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Press On Principles of Interaction Programming
Interactive systems and devices, from mobile phones to office copiers, do not fulfill their potential for a wide variety of reasons--not all of them technical. Press On shows that we can design better interactive systems and devices if we draw on sound co...
(paru le 02/11/2007, consulté 32 fois)
Innovation and Incentives
Interest in intellectual property and other institutions that promote innovation exploded during the 1990s. Innovation and Incentives provides a clear and wide-ranging introduction to the economics of innovation, suitable for teaching at both the advanced...
(paru le 10/10/2006, consulté 387 fois)
Profiling Machines Mapping the Personal Information Economy
In this book Greg Elmer brings the perspectives of cultural and media studies to the subject of consumer profiling and feedback technology in the digital economy. He examines the multiplicity of processes that monitor consumers and automatically collect, ...
(paru le 27/02/2004, consulté 385 fois)
The Venture Capital Cycle
In The Venture Capital Cycle Paul Gompers and Josh Lerner correct widespread misper-ceptions about the nature and role of venture capitalists and provide an accessible and comprehensive overview of the venture capital industry. Bringing together fifteen y...
(paru le 05/09/2006, consulté 352 fois)
Surface Architecture
Visually, many contemporary buildings either reflect their systems of production or recollect earlier styles and motifs. This division between production and representation is in some ways an extension of that between modernity and tradition. In this book...
(paru le 30/03/2005, consulté 355 fois)
Musimathics The Mathematical Foundations of Music, Volume 1
"Mathematics can be as effortless as humming a tune, if you know the tune," writes Gareth Loy. In Musimathics, Loy teaches us the tune, providing a friendly and spirited tour of the mathematics of music--a commonsense, self-contained introduction for the ...
(paru le 01/08/2006, consulté 989 fois)
The European Central Bank Credibility, Transparency, and Centralization
The adoption of the euro in 1999 by 11 member states of the European Union created a single currency area second in economic size only to the United States. The euro zone's monetary policy is now set by the European Central Bank (ECB) and its Governing Co...
(paru le 14/06/2005, consulté 1076 fois)
Foundations of object-oriented languages Types and semantics
In recent years, object-oriented programming has emerged as
the dominant computer programming style, and
object-oriented languages such as C++ and Java enjoy wide
use in academia and industry. This text explores the formal
underpinnings of object-oriented...
(paru le 27/09/2002, consulté 1151 fois)
Perspectives on Free and Open Source Software
What is the status of the Free and Open Source Software (F/OSS) revolution? Has the creation of software that can be freely used, modified, and redistributed transformed industry and society, as some predicted, or is this transformation still a work in pr...
(paru le 16/04/2007, consulté 2163 fois)
Digital Storytelling The Narrative Power of Visual Effects in Film
Computer-generated effects are often blamed for bad Hollywood movies. Yet when a critic complains that "technology swamps storytelling" (in a review of Van Helsing, calling it "an example of everything that is wrong with Hollywood computer-generated effec...
(paru le 05/03/2007, consulté 1386 fois)
Cornucopia Limited Design and Dissent on the Internet
The network economy presents itself in the transactions of electronic commerce, finance, business, and communications. The network economy is also a social condition of discontinuity, indefinite limits, and in-between spaces. In Cornucopia Limited, Richar...
(paru le 02/11/2005, consulté 1619 fois)
Designing Interactions
Digital technology has changed the way we interact with everything from the games we play to the tools we use at work. Designers of digital technology products no longer regard their job as designing a physical object--beautiful or utilitarian--but as des...
(paru le 19/12/2006, consulté 1729 fois)
Online Stochastic Combinatorial Optimization
Online decision making under uncertainty and time constraints represents one of the most challenging problems for robust intelligent agents. In an increasingly dynamic, interconnected, and real-time world, intelligent systems must adapt dynamically to unc...
(paru le 04/12/2006, consulté 2312 fois)
New Directions in Statistical Signal Processing From Systems to Brains
Signal processing and neural computation have separately and significantly influenced many disciplines, but the cross-fertilization of the two fields has begun only recently. Research now shows that each has much to teach the other, as we see highly sophi...
(paru le 04/12/2006, consulté 2172 fois)
The Computer Music Tutorial
The Computer Music Tutorial is a comprehensive text and reference that covers all aspects of computer music, including digital audio, synthesis techniques, signal processing, musical input devices, performance software, editing systems, algorithmic compos...
(paru le 31/03/1995, consulté 2118 fois)