, ICT can
serve to reduce transaction costs at all levels of a commercial transaction. With the
emergence...
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...
Humans receive the great majority of information about their environment through
sight, and at least 50% of the human brain is dedicated to vision. Vision is also a key
component for building artificial systems that can perceive and understand their environment.
Computer vision is likely to change society in many ways; for example,
it...
Bisher wurde das IT Service-Management in der öffentlichen Verwaltung in Deutschland nur am Rande behandelt. In diesem Buch geben die Autoren einen umfassenden Einblick in die bisherigen Fortschritte bei der Implementierung von IT-Prozessen in öffentlichen Einrichtungen und arbeiten, basierend auf fünf Fallstudien,...
In 2011, Research in Motion (RIM) introduced an entirely new operating system known as the BlackBerry Tablet OS. The first device using this new operating system was released in May of 2011 and was known as the BlackBerry PlayBook. Through Adobe’s partnership with RIM, this new operating system was built fully integrated with...
This book provides an in-depth look at how to build web-based applications (web apps)
for Google TV, a new platform that integrates the open web with traditional TV. This
powerful and versatile new platform includes Google Chrome, a modern web browser
that enables developers to deliver rich and sophisticated web apps to Google TV...
It's easy to capture packets with Wireshark, the world's most popular network sniffer, whether off the wire or from the air. But how do you use those packets to understand what's happening on your network?
With an expanded discussion of network protocols and 45 completely new scenarios, this extensively...
** Black & White edition ** VMware vSphere 5 Clustering Technical Deepdive zooms in on three key components of every VMware based infrastructure and is by no means a "how to" guide. It covers the basic steps needed to create a vSphere HA and vSphere DRS cluster and to implement vSphere Storage DRS. Even more important, it...
In 2010, HTML5 became the buzzword on the web developer scene. Large companies,
such as Google, Apple, and Microsoft, began to use the new technology.
The popularity of the catchword HTML5 grew, not least of all because of the
heated debate between Apple and Adobe over whether this would mean the end
of Flash.
Studying and using light or "photons" to image and then to control and transmit molecular information is among the most challenging and significant research fields to emerge in recent years. One of the fastest growing areas involves research in the temporal imaging of quantum phenomena, ranging from molecular dynamics in the femto...
Human computation is a new and evolving research area that centers around harnessing human intelligence to solve computational problems that are beyond the scope of existing Artificial Intelligence (AI) algorithms. With the growth of the Web, human computation systems can now leverage the abilities of an unprecedented number of people via the...
