Always wondered about the best exercises to improve hand-eye co-ordination? Struggling to find a one-handed gaming snack that won't get your console greasy? This book is full of funny fitness and lifestyle tips as well as advice to improve your gaming experience.
Looks at the connection between the two worlds of art and technology. This book explores such varied topics as logic gates and literary modernism, the male machismo of geeks, the striking presence of an 'Indian Mafia' in Silicon Valley, and the writings of Abhinavagupta, the 10th-11th century Kashmiri thinker.
This guide offers the essentials on connecting a computer to the Internet, choosing an Internet service provider and doing popular Internet activities including browsing the Web, sending and reading e-mail, and chatting online with other Internet users.
Suitable for senior undergraduate and first-year graduate students, this book covers the varied and interconnected aspects of Grid computing, including how to design a system infrastructure and Grid portal; job submission and scheduling; Grid security; Grid computing services and software tools; workflow editors; and, Grid-enabling applications.
Using the latest research in neurobiology, cognitive science, and learning theory, 'Head First Design Patterns' loads patterns into your brain in a way that sticks. In a way that makes you better at solving software design problems, and better at speaking the language of patterns with others on your team.
Forming groups is easier than it's ever been: unpaid volunteers build Wikipedia together in their spare time, and one man with a laptop can raise an army to help recover a stolen phone. This book explores how the unifying power of the internet is changing the character of human society.
A lively and eclectic sequence of more than 150 concise and intellectually challenging essays in which the world's leading thinkers reflect on how the internet has changed their modes of thought.
All engineers need to understand the fundamental principles of electrical and electronic technology. This best-selling text provides a clear and accessible introduction to the area, with balanced coverage of electrical, electronic, and power engineering.
Human-Computer Interaction is important as a means of achieving competitive IT product designs. Providing coverage for a one semester course, the examples and activities are useful exam preparation tools for computing students on an introductory HCI course.
In Human-Centered AI, Professor Ben Shneiderman provides an optimistic realist's guide to how artificial intelligence can be used to augment and enhance humans' lives.
This work offers guidance on how to apply a systematic, disciplined and quantifiable approach to developing and maintaining online information with associative linking websites. Issues in the development process include application usability, cognitive management and productivity.
How best can we understand why the application of information and communication technology in organizations succeeds or fails? Calling on technical, organizational, social, psychological and economic perspectives, this book provides a fresh and comprehensive framework for answering this question.
'Internet and World Wide Web How to Program' introduces students with little or no programming experience to the exciting world of Web-based applications.
In this controversial and explosive book, Andrew Keen argues that the Internet has had a disastrous impact on all our lives - and outlines what we must do to change it, before it's too late.
Can machines really think? Is the mind just a complicated computer program? This work focuses on the major issues behind one of the hardest scientific problems ever undertaken. It explains the advances made, from Alan Turing's influential groundwork to cutting edge robotics and the New Al.
Shows the contemporary use of enterprise-wide business systems. This text focuses on teaching the managers the potential effect on business of the various IT technologies such as the Internet, Intranets, and Extranets for enterprise collaboration, and how IT contributes to competitive advantage, problem solving, and decision-making.
A rigorous, yet accessible, textbook for computer science students learning probability. It covers topics of interest to computer scientists, including randomized algorithms, simulation, statistical inference, and stochastic systems modeling. Replete with engaging real-world examples, exercises, and full-color illustrations.
Presents information in forensic computing and IT security. This volume offers practical insight to security and its importance in design, implementation, and the maintenance of systems. It provides guidance on creating systems that allow data to be gathered for future investigation of an event.