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Java Game Programming for Dummies, 1st edition
Authors: Wayne Holder
Venue:  (1998)

:Finally, a book that combines Java and fun! With straightforward explanations and tons of ready-to-use chunks of Java game code, Java Game Programming For Dummies plunges you right into the heart of cutting-edge game design. Inside, find helpful advice on how to Use Java's powerful toolkit of ready-to-go game components Enhance your games with Java's multithreaded capabilities Create realistic fantasy worlds by using texture-mapping techniques Give your games a professional look by using advanced imaging techniques and seamless animations Discover the magic of object-oriented programming (OOP) and see how it dramatically simplifies game design
SPARSE Reduces Conjunctively to TALLY
Authors: Harry Buhrman, Edith Hemaspaandra, Luc Longpre
Venue: SIAM Journal on Computing (1995)

Polynomials over finite fields are used to show that any sparse set can conjunctively reduce to a tally set. This leads to new results and to simple proofs of known results about various classes that lie between P and P/poly.
Act! 2000 for Windows for Dummies Quick Reference, 1st edition
Authors: Tom Barich, Damon Dean
Venue:  (1999)

:The take-with-you-anywhere guide to the bestselling contact management software that works well in the office or on the road. This comprehensive A-Z reference shows how to keep up on calls, contacts, appointments, and email--all in a handy, lay-flat book that's ideal for the desktop or the briefcase.
OoLaLa: how and when can it be optimised?
Authors: Mikel Luján, T. L. Freeman, John R. Gurd
Venue: Proceedings of the 2002 joint ACM-ISCOPE conference on Java Grande (2002)

OoLaLa is an object oriented linear algebra library designed to reduce development and maintenance effort [2]. In contrast with traditional (Fortran-based) libraries, it provides two high abstraction levels that significantly reduce the combinatorial number of implementations necessary for particular linear algebra operations. Traditional libraries sacrifice abstraction for performance and their implementations of matrix operations have embedded knowledge about the data structures, storage formats (SFs), and special characteristics, matrix properties (MPs). These implementations are said to be at Storage Format Abstraction level (SFA-level). The first higher abstraction level, Matrix Abstraction level (MA-level), provides indexed random access to matrix elements. The second higher abstraction level, Iterator Abstraction level (IA-level), is based on the iterator pattern and provides sequential access to nonzero matrix elements.Performance results of a Java version of OoLaLa show that MA-level and IA-level are not competitive with SFA-level and motivate the two questions addressed in this poster: (1) how can implementations at MA-level and IA-level be transformed into the more efficient SFA-level? and (2) for which sets of SFs and MPs can this be done automatically?The latter question is addressed by the definition of a subset of MPs, linear combination matrix property (LCMP), and a subset of SFs, constant time element access storage format (CTSF). The set LCMP is defined as the subset of MPs such that every MP is based on a boolean expression involving linear combinations of the indices i and j to determine whether an element aij might be a nonzero element. An example of a LCMP is the upper triangular property (i.e. aij is zero when iρj). The set CTSF is defined as the subset of SFs such that matrix elements can be accessed in constant time. An example of an CTSF is the dense format; i.e. a two-dimensional array. The former question is tackled by a sequence of standard compiler transformations which is as follows: (1) method inlining, (2) move the guards1 for the inlined methods to surround the loop (or loops) and include nullity test for every object, (3) remove try-catch and throw clauses, (4) make local copies of the accessed attributes (class and instance variables), (5) disambiguate aliases, (6) remove redundant computations, and (7) transform while-loops into for-loops. Note that outside the scope of this work are loop restructuring transformations for the generation of block or recursive code. This sequence is not only beneficial for OoLaLa, but also for other libraries based on arrays (e.g. the JSR-0832 Array-List, Hash-Map and Hash-Set). Further information can be found in [1].
Borland Pascal 7 Insider
Authors: Paul Cilwa
Venue:  (1993)

:A guide to getting the most out of Turbo Pascal and Borland Pascal with Objects version 7. Emphasizes exploiting the language's object-oriented capabilities for writing Windows applications. Focuses on the building, testing and debugging of custom libraries as well as the library supplied with the program (OWL). Teaches how to build reusable class libraries to create an inventory of program routines and enhance efficiency.
Guide to Networking Essentials, 2nd edition
Authors: Ed Tittel, David Johnson, Ross H. Johnson
Venue:  (2001)

:Ideal for professionals looking to gain insight into the latest in Networking technologies, this title has been completely revised and now includes coverage on broadband, wireless, and Linux.
Learning XML
Authors: Erik T. Ray, Christopher R. Maden
Venue:  (2001)

:The arrival of support for XMLthe Extensible Markup Languagein browsers and authoring tools has followed a long period of intense hype. Major databases, authoring tools (including Microsoft's Office 2000), and browsers are committed to XML support. Many content creators and programmers for the Web and other media are left wondering, "What can XML and its associated standards really do for me?" Getting the most from XML requires being able to tag and transform XML documents so they can be processed by web browsers, databases, mobile phones, printers, XML processors, voice response systems, and LDAP directories, just to name a few targets. In Learning XML, the authors explain XML and its capabilities succinctly and professionally, with references to real-life projects and other cogent examples. Learning XML shows the purpose of XML markup itself, the CSS and XSL styling languages, and the XLink and XPointer specifications for creating rich link structures. The basic advantages of XML over HTML are that XML lets a web designer define tags that are meaningful for the particular documents or database output to be used, and that it enforces an unambiguous structure that supports error-checking. XML supports enhanced styling and linking standards (allowing, for instance, simultaneous linking to the same document in multiple languages) and a range of new applications. For writers producing XML documents, this book demystifies files and the process of creating them with the appropriate structure and format. Designers will learn what parts of XML are most helpful to their team and will get started on creating Document Type Descriptions. For programmers, the book makes syntax and structures clear. It also discusses the stylesheets needed for viewing documents in the next generation of browsers, databases, and other devices. About the Authors:Erik Ray is a software wrangler for the computer book publisher O'Reilly and Associates, helping to move production to an XML-based workflow. He lives with his wife Jeannine and 5 birds in Saugus, Massachusetts. When not writing, he can be found practicing kendo, watching Japanese animation, playing go, or stalking antiquarian book fairs to indulge his fetish for 19th-century children's books and machine bolt catalogs. Chris Maden left Brown University in 1994 and stumbled into a career in structured markup via a technical support position at Electronic Book Technologies in Providence, RI, creators of one of the first electronic book browsers, DynaText. There, he got involved in standards work, including participating in the first work on XML. From EBT, he staggered north to the Tools Group at O'Reilly, where he helped develop a new generation of SGML and XML publishing tools, and where he also joined the XSL Working Group at the W3C. In 1999, he left to join Yomu, an e-books startup in San Francisco, where he currently lives with his wife Ellie Fountain Maden.
System Level Harware/Software Co-Design: An Industrial Approach
Authors: Joris Van Den Hurk, Jochen Jess
Venue:  (1998)

:System Level Hardware/Software Co-design An Industrial Approach is the first book to provide a comprehensive, coherent system design methodology that has been proven to increase productivity in industrial practice. The book will be of interest to all managers, designers and researchers working in the semiconductor industry.
Computer generated animation of faces
Authors: Frederick I. Parke
Venue: Proceedings of the ACM annual conference - Volume 1 (1972)

This paper describes the representation, animation and data collection techniques that have been used to produce "realistic" computer generated half-tone animated sequences of a human face changing expression. It was determined that approximating the surface of a face with a polygonal skin containing approximately 250 polygons defined by about 400 vertices is sufficient to achieve a realistic face. Animation was accomplished using a cosine interpolation scheme to fill in the intermediate frames between expressions. This approach is good enough to produce realistic facial motion. The three-dimensional data used to describe the expressions of the face was obtained photogrammetrically using pairs of photographs.
Inventory Record Accuracy: Unleashing the Power of Cycle Counting, 1st edition
Authors: Roger B. Brooks
Venue:  (1992)

:Inventory Record Accuracy is exclusively devoted to helping your company achieve inventory record accuracy levels of 95 percent - or better. Through the use of a proven, effective tool, "Cycle Counting," you can eliminate the inefficiencies that plague many inventory systems in today's time-compressed operations. Whether your company is using Just-in-Time or Manufacturing Resource Planning, you'll find this book's advice invaluable in dramatically improving your inventory accuracy in a short time. In today's economy of lean, flexible production, excess inventory or inaccurate information can create significant financial drains on your business. And inaccurate inventory reporting systems can make it difficult for any company to consistently achieve higher levels of performance through continuous improvement initiatives. Creating an effective, well-managed inventory record accuracy system is clearly a critical challenge for all companies on the way to world class manufacturing. With over 40 years of combined experience, the authors provide a clear path for dramatically improving inventory accuracy. In a clear, "hands-on" approach, you'll learn how to evaluate your current inventory system to identify areas for improvement, design and manage the implementation of Cycle Counting, effectively improve inventory management at single or multiple facilities, eliminate time-consuming physical inventories, empower work groups to facilitate the use of Cycle Counting, coordinate the use of Cycle Counting with Just-in-Time or MRP II, apply Cycle Counting concepts in a process industry setting, and develop important operating procedures to ensure optimal inventory accuracy over the long term. By following the authors' proven advice, your company can unleash the power of Cycle Counting and experience the benefits of dramatically improved inventory record accuracy.
A photometric approach to digitizing cultural artifacts
Authors: Tim Hawkins, Jonathan Cohen, Paul Debevec
Venue: Proceedings of the 2001 conference on Virtual reality, archeology, and cultural heritage (2001)

In this paper we present a photometry-based approach to the digital documentation of cultural artifacts. Rather than representing an artifact as a geometric model with spatially varying reflectance properties, we instead propose directly representing the artifact in terms of its reflectance field --- the manner in which it transforms light into images. The principal device employed in our technique is a computer-controlled lighting apparatus which quickly illuminates an artifact from an exhaustive set of incident illumination directions and a set of digital video cameras which record the artifact's appearance under these forms of illumination. From this database of recorded images, we compute linear combinations of the captured images to synthetically illuminate the object under arbitrary forms of complex incident illumination, correctly capturing the effects of specular reflection, subsurface scattering, self-shadowing, mutual illumination, and complex BRDF's often present in cultural artifacts. We also describe a computer application that allows users to realistically and interactively relight digitized artifacts.
Teach Yourself . . . UNIX, 2nd edition
Authors: Kevin Reichard, Eric F. Johnson
Venue:  (1992)

:Put your UNIX fears to rest and embark on the programming path with teach yourself UNIX&reg;, 3rd Edition. Starting with UNIX session basics and the UNIX directory, veteran authors Kevin Reichard and Eric F. Johnson provide you with the foundation for a successful programming career. teach yourself UNIX, 3rd Edition also covers, permissions, logins, passwords, UNIX Internet tools, and the command line. Plus, teach yourself UNIX, 3rd Edition explains advanced UNIX capabilities such as multitasking, Awk programs, Perl scripts, and the streams editor. Reichard and Johnson include a detailed glossary and an appendix of basic UNIX commands.
On Schwarz Alternating Methods for the Incompressible Navier--Stokes Equations
Authors: S. H. Lui
Venue: SIAM Journal on Scientific Computing (2000)

The Schwarz alternating method can be used to solve linear elliptic boundary value problems on domains which consist of two or more overlapping subdomains. The solution is approximated by an infinite sequence of functions which result from solving a sequence of elliptic boundary value problems in each of the subdomains. This paper considers four Schwarz alternating methods for the N-dimensional, steady, viscous, incompressible Navier--Stokes equations, $N \leq 4$. It is shown that the Schwarz sequences converge to the true solution provided that the Reynolds number is sufficiently small.
Sams Teach Yourself Computer Basics in 24 Hours, 3rd edition
Authors: Jill T. Freeze, Wayne S. Freeze
Venue:  (2001)

:Sams Teach Yourself Computer Basics in 24 Hours is the replacement documentation that you don't get with sub-$1000 computers. It's designed to be an "all-in-one solution" to help users to get up and running on their computer and learn all the software applications that came pre-loaded on their system. This book is a cost-efficient alternative for the user who will probably not purchase separate books on general PCs, Windows, the Internet, Word, and Excel.
The Robot in the Garden: Telerobotics and Telepistemology in the Age of the Internet
Authors: Ken Goldberg
Venue:  (2001)

:The Robot in the Garden initiates a critical theory of telerobotics and introduces telepistemology, the study of knowledge acquired at a distance. Many of our most influential technologies -- the telescope, telephone, and television -- were developed to provide knowledge at a distance. Telerobots, remotely controlled robots, facilitate action at a distance. Specialists use telerobots to explore environments such as Mars, the Titanic, and Chernobyl. Military personnel increasingly employ reconnaissance drones and telerobotic missiles. At home, we have remote controls for the garage door, car alarm, and television (the latter a remote for the remote). The Internet dramatically extends our scope and reach. Thousands of cameras and robots are now accessible online. Although the role of technical mediation has been of interest to philosophers since the seventeenth century, the Internet forces a reconsideration. As the public gains access to telerobotic instruments previously restricted to scientists and soldiers, questions of mediation, knowledge, and trust take on new significance for everyday life. The seventeen essays in this volume, by leading figures in philosophy, art, history, and engineering, are organized into three sections: Philosophy; Art, History, and Critical Theory; and Engineering, Interface, and System Design.
Non-Linear Control for Underactuated Mechanical Systems
Authors: Isabelle Fantoni, Rogelio Lozano
Venue:  (2001)

:This book deals with the application of modern control theory to some important underactuated mechanical systems. It presents modelling and control of the following systems:||- the inverted pendulum||- a convey-crane system||- the pendubot system||- the Furuta pendulum||- the inertia wheel pendulum||- the planar flexible-joint robot||- the planar manipulator with two prismatic and one revolute joints||- the ball & beam system||- the hovercraft model||- the planar vertical and take-off landing (PVTOL) aircraft||- the helicopter model on a platform||- the helicopter model||In every case the model is obtained in detail using either the Euler-Lagrange formulation or the Newton's second law. We develop control algorithms for every particular system using techniques such as passivity, energy-based Lyapunov functions, forwarding, backstepping or feedback linearization techniques.||This book will be of great value for PhD students and researchers in the areas of non-linear control systems.
Business Intelligence with ColdFusion with CD-ROM
Authors: John W. Gosney, Christine M. Mears
Venue:  (2000)

:"Business intelligence" is one of the hottest catch phrases circulating throughout the industry today and refers to a methodology for turning data into information. ColdFusion is a complete Web application server for developing and delivering scalable e-business applications. Business Intelligence with ColdFusion combines the two and provides a solid understanding of ColdFusion and project management principles while taking you through complete examples of how to successfully implement business intelligence. This book is geared toward the experienced application developer who might be new to ColdFusion. It includes a CD with a demo of a ColdFusion server, Allaire's Homesite and Studio, and a HTML version of the book.
Writing Secure Code
Authors: Michael Howard, David Leblanc
Venue:  (2001)

:Security mistakes by software architects, designers, and developers contribute to an ongoing plague that costs businesses millions of dollars every year when malicious intruders attack interconnected applications, steal credit-card numbers, and deface Web sites. Writing Secure Code offers a ready cure. This fact-filled, eye-opening title covers the major aspects of creating secure applications through the entire development process, from secure design, to writing robust code that can easily withstand an attack, to testing applications for security vulnerabilities. Writing Secure Code provides software designers, architects, developers, and testers the training, theory, and techniques they need to ensure security. Topics covered include security principles, how to design, code, and test for security, how to write secure code for Microsoft&reg; .NET APIs, why companies neglect security, the 10 immutable laws of security and security administration, and more. Developers who read this title will have the peace of mind that comes from knowing that the code they develop is not only fast, but secure. Both authors are top security experts at Microsoft who have helped solve some of the toughest security problems in the computing industry. No more malicious attacks! Learn the best practices for writing secure code, with samples in Microsoft Visual Basic&reg;.NET, Visual C++&reg;, Perl, and Visual C#&reg;. This is the first book that focuses on programming secure applications in general instead of covering security for just the Web developer, network administrator, or IT professional. Key Book Benefits: * Demonstrates the best practices for creating secure codethrough the entire development processfrom design to programming to testing * Includes code samples in Visual Basic .NET, Visual C++, Perl, and Visual C#. * Focuses on programming secure applications in general instead of covering security for the Web developer, network administrator, or IT professional
Random House Webster's Computer and Internet Dictionary, 3rd edition
Authors: Philip E. Margolis
Venue:  (1998)

:Don't let the computer world confuse you. Whether you need to familiarize yourself with the basic vocabulary of computers or the latest item of tech talk, the Random House Webster's Computer & Internet Dictionary, Third Edition, explains computer language in clear, simple language. At last, a book that is easy to understand - but doesn't treat the reader like someone with fewer than 12 function keys on the keyboard. With more than 3,000 essential computer terms, carefully linked with abundant cross references and illustrated with more than 75 clear line drawings, this book will comfort and charm you as it informs.
Programming with Python: Filled with over 40 Full-Length, Annotated Scripts-A Better way to Learn Python
Authors: Tim Altom, Mitch Chapman
Venue:  (1999)

:Programming with Python is filled with practical applications and code to help you get up to speed with this innovative programming language. Browse the "recipes" of scripts and create programs faster and with less hassle. The included CD-ROM contains the Python code, programs, and the text of the book. Before you know it, you will have cross-platform program interfaces, a search engine for your Web site, and more programs than you would have thought possible.
Image-based 3D acquisition of archaeological heritage and applications
Authors: Marc Pollefeys, Luc Van Gool, Maarten Vergauwen, Kurt Cornelis, Frank Verbiest, Jan Tops
Venue: Proceedings of the 2001 conference on Virtual reality, archeology, and cultural heritage (2001)

In this paper an approach is presented that obtains virtual models from sequences of images. The system can deal with uncalibrated image sequences acquired with a hand-held camera. Based on tracked or matched features the relations between multiple views are computed. From this both the structure of the scene and the motion of the camera are retrieved. The ambiguity on the reconstruction is restricted from projective to metric through auto-calibration. A flexible multi-view stereo matching scheme is used to obtain a dense estimation of the surface geometry. From the computed data virtual models can be constructed or, inversely, virtual models can be included in the original images.
The Politics of Cyberspace: A New Political Science Reader
Authors: Chris Toulouse, Timothy W. Luke
Venue:  (1998)

:A collection of essays by a diverse group of scholars, The Politics of Cyberspace tackles the most important themes tied to the emergence of cyber-space - inequalities of access, the use of the Web by mainstream political parties, the challenge to the First Amendment, the possibility that the Web may foster new understandings of gender, and the need for progressive intellectuals to embrace and utilize the internet in their political struggles.
Sams Teach Yourself Microsoft Internet Explorer 5 in 10 Minutes, 1st edition
Authors: Jill T. Freeze, Mark Taber
Venue:  (1999)

:Sams Teach Yourself Microsoft Internet Explorer 5 in 10 Minutes is a quick, efficient reference to getting connected to the Internet, finding and browsing Web sites, sending and receiving e-mail, reading and posting to newsgroups, and generally applying Internet Explorer to your everyday office and home life. Only the most common problems and most frequently used Internet Explorer tasks are coveredfrom saving bookmarks of your favorite Web sites, to organizing your e-mail folders, to creating a simple page on the World Wide Web. Revised and updated, covering all the new features of Microsoft Internet Explorer 5 and its integration with Microsoft Office 2000.