Handbook of Knowledge Representation Edited by Frank van Harmelen, Vladimir Lifschitz and Bruce Porter ISBN: 978-0-444-52211-5
Key Features: • Make your computer smarter • Handle qualitative and uncertain information • Improve computational tractability to solve your problems easily... [more]
User Interface Design and Evaluation Debbie Stone Caroline Jarrett Mark Woodroffe Shailey Minocha ISBN: 978-0-12-088436-0
"User Interface Design and Evaluation is comprehensive and clear. It's an amazing achievement--atextbook in plain English that works both for the classroom and for practitioners learning on their own. It covers the entire user-centered design process with details on the steps and techniques for requirements gathering, design, and, evaluation. It includes great stories and case studies as well as engaging exercises. This is a superb book that puts all the pieces together." —Ginny Redish, Redish & Associates, Inc.... [more]
Computer Animation: Algorithms and Techniques, 2nd Edition Rick Parent ISBN: 978-0-12-532000-9
Driven by the demands of research and the entertainment industry, the techniques of animation are pushed to render increasingly complex objects with ever-greater life-like appearance and motion. This rapid progression of knowledge and technique impacts professional developers, as well as students. Developers must maintain their understanding of conceptual foundations, while their animation tools become ever more complex and specialized. The second edition of Rick Parent's Computer Animation is an excellent resource for the designers who must meet this challenge. The first edition established its reputation as the best technically oriented animation text. This new edition focuses on the many recent developments in animation technology, including fluid animation, human figure animation, and soft body animation. The new edition revises and expands coverage of topics such as quaternions, natural phenomenon, facial animation, and inverse kinematics... [more]
Computer Organization and Design: The Hardware/Software Interface, 4th Edition David Patterson John Hennessy ISBN: 978-0-12-374493-7
This new edition has been thoroughly updated to provide a new focus on the revolutionary change taking place in industry today: the switch from uniprocessor to multicore microprocessors. The Fourth Edition has a new emphasis on parallelism supported by updates reflecting the newest technologies with examples highlighting the latest processor designs, benchmarking standards, languages and tools.
As with previous editions, at the core is the MIPS processor presenting the fundamentals of hardware technologies, assembly language, computer arithmetic, pipelining, memory hierarchies and I/O. Along with its increased coverage of parallelism, this new edition offers new content on Flash memory and virtual machines. The textbook also includes a new appendix written by industry experts covering the emergence and importance of the modern GPU, the highly parallel, highly multithreaded multiprocessor optimized for visual computing... [more]
Data Mining, Second Edition: Concepts and Techniques, 2nd Edition Jiawei Han Micheline Kamber ISBN: 978-1-55860-901-3
Highly anticipated second edition of the definitive text on data mining.
"This book is a "must have" for all instructors, researchers, developers and users in the area of data mining and knowledge discovery." —Hans-Peter Kriegel, University of Munich, Germany
"The second edition of Han and Kamber Data Mining: Concepts and Techniques updates and improves the already comprehensive coverage of the first edition and adds coverage of new and important topics, such as mining stream data, mining social networks, and mining spatial, multi-media and other complex data. This book will be an excellent textbook for courses on Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery." —Gregory Piatetsky-Shapiro, President, KDnuggets... [more]
Computer Networks: A Systems Approach, 4th Edition Larry Peterson Bruce Davie ISBN: 978-0-12-370548-8
This newly revised edition continues to provide an enduring, practical understanding of networks and their building blocks through rich, example-based instruction. The authors' focus is on the why of network design, not just the specifications comprising today's systems but how key technologies and protocols actually work in the real world to solve specific problems.
WHY THIS BOOK: The new edition makes less use of computer code to explain protocols than earlier editions. The authors' use pseudocode where appropriate and resort to C code only when it adds significantly to the explanation of a protocol or its implementation. In this way, students will learn how to go about constructing a network from the ground up and for each building block presented they will see its real world implementation... [more]
Programming Language Pragmatics, 3rd Edition Michael Scott ISBN: 978-0-12-374514-9
Programming Language Pragmatics is the most comprehensive programming language textbook available today. Taking the perspective that language design and language implementation are tightly interconnected, and that neither can be fully understood in isolation, this critically acclaimed and bestselling book has been thoroughly updated to cover the most recent developments in programming language design. With a new chapter on run-time program management and expanded coverage of concurrency, this new edition provides both students and professionals alike with a solid understanding of the most important issues driving software development today....[more]
