This book investigates how practices of community carsharing are influencing everyday mobility. It argues that hegemonic practices of automobility are reconfigured through practices of community carsharing, thereby challenging capitalist mobilities in the realm of everyday life.Through a detailed empirical study of practices of community carsharing and its practitioners in the rural regions around Munich, Germany, this book reveals how the practice contributes to the emergence of a...

You know that servers have log files and performance measuring tools and that traditional network devices have LEDs that blink when a port does something. You may have tools that tell you how busy an interface is, but mostly a network device is a black box. Network Flow Analysis opens that black box, demonstrating how to use industry-standard software and your existing hardware to assess, analyze, and debug your network.Unlike packet sniffers that require you to reproduce ...

“One of the best technical writers in the networking and security environments.”— Midwest Book ReviewStop waiting for the network team!If basic TCP/IP was hard, network administrators couldn’t do it. Servers give sysadmins a incredible visibility into the network—once they know how to unlock it.Most sysadmins don’t need to understand window scaling, or the differences between IPv4 and IPv6 echo requests, or other intricacies of the ...

This book provides a straightforward look at the concepts, algorithms and advantages of Bayesian Deep Learning and Deep Generative Models. Starting from the model-based approach to Machine Learning, the authors motivate Probabilistic Graphical Models and show how Bayesian inference naturally lends itself to this framework. The authors present detailed explanations of the main modern algorithms on variational approximations for Bayesian inference in neural networks. Each algorithm of this s...

Artificial intelligence is rapidly moving beyond centralized cloud computing into distributed edge environments, creating a new generation of intelligent systems that are autonomous, adaptive, efficient, and sustainable. Pervasive Intelligence: From Architectures to Sustainable Edge AI Systems-of-Systems explores the technologies, architectures, and engineering methodologies driving this transformation.Written by leading researchers and industry experts, the book provides a compreh...

Multilayer networks, in particular multilayer social networks, where users belong to and interact on different networks at the same time, are an active research area in social network analysis, computer science, and physics. These networks have traditionally been studied within these separate research communities, leading to the development of several independent models and methods to deal with the same set of problems. This book unifies and consolidates existing practical and theoretical ...

Master artificial intelligence to transform cold outreach into authentic relationship building and rapid career growth. Whether you are commuting to a pitch or frustrated by generic networking events, the old rules of connection are dead. This empowering guide reveals how smart automation can secretly amplify your empathy, preparation, and relevance.Instead of letting algorithms replace your voice, harness them as your ultimate strategic thinking partner. Reclaim your energy as you...

Before games became billion-dollar spectacles, some of their most unforgettable worlds were built from blinking cursors, crude pixels, clever puzzles, and the dangerous phrase “You are standing at the end of a road.” Computer adventure gaming turned the keyboard into a doorway, asking players to think, explore, experiment, and lose themselves in stories that existed halfway between literature and software.From the mainframe caves of Colossal Cave Adventure and Zork to the rise of S...

The war for video games was not only fought under televisions. Another battle was happening in backpacks, glove compartments, school buses, airports, and bedrooms after lights-out, where companies tried to squeeze entire worlds into a machine small enough to hold in two hands.The story begins with simple LCD toys and Nintendo’s Game & Watch, then erupts into the great handheld clash of 1989. Game Boy, Atari Lynx, TurboExpress, Game Gear, Nomad, Neo Geo Pocket Color, WonderSwan, PSP...

The war for video games was not only fought under televisions. Another battle was happening in backpacks, glove compartments, school buses, airports, and bedrooms after lights-out, where companies tried to squeeze entire worlds into a machine small enough to hold in two hands.The story begins with simple LCD toys and Nintendo’s Game & Watch, then erupts into the great handheld clash of 1989. Game Boy, Atari Lynx, TurboExpress, Game Gear, Nomad, Neo Geo Pocket Color, WonderSwan, PSP...

Before video games became an empire of consoles, cartridges, mascots, and billion-dollar launches, there was a ball, a paddle, a bar, and a machine so popular it broke because it swallowed too many quarters. Atari did not just enter the entertainment business; it helped invent a new one.The early days were part engineering lab, part carnival hustle, and part Silicon Valley fever dream. Nolan Bushnell, Ted Dabney, Al Alcorn, and a chaotic crew of young builders turned crude circuits...

In the early 1980s, video games died. The American-led industry collapsed under the weight of its own greed and chaos, leaving behind a wasteland of bankruptcy and bargain bins that most believed would never recover. What rose from those ashes was not a resurrection but a conquest—orchestrated by a century-old Japanese playing card company that outsmarted an entire nation of skeptics.The war that followed redefined entertainment itself. Nintendo's ruthless control over its new king...