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21. |  Designing the Search Experience By: Tony Tony Russell-Rose; Tyler Tyler Tate Publisher: Morgan Kaufmann Publication Date: 08-JAN-2013 Insert Date: 22-JAN-2013 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Designing the Search Experience
Search is not just a box and ten blue links. Search is a journey: an exploration where what we encounter along the way changes what we seek. But in order to guide people along this journey, designers must understand both the art and science of search.In Designing the Search Experience, authors Tony Russell-Rose and Tyler Tate weave together the theories of information seeking with the practice of user interface design. Understand how people search, and how the concepts of information seeking, information foraging, and sensemaking underpin the search process. Apply the...
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22. |  Agile Data Warehousing Project Management By: Ralph Ralph Hughes Publisher: Morgan Kaufmann Publication Date: 28-DEC-2012 Insert Date: 22-JAN-2013 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Agile Data Warehousing Project Management
You have to make sense of enormous amounts of data, and while the notion of “agile data warehousing? might sound tricky, it can yield as much as a 3-to-1 speed advantage while cutting project costs in half. Bring this highly effective technique to your organization with the wisdom of agile data warehousing expert Ralph Hughes. Agile Data Warehousing Project Management will give you a thorough introduction to the method as you would practice it in the project room to build a serious “data mart.? Regardless of where you are today, this step-by-step implementation guide will prepare you...
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23. |  Computers as Components, 3rd Edition By: Marilyn Wolf Publisher: Morgan Kaufmann Publication Date: 12-JUN-2012 Insert Date: 22-JAN-2013 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Computers as Components, 3rd Edition
Computers as Components: Principles of Embedded Computing System Design, 3e , presents essential knowledge on embedded systems technology and techniques. Updated for today's embedded systems design methods, this edition features new examples including digital signal processing, multimedia, and cyber-physical systems. Author Marilyn Wolf covers the latest processors from Texas Instruments, ARM, and Microchip Technology plus software, operating systems, networks, consumer devices, and more. Like the previous editions, this textbook: Uses real processors to demonstrate both...
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24. |  By: Milan Guenther Publisher: Morgan Kaufmann Publication Date: 27-SEP-2012 Insert Date: 22-JAN-2013 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Intersection
Many organizations struggle with the dynamics and the complexity of today's social ecosystems that connect everyone and everything, everywhere and all the time. Facing challenges at the intersection of business models, technical developments, and human needs, modern enterprises must overcome the siloed thinking and isolated efforts of the past, and instead address their relationships to people holistically. In Intersection , Milan Guenther introduces a Strategic Design approach that aligns the overarching efforts of Branding, Enterprise Architecture, and Experience Design, and sets them...
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25. |  By: Hunter Whitney Publisher: Morgan Kaufmann Publication Date: 27-NOV-2012 Insert Date: 22-JAN-2013 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Data Insights
Data Insights offers multi-disciplinary perspectives and useful information about how visualizations can open your eyes to data. This thought-provoking book takes a conversational approach to presenting an overview of the subject, while also focusing on key details. It highlights the ideas and work of a variety of people who are actively contributing to this still emerging field. Case studies from business analytics, healthcare, games, security, and network monitoring, among others, portray what is going on in data visualization today. A diverse blend of original illustrations and...
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26. |  Letting Go of the Words, 2nd Edition By: Janice (Ginny) Redish Publisher: Morgan Kaufmann Publication Date: 01-SEP-2012 Insert Date: 22-JAN-2013 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Letting Go of the Words, 2nd Edition
Web site design and development continues to become more sophisticated. An important part of this maturity originates with well-laid-out and well-written content. Ginny Redish is a world-renowned expert on information design and how to produce clear writing in plain language for the web. All of the invaluable information that she shared in the first edition is included with numerous new examples. New information on content strategy for web sites, search engine optimization (SEO), and social media make this once again the only book you need to own to optimize your writing for the web. ...
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27. |  Business Intelligence, 2nd Edition By: David David Loshin Publisher: Morgan Kaufmann Publication Date: 27-NOV-2012 Insert Date: 22-JAN-2013 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Business Intelligence, 2nd Edition
Following the footsteps of the first edition, the second edition of Business Intelligence is a full overview of what comprises business intelligence. It is intended to provide an introduction to the concepts to uncomplicate the learning process when implementing a business intelligence program. Over a relatively long lifetime (7 years), the current edition of book has received numerous accolades from across the industry for its straightforward introduction to both business and technical aspects of business intelligence. As an author, David Loshin has a distinct ability to...
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28. |  Observing the User Experience, 2nd Edition By: Mike Kuniavsky; Andrea Moed; Elizabeth Goodman Publisher: Morgan Kaufmann Publication Date: 01-SEP-2012 Insert Date: 22-JAN-2013 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Observing the User Experience, 2nd Edition
The gap between who designers and developers imagine their users are, and who those users really are can be the biggest problem with product development. Observing the User Experience will help you bridge that gap to understand what your users want and need from your product, and whether they'll be able to use what you've created. Filled with real-world experience and a wealth of practical information, this book presents a complete toolbox of techniques to help designers and developers see through the eyes of their users. It provides in-depth coverage of 13 user experience research...
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29. |  Information Visualization, 3rd Edition By: Colin Ware Publisher: Morgan Kaufmann Publication Date: 21-MAY-2012 Insert Date: 22-JAN-2013 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Information Visualization, 3rd Edition
Information Visualization: Perception for Design is a comprehensive guide to what the science of human perception tells us about how we should display information. The human brain is a super-computer for finding patterns in information. Our understanding of visual data and visual information is greatly enhanced or impeded by the way information is presented. It is essential that visual data be designed in such a way that key information and important patterns will stand out. It is only by understanding how perception works that the best visualizations can be created. Colin Ware...
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30. |  Digital Design and Computer Architecture, 2nd Edition By: David David Harris; Sarah Sarah Harris Publisher: Morgan Kaufmann Publication Date: 24-AUG-2012 Insert Date: 28-NOV-2012 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Digital Design and Computer Architecture, 2nd Edition
Digital Design and Computer Architecture takes a unique and modern approach to digital design. Beginning with digital logic gates and progressing to the design of combinational and sequential circuits, Harris and Harris use these fundamental building blocks as the basis for what follows: the design of an actual MIPS processor. SystemVerilog and VHDL are integrated throughout the text in examples illustrating the methods and techniques for CAD-based circuit design. By the end of this book, readers will be able to build their own microprocessor and will have a top-to-bottom understanding...
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31. |  Enterprise Knowledge Management: The Data Quality Approach By: David Loshin Publisher: Morgan Kaufmann Publication Date: 31-JAN-2001 Insert Date: 10-OCT-2012 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Enterprise Knowledge Management: The Data Quality Approach
Today, companies capture and store tremendous amounts of information about every aspect of their business: their customers, partners, vendors, markets, and more. But with the rise in the quantity of information has come a corresponding decrease in its quality--a problem businesses recognize and are working feverishly to solve.
Enterprise Knowledge Management: The Data Quality Approach presents an easily adaptable methodology for defining, measuring, and improving data quality. Author David Loshin begins by presenting an economic framework for understanding the value of data quality, then...
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32. |  Digital Video and HD, 2nd Edition By: Charles Poynton Publisher: Morgan Kaufmann Publication Date: 24-JAN-2012 Insert Date: 19-SEP-2012 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Digital Video and HD, 2nd Edition
Digital Video and HD: Algorithms and Interfaces provides a one-stop shop for the theory and engineering of digital video systems. Equally accessible to video engineers and those working in computer graphics, Charles Poynton’s revision to his classic text covers emergent compression systems, including H.264 and VP8/WebM, and augments detailed information on JPEG, DVC, and MPEG-2 systems. This edition also introduces the technical aspects of file-based workflows and outlines the emerging domain of metadata, placing it in the context of digital video processing. With the help of hundreds...
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33. |  By: Whitney Quesenbery; Daniel Szuc Publisher: Morgan Kaufmann Publication Date: 01-JAN-2011 Insert Date: 19-SEP-2012 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Global UX
Protocols exist in the field of user experience, but in light of the challenges faced by globalization, you must now incorporate new methodologies and best practices to analyze, test, design, and evaluate products that take into account a multinational user base. Current UX books and resources don't focus on the unique challenges of creating usable, well-designed products and services in light of varying cultures, technology, and breadth of audience. Challenges you may face on a daily level include: Policies, practices and behavior in multinational organizations; Cross-cultural...
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34. |  Sketching User Experiences: The Workbook By: Saul Greenberg; Sheelagh Carpendale; Nicolai Marquardt; Bill Buxton Publisher: Morgan Kaufmann Publication Date: 01-NOV-2010 Insert Date: 11-SEP-2012 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Sketching User Experiences: The Workbook
In Sketching User Experiences: The Workbook , you will learn, through step-by-step instructions and exercises, various sketching methods that will let you express your design ideas about user experiences across time. Collectively, these methods will be your sketching repertoire: a toolkit where you can choose the method most appropriate for developing your ideas, which will help you cultivate a culture of experience-based design and critique in your workplace. Features standalone modules detailing methods and exercises for practitioners who want to learn and develop their sketching...
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35. |  Entity Resolution and Information Quality By: John R. Talburt Publisher: Morgan Kaufmann Publication Date: 15-DEC-2010 Insert Date: 07-SEP-2012 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Entity Resolution and Information Quality
Customers and products are the heart of any business, and corporations collect more data about them every year. However, just because you have data doesn’t mean you can use it effectively. If not properly integrated, data can actually encourage false conclusions that result in bad decisions and lost opportunities. Entity Resolution (ER) is a powerful tool for transforming data into accurate, value-added information. Using entity resolution methods and techniques, you can identify equivalent records from multiple sources corresponding to the same real-world person, place, or thing. This...
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36. |  Understanding Motion Capture for Computer Animation, 2nd Edition By: Alberto Menache Publisher: Morgan Kaufmann Publication Date: 15-DEC-2010 Insert Date: 31-AUG-2012 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Understanding Motion Capture for Computer Animation, 2nd Edition
The power of today’s motion capture technology has taken animated characters and special effects to amazing new levels of reality. And with the release of blockbusters like Avatar and Tin-Tin, audiences continually expect more from each new release. To live up to these expectations, film and game makers, particularly technical animators and directors, need to be at the forefront of motion capture technology. In this extensively updated edition of Understanding Motion Capture for Computer Animation and Video Games , an industry insider explains the latest research developments in digital...
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37. |  Maintaining and Evolving Successful Commercial Web Sites By: Ashley Friedlein Publisher: Morgan Kaufmann Publication Date: 10-DEC-2002 Insert Date: 10-AUG-2012 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Maintaining and Evolving Successful Commercial Web Sites
Ashley Friedlein's first book, Web Project Management: Delivering Successful Commercial Web Sites , became a bestseller and an essential reference for Web professionals developing new sites. Maintaining and Evolving Successful Commercial Web Sites addresses the realities of successful sites today, namely the notion that maintaining and evolving a site is actually a bigger commitment than launching it. Management wants to maximize returns and obtain reliable performance data, customers demand better service and insist on sites that are more advanced yet easier to use, and the Web site...
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38. |  TCP/IP Clearly Explained, 4th Edition By: Pete Loshin Publisher: Morgan Kaufmann Publication Date: 19-DEC-2002 Insert Date: 10-AUG-2012 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: TCP/IP Clearly Explained, 4th Edition
With over 30,000 copies sold in previous editions, this fourth edition of TCP/IP Clearly Explained stands out more than ever. You still get a practical, thorough exploration of TCP/IP networking, presented in plain language, that will benefit newcomers and veterans alike. The coverage has been updated, however, to reflect new and continuing technological changes, including the Stream Control Transmission Protocol (SCTP), the Blocks architecture for application protocols, and the Transport Layer Security Protocol (TLS). The improvements go far beyond the updated material: they also...
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39. |  Disappearing Cryptography, 2nd Edition By: Peter Wayner Publisher: Morgan Kaufmann Publication Date: 29-APR-2002 Insert Date: 10-AUG-2012 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Disappearing Cryptography, 2nd Edition
Disappearing Cryptography, Second Edition describes how to take words, sounds, or images and hide them in digital data so they look like other words, sounds, or images. When used properly, this powerful technique makes it almost impossible to trace the author and the recipient of a message. Conversations can be submerged in the flow of information through the Internet so that no one can know if a conversation exists at all. This full revision of the best-selling first edition describes a number of different techniques to hide information. These include encryption, making data...
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40. |  By: Ian Watson Publisher: Morgan Kaufmann Publication Date: 20-DEC-2002 Insert Date: 10-AUG-2012 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Applying Knowledge Management
The wholesale capture and distribution of knowledge over the last thirty years has created an unprecedented need for organizations to manage their knowledge assets. Knowledge Management (KM) addresses this need by helping an organization to leverage its information resources and knowledge assets by "remembering" and applying its experience. KM involves the acquisition, storage, retrieval, application, generation, and review of the knowledge assets of an organization in a controlled way. Today, organizations are applying KM throughout their systems, from information management to marketing...
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