Advanced digital imaging laboratory using matlab®

In this book, Prof. Yaroslavsky delivers a complete applied course in digital imaging aimed at advanced students and practitioners. Covering all areas of digital imaging, the text provides an outline of underlying principles of each topic before offering more than 80 MATLAB® based exercises. Subj...

Exploring physics with computer animation and physgl

This book shows how the web-based PhysGL programming environment (http://physgl.org) can be used to teach and learn elementary mechanics (physics) using simple coding exercises. The book's theme is that the lessons encountered in such a course can be used to generate physics-based animations, pro...

Python and matplotlib essentials for scientists and engineers

This book provides an introduction to the core features of the Python programming language and Matplotlib plotting routings for scientists and engineers (or students of either discipline) who want to use Python to analyse data, simulate physical processes, and render publication-quality plots. No...

Computational approaches in physics

Computational Approaches in Physics reviews computational schemes that are used in the simulations of physical systems. These range from very accurate ab initio techniques up to coarse-grained and mesoscopic schemes. A bottom-up approach is used to present the various simulation methods, and outl...

Dissent and social media

This book explores the relationship between dissent and social media to understand the role both play in enacting cultural change. 

Surviving and thriving in the age of ai

The world is experiencing a rapid rise in the use of artificial intelligence, sparking fierce debate about its impact on both business and society. This book cuts through the noise and acts as a guide on how to survive and thrive in the age of AI. By providing an accessible collection of short, p...

The net effect

The net effect

Digital magazine design

Publishers of contemporary magazines invest more and more money in developing innovative design for an increasingly design-literate reader. Innovation, however, must always be grounded in the underlying conventions of legibility to ensure loyal readership and economic success. Digital Magazine...

Digital magazine design

Introduction to modern information retrieval

An information retrieval (IR) system is designed to analyse, process and store sources of information and retrieve those that match a particular user's requirements. This book covers topics in information storage and retrieval, including: users of IR and IR options; database technology; bibliogra...

E-government for good governance in developing countries

Drawing lessons from the eFez Project in Morocco, this volume offers practical supporting material to decision makers in developing countries on information and communication technologies for development, specifically e-government implementation.

Connecting icts to development

“Connecting ICTs to Development” highlights over fifteen years of IDRC-supported research in the field through its Information and Communication Technology for Development (ICT4D) program. 

Nostalgia and videogame music

This collection of essays addresses the fascinating intersection between nostalgia and videogame music. From Nintendo to PlayStation, Zelda to Bioshock, and cult to classic games – this anthology takes readers on a musical journey into personal, historical and virtual pasts. 15 b/w illus.

The music of nobuo uematsu in the final fantasy series

This is the first book-length study of the music of Nobuo Uematsu, and focuses on his Final Fantasy soundtracks, exploring the dynamic relationship between the music and the stories behind the beloved video game series. Contributors are music and game scholars, based in the USA and UK. Foreword b...

Information systems

This book adopts a holistic interpretation of information architecture, to offer a variety of methods, tools, and techniques that may be used when designing websites and information systems that support workflows and what people require when 'managing information'.

Development through technology transfer

Technology transfer is shown to be more complicated than a handover of new hardware to developing countries. This book covers the practical issues of the transfer, including product, process, cost reduction and more, and also integrates an analysis of theories of innovation to identify key stages...

Anti-computing

The computerization of culture appears relentless and unstoppable. In response Anti-Computing deals in dissent. Engaging with critical theory and media archaeology, working with rich and varied materials, it explores key moments when computer technologies, logics, techniques, imaginaries, utopias...

Futures past

Eleven contributors to this volume reflect upon the unprecedented ways in which digital media have been transforming art practice, study and education. The authors – researchers, teachers, custodians of art collections and picture libraries, and an artist – cover a wide range of issues, arguing f...

Futures past

In decades past, artists envisioned a future populated by technological wonders such as hovercraft vehicles and voice-operated computers. Today we barely recognize these futuristic landscapes that bear only slight resemblance to an everyday reality. Futures Past considers digital media’s transfor...

Trends in functional programming volume 6

Digital design using quarkxpress 4

Digital Design using QuarkXPress 4 gives you the ability to fully understand QuarkXPress, while developing a knowledge of the rules of design and how computers can exploit them. Students with non-visual backgrounds can rapidly improve, producing worthy examples of pages that integrate text and im...

The baroque technotext

An analysis of the role of baroque and neo-baroque aesthetics in technotexts, reframing critical debate of contemporary experiments in literary practice in the late age of print. Works by Jonathan Safran Foer, Chris Ware and David Clark are investigated alongside other authors and media such as d...

Text and data mining

This book offers a broad and accessible introduction to research based on text and data mining (TDM), focusing specifically on the ways in which TDM has been applied within the humanities.

Development through technology transfer

Technology transfer is shown to be more complicated than a handover of new hardware to developing countries. This book covers the practical issues of the transfer, including product, process, cost reduction and more, and also integrates an analysis of theories of innovation to identify key stages...

Trends in functional programming volume 6

This book presents latest research developments in the area of functional programming. The contributions in this volume cover a wide range of topics from theory, formal aspects of functional programming, transformational and generic programming to type checking and designing new classes of data t...

Digital design using quarkxpress 4

Memory machines

This book explores the history of hypertext, an influential concept that forms the underlying structure of the World Wide Web and innumerable software applications.

Handbook of artificial intelligence and robotic process automation

President Putin’s explicit declaration that the country that makes progress in artificial intelligence will rule the world has launched a new race for dominance. In this era of cognitive competition and total automation, every country understands that it must rapidly adopt AI or go bust. To stay ...

Ai and ada

This volume first explores the potential of machine translation of literature; goes on to explore possibilities for artificial literary creation; and finishes by assessing recent spectacular progress in generative artificial intelligence (AI) – throughout, with reference to Vladimir Nabokov’s hyp...

Artificial intelligence and the future of warfare

Artificial intelligence and the future of warfare sketches a clear and sobering picture of the potential impact of artificial intelligence (AI) on the digitized battlefield, broadening our understanding of critical questions facing decisions-makers today.

The myth of good ai

This book offers a new approach to artificial intelligence and its implications for human security.

Information science

What is Information Science? This comprehensive book answers this key question and explains how information science differs from data science and library science.Using a range of practical examples, the book explores how information science cuts across disciplines and integrates a range of inform...

Social media in healthcare information

Social Media in Healthcare Information provides an overview of current and recent developments in social media, concentrating on the most influential and well-established platforms. In addition to drawing together some of the most recently published scholarship in this area, this title also inclu...

Digital experience design

Digital Experience Design chronicles the diverse histories and perspectives of people working in the dot-com world alongside an account of the current issues facing the industry. From the perspective of older disciplines such as education, fine art and cinema, this volume investigates how dot-com...

Digital experience design

Although the dot-com bubble burst long ago, the interactive media industry is still flush with fresh talent, new ideas and financial success. Digital Experience Design chronicles the diverse histories and perspectives of people working in the dot-com world alongside an account of the current issu...

Image understanding

Empirical studies of programmers

Progress in neural networks, volume two

Advances in control networks and large scale parallel distributed processing models

Human factors in information systems

Reliability in computer system design

Image understanding

Advances in human-computer interaction volume 3

When we started working in the field of human-computer interaction over ten years ago, there wasn't a field. We got strange looks from people who said "HCI isn't research; it's just common sense!" Now it is a fast-growing area of research and development. However, when we look around at advances ...

Trends in functional programming volume 5

Network models for control and processing

A powerful research tool that unites the related work on both modeling control and processing in distributed networks. Traditional publications in the field of network models have focussed [sic] on specific areas, whereas this collection successfully intersects many related fields. 

A new guide to artificial intelligence

The logic programming tutor

New directions for database systems

Routing, placement, and partitioning

Progress in computer graphics

Empirical studies of programmers

Law, computer science, and artificial intelligence

The interaction between the disciplines of law, computer science and artificial intelligence are attracting increasing attention within the academic and commercial communities, especially in the areas of "intelligent" computer fraud, copyright of software, data protection, representing law on the...

Machinations

Learning with computers

Information systems implementation

Trends in functional programming volume 4

This book collects the latest research developments in the use of functional programming languages. The contents highlight major research goals and engineering concerns in the subject including: real-time and research-bounded functional programming connections between static analysis methods an...

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Computers and art

Computers and Art provides insightful perspectives on the use of the computer as a tool for artists. The approaches taken vary from its historical, philosophical and practical implications to the use of computer technology in art practice. The contributors include an art critic, an educator, a pr...

Blackboard systems

Progress in computer-aided vlsi design, volume two

Advances in connectionist and neural computation theory vol. 1

Progress in neural networks: volume one

Empirical studies of programmers

Advances in logic programming and automated reasoning

This is the first volume of a series concerned with new research contributions of the methods of logic in computer science. Contributions from leading researchers and practitioners are included in this volume. This series is designed to stimulate and sustain new, productive lines of investigation...

Creative intelligences

Machine-tractable dictionaries

Advances in connectionist and neural computation theory vol. 2

Trends in functional programming volume 7