The Complete Guide to the iPad

Earthquake Engineering: From Engineering Seismology to Performance-Based Engineering

CRC Press, 2004

Earthquake engineering (EE) is an integration of multidisciplinary knowledge in several areas of basic sciences and science-based engineering with the ultimate goal of reducing the seismic risks to socioeconomically acceptable levels.

In the U.S., the first comprehensive book covering various aspects of EE was...

Jakarta Pitfalls: Time-Saving Solutions for Struts, Ant, JUnit, and Cactus

John Wiley & Sons, 2003

Escape from common coding pitfalls with this detailed book of proven Jakarta missteps and solutions

The dangers of Jakarta pitfalls are everywhere and countless developers have already been trapped. These mistakes have delayed schedules, allowed major bugs to get into the users’ hands, or led to numerous rewrites in maintenance. Luckily,...

Video Object Extraction and Representation: Theory and Applications

Springer, 2000

Video Object Extraction and Representation: Theory and Applications is an essential reference for electrical engineers working in video; computer scientists researching or building multimedia databases; video system designers; students of video processing; video technicians; and designers working in the graphic arts.

In...

The SIAM 100-Digit Challenge: A Study in High-Accuracy Numerical Computing

SIAM, 2004

"Destined to be a classic of modern computational science... a gourmet feast in ten courses." from the foreword by David H. Bailey, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory."

The authors, members of teams that solved all 10 problems, show in detail multiple approaches for solving each problem,...

Real World Image Sharpening with Adobe Photoshop CS2

Peachpit Press, 2006

It's a sad but undeniable fact of life: Whether you scan, shoot, or capture, the process of digitizing images introduces softness, and to get great-looking results, you'll need to sharpen the great majority of digital images. The softness introduced during digitizing results from the very nature of the digitizing process. To represent images...

Java Data Access: JDBC, JNDI, and JAXP

Hungry Minds, 2001

This hands-on guide shows Java developers how to access data with the new 3.0 Java Database Connectivity (JDBC) API, use LDAP-enabled directory services with Java Network Directory Services (JNDI), and manipulate XML data using Java APIs for XML Processing (JAXP). Pick up this book to acquire the skills needed to effectively create Java...