Computers - Computer Science

Summary Classic Computer Science Problems in Swift invites readers to invest their energy in some foundational techniques that have been proven to stand the test of time. Along the way they'll learn intermediate and advanced features of the Swift programming language, a worthwhile skill...

The quantum computer is no longer the stuff of science fiction. Pioneering physicists are on the brink of unlocking a new quantum universe which provides a better representation of reality than our everyday experiences and common sense ever could. The birth of quantum computers...

Algorithms are central to all areas of computer science, from compiler construction to numerical analysis to artificial intelligence. Throughout your academic and professional careers, you may be required to construct new algorithms, analyze existing algorithms, or modify algorithms to suit new purposes. How do...

Prolog is a programming language, but a rather unusual one. Prolog'' is short for Programming with Logic'', and the link with logic gives Prolog its special character. At the heart of Prolog lies a surprising idea: don't tell the computer what to do. Instead,...

This book draws together a wide variety of geometric information that will provide a sourcebook of facts, examples and proofs for students, academics, researchers and professional practitioners. It includes a summary hundreds of formulae used to solve 2D and 3D geometric problems; worked examples;...

This volume details the computer graphics part of the field of geometric modeling and includes all the standard computer graphics topics. The first part deals with basic concepts and algorithms and the main steps involved in displaying photorealistic images on a computer. The second...

Practical guidance on COBIT(R)5 implementation COBIT(R)5 (Control Objectives for Information and related Technology) is the latest release of the popular framework for the governance of enterprise IT. It links controls, technical issues and business risks, enabling managers to manage the risks associated with business...

An Introduction to Ontology Engineering introduces the student to a comprehensive overview of ontology engineering, and offers hands-on experience that illustrate the theory. The topics covered include: logic foundations for ontologies with languages and automated reasoning, developing good ontologies with methods and methodologies, the...

This book introduces state-of-the-art verification techniques for real-time embedded systems, based on the inverse method for parametric timed automata. It reviews popular formalisms for the specification and verification of timed concurrent systems and, in particular, timed automata as well as several extensions such as...

This handbook is dedicated to a deep dive on Microsoft Windows memory, starting from a brief description of memory management, moving on to an extended reference of Volatility Framework and coming to a list of acquisition and analysis workflows.Author: Andrea FortunaISBN-10: 1798027402ISBN-13: 9781798027400Publisher: Independently...

A highly provocative and insightful debut that cultivates the schools of thought pioneered by Andreas M. Antonopoulos', The Internet of Money, Saifedean Ammous', The Bitcoin Standard, and Max Borders', The Social Singularity.In Blockchain Maximalist, Luis Wester establishes a firm technological and historical foundation on...

Zero to iOS Hero is an easy-to-read, fully comprehensive book aimed at helping students become iOS app developers, without any prior knowledge. With this book, anyone can go from having zero experience in computer science to programming noteworthy applications over the course of four...

From the fast-paced world of social media and data security, to the cutting-edge research on cancer and other complex diseases, computer scientists are hard at work writing programs to collect, store, protect, and analyze huge amounts of data. Readers will be introduced to the...

Master the art of Shader programming to bring life to your Unity projectsKey Features Book Description Since their introduction to Unity, Shaders have been notoriously difficult to understand and implement in games: complex mathematics have always stood in the way of creating your own...

Author: Alejandro Howrodas De Paz, Joseph HowseISBN-10: 1785281534ISBN-13: 9781785281532Publisher: Packt PublishingLanguage: EnglishPublished: 09/30/2015Pages: 230Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.89lbsSize: 9.25h x 7.50w x 0.48d

Author: Paul GerrardISBN-10: 1783555254ISBN-13: 9781783555253Publisher: Packt PublishingLanguage: EnglishPublished: 02/07/2015Pages: 432Format: PaperbackWeight: 1.63lbsSize: 9.25h x 7.50w x 0.88d

Who this book is for: This book is perfect for students who are keen to learn CS concepts and have no prior programming background. In addition to learning a lot of Computer Science concepts, you will do a series of interesting projects and programming...

If you want to learn about Neural Networks then keep reading... Aladdin from "The Arabian Nights" had a magic lamp that fulfilled his every wish when rubbed. Today we have a smartphone that serves as a window to a whole universe of knowledge, entertainment...

Best selling book on Amazon and Kindle Now with blockchain and cryptocurrency code. Written by a seasoned Silicon Valley technologist and programmer, this guide serves to help you prepare for the real world of software engineering interviews as an iOS or macOS developer. The...

This Companion volume to Polymorphism: As It Is Played delves deeper into some of the ideas presented there. It also presents several additional case studies that are interesting in their own right, but might be employed in the Polymorphism Challenge. The Doctor presents a...

This book provides the optimal introduction to MATLAB and Simulink, the primary tools in engineering, science, and industry for simulating dynamic systems. Using the latest versions of the software, the book features 20 hands-on projects that provide a practical mastery of the subject areas...

Are you excited about Photoshop but not how to use the features? Check out our high quality examples of advanced Photoshop features in this book. A book dedicated to walking you through how to use Photoshop on a more advanced level. These examples represent...

The aim of this book is to provide comprehensive coverage of topics in Unit 1 of the BTEC Level 3 course in Information Technology in an interesting and approachable manner. If you are studying this course, you need to notice, read about, experience and...

This textbook brings together both new and traditional research methods in Human Computer Interaction (HCI). Research methods include interviews and observations, ethnography, grounded theory and analysis of digital traces of behavior. Readers will gain an understanding of the type of knowledge each method provides,...

Augmented Reality (AR) refers to the merging of a live view of the physical, real world with context-sensitive, computer-generated images to create a mixed reality. Through this augmented vision, a user can digitally interact with and adjust information about their surrounding environment on-the-fly. Handbook...

Author Ruth Brown was born with mastocytosis, a rare, complex, and little-known disease responsible for producing a multitude of diverse symptoms. As a result of her condition, she experienced many incredible encounters with medical professionals and institutions. In Surviving Medical Care, she writes of...

First textbook in rapidly emerging field of biometrics Describes terminology employed by researchers and practitioners in the field Based on authors' course material/tutorials Website maintained by authors includes links to standard biometric datasets, exercises and homework problems, review papers and errataAuthor: Anil K. Jain,...

Written by two experts in the field, this is the only comprehensive and unified treatment of the central ideas and applications of Kolmogorov complexity. The book presents a thorough treatment of the subject with a wide range of illustrative applications. Such applications include the...

Use the Raspberry Pi and modern computing techniques to build industrial Internet of Things systems. Principles and theoretical aspects of IoT technologies combine with hands-on projects leading to detailed descriptions of several industrial IoT applications. This book presents real-life IoT applications based on the...

Explore the architectural constructs of Azure monitoring capabilities and learn various design and implementation aspects for complex use cases. This book covers the different scenarios in a modern-day multi-cloud enterprise and the tools available in Azure for monitoring and securing these environments. Understanding Azure...

Explore advanced .NET APIs and create a basic .NET core library with dynamic code generation and metadata inspection to be used by other libraries or client applications. This book starts with the benefits of .NET including its fundamental tasks and tools where you will...

Start deploying, managing, and scaling containerized applications into AWS container infrastructure using Docker on Amazon EC2, Amazon Elastic Container Service (ECS), and AWS Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS). This step by step practical book will cover all the available container services on AWS and review...

Explore the entire R3 Corda ecosystem using theory, labs, and use cases. This book introduces distributed ledger technology, Corda architecture, and smart contract programming in Java, guiding you through testing and deployment. Further, you will explore various business problems in finance, insurance, healthcare, travel,...

Build practical applications of computer vision using the OpenCV library with Python. This book discusses different facets of computer vision such as image and object detection, tracking and motion analysis and their applications with examples. The author starts with an introduction to computer vision...

Master the command line and Raspbian Linux as well as the physical connections of the Pi. With this book you'll develop skills applicable to other real world applications in both hardware and software development all while working on simple and fun IoT projects that...

Beginning Programming Using Retro Computing Chapter 1: Getting Started Chapter 2: Simple Drawing Chapter 3: MathChapter 4: Sound Chapter 5: Colors Chapter 6: Graphics Chapter 7: Errors Chapter 8: Variables Chapter 9: Math and Variables Chapter 10: A Program Chapter 11: Questions Chapter 12:...

Jump right into the pro-level guts of the Raspberry Pi with complete schematics and detailed hardware explanations as your guide. You'll tinker with runlevels, reporting voltages and temperatures, and work on a variety of project examples that you can tune for your own project...

Get started with the ASUS Tinker Board and begin building and expanding your own projects. This book covers the basic operating systems offered by ASUS for the Tinker Board and Tinker Board S, TinkerOS and Android, and then dives deeper into its capabilities for...

Make ten simple, casual games, and learn a ton of GML coding along the way. Each of these games is the kind you can play when you have a minute or two free, and are great for playing on your PC, or exported to...

Learn to harness the power of AI for natural language processing, performing tasks such as spell check, text summarization, document classification, and natural language generation. Along the way, you will learn the skills to implement these methods in larger infrastructures to replace existing code...

Explore a complex mechanical system where electronics and mechanical engineers work together as a cross-functional team. Using a working example, this book is a practical "how to" guide to designing a drone system.As system design becomes more and more complicated, systematic, and organized, there...

Learn how to implement and build a neural network with this non-technical, project-based book as your guide. As you work through the chapters, you'll build an electronics project, providing a hands-on experience in training a network. There are no prerequisites here and you won't...

Leverage your Arduino skills in the Raspberry Pi world and see how to cross the two platforms into sophisticated programs. The Arduino and Raspberry Pi communities overlap more than you might think. Arduinos can be expanded to have network capabilities with a variety of...

Learn to program the Propeller in Spin and C and how to map the Propeller Assembler (PASM) language from other high-level languages you might know.The overall task you will pursue in the book is to implement a Delta Compression algorithm: first in Spin, then...

Get started developing on the Force.com platform in no time. With step-by-step guidance, starting with setting up your developer environment and progressing through to deploying to production, you will learn industry best practices to release robust custom applications with tangible benefits to your company...

A complete guide of theoretical, technical, and hands-on implementations for practical applications of machine learning across diverse domains in the industryShows how data science and machine learning projects are executed in the real worldProvides readers with the essential skills to tackle their own real-world...

Leading industry experts teach youExplores advanced and exciting areas within Office 365 collaboration and productivityHelps you get more business value from a current or planned Office 365 installationAuthor: Nikolas Charlebois-Laprade, Evgueni Zabourdaev, Daniel BrunetISBN-10: 1484229908ISBN-13: 9781484229903Publisher: ApressLanguage: EnglishPublished: 09/20/2017Pages: 276Format: PaperbackWeight: 1.15lbsSize: 10.00h x...

Discover the practical aspects of implementing deep-learning solutions using the rich Python ecosystem. This book bridges the gap between the academic state-of-the-art and the industry state-of-the-practice by introducing you to deep learning frameworks such as Keras, Theano, and Caffe. The practicalities of these frameworks...

Learn and understand how you can perform a wide range of tasks on your new Windows computer, including managing files, browsing the internet, and protecting yourself, as well as interacting with Cortana.Using Absolute Beginners Guide to Computing you will see how to use Windows,...

"It's not easy to find such a generous book on big data and databases. Fortunately, this book is the one." Feng Yu. Computing Reviews. June 28, 2016. This is a book for enterprise architects, database administrators, and developers who need to understand the latest...