Computer Science

This highly topical text considers the construction of the next generation of the Web, called the Semantic Web. This will enable computers to autom...

Bayesian nets are widely used in artificial intelligence as a calculus for causal reasoning, enabling machines to make predictions, perform diagnos...

Although the highly anticipated petascale computers of the near future will perform at an order of magnitude faster than today’s quickest supercomp...

How has information technology changed the way we monitor criminal behavior? How has it changed the way we examine patterns of criminal behavior? H...

Design system for information design explained step by step How can you turn dry statistics into attractive and informative graphs? How can you ...

Proof and Disproof in Formal Logic is a lively and entertaining introduction to formal logic providing an excellent insight into how a simple logic...

Technological improvements continue to push back the frontier of processor speed in modern computers. Unfortunately, the computational intensity de...

What if you could someday put the manufacturing power of an automobile plant on your desktop? According to Neil Gershenfeld, the renowned MIT scien...

The most powerful weapon in business today is the alliance between the mathematical smarts of machines and the imaginative human intellect of great...

For today's programmers, it is impossible to foresee every input, every usage scenario, and every combination of applications that can cause errors...

This book describes LSI process technology, and focuses on the rapid progress of state-of-the-art dynamic random access memory (DRAM) process techn...

Capture great sound in the first place and spend less time "fixing it in the mix" with Ian Corbett’s Mic It! With this updated and expanded second ...

This book reviews ways to improve statistical machine speech translation between Polish and English. Research has been conducted mostly on dictiona...

This book is based on a successful curriculum designed to elevate technical artists with no programming experience up to essential programming comp...

This easy-to-read textbook provides an introduction to computer architecture, focusing on the essential aspects of hardware that programmers need t...

Artificial Intelligence (AI) is the most rapidly developing technology in the current Digital Age, but it is also the least defined, understood and...

In the popular imagination, artificial intelligence (AI) is usually portrayed as a divine entity that makes “just” and “objective” decisions. Yet A...

This book provides critical commentary on key issues around virtual reality, using media technology as a tool to challenge perspectives for learnin...

The book addresses themes such as visual perception, perception of 3-D and stereo. With the event of the stereoscope and the theatre, dioramas and ...

This new volume is an essential source of research on how to speed up business growth through technological innovation and knowledge generation. Th...

Interest in predictive analytics of big data has grown exponentially in the four years since the publication of Statistical and Machine-Learning Da...

The significant amount of information available in any field requires a systematic and analytical approach to select the most critical information ...

Developments in Lisp technology have been accelerated by a number of factors, including the increased interest in Artificial Intelligence and the e...