Advanced Computing in Computers & Nonfiction eBooks

AI First

The Playbook for a Future-Proof Business and Brand

by Adam Brotman, Andy Sack ...

AI is going to change brand strategy and marketing forever. Are you ready?What does the rapid rise and astonishing rate of improvement of AI mean for brands in the next five years? Listen to what OpenAI CEO Sam Altman told authors Adam Brotman and Andy Sack when he met them: "It will mean that 95 percent of what marketers use agencies, strategists, and creative professionals for today will easily, ... Read more

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AI is going to change brand strategy and marketing forever. Are you ready?What does the rapid rise and astonishing rate of improvement of AI mean for brands in the next five years? Listen to what OpenAI CEO Sam Altman told authors Adam Brotman and Andy Sack when he met them: "It will mean that 95 percent of what marketers use agencies, strategists, and creative professionals for today will easily,
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BMC Control-M 7: A Journey from Traditional Batch Scheduling to Workload Automation

BMC Control-M 7: A Journey from Traditional Batch Scheduling to Workload Automation

by Qiang Ding ...

This book is written in a direct to-the-point style to provide everything you need to start with Control-M. From this book, you will not only learn the technical aspects of Control-M, but also understand how things should be done in real environments and why things are done that way. Each chapter of the book starts with a short description of what you will learn and a list of things you are ... Read more

$70.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

This book is written in a direct to-the-point style to provide everything you need to start with Control-M. From this book, you will not only learn the technical aspects of Control-M, but also understand how things should be done in real environments and why things are done that way. Each chapter of the book starts with a short description of what you will learn and a list of things you are
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Search Manifesto

by Rajan Manickavasagam ...

Search plays an important and permeating role in our lives. It is primarily used to optimize our resources or minimize the risk in our daily lives. It takes many forms and shapes – checking on the weather, looking up traffic, analyzing performance of the stock market, searching for shopping deals, catching up in social networks and following current events.This book serves as a guide to help ... Read more

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Search plays an important and permeating role in our lives. It is primarily used to optimize our resources or minimize the risk in our daily lives. It takes many forms and shapes – checking on the weather, looking up traffic, analyzing performance of the stock market, searching for shopping deals, catching up in social networks and following current events.This book serves as a guide to help
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Hands-On Data Warehousing with Azure Data Factory

ETL techniques to load and transform data from various sources, both on-premises and on cloud

by Giuseppe Ciaburro, Christian Cote, Michelle Gutzait ...

Leverage the power of Microsoft Azure Data Factory v2 to build hybrid data solutionsKey FeaturesCombine the power of Azure Data Factory v2 and SQL Server Integration ServicesDesign and enhance performance and scalability of a modern ETL hybrid solutionInteract with the loaded data in data warehouse and data lake using Power BIBook DescriptionETL is one of the essential techniques in data ... Read more

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Leverage the power of Microsoft Azure Data Factory v2 to build hybrid data solutionsKey FeaturesCombine the power of Azure Data Factory v2 and SQL Server Integration ServicesDesign and enhance performance and scalability of a modern ETL hybrid solutionInteract with the loaded data in data warehouse and data lake using Power BIBook DescriptionETL is one of the essential techniques in data
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Moodle as a Curriculum and Information Management System

Use Moodle to manage and organize your administrative duties; monitor attendance records, manage student enrolment, record exam results, and much more

by Jason Hollowell ...

Use Moodle to manage and organize your administrative duties; monitor attendance records, manage student enrolment, record exam results, and much moreKey FeaturesTransform your Moodle site into a system that will allow you to manage information such as monitoring attendance records, managing the number of students enrolled for a particular course, and inter-department communicationCreate courses ... Read more

$47.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

Use Moodle to manage and organize your administrative duties; monitor attendance records, manage student enrolment, record exam results, and much moreKey FeaturesTransform your Moodle site into a system that will allow you to manage information such as monitoring attendance records, managing the number of students enrolled for a particular course, and inter-department communicationCreate courses
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Digital Transformation with Dataverse for Teams

Become a citizen developer and lead the digital transformation wave with Microsoft Teams and Power Platform

by Srikumar Nair ...

Design, build, and deploy multi-platform apps to overcome crucial business problems by leveraging the capabilities of low-code and no-code development enabled through Microsoft Power Platform and TeamsKey FeaturesFind out how you can accelerate the digital transformation of your organization as a citizen developerBuild your first app with the help of step-by-step guidance and add capabilities with ... Read more

$35.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

Design, build, and deploy multi-platform apps to overcome crucial business problems by leveraging the capabilities of low-code and no-code development enabled through Microsoft Power Platform and TeamsKey FeaturesFind out how you can accelerate the digital transformation of your organization as a citizen developerBuild your first app with the help of step-by-step guidance and add capabilities with
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Mastering A.I. for Beginners- A Step-By-Step Guide to Harnessing the Power of Artificial Intelligence

by Evan Blake ...

: Mastering AI for Beginners: A step-by-step Guide to Harnessing the Power of Artificial IntelligenceDescription: Unlock the world of Artificial Intelligence with Mastering AI for Beginners! This essential guide is designed for anyone who wants to understand and leverage AI technologies to enhance their personal and professional life. Whether you're a complete novice or looking to deepen your ... Read more

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: Mastering AI for Beginners: A step-by-step Guide to Harnessing the Power of Artificial IntelligenceDescription: Unlock the world of Artificial Intelligence with Mastering AI for Beginners! This essential guide is designed for anyone who wants to understand and leverage AI technologies to enhance their personal and professional life. Whether you're a complete novice or looking to deepen your
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Computer Aided Verification

33rd International Conference, CAV 2021, Virtual Event, July 20–23, 2021, Proceedings, Part I

Edited by Alexandra Silva, K. Rustan M. Leino ...

Series Book 1 - Springer Nature Proceedings Computer Science
This open access two-volume set LNCS 12759 and 12760 constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 33rd International Conference on Computer Aided Verification, CAV 2021, held virtually in July 2021.The 63 full papers presented together with 16 tool papers and 5 invited papers were carefully reviewed and selected from 290 submissions. The papers were organized in the following topical sections:Part ... Read more

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This open access two-volume set LNCS 12759 and 12760 constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 33rd International Conference on Computer Aided Verification, CAV 2021, held virtually in July 2021.The 63 full papers presented together with 16 tool papers and 5 invited papers were carefully reviewed and selected from 290 submissions. The papers were organized in the following topical sections:Part
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iPad and iPhone For Musicians For Dummies

by Ryan C. Williams, Mike Levine ...

The easy way to use your iPad or iPhone to make amazing musicIf you are a budding or established musician looking to use your iPad or iPhone as a portable musical instrument, recording studio, or composition tool, then you've come to the right place! iPad and iPhone For Musicians For Dummies explains in plain English how to hook up your preferred instrument to your iPad or iPhone to work on music ... Read more

$23.99 CAD

The easy way to use your iPad or iPhone to make amazing musicIf you are a budding or established musician looking to use your iPad or iPhone as a portable musical instrument, recording studio, or composition tool, then you've come to the right place! iPad and iPhone For Musicians For Dummies explains in plain English how to hook up your preferred instrument to your iPad or iPhone to work on music
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Critical Theory of AI

by Simon Lindgren ...

We live in an age of artificial intelligence. Machines think and act in ever more complex ways, making suggestions and decisions on our behalf. While AI might be seen as practical and profitable, issues of data surveillance, algorithmic control, and sexist and racist bias persist. In this rapidly changing landscape, social analysis of AI risks getting scaled down to issues of ‘ethics’, ... Read more

$22.99 CAD

We live in an age of artificial intelligence. Machines think and act in ever more complex ways, making suggestions and decisions on our behalf. While AI might be seen as practical and profitable, issues of data surveillance, algorithmic control, and sexist and racist bias persist. In this rapidly changing landscape, social analysis of AI risks getting scaled down to issues of ‘ethics’,
... Read more
Introduction to Logic

Second Edition

by Michael Genesereth, Eric Kao ...

Series series Synthesis Lectures on Computer Science
This book is a gentle but rigorous introduction to Formal Logic. It is intended primarily for use at the college level. However, it can also be used for advanced secondary school students, and it can be used at the start of graduate school for those who have not yet seen the material. The approach to teaching logic used here emerged from more than 20 years of teaching logic to students at Stanford ... Read more

$28.99 CAD

This book is a gentle but rigorous introduction to Formal Logic. It is intended primarily for use at the college level. However, it can also be used for advanced secondary school students, and it can be used at the start of graduate school for those who have not yet seen the material. The approach to teaching logic used here emerged from more than 20 years of teaching logic to students at Stanford
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R for Data Science

Import, Tidy, Transform, Visualize, and Model Data

by Hadley Wickham, Mine Çetinkaya-Rundel, Garrett Grolemund ...

Use R to turn data into insight, knowledge, and understanding. With this practical book, aspiring data scientists will learn how to do data science with R and RStudio, along with the tidyverse—a collection of R packages designed to work together to make data science fast, fluent, and fun. Even if you have no programming experience, this updated edition will have you doing data science quickly.You ... Read more

$67.99 CAD

Use R to turn data into insight, knowledge, and understanding. With this practical book, aspiring data scientists will learn how to do data science with R and RStudio, along with the tidyverse—a collection of R packages designed to work together to make data science fast, fluent, and fun. Even if you have no programming experience, this updated edition will have you doing data science quickly.You
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The PundiX Project - And The Move To Consumerize Cryptocurrency

by Dave Raw ...

As both demand and supply of cryptocurrencies, crypto-platforms, wallets, exchanges, and services go up, many people have started posing serious speculations about how cryptocurrency could be changing the face of money and finance in the future. One of the most recent developments in the cryptocurrency sphere is PundiX, which is a platform whose main aim is to make spending cryptocurrency as easy ... Read more

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As both demand and supply of cryptocurrencies, crypto-platforms, wallets, exchanges, and services go up, many people have started posing serious speculations about how cryptocurrency could be changing the face of money and finance in the future. One of the most recent developments in the cryptocurrency sphere is PundiX, which is a platform whose main aim is to make spending cryptocurrency as easy
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Mastering phpMyAdmin 3.3.x for Effective MySQL Management

A complete guide to get started with phpMyAdmin 3.3 and master its features

by Marc Delisle ...

This is a step-by-step instructional guide to get you started easily with phpMyAdmin and teach you to manage and perform database functions on your database. You will first be introduced to the interface and then build basic tables and perform both simple and advanced functions on the created database. The book progresses gradually and you will follow it best by reading it sequentially. If you are ... Read more

$37.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

This is a step-by-step instructional guide to get you started easily with phpMyAdmin and teach you to manage and perform database functions on your database. You will first be introduced to the interface and then build basic tables and perform both simple and advanced functions on the created database. The book progresses gradually and you will follow it best by reading it sequentially. If you are
... Read more
HBR Guide to AI Basics for Managers

by Harvard Business Review ...

Series series HBR Guide
AI is ready for business. Are you ready for AI?From financial modeling and product design to performance management and hiring decisions, AI and machine learning are becoming everyday tools for managers at businesses of all sizes. But AI systems come with benefits and downsides—and if you can't make sense of them, you're not going to make the right decisions.Whether you need to get up to speed ... Read more

$23.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

AI is ready for business. Are you ready for AI?From financial modeling and product design to performance management and hiring decisions, AI and machine learning are becoming everyday tools for managers at businesses of all sizes. But AI systems come with benefits and downsides—and if you can't make sense of them, you're not going to make the right decisions.Whether you need to get up to speed
... Read more
Microsoft SQL Server 2008 R2 Administration Cookbook

Over 70 practical recipes for administering a high-performance SQL Server 2008 R2 system with this book and eBook

by Satya Shyam K Jayanty ...

Key FeaturesBook DescriptionThis book offers practical, task-based, and immediately usable recipes covering a wide range of advanced techniques for administering a high-performance SQL Server 2008 R2 system. In addition to its cookbook style, which ensures the solutions are presented in a clear step-by-step manner, its explanations go into great detail, which makes it good learning material for ... Read more

$51.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

Key FeaturesBook DescriptionThis book offers practical, task-based, and immediately usable recipes covering a wide range of advanced techniques for administering a high-performance SQL Server 2008 R2 system. In addition to its cookbook style, which ensures the solutions are presented in a clear step-by-step manner, its explanations go into great detail, which makes it good learning material for
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Building LLM Powered Applications

Create intelligent apps and agents with large language models

by Valentina Alto ...

Get hands-on with GPT 3.5, GPT 4, LangChain, Llama 2, Falcon LLM and more, to build LLM-powered sophisticated AI applications Get With Your Book: PDF Copy, AI Assistant, and Next-Gen Reader FreeKey FeaturesEmbed LLMs into real-world applicationsUse LangChain to orchestrate LLMs and their components within applicationsGrasp basic and advanced techniques of prompt engineeringBook DescriptionBuilding ... Read more

$40.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

Get hands-on with GPT 3.5, GPT 4, LangChain, Llama 2, Falcon LLM and more, to build LLM-powered sophisticated AI applications Get With Your Book: PDF Copy, AI Assistant, and Next-Gen Reader FreeKey FeaturesEmbed LLMs into real-world applicationsUse LangChain to orchestrate LLMs and their components within applicationsGrasp basic and advanced techniques of prompt engineeringBook DescriptionBuilding
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How to Observe Software Systems

Quality Software Managment, #3

by Gerald M. Weinberg ...

Series Book 3 - Quality Software Managment
"This book will probably make you think twice about some decisions you currently make by reflex. That alone makes it worth reading." "Great to understand the real meaning of non linearity of human based processes and great to highlight how some easy macro indicator can give info about your s/w development process." "An incredibly useful book" - Amazon Reviews ... Read more

$13.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

"This book will probably make you think twice about some decisions you currently make by reflex. That alone makes it worth reading." "Great to understand the real meaning of non linearity of human based processes and great to highlight how some easy macro indicator can give info about your s/w development process." "An incredibly useful book" - Amazon Reviews
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Passive Regulation: General Systems Design Principles

Systems Thinking, #2

by Gerald M. Weinberg ...

Series Book 2 - Systems Thinking
Passive Regulation is Volume 2 in the General Systems Thinking series that begins with the world-wide best-selling, An Introduction to General Systems Thinking. (also available in ebook formats) That first series volume focused on the question,"Why do we see what we see?" This second books tackles the next question, namely "Why do things stay the same?"Most people take for granted the stability ... Read more

$13.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

Passive Regulation is Volume 2 in the General Systems Thinking series that begins with the world-wide best-selling, An Introduction to General Systems Thinking. (also available in ebook formats) That first series volume focused on the question,"Why do we see what we see?" This second books tackles the next question, namely "Why do things stay the same?"Most people take for granted the stability
... Read more
Artificial Intelligence

Modern Magic or Dangerous Future?

by Yorick Wilks ...

Series series Hot Science
Artificial intelligence has long been a mainstay of science fiction and increasingly it feels as if AI is entering our everyday lives, with technology like Apple's Siri now prominent, and self-driving cars almost upon us.But what do we actually mean when we talk about 'AI'? Are the sentient machines of 2001 or The Matrix a real possibility or will real-world artificial intelligence look and feel ... Read more

$8.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

Artificial intelligence has long been a mainstay of science fiction and increasingly it feels as if AI is entering our everyday lives, with technology like Apple's Siri now prominent, and self-driving cars almost upon us.But what do we actually mean when we talk about 'AI'? Are the sentient machines of 2001 or The Matrix a real possibility or will real-world artificial intelligence look and feel
... Read more
Elements of Robotics

by Mordechai Ben-Ari, Francesco Mondada ...

Series series Computer Science (R0)
This open access book bridges the gap between playing with robots in school and studying robotics at the upper undergraduate and graduate levels to prepare for careers in industry and research. Robotic algorithms are presented formally, but using only mathematics known by high-school and first-year college students, such as calculus, matrices and probability. Concepts and algorithms are explained ... Read more

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This open access book bridges the gap between playing with robots in school and studying robotics at the upper undergraduate and graduate levels to prepare for careers in industry and research. Robotic algorithms are presented formally, but using only mathematics known by high-school and first-year college students, such as calculus, matrices and probability. Concepts and algorithms are explained
... Read more
Tools and Algorithms for the Construction and Analysis of Systems

24th International Conference, TACAS 2018, Held as Part of the European Joint Conferences on Theory and Practice of Software, ETAPS 2018, Thessaloniki, Greece, April 14-20, 2018, Proceedings, Part II

Edited by Dirk Beyer, Marieke Huisman ...

Series Book 2 - Springer Nature Proceedings Computer Science
This book is Open Access under a CC BY licence.The LNCS 10805 and 10806 proceedings set constitutes the proceedings of the 24th International Conference on Tools and Algorithms for the Construction and Analysis of Systems, TACAS 2018, which took place in Thessaloniki, Greece, in April 2018, held as part of the European Joint Conference on Theory and Practice of Software, ETAPS 2018.The total of 43 ... Read more

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This book is Open Access under a CC BY licence.The LNCS 10805 and 10806 proceedings set constitutes the proceedings of the 24th International Conference on Tools and Algorithms for the Construction and Analysis of Systems, TACAS 2018, which took place in Thessaloniki, Greece, in April 2018, held as part of the European Joint Conference on Theory and Practice of Software, ETAPS 2018.The total of 43
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phpMyAdmin Starter

Get started with this quick introduction to phpMyAdmin, its features, and the community with this book and ebook.

by Delisle ...

Get started with this quick introduction to phpMyAdmin, its features, and the community with this book and ebook.Key FeaturesLearn something new in an Instant! A short, fast, focused guide delivering immediate results.Learn the basics of phpMyAdmin and set up your first tablesUse the top features of phpMyAdmin with the aid of step-by-step instructionsDiscover the phpMyAdmin community and get ... Read more

$21.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

Get started with this quick introduction to phpMyAdmin, its features, and the community with this book and ebook.Key FeaturesLearn something new in an Instant! A short, fast, focused guide delivering immediate results.Learn the basics of phpMyAdmin and set up your first tablesUse the top features of phpMyAdmin with the aid of step-by-step instructionsDiscover the phpMyAdmin community and get
... Read more
Job Interview Success for Introverts

by Robert McIntosh ...

If you identify as an introvert and your ambition and passion is hampered by anxiety about taking the next step in your career, this book is for you. ... Read more

$11.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

If you identify as an introvert and your ambition and passion is hampered by anxiety about taking the next step in your career, this book is for you.
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