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1. |  IT Manager's Handbook, 3rd Edition By: Bill Holtsnider; Brian D. Jaffe Publisher: Morgan Kaufmann Publication Date: 01-MAR-2012 Insert Date: 19-MAY-2012 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: IT Manager's Handbook, 3rd Edition
Making the move from an IT technician or team member to management is one of the most difficult career steps youll face. Help from management and targeted training can be hard to come by - and your success depends on your ability to adapt to your new role almost overnight. You might have years of experience in the trenches, but youll quickly find that managing a team, setting budgets, and creating a winning strategy for the first time can be daunting tasks. Now in its third edition, IT Managers Handbook provides a practical reference that you will return to again and again in an...
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2. |  By: Peter Barry; Patrick Crowley Publisher: Morgan Kaufmann Publication Date: 05-FEB-2012 Insert Date: 19-MAY-2012 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Modern Embedded Computing
Modern embedded systems are used for connected, media-rich, and highly integrated handheld devices such as mobile phones, digital cameras, and MP3 players. All of these embedded systems require networking, graphic user interfaces, and integration with PCs, as opposed to traditional embedded processors that can perform only limited functions for industrial applications. While most books focus on these controllers, Modern Embedded Computing provides a thorough understanding of the platform architecture of modern embedded computing systems that drive mobile devices. The book offers a...
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3. |  GPU Computing Gems Jade Edition By: Wen-mei W. Hwu Publisher: Morgan Kaufmann Publication Date: 01-JUN-2011 Insert Date: 19-MAY-2012 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: GPU Computing Gems Jade Edition
This is the second volume of Morgan Kaufmann's GPU Computing Gems , offering an all-new set of insights, ideas, and practical "hands-on" skills from researchers and developers worldwide. Each chapter gives you a window into the work being performed across a variety of application domains, and the opportunity to witness the impact of parallel GPU computing on the efficiency of scientific research. GPU Computing Gems: Jade Edition showcases the latest research solutions with GPGPU and CUDA, including: Improving memory access patterns for cellular automata using CUDA Large-scale...
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4. |  Design Research through Practice By: Ilpo Koskinen; John Zimmerman; Thomas Binder; Johan Redstrom; Stephan Wensveen Publisher: Morgan Kaufmann Publication Date: 01-OCT-2011 Insert Date: 19-MAY-2012 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Design Research through Practice
Businesses and the HCI and Interaction Design communities have embraced design and design research. Design research as a field blends methodologies from several disciplines - sociology, engineering, software, philosophy, industrial design, HCI/interaction design -- so designers can learn from past successes and failure and dont have to reinvent the wheel for each new design (whether its a digital product, a building, an airplane or furniture). They take into account form, function, and, ultimately, users. Many books exist in the research and academic realm for this field, but none...
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5. |  By: Rex Hartson; Pardha S. Pyla Publisher: Morgan Kaufmann Publication Date: 01-JAN-2012 Insert Date: 18-MAY-2012 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: The UX Book
This is a comprehensive textbook on designing interaction to ensure a quality user experience. Combining breadth, depth, and practical applications, this book takes a time-tested process-and-guidelines approach that provides readers with actionable methods and techniques while retaining a firm grounding in HCI concepts and theory. The authors will guide you through the UX lifecycle process, including contextual inquiry and analysis, requirements extraction, design ideation and creation, practical design production, prototyping, and UX evaluation. Development activities are linked via...
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6. |  Computer Networks, 5th Edition By: Larry L. Peterson; Bruce S. Davie Publisher: Morgan Kaufmann Publication Date: 15-MAR-2011 Insert Date: 18-MAY-2012 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Computer Networks, 5th Edition
This best-selling and classic book teaches you the key principles of computer networks with examples drawn from the real world of network and protocol design. Using the Internet as the primary example, the authors explain various protocols and networking technologies. Their systems-oriented approach encourages you to think about how individual network components fit into a larger, complex system of interactions. Whatever your perspective, whether it be that of an application developer, network administrator, or a designer of network equipment or protocols, you will come away with a "big...
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7. |  By: Clif Flynt Publisher: Morgan Kaufmann Publication Date: 15-MAR-2011 Insert Date: 18-MAY-2012 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Tcl/Tk, 3rd Edition
Newly updated with over 150 pages of material on the latest Tcl extensions, Tcl/Tk: A Developers Gu ide is a unique practical tutorial for professional programmers and beginners alike. Starting with a clear picture of the basics, Tcl/Tk covers the variety of tools in this "Swiss army knife" of programming languages, giving you the ability to enhance your programs, extend your application's capabilities, and become a more effective programmer. This updated edition covers all of the new features of version 8.6, including object-oriented programming and the creation of megawidgets,...
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8. |  An Introduction to Parallel Programming By: Peter Pacheco Publisher: Morgan Kaufmann Publication Date: 04-JAN-2011 Insert Date: 18-MAY-2012 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: An Introduction to Parallel Programming
Author Peter Pacheco uses a tutorial approach to show students how to develop effective parallel programs with MPI, Pthreads, and OpenMP. The first undergraduate text to directly address compiling and running parallel programs on the new multi-core and cluster architecture, An Introduction to Parallel Programming explains how to design, debug, and evaluate the performance of distributed and shared-memory programs. User-friendly exercises teach studentshow to compile, run and modify example programs. Key features: Takes a tutorial approach, starting with small programming examples and...
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9. |  By: Lars Erik Holmquist Publisher: Morgan Kaufmann Publication Date: 15-MAY-2012 Insert Date: 08-MAY-2012 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Grounded Innovation
How will you design the next big thing? And the thing after that? And after that? This book can help, by providing practical techniques for the innovation process which consists of invention and investigation. Smart products are popping up everywhere and we are constantly presented with newer, better things that enhance our everyday lives - the pace continually speeding up. Efficiency of creativity mixed with designing within budgetary and business culture parameters is difficult on a good day. This book provides extensive examples of products that did and didnt make it to consumers...
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10. |  Handbook on Securing Cyber-Physical Critical Infrastructure By: Sajal K Das; Krishna Kant; Nan Zhang Publisher: Morgan Kaufmann Publication Date: 27-JAN-2012 Insert Date: 13-APR-2012 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Handbook on Securing Cyber-Physical Critical Infrastructure
The worldwide reach of the Internet allows malicious cyber criminals to coordinate and launch attacks on both cyber and cyber-physical infrastructure from anywhere in the world. This purpose of this handbook is to introduce the theoretical foundations and practical solution techniques for securing critical cyber and physical infrastructures as well as their underlying computing and communication architectures and systems. Examples of such infrastructures include utility networks (e.g., electrical power grids), ground transportation systems (automotives, roads, bridges and tunnels),...
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11. |  By: Margot Bloomstein Publisher: Morgan Kaufmann Publication Date: 01-MAR-2012 Insert Date: 13-APR-2012 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Content Strategy at Work
Content is king and the new kingmaker and your message needs to align with your model and metrics and other mumbo jumbo, right? Whether youre slogging through theory or buzzwords, theres no denying content strategy is coming of age. But whats in it for you? And if youre not a content strategist, why should you care? Because even if content strategy isnt your job, contents probably your problem-and probably more than you think. You or your business has a message you want to deliver, right? You can deliver that message through various channels and content types, from Tweets to...
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12. |  Joe Celko's Trees and Hierarchies in SQL for Smarties, 2nd Edition By: Joe Celko Publisher: Morgan Kaufmann Publication Date: 01-JAN-2012 Insert Date: 10-APR-2012 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Joe Celko's Trees and Hierarchies in SQL for Smarties, 2nd Edition
The demand for SQL information and training continues to grow with the need for a database behind every website capable of offering web-based information queries. SQL is the de facto standard for database retrieval, and if you need to access, update, or utilize data in a modern database management system, youwill need SQL to do it. TheSecond Editionof Joe Celko's Trees and Hierarchies in SQL for Smarties covers two new sets of extensions over three entirelynew chapters and expounds upon the changes that have occurred in SQL standards since the previous edition's publication. Benefit...
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13. |  Writing Effective Business Rules By: Graham Witt Publisher: Morgan Kaufmann Publication Date: 15-JAN-2012 Insert Date: 10-APR-2012 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Writing Effective Business Rules
Writing Effective Business Rules moves beyond the fundamental dilemma of system design: defining business rules either in natural language, intelligible but often ambiguous, or program code (or rule engine instructions), unambiguous but unintelligible to stakeholders. Designed to meet the needs of business analysts, this book provides an exhaustive analysis of rule types and a set of syntactic templates from which unambiguous natural language rule statements of each type can be generated. A user guide to the SBVR specification, it explains how to develop an appropriate business...
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14. |  Architecture of Network Systems By: Dimitrios Serpanos; Tilman Wolf Publisher: Morgan Kaufmann Publication Date: 15-JAN-2011 Insert Date: 10-APR-2012 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Architecture of Network Systems
If you've ever run a forced-hot air heating system, it's not too hard to understand by analogy the basics of Network Systems. Of course, your heating system needs a humidifier attached to it, but the humidifier in a state-of-the-art HVAC system only operates when the central processor determines it's necessary, given information needed to calculate indoor relative humidity from the indoor thermostat, humidistat, and outdoor thermometer. Network systems are network-attached, computational systems that receive, process and transmit data packets. The advances in high speed transmission...
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15. |  Quantifying the User Experience By: Jeff Sauro; James R Lewis Publisher: Morgan Kaufmann Publication Date: 01-APR-2012 Insert Date: 09-APR-2012 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Quantifying the User Experience
You're being asked to quantify usability improvements with statistics. But even with a background in statistics, you are hesitant to statistically analyze the data, as you may be unsure about which statistical tests to use and have trouble defending the use of the small test sample sizes associated with usability studies. The book is about providing a practical guide on how to use statistics to solve common quantitative problems arising in user research. It addresses common questionsyou face every daysuch as: Is the current product more usable than our competition? Can we be sure at...
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16. |  Data Mining: Practical Machine Learning Tools and Techniques, 3rd Edition By: Ian H. Witten; Eibe Frank; Geoffrey Holmes Publisher: Morgan Kaufmann Publication Date: 30-JAN-2011 Insert Date: 03-APR-2012 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Data Mining: Practical Machine Learning Tools and Techniques, 3rd Edition
Like the popular second edition, Data Mining: Practical Machine Learning Tools and Techniques offers a thorough grounding in machine learning concepts as well as practical advice on applying machine learning tools and techniques in real-world data mining situations. Inside, you'll learn all you need to know about preparing inputs, interpreting outputs, evaluating results, and the algorithmic methods at the heart of successful data mining'including both tried-and-true techniques of today as well as methods at the leading edge of contemporary research. Complementing the book is a fully...
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17. |  By: Walter Goralski Publisher: Morgan Kaufmann Publication Date: 25-NOV-2008 Insert Date: 03-APR-2012 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: The Illustrated Network
In 1994, W. Richard Stevens and Addison-Wesley published a networking classic: TCP/IP Illustrated. The model for that book was a brilliant, unfettered approach to networking concepts that has proven itself over time to be popular with readers of beginning to intermediate networking knowledge. The Illustrated Network takes this time-honored approach and modernizes it by creating not only a much larger and more complicated network, but also by incorporating all the networking advancements that have taken place since the mid-1990s, which are many. This book takes the popular Stevens...
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18. |  By: Rajiv Ramaswami; Kumar Sivarajan; Galen Sasaki Publisher: Morgan Kaufmann Publication Date: 14-SEP-2009 Insert Date: 03-APR-2012 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Optical Networks, 3rd Edition
The third edition of Optical Networks continues to be the authoritative source for information on optical networking technologies and techniques. Componentry and transmission are discussed in detail with emphasis on practical networking issues that affect organizations as they evaluate, deploy, or develop optical networks. New updates in this rapidly changing technology are introduced. These updates include sections on pluggable optical transceivers, ROADM (reconfigurable optical add/drop multiplexer), and electronic dispersion compensation. Current standards updates such as G.709 OTN,...
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19. |  Probabilistic Methods for Financial and Marketing Informatics By: Richard E. Neapolitan; Xia Jiang Publisher: Morgan Kaufmann Publication Date: 19-MAR-2007 Insert Date: 03-APR-2012 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Probabilistic Methods for Financial and Marketing Informatics
Bayesian Networks are a form of probabilistic graphical models and they are used for modeling knowledge in many application areas, from medicine to image processing. They are particularly useful for business applications, ans * Unique coverage of probabilistic reasoning topics applied to business problems, including marketing, banking, operations management, and finance. * Shares insights about when and why probabilistic methods can and cannot be used effectively; * Complete review of Bayesian networks and probabilistic methods for those IT professionals new to informatics.
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20. |  A Practical Guide to SysML, 2nd Edition By: Sanford Friedenthal; Alan Moore; Rick Steiner Publisher: Morgan Kaufmann Publication Date: 01-OCT-2011 Insert Date: 29-MAR-2012 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: A Practical Guide to SysML, 2nd Edition
This book is the bestselling, authoritative guide to SysML for systems and software engineers, providing a comprehensive and practical resource for modeling systems with SysML. Fully updated to cover newly released version 1.3, it includes a full description of the modeling language along with a quick reference guide, and shows how an organization or project can transition to model-based systems engineering using SysML, with considerations for processes, methods, tools, and training. Numerous examples help readers understand how SysML can be used in practice, while reference material...
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