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97 Things Every UX Practitioner Should Know

by Daniel Berlin ...

Tap into the wisdom of experts to learn what every UX practitioner needs to know. With 97 short and extremely useful articles, you'll discover new approaches to old problems, pick up road-tested best practices, and hone your skills through sound advice.Working in UX involves much more than just creating user interfaces. UX teams struggle with understanding what's important, which practices they ... Read more

$27.89 USD

Tap into the wisdom of experts to learn what every UX practitioner needs to know. With 97 short and extremely useful articles, you'll discover new approaches to old problems, pick up road-tested best practices, and hone your skills through sound advice.Working in UX involves much more than just creating user interfaces. UX teams struggle with understanding what's important, which practices they
... Read more
Data Governance with Unity Catalog on Databricks

Implement Data and AI Governance with Databricks Data Intelligence Platform

by Kiran Sreekumar, Karthik Subbarao ...

Organizations collecting and using personal data must now heed a growing body of regulations, and the penalties for noncompliance are stiff. The ubiquity of the cloud and the advent of generative AI have only made it more crucial to govern data appropriately. Thousands of companies have turned to Databricks Unity Catalog to simplify data governance and manage their data and AI assets more ... Read more

$38.87 USD

Organizations collecting and using personal data must now heed a growing body of regulations, and the penalties for noncompliance are stiff. The ubiquity of the cloud and the advent of generative AI have only made it more crucial to govern data appropriately. Thousands of companies have turned to Databricks Unity Catalog to simplify data governance and manage their data and AI assets more
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The History of the GPU - Eras and Environment

by Jon Peddie ...

Series series Computer Science (R0)
This is the second book in a three-part series that traces the development of the GPU, which is defined as a single chip with an integrated transform and lighting (T&L) capability. This feature previously was found in workstations as a stand-alone chip that only performed geometry functions. Enabled by Moore’s law, the first era of GPUs began in the late 1990s.Silicon Graphics (SGI) introduced T&L ... Read more

$36.44 USD

This is the second book in a three-part series that traces the development of the GPU, which is defined as a single chip with an integrated transform and lighting (T&L) capability. This feature previously was found in workstations as a stand-alone chip that only performed geometry functions. Enabled by Moore’s law, the first era of GPUs began in the late 1990s.Silicon Graphics (SGI) introduced T&L
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Augmented Reality

Where We Will All Live

by Jon Peddie ...

Series series Computer Science (R0)
This book provides an in-depth exploration of the field of augmented reality (AR) in its entirety and sets out to distinguish AR from other inter-related technologies like virtual reality (VR), mixed reality (MR) and extended reality (XR).The author presents AR from its initial philosophies and early developments, and in this updated 2nd edition discusses the latest advances and the ramifications ... Read more

$44.54 USD

This book provides an in-depth exploration of the field of augmented reality (AR) in its entirety and sets out to distinguish AR from other inter-related technologies like virtual reality (VR), mixed reality (MR) and extended reality (XR).The author presents AR from its initial philosophies and early developments, and in this updated 2nd edition discusses the latest advances and the ramifications
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Model and Design of Improved Current Mode Logic Gates

Differential and Single-ended

by Kirti Gupta, Neeta Pandey, Maneesha Gupta ...

Series series Computer Science (R0)
This book presents MOSFET-based current mode logic (CML) topologies, which increase the speed, and lower the transistor count, supply voltage and power consumption. The improved topologies modify the conventional PDN, load, and the current source sections of the basic CML gates.Electronic system implementation involves embedding digital and analog circuits on a single die shifting towards mixed ... Read more

$80.18 USD

This book presents MOSFET-based current mode logic (CML) topologies, which increase the speed, and lower the transistor count, supply voltage and power consumption. The improved topologies modify the conventional PDN, load, and the current source sections of the basic CML gates.Electronic system implementation involves embedding digital and analog circuits on a single die shifting towards mixed
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Advances in Longitudinal HCI Research

Edited by Evangelos Karapanos, Jens Gerken, Jesper Kjeldskov, Mikael B. Skov ...

Series series Computer Science (R0)
Longitudinal studies have traditionally been seen as too cumbersome and labor-intensive to be of much use in research on Human-Computer Interaction (HCI). However, recent trends in market, legislation, and the research questions we address, have highlighted the importance of studying prolonged use, while technology itself has made longitudinal research more accessible to researchers across ... Read more

$153.08 USD

Longitudinal studies have traditionally been seen as too cumbersome and labor-intensive to be of much use in research on Human-Computer Interaction (HCI). However, recent trends in market, legislation, and the research questions we address, have highlighted the importance of studying prolonged use, while technology itself has made longitudinal research more accessible to researchers across
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Personas - User Focused Design

by Lene Nielsen ...

Series series Computer Science (R0)
People relate to other people, not to simplified types or segments. This is the concept that underpins this book. Personas, a user centered design methodology covers topics from interaction design within IT, through to issues surrounding product design, communication, and marketing.Project developers need to understand how users approach their products from the product’s infancy, and regardless of ... Read more

$88.28 USD

People relate to other people, not to simplified types or segments. This is the concept that underpins this book. Personas, a user centered design methodology covers topics from interaction design within IT, through to issues surrounding product design, communication, and marketing.Project developers need to understand how users approach their products from the product’s infancy, and regardless of
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Playful Disruption of Digital Media

Edited by Daniel Cermak-Sassenrath ...

Series series Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
This book starts with the proposition that digital media invite play and indeed need to be played by their everyday users. Play is probably one of the most visible and powerful ways to appropriate the digital world. The diverse, emerging practices of digital media appear to be essentially playful: Users are involved and active, produce form and content, spread, exchange and consume it, take risks, ... Read more

$80.18 USD

This book starts with the proposition that digital media invite play and indeed need to be played by their everyday users. Play is probably one of the most visible and powerful ways to appropriate the digital world. The diverse, emerging practices of digital media appear to be essentially playful: Users are involved and active, produce form and content, spread, exchange and consume it, take risks,
... Read more
PHP Persistence

Concepts, Techniques and Practical Solutions with Doctrine

by Michael Romer ...

Series series Professional and Applied Computing (R0)
Take the pain out of dealing with relational databases in an object-oriented programming world. With this short book, you can save time and money by simply coding less while accomplishing more with the Doctrine persistence framework, a leading persistence solution for PHP programmers and web developers. PHP Persistence teaches you about PHP persistence and how to use it effectively for your ... Read more

$21.41 USD

Take the pain out of dealing with relational databases in an object-oriented programming world. With this short book, you can save time and money by simply coding less while accomplishing more with the Doctrine persistence framework, a leading persistence solution for PHP programmers and web developers. PHP Persistence teaches you about PHP persistence and how to use it effectively for your
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Reactive Programming with Angular and ngrx

Learn to Harness the Power of Reactive Programming with RxJS and ngrx Extensions

by Oren Farhi ...

Series series Professional and Applied Computing (R0)
Manage your Angular development using Reactive programming. Growing in popularity and now an essential part of any professional web developer's toolkit, Reactive programming can enrich your development and make your code more efficient.Featuring a core application to explore and build yourself, this book shows you how to utilize ngrx/store as a state management with Redux pattern, and how to ... Read more

$56.69 USD

Manage your Angular development using Reactive programming. Growing in popularity and now an essential part of any professional web developer's toolkit, Reactive programming can enrich your development and make your code more efficient.Featuring a core application to explore and build yourself, this book shows you how to utilize ngrx/store as a state management with Redux pattern, and how to
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Python Machine Learning Case Studies

Five Case Studies for the Data Scientist

by Danish Haroon ...

Series series Professional and Applied Computing (R0)
Embrace machine learning approaches and Python to enable automatic rendering of rich insights and solve business problems. The book uses a hands-on case study-based approach to crack real-world applications to which machine learning concepts can be applied. These smarter machines will enable your business processes to achieve efficiencies on minimal time and resources.Python Machine Learning Case ... Read more

$64.79 USD

Embrace machine learning approaches and Python to enable automatic rendering of rich insights and solve business problems. The book uses a hands-on case study-based approach to crack real-world applications to which machine learning concepts can be applied. These smarter machines will enable your business processes to achieve efficiencies on minimal time and resources.Python Machine Learning Case
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Practical Android

14 Complete Projects on Advanced Techniques and Approaches

by Mark Wickham ...

Series series Professional and Applied Computing (R0)
Choose the best approach for your app and implement your solution quickly by leveraging complete projects. This book is a collection of practical projects that use advanced Android techniques and approaches, written by Android instructor Mark Wickham. Mark has taught a series of popular classes at Android development conferences since 2013 and Practical Android covers content from his most popular ... Read more

$40.49 USD

Choose the best approach for your app and implement your solution quickly by leveraging complete projects. This book is a collection of practical projects that use advanced Android techniques and approaches, written by Android instructor Mark Wickham. Mark has taught a series of popular classes at Android development conferences since 2013 and Practical Android covers content from his most popular
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Real-Time Web Application Development

With ASP.NET Core, SignalR, Docker, and Azure

by Rami Vemula ...

Series series Professional and Applied Computing (R0)
Design, develop, and deploy a real-world web application by leveraging modern open source technologies. This book shows you how to use ASP.NET Core to build cross-platform web applications along with SignalR to enrich the application by enabling real-time communication between server and clients. You will use Docker to containerize your application, integrate with GitHub to package the application ... Read more

$56.69 USD

Design, develop, and deploy a real-world web application by leveraging modern open source technologies. This book shows you how to use ASP.NET Core to build cross-platform web applications along with SignalR to enrich the application by enabling real-time communication between server and clients. You will use Docker to containerize your application, integrate with GitHub to package the application
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Smart Textiles

Fundamentals, Design, and Interaction

Edited by Stefan Schneegass, Oliver Amft ...

Series series Computer Science (R0)
From a holistic perspective, this handbook explores the design, development and production of smart textiles and textile electronics, breaking with the traditional silo-structure of smart textile research and development.Leading experts from different domains including textile production, electrical engineering, interaction design and human-computer interaction (HCI) address production processes ... Read more

$153.08 USD

From a holistic perspective, this handbook explores the design, development and production of smart textiles and textile electronics, breaking with the traditional silo-structure of smart textile research and development.Leading experts from different domains including textile production, electrical engineering, interaction design and human-computer interaction (HCI) address production processes
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Automated Web Site Evaluation

Researchers’ and Practioners’ Perspectives

by M.Y. Ivory ...

Series series Computer Science (R0)
Among all information systems that are nowadays available, web sites are definitely the ones having the widest potential audience and the most significant impact on the everyday life of people. Web sites contribute largely to the information society: they provide visitors with a large array of services and information and allow them to perform various tasks without prior assumptions about their ... Read more

$80.18 USD

Among all information systems that are nowadays available, web sites are definitely the ones having the widest potential audience and the most significant impact on the everyday life of people. Web sites contribute largely to the information society: they provide visitors with a large array of services and information and allow them to perform various tasks without prior assumptions about their
... Read more
Human Work Interaction Design

A Platform for Theory and Action

by Torkil Clemmensen ...

Series series Computer Science (R0)
An approach to socio-technical HCI called Human Work Interaction Design (HWID) emerged around 2005. It has grown steadily, and now is the time for sharing this research with a wider audience. In this book, the HWID approach is used to discuss socio-technical HCI theory, cases, methods, and impact. The book introduces HWID as a multi-sided platform for theorizing about socio-technical HCI work ... Read more

$128.78 USD

An approach to socio-technical HCI called Human Work Interaction Design (HWID) emerged around 2005. It has grown steadily, and now is the time for sharing this research with a wider audience. In this book, the HWID approach is used to discuss socio-technical HCI theory, cases, methods, and impact. The book introduces HWID as a multi-sided platform for theorizing about socio-technical HCI work
... Read more
Program Arcade Games

With Python and Pygame

by Paul Craven ...

Series series Professional and Applied Computing (R0)
Learn and use Python and PyGame to design and build cool arcade games. In Program Arcade Games: With Python and PyGame, Second Edition, Dr. Paul Vincent Craven teaches you how to create fun and simple quiz games; integrate and start using graphics; animate graphics; integrate and use game controllers; add sound and bit-mapped graphics; and build grid-based games.After reading and using this book, ... Read more

$56.69 USD

Learn and use Python and PyGame to design and build cool arcade games. In Program Arcade Games: With Python and PyGame, Second Edition, Dr. Paul Vincent Craven teaches you how to create fun and simple quiz games; integrate and start using graphics; animate graphics; integrate and use game controllers; add sound and bit-mapped graphics; and build grid-based games.After reading and using this book,
... Read more
A Framework for Visualizing Information

by E.H. Chi ...

Series series Computer Science (R0)
Fundamental solutions in understanding information have been elusive for a long time. The field of Artificial Intelligence has proposed the Turing Test as a way to test for the "smart" behaviors of computer programs that exhibit human-like qualities. Equivalent to the Turing Test for the field of Human Information Interaction (HII), getting information to the people that need them and helping them ... Read more

$80.18 USD

Fundamental solutions in understanding information have been elusive for a long time. The field of Artificial Intelligence has proposed the Turing Test as a way to test for the "smart" behaviors of computer programs that exhibit human-like qualities. Equivalent to the Turing Test for the field of Human Information Interaction (HII), getting information to the people that need them and helping them
... Read more
Pro Perl Programming

From Professional to Advanced

by William "Bo" Rothwell ...

Series series Professional and Applied Computing (R0)
Master intermediate to advanced techniques of the Perl programming language starting with a focus on regular expressions and some of their advanced features. This book then covers other pro-level features, including formatted output, file handling, and more.Additionally, you'll learn and explore the most useful built-in variables, pragmas, and modules available in the Perl language. Furthermore, ... Read more

$56.69 USD

Master intermediate to advanced techniques of the Perl programming language starting with a focus on regular expressions and some of their advanced features. This book then covers other pro-level features, including formatted output, file handling, and more.Additionally, you'll learn and explore the most useful built-in variables, pragmas, and modules available in the Perl language. Furthermore,
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Kibana 8.x – A Quick Start Guide to Data Analysis

Learn about data exploration, visualization, and dashboard building with Kibana

by Krishna Shah ...

Uncover valuable business insights by leveraging the power of Kibana to navigate and interpret datasets for improved decision makingKey FeaturesGain profound understanding of the end-to-end workings of KibanaExplore the powerful administration features in Kibana 8.x for managing and supporting data ingestion pipelinesBuild your own analytics and visualization solution from scratchPurchase of the ... Read more

$24.83 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

Uncover valuable business insights by leveraging the power of Kibana to navigate and interpret datasets for improved decision makingKey FeaturesGain profound understanding of the end-to-end workings of KibanaExplore the powerful administration features in Kibana 8.x for managing and supporting data ingestion pipelinesBuild your own analytics and visualization solution from scratchPurchase of the
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Data Exploration and Preparation with BigQuery

A practical guide to cleaning, transforming, and analyzing data for business insights

by Mike Kahn ...

Leverage BigQuery to understand and prepare your data to ensure that it's accurate, reliable, and ready for analysis and modelingKey FeaturesUse mock datasets to explore data with the BigQuery web UI, bq CLI, and BigQuery API in the Cloud consoleMaster optimization techniques for storage and query performance in BigQueryEngage with case studies on data exploration and preparation for advertising, ... Read more

$25.10 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

Leverage BigQuery to understand and prepare your data to ensure that it's accurate, reliable, and ready for analysis and modelingKey FeaturesUse mock datasets to explore data with the BigQuery web UI, bq CLI, and BigQuery API in the Cloud consoleMaster optimization techniques for storage and query performance in BigQueryEngage with case studies on data exploration and preparation for advertising,
... Read more
Java üben mit dem Plotter

Ein Überblick für Studierende und Einsteiger

by Stephan Euler ...

Series series Computer Science and Engineering (German Language)
Dieses essential zeigt, wie man in Java-Anwendungen mit dem Plotter grafische Darstellungen erzeugen kann. Mit dem Plotter-Objekt – angelehnt an den Stiftplotter, der sich mit Steuerbefehlen über Papier bewegt – wird eine einfache Schnittstelle zur grafischen Programmierung angeboten. Bereits beim Einstieg in die Programmierung entstehen so erste grafische Darstellungen wie z.B. Funktionsverläufe ... Read more

$6.29 USD

Dieses essential zeigt, wie man in Java-Anwendungen mit dem Plotter grafische Darstellungen erzeugen kann. Mit dem Plotter-Objekt – angelehnt an den Stiftplotter, der sich mit Steuerbefehlen über Papier bewegt – wird eine einfache Schnittstelle zur grafischen Programmierung angeboten. Bereits beim Einstieg in die Programmierung entstehen so erste grafische Darstellungen wie z.B. Funktionsverläufe
... Read more
Computational Intelligence for Patient Care

Blockchain, AI, and ML in Healthcare

Edited by Rishabha Malviya, Rishav Sharma, Sathvik Belagodu Sridhar, Suraj Kumar ...

Computational Intelligence for Patient Care: Blockchain, AI, and ML in Healthcare explores the revolutionizing applications of blockchain, artificial intelligence, and machine learning in healthcare systems. The book attempts to close the gap between cutting-edge computational approaches and real-world healthcare applications by discussing the latest innovations in the field.The book is divided ... Read more

$162.00 USD

Computational Intelligence for Patient Care: Blockchain, AI, and ML in Healthcare explores the revolutionizing applications of blockchain, artificial intelligence, and machine learning in healthcare systems. The book attempts to close the gap between cutting-edge computational approaches and real-world healthcare applications by discussing the latest innovations in the field.The book is divided
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Ignite Your Creativity: Mastering Prompt Engineering for AI Art and ChatGPT

by Frank Zanish ...

"Ignite Your Creativity: Mastering Prompt Engineering for AI Art and ChatGPT" is an essential non-fiction guide that empowers readers to unlock the full potential of AI-assisted creativity.This book covers the foundations of prompt engineering, advanced techniques, and conversational prompt engineering.Readers will learn how to design prompts for AI art using tools like Midjourney and The Leonardo ... Read more

$8.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

"Ignite Your Creativity: Mastering Prompt Engineering for AI Art and ChatGPT" is an essential non-fiction guide that empowers readers to unlock the full potential of AI-assisted creativity.This book covers the foundations of prompt engineering, advanced techniques, and conversational prompt engineering.Readers will learn how to design prompts for AI art using tools like Midjourney and The Leonardo
... Read more

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