Advanced Computing in Computers & Nonfiction eBooks

Valley of Death

How Big Tech Is Fueling the Future of War

by Sharon Weinberger ...

Drawing on deep, exclusive reporting, a veteran national security correspondent reveals how a new military-industrial complex is arising from the cradle of Silicon Valley, with vast implications for American democracy and the global balance of power.Elon Musk, Peter Thiel, and Alexander Karp. These tech titans are fast becoming some of the most powerful figures in the realm of national security, ... Read more

$20.99 CAD

Drawing on deep, exclusive reporting, a veteran national security correspondent reveals how a new military-industrial complex is arising from the cradle of Silicon Valley, with vast implications for American democracy and the global balance of power.Elon Musk, Peter Thiel, and Alexander Karp. These tech titans are fast becoming some of the most powerful figures in the realm of national security,
... Read more
The Reasoned Schemer, second edition

by Daniel P. Friedman, William E. Byrd, Oleg Kiselyov, Jason Hemann ...

A new edition of a book, written in a humorous question-and-answer style, that shows how to implement and use an elegant little programming language for logic programming.The goal of this book is to show the beauty and elegance of relational programming, which captures the essence of logic programming. The book shows how to implement a relational programming language in Scheme, or in any other ... Read more

$47.99 CAD

A new edition of a book, written in a humorous question-and-answer style, that shows how to implement and use an elegant little programming language for logic programming.The goal of this book is to show the beauty and elegance of relational programming, which captures the essence of logic programming. The book shows how to implement a relational programming language in Scheme, or in any other
... Read more
The AI Advantage

How to Put the Artificial Intelligence Revolution to Work

by Thomas H. Davenport ...

Series series Management on the Cutting Edge
Cutting through the hype, a practical guide to using artificial intelligence for business benefits and competitive advantage.In The AI Advantage, Thomas Davenport offers a guide to using artificial intelligence in business. He describes what technologies are available and how companies can use them for business benefits and competitive advantage. He cuts through the hype of the AI craze—remember ... Read more

$27.19 CAD

Cutting through the hype, a practical guide to using artificial intelligence for business benefits and competitive advantage.In The AI Advantage, Thomas Davenport offers a guide to using artificial intelligence in business. He describes what technologies are available and how companies can use them for business benefits and competitive advantage. He cuts through the hype of the AI craze—remember
... Read more
Destination AAISM

by Rob Witcher, Filip Kokotovic ...

Destination AAISM is aligned with ISACA's AAISM exam outline.Our goal is simple: we want to help you prepare for the AAISM exam with confidence while building a strong foundation in the principles of AI security that will help you lead and make informed security decisions in an increasingly AI-driven world.At Destination Certification, we have the collective wisdom from working in the security ... Read more

$35.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

Destination AAISM is aligned with ISACA's AAISM exam outline.Our goal is simple: we want to help you prepare for the AAISM exam with confidence while building a strong foundation in the principles of AI security that will help you lead and make informed security decisions in an increasingly AI-driven world.At Destination Certification, we have the collective wisdom from working in the security
... Read more
The Semantic Web Explained

The Technology and Mathematics behind Web 3.0

by Péter Szeredi, Gergely Lukácsy, Tamás Benkő, Zsolt Nagy ...

The Semantic Web is a new area of research and development in the field of computer science that aims to make it easier for computers to process the huge amount of information on the web, and indeed other large databases, by enabling them not only to read, but also to understand the information. Based on successful courses taught by the authors, and liberally sprinkled with examples and exercises, ... Read more

$64.99 CAD

The Semantic Web is a new area of research and development in the field of computer science that aims to make it easier for computers to process the huge amount of information on the web, and indeed other large databases, by enabling them not only to read, but also to understand the information. Based on successful courses taught by the authors, and liberally sprinkled with examples and exercises,
... Read more
RT Essentials

Managing Your Team and Projects with Request Tracker

by Jesse Vincent, Robert Spier, Dave Rolsky, Darren Chamberlain, Richard Foley ...

In a typical organization, there's always plenty that to do such as: pay vendors, invoice customers, answer customer inquiries, and fix bugs in hardware or software. You need to know who wants what and keep track of what is left to do.This is where a ticketing system comes in. A ticketing system allows you to check the status of various tasks: when they were requested, who requested them and why, ... Read more

$28.99 CAD

In a typical organization, there's always plenty that to do such as: pay vendors, invoice customers, answer customer inquiries, and fix bugs in hardware or software. You need to know who wants what and keep track of what is left to do.This is where a ticketing system comes in. A ticketing system allows you to check the status of various tasks: when they were requested, who requested them and why,
... Read more
Digital Fluency

Understanding the Basics of Artificial Intelligence, Blockchain Technology, Quantum Computing, and Their Applications for Digital Transformation

by Volker Lang ...

Series series Professional and Applied Computing (R0)
If you are curious about the basics of artificial intelligence, blockchain technology, and quantum computing as key enablers for digital transformation and innovation, Digital Fluency is your handy guide. The real-world applications of these cutting-edge technologies are expanding rapidly, and your daily life will continue to be affected by each of them. There is no better time than now to get ... Read more

$68.99 CAD

If you are curious about the basics of artificial intelligence, blockchain technology, and quantum computing as key enablers for digital transformation and innovation, Digital Fluency is your handy guide. The real-world applications of these cutting-edge technologies are expanding rapidly, and your daily life will continue to be affected by each of them. There is no better time than now to get
... Read more
Basics Interactive Design: User Experience Design

Creating designs users really love

by Gavin Allanwood, Mr Peter Beare ...

Series series Basics Interactive Design
By putting people at the centre of interactive design, user experience (UX) techniques are now right at the heart of digital media design and development. As a designer, you need to create work that will impact positively on everyone who is exposed to it. Whether it's passive and immutable or interactive and dynamic, the success of your design will depend largely on how well the user experience is ... Read more

$33.99 CAD

By putting people at the centre of interactive design, user experience (UX) techniques are now right at the heart of digital media design and development. As a designer, you need to create work that will impact positively on everyone who is exposed to it. Whether it's passive and immutable or interactive and dynamic, the success of your design will depend largely on how well the user experience is
... Read more
Javascript: Javascript Programming For Absolute Beginners: Ultimate Guide To Javascript Coding, Javascript Programs And Javascript Language

by William Sullivan ...

☆★☆ Javascript: Javascript Programming For Absolute Beginners☆★☆The best starter guide for javascript!The fundamentals of javascript are often missed, however, this book's primary focus and emphasis is learning the essentials and to build from the ground up.What You'lll LearnThe history of JavaScript and its usesSetting Up Your EnvironmentThe Vital B... ... Read more

$3.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

☆★☆ Javascript: Javascript Programming For Absolute Beginners☆★☆The best starter guide for javascript!The fundamentals of javascript are often missed, however, this book's primary focus and emphasis is learning the essentials and to build from the ground up.What You'lll LearnThe history of JavaScript and its usesSetting Up Your EnvironmentThe Vital B...
... Read more
HBR Guide to Generative AI for Managers

by Elisa Farri, Gabriele Rosani ...

Series series HBR Guide
Leverage gen AI to save time, innovate faster, and lead effectively.You're probably aware that generative AI can output quality text and create stunning images in seconds. But smart managers are now using gen AI for high-level work—problem-solving, driving innovation, strategic thinking, and dozens of other applications. Managers who develop their generative AI capabilities will soon be leaping ... Read more

$23.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

Leverage gen AI to save time, innovate faster, and lead effectively.You're probably aware that generative AI can output quality text and create stunning images in seconds. But smart managers are now using gen AI for high-level work—problem-solving, driving innovation, strategic thinking, and dozens of other applications. Managers who develop their generative AI capabilities will soon be leaping
... Read more
More Than Words

How to Think About Writing in the Age of AI

by John Warner ...

In this revised and updated paperback edition, a veteran writing teacher argues that writing is a form of thinking and feeling and shows why it can’t be replaced by AI.“Compelling.” —Joseph Epstein, Wall Street JournalIn the age of artificial intelligence, generating an essay is as simple as typing a prompt and pressing enter. What does this mean for the art of writing? According to longtime ... Read more

$19.99 CAD

In this revised and updated paperback edition, a veteran writing teacher argues that writing is a form of thinking and feeling and shows why it can’t be replaced by AI.“Compelling.” —Joseph Epstein, Wall Street JournalIn the age of artificial intelligence, generating an essay is as simple as typing a prompt and pressing enter. What does this mean for the art of writing? According to longtime
... Read more
Seeing Like a Platform

An Inquiry into the Condition of Digital Modernity

by Petter Törnberg, Justus Uitermark ...

Series series Complexity in Social Science
Power needs abstraction, to make the unwieldy complexity of the social world legible and manageable. The proposition at the heart of Seeing Like a Platform is that digital technology brings new metaphors through which power operates. While industrial modernity saw society as a machinery to be designed according to detailed blueprints, digital modernity views society as organic and alive, to be ... Read more

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Power needs abstraction, to make the unwieldy complexity of the social world legible and manageable. The proposition at the heart of Seeing Like a Platform is that digital technology brings new metaphors through which power operates. While industrial modernity saw society as a machinery to be designed according to detailed blueprints, digital modernity views society as organic and alive, to be
... Read more
Hardware/Firmware Interface Design

Best Practices for Improving Embedded Systems Development

by Gary Stringham ...

Why care about hardware/firmware interaction? These interfaces are critical, a solid hardware design married with adaptive firmware can access all the capabilities of an application and overcome limitations caused by poor communication. For the first time, a book has come along that will help hardware engineers and firmware engineers work together to mitigate or eliminate problems that occur when ... Read more

$67.19 CAD

Why care about hardware/firmware interaction? These interfaces are critical, a solid hardware design married with adaptive firmware can access all the capabilities of an application and overcome limitations caused by poor communication. For the first time, a book has come along that will help hardware engineers and firmware engineers work together to mitigate or eliminate problems that occur when
... Read more
Data Model Patterns: A Metadata Map

A Metadata Map

by David C. Hay ...

Series series The Morgan Kaufmann Series in Data Management Systems
In recent years, companies and government agencies have come to realize that the data they use represent a significant corporate resource, whose cost calls for management every bit as rigorous as the management of human resources, money, and capital equipment. With this realization has come recognition of the importance to integrate the data that has traditionally only been available from ... Read more

$76.79 CAD

In recent years, companies and government agencies have come to realize that the data they use represent a significant corporate resource, whose cost calls for management every bit as rigorous as the management of human resources, money, and capital equipment. With this realization has come recognition of the importance to integrate the data that has traditionally only been available from
... Read more
Cybersecurity

by Duane C. Wilson ...

Series series The MIT Press Essential Knowledge series
An accessible guide to cybersecurity for the everyday user, covering cryptography and public key infrastructure, malware, blockchain, and other topics.It seems that everything we touch is connected to the internet, from mobile phones and wearable technology to home appliances and cyber assistants. The more connected our computer systems, the more exposed they are to cyber attacks--attempts to ... Read more

$18.39 CAD

An accessible guide to cybersecurity for the everyday user, covering cryptography and public key infrastructure, malware, blockchain, and other topics.It seems that everything we touch is connected to the internet, from mobile phones and wearable technology to home appliances and cyber assistants. The more connected our computer systems, the more exposed they are to cyber attacks--attempts to
... Read more
Smarter Than Us: The Rise of Machine Intelligence

by Stuart Armstrong ...

What happens when machines become smarter than humans? Forget lumbering Terminators. The power of an artificial intelligence (AI) comes from its intelligence, not physical strength and laser guns. Humans steer the future not because we're the strongest or the fastest but because we're the smartest. When machines become smarter than humans, we'll be handing them the steering wheel. What promises ... Read more

$4.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

What happens when machines become smarter than humans? Forget lumbering Terminators. The power of an artificial intelligence (AI) comes from its intelligence, not physical strength and laser guns. Humans steer the future not because we're the strongest or the fastest but because we're the smartest. When machines become smarter than humans, we'll be handing them the steering wheel. What promises
... Read more
The Art of 64-Bit Assembly, Volume 1

x86-64 Machine Organization and Programming

by Randall Hyde ...

A new assembly language programming book from a well-loved master. Art of 64-bit Assembly Language capitalizes on the long-lived success of Hyde's seminal The Art of Assembly Language.Randall Hyde's The Art of Assembly Language has been the go-to book for learning assembly language for decades. Hyde's latest work, Art of 64-bit Assembly Language is the 64-bit version of this popular text. This ... Read more

$67.19 CAD

A new assembly language programming book from a well-loved master. Art of 64-bit Assembly Language capitalizes on the long-lived success of Hyde's seminal The Art of Assembly Language.Randall Hyde's The Art of Assembly Language has been the go-to book for learning assembly language for decades. Hyde's latest work, Art of 64-bit Assembly Language is the 64-bit version of this popular text. This
... Read more
How to Define and Build an Effective Cyber Threat Intelligence Capability

by Henry Dalziel ...

Intelligence-Led Security: How to Understand, Justify and Implement a New Approach to Security is a concise review of the concept of Intelligence-Led Security. Protecting a business, including its information and intellectual property, physical infrastructure, employees, and reputation, has become increasingly difficult. Online threats come from all sides: internal leaks and external adversaries; ... Read more

$35.99 CAD

Intelligence-Led Security: How to Understand, Justify and Implement a New Approach to Security is a concise review of the concept of Intelligence-Led Security. Protecting a business, including its information and intellectual property, physical infrastructure, employees, and reputation, has become increasingly difficult. Online threats come from all sides: internal leaks and external adversaries;
... Read more
ARM System Developer's Guide

Designing and Optimizing System Software

by Andrew Sloss, Dominic Symes, Chris Wright ...

Series series The Morgan Kaufmann Series in Computer Architecture and Design
Over the last ten years, the ARM architecture has become one of the most pervasive architectures in the world, with more than 2 billion ARM-based processors embedded in products ranging from cell phones to automotive braking systems. A world-wide community of ARM developers in semiconductor and product design companies includes software developers, system designers and hardware engineers. To date ... Read more

$82.39 CAD

Over the last ten years, the ARM architecture has become one of the most pervasive architectures in the world, with more than 2 billion ARM-based processors embedded in products ranging from cell phones to automotive braking systems. A world-wide community of ARM developers in semiconductor and product design companies includes software developers, system designers and hardware engineers. To date
... Read more
Computational Fluid Dynamics

A Practical Approach

by Chaoqun Liu, Jiyuan Tu, Guan Heng Yeoh ...

Computational Fluid Dynamics, Second Edition, provides an introduction to CFD fundamentals that focuses on the use of commercial CFD software to solve engineering problems. This new edition provides expanded coverage of CFD techniques including discretisation via finite element and spectral element as well as finite difference and finite volume methods and multigrid method. There is additional ... Read more

$79.99 CAD

Computational Fluid Dynamics, Second Edition, provides an introduction to CFD fundamentals that focuses on the use of commercial CFD software to solve engineering problems. This new edition provides expanded coverage of CFD techniques including discretisation via finite element and spectral element as well as finite difference and finite volume methods and multigrid method. There is additional
... Read more
.NET MAUI Cross-Platform Application Development

Leverage a first-class cross-platform UI framework to build native apps on multiple platforms

by Roger Ye ...

Build apps for Android, iOS, macOS, and Windows using Microsoft's .NET Multi-platform App UI and BlazorKey FeaturesGet familiar with Microsoft's UI toolkit to build amazing interfaces for iOS, Android, Windows, and macOSBuild a cross-platform password manager based on the famous Windows app, KeePassExplore .NET MAUI development and Hybrid app development using BlazorBook DescriptionAn evolution of ... Read more

$38.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

Build apps for Android, iOS, macOS, and Windows using Microsoft's .NET Multi-platform App UI and BlazorKey FeaturesGet familiar with Microsoft's UI toolkit to build amazing interfaces for iOS, Android, Windows, and macOSBuild a cross-platform password manager based on the famous Windows app, KeePassExplore .NET MAUI development and Hybrid app development using BlazorBook DescriptionAn evolution of
... Read more
Architecting Microsoft Azure Solutions: Exam Guide 70-535

A complete guide to passing the 70-535 Architecting Microsoft Azure Solutions exam

by Sjoukje Zaal ...

Get certified as an Azure architect by acing the 70-535 Architecting Microsoft Solutions (70-535) exam using this comprehensive guide with full coverage of the exam objectives Key FeaturesLearn to successfully design and architect powerful solutions on the Azure Cloud platformEnhance your skills with mock tests and practice questionsA detailed certification guide that will help you ace the 70-535 ... Read more

$41.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

Get certified as an Azure architect by acing the 70-535 Architecting Microsoft Solutions (70-535) exam using this comprehensive guide with full coverage of the exam objectives Key FeaturesLearn to successfully design and architect powerful solutions on the Azure Cloud platformEnhance your skills with mock tests and practice questionsA detailed certification guide that will help you ace the 70-535
... Read more
Automating the News

How Algorithms Are Rewriting the Media

by Nicholas Diakopoulos ...

From hidden connections in big data to bots spreading fake news, journalism is increasingly computer-generated. An expert in computer science and media explains the present and future of a world in which news is created by algorithm.Amid the push for self-driving cars and the roboticization of industrial economies, automation has proven one of the biggest news stories of our time. Yet the wide ... Read more

$33.99 CAD

From hidden connections in big data to bots spreading fake news, journalism is increasingly computer-generated. An expert in computer science and media explains the present and future of a world in which news is created by algorithm.Amid the push for self-driving cars and the roboticization of industrial economies, automation has proven one of the biggest news stories of our time. Yet the wide
... Read more
Generative AI in Higher Education

The ChatGPT Effect

by Cecilia Ka Yuk Chan, Tom Colloton ...

Chan and Colloton’s book is one of the first to provide a comprehensive examination of the use and impact of ChatGPT and Generative AI (GenAI) in higher education.Since November 2022, every conversation in higher education has involved ChatGPT and its impact on all aspects of teaching and learning. The book explores the necessity of AI literacy tailored to professional contexts, assess the ... Read more

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Chan and Colloton’s book is one of the first to provide a comprehensive examination of the use and impact of ChatGPT and Generative AI (GenAI) in higher education.Since November 2022, every conversation in higher education has involved ChatGPT and its impact on all aspects of teaching and learning. The book explores the necessity of AI literacy tailored to professional contexts, assess the
... Read more

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