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Game Development with Rust and WebAssembly

Learn how to run Rust on the web while building a game

by Eric Smith ...

Write an endless runner game for the web in Rust and test, deploy, and debug your 2D game using the WebAssembly toolchainKey FeaturesBuild and deploy an endless runner game for the web from scratch through this helpful guide with key images printed in colorLearn how to use Rust for web development with WebAssemblyExplore modern game development and programming techniques to build 2D games using ... Read more

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Write an endless runner game for the web in Rust and test, deploy, and debug your 2D game using the WebAssembly toolchainKey FeaturesBuild and deploy an endless runner game for the web from scratch through this helpful guide with key images printed in colorLearn how to use Rust for web development with WebAssemblyExplore modern game development and programming techniques to build 2D games using
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Neural Information Processing

25th International Conference, ICONIP 2018, Siem Reap, Cambodia, December 13–16, 2018, Proceedings, Part VI

Edited by Long Cheng, Andrew Chi Sing Leung, Seiichi Ozawa ...

Series Book 6 - Springer Nature Proceedings Computer Science
The seven-volume set of LNCS 11301-11307 constitutes the proceedings of the 25th International Conference on Neural Information Processing, ICONIP 2018, held in Siem Reap, Cambodia, in December 2018.The 401 full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 575 submissions. The papers address the emerging topics of theoretical research, empirical studies, and applications of neural ... Read more

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The seven-volume set of LNCS 11301-11307 constitutes the proceedings of the 25th International Conference on Neural Information Processing, ICONIP 2018, held in Siem Reap, Cambodia, in December 2018.The 401 full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 575 submissions. The papers address the emerging topics of theoretical research, empirical studies, and applications of neural
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Introduction to Logic Circuits & Logic Design with VHDL

by Brock J. LaMeres ...

Series series Engineering (R0)
This textbook introduces readers to the fundamental hardware used in modern computers. The only pre-requisite is algebra, so it can be taken by college freshman or sophomore students or even used in Advanced Placement courses in high school. This book presents both the classical approach to digital system design (i.e., pen and paper) in addition to the modern hardware description language (HDL) ... Read more

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This textbook introduces readers to the fundamental hardware used in modern computers. The only pre-requisite is algebra, so it can be taken by college freshman or sophomore students or even used in Advanced Placement courses in high school. This book presents both the classical approach to digital system design (i.e., pen and paper) in addition to the modern hardware description language (HDL)
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Blended Learning: Educational Innovation for Personalized Learning

12th International Conference, ICBL 2019, Hradec Kralove, Czech Republic, July 2–4, 2019, Proceedings

Edited by Simon K. S. Cheung, Lap-Kei Lee, Ivana Simonova, Tomas Kozel, Lam-For Kwok ...

Series series Springer Nature Proceedings Computer Science
This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 12th International Conference on Blended Learning, ICBL 2019, held in Hradec Kralove, Czech Republic, in July 2019.The 28 papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 80 submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections named: personalized and adaptive learning; content development for blended learning; experience in ... Read more

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This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 12th International Conference on Blended Learning, ICBL 2019, held in Hradec Kralove, Czech Republic, in July 2019.The 28 papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 80 submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections named: personalized and adaptive learning; content development for blended learning; experience in
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A Learner’s Guide to Fuzzy Logic Systems, Second Edition

by K Sundareswaran ...

This book presents an introductory coverage of fuzzy logic, including basic principles from an interdisciplinary perspective. It includes concept of evolving a fuzzy set and fuzzy set operations, fuzzification rule base design and defuzzification and simple guidelines for fuzzy sets design and selected applications. Preliminary concepts of Neural Networks and Genetic Algorithm are added features ... Read more

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This book presents an introductory coverage of fuzzy logic, including basic principles from an interdisciplinary perspective. It includes concept of evolving a fuzzy set and fuzzy set operations, fuzzification rule base design and defuzzification and simple guidelines for fuzzy sets design and selected applications. Preliminary concepts of Neural Networks and Genetic Algorithm are added features
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Harnessing Performance Variability in Embedded and High-performance Many/Multi-core Platforms

A Cross-layer Approach

Edited by William Fornaciari, Dimitrios Soudris ...

Series series Engineering (R0)
This book describes the state-of-the art of industrial and academic research in the architectural design of heterogeneous, multi/many-core processors. The authors describe methods and tools to enable next-generation embedded and high-performance heterogeneous processors to confront cost-effectively the inevitable variations by providing Dependable-Performance: correct functionality and timing ... Read more

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This book describes the state-of-the art of industrial and academic research in the architectural design of heterogeneous, multi/many-core processors. The authors describe methods and tools to enable next-generation embedded and high-performance heterogeneous processors to confront cost-effectively the inevitable variations by providing Dependable-Performance: correct functionality and timing
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Smart Automotive Mobility

Reliable Technology for the Mobile Human

Edited by Gerrit Meixner ...

Series series Computer Science (R0)
This book focuses on smart results in the field of smart automotive mobility concentrating on (semi-)autonomous cars. The results are based on 5 recently finished public-funded research projects with a budget of over 15 million Euro. Providing insights into the next generation of personalized mobility on the road the authors discuss personalized, adaptive cooperative systems for highly automated ... Read more

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This book focuses on smart results in the field of smart automotive mobility concentrating on (semi-)autonomous cars. The results are based on 5 recently finished public-funded research projects with a budget of over 15 million Euro. Providing insights into the next generation of personalized mobility on the road the authors discuss personalized, adaptive cooperative systems for highly automated
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Computer Supported Education

11th International Conference, CSEDU 2019, Heraklion, Crete, Greece, May 2-4, 2019, Revised Selected Papers

Edited by H. Chad Lane, Susan Zvacek, James Uhomoibhi ...

Series series Springer Nature Proceedings Computer Science
This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Computer Supported Education, CSEDU 2019, held in Heraklion, Crete, Greece, in May 2019.The 30 revised full papers were carefully reviewed and selected from 202 submissions. The papers cover wide research fields including authoring tools and content development, AV-communication and multimedia, ... Read more

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This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Computer Supported Education, CSEDU 2019, held in Heraklion, Crete, Greece, in May 2019.The 30 revised full papers were carefully reviewed and selected from 202 submissions. The papers cover wide research fields including authoring tools and content development, AV-communication and multimedia,
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Learning Apache Drill

Query and Analyze Distributed Data Sources with SQL

by Charles Givre, Paul Rogers ...

Get up to speed with Apache Drill, an extensible distributed SQL query engine that reads massive datasets in many popular file formats such as Parquet, JSON, and CSV. Drill reads data in HDFS or in cloud-native storage such as S3 and works with Hive metastores along with distributed databases such as HBase, MongoDB, and relational databases. Drill works everywhere: on your laptop or in your ... Read more

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Get up to speed with Apache Drill, an extensible distributed SQL query engine that reads massive datasets in many popular file formats such as Parquet, JSON, and CSV. Drill reads data in HDFS or in cloud-native storage such as S3 and works with Hive metastores along with distributed databases such as HBase, MongoDB, and relational databases. Drill works everywhere: on your laptop or in your
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Funology 2

From Usability to Enjoyment

Edited by Mark Blythe, Andrew Monk ...

Series series Computer Science (R0)
How should we understand and design for fun as a User Experience? This new edition of a classic book is for students, designers and researchers who want to deepen their understanding of fun in the context of HCI. The 2003 edition was the first book to do this and has been influential in broadening the field. It is the most downloaded book in the Springer HCI Series.This edition adds 14 new ... Read more

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How should we understand and design for fun as a User Experience? This new edition of a classic book is for students, designers and researchers who want to deepen their understanding of fun in the context of HCI. The 2003 edition was the first book to do this and has been influential in broadening the field. It is the most downloaded book in the Springer HCI Series.This edition adds 14 new
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Application Development with Qt Creator

Build cross-platform applications and GUIs using Qt 5 and C++

by Lee Zhi Eng ...

Explore Qt Creator, Qt Quick, and QML to design and develop applications that work on desktop, mobile, embedded, and IoT platformsKey FeaturesBuild a solid foundation in Qt by learning about its core classes, multithreading, File I/O, and networkingLearn GUI programming and build custom interfaces using Qt Widgets, Qt Designer, and QMLUse the latest features of C++17 for improving the performance ... Read more

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Explore Qt Creator, Qt Quick, and QML to design and develop applications that work on desktop, mobile, embedded, and IoT platformsKey FeaturesBuild a solid foundation in Qt by learning about its core classes, multithreading, File I/O, and networkingLearn GUI programming and build custom interfaces using Qt Widgets, Qt Designer, and QMLUse the latest features of C++17 for improving the performance
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Man-Machine Speech Communication

17th National Conference, NCMMSC 2022, Hefei, China, December 15–18, 2022, Proceedings

Edited by Ling Zhenhua, Gao Jianqing, Yu Kai, Jia Jia ...

Series series Springer Nature Proceedings Computer Science
This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 17th National Conference on Man–Machine Speech Communication, NCMMSC 2022, held in China, in December 2022.The 21 full papers and 7 short papers included in this book were carefully reviewed and selected from 108 submissions. They were organized in topical sections as follows: MCPN: A Multiple Cross-Perception Network for Real-Time Emotion ... Read more

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This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 17th National Conference on Man–Machine Speech Communication, NCMMSC 2022, held in China, in December 2022.The 21 full papers and 7 short papers included in this book were carefully reviewed and selected from 108 submissions. They were organized in topical sections as follows: MCPN: A Multiple Cross-Perception Network for Real-Time Emotion
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Human Perception of Visual Information

Psychological and Computational Perspectives

Edited by Bogdan Ionescu, Wilma A. Bainbridge, Naila Murray ...

Series series Computer Science (R0)
Recent years have witnessed important advancements in our understanding of the psychological underpinnings of subjective properties of visual information, such as aesthetics, memorability, or induced emotions. Concurrently, computational models of objective visual properties such as semantic labelling and geometric relationships have made significant breakthroughs using the latest achievements in ... Read more

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Recent years have witnessed important advancements in our understanding of the psychological underpinnings of subjective properties of visual information, such as aesthetics, memorability, or induced emotions. Concurrently, computational models of objective visual properties such as semantic labelling and geometric relationships have made significant breakthroughs using the latest achievements in
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HCI International 2022 Posters

24th International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction, HCII 2022, Virtual Event, June 26 – July 1, 2022, Proceedings, Part IV

Edited by Constantine Stephanidis, Margherita Antona, Stavroula Ntoa ...

Series Book 4 - Springer Nature Proceedings Computer Science
The four-volume set CCIS 1580, CCIS 1581, CCIS 1582, and CCIS 1583 contains the extended abstracts of the posters presented during the 24th International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction, HCII 2022, which was held virtually in June - July 2022.The total of 1276 papers and 275 posters included in the 40 HCII 2021 proceedings volumes was carefully reviewed and selected from 5583 submissions ... Read more

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The four-volume set CCIS 1580, CCIS 1581, CCIS 1582, and CCIS 1583 contains the extended abstracts of the posters presented during the 24th International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction, HCII 2022, which was held virtually in June - July 2022.The total of 1276 papers and 275 posters included in the 40 HCII 2021 proceedings volumes was carefully reviewed and selected from 5583 submissions
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Winning Together

A UX Researcher's Guide to Building Strong Cross-Functional Relationships

by Sonal Srivastava ...

UX research, the key to comprehending users' behaviors, motivations, and preferences for developing delightful experiences, thrives on effective teamwork and collaboration. This comprehensive guide brings together the expertise and insights from seasoned researchers, cross-functional partners, and product leaders in order to transform how you collaborate and unlock the true potential of UX ... Read more

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UX research, the key to comprehending users' behaviors, motivations, and preferences for developing delightful experiences, thrives on effective teamwork and collaboration. This comprehensive guide brings together the expertise and insights from seasoned researchers, cross-functional partners, and product leaders in order to transform how you collaborate and unlock the true potential of UX
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Dementia Lab 2021: Supporting Ability Through Design

Proceedings of the 5th Dementia Lab Conference, D-Lab 2021, January 18–28, 2021

Edited by Rens Brankaert, Caylee Raber, Maarten Houben, Paulina Malcolm, Jon Hannan ...

Series series Springer Nature Proceedings excluding Computer Science
This book gathers revised and selected contributions to the 5th Dementia Lab Conference, D-Lab 2021, organized online on January 18-28, 2021, from the Emily Carr University of Art + Design, Vancouver, Canada. It describes original strategies in which design or creative methods have been shown to uncover, support and enhance the abilities of people living with dementia. Papers report on new ideas ... Read more

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This book gathers revised and selected contributions to the 5th Dementia Lab Conference, D-Lab 2021, organized online on January 18-28, 2021, from the Emily Carr University of Art + Design, Vancouver, Canada. It describes original strategies in which design or creative methods have been shown to uncover, support and enhance the abilities of people living with dementia. Papers report on new ideas
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Designing for Older Adults

Principles and Creative Human Factors Approaches, Third Edition

by Sara J. Czaja, Walter R. Boot, Neil Charness, Wendy A. Rogers ...

Series series Human Factors and Aging Series
Winner of the 2019 Richard M. Kalish Innovative Publication Book Award 2019 – Gerontological Society of AmericaThis new edition provides easily accessible and usable guidelines for practitioners in the design community for older adults. It includes an updated overview of the demographic characteristics of older adult populations and the scientific knowledge base of the aging process relevant to ... Read more

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Winner of the 2019 Richard M. Kalish Innovative Publication Book Award 2019 – Gerontological Society of AmericaThis new edition provides easily accessible and usable guidelines for practitioners in the design community for older adults. It includes an updated overview of the demographic characteristics of older adult populations and the scientific knowledge base of the aging process relevant to
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Test Driven Development in Ruby

A Practical Introduction to TDD Using Problem and Solution Domain Analysis

by Bala Paranj ...

Series series Professional and Applied Computing (R0)
Learn the basics of test driven development (TDD) using Ruby. You will carry out problem domain analysis, solution domain analysis, designing test cases, and writing tests first. These fundamental concepts will give you a solid TDD foundation to build upon. Test Driven Development in Ruby is written by a developer for developers.The concepts are first explained, then a coding demo illustrates how ... Read more

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Learn the basics of test driven development (TDD) using Ruby. You will carry out problem domain analysis, solution domain analysis, designing test cases, and writing tests first. These fundamental concepts will give you a solid TDD foundation to build upon. Test Driven Development in Ruby is written by a developer for developers.The concepts are first explained, then a coding demo illustrates how
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Arguing to Learn

Confronting Cognitions in Computer-Supported Collaborative Learning Environments

Edited by Jerry Andriessen, Michael Baker, Dan D. Suthers ...

Series series Education (R0)
Arguing to Learn: Confronting Cognitions in Computer-Supported Collaborative Learning Environments focuses on how new pedagogical scenarios, task environments and communication tools within Computer-Supported Collaborative Learning (CSCL) environments can favour collaborative and productive confrontations of ideas, evidence, arguments and explanations, or arguing to learn.This book is the first ... Read more

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Arguing to Learn: Confronting Cognitions in Computer-Supported Collaborative Learning Environments focuses on how new pedagogical scenarios, task environments and communication tools within Computer-Supported Collaborative Learning (CSCL) environments can favour collaborative and productive confrontations of ideas, evidence, arguments and explanations, or arguing to learn.This book is the first
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Introduction to Python Programming for Business and Social Science Applications

by Frederick Kaefer, Paul Kaefer ...

Would you like to gather big datasets, analyze them, and visualize the results, all in one program? If this describes you, then Introduction to Python Programming for Business and Social Science Applications is the book for you. Authors Frederick Kaefer and Paul Kaefer walk you through each step of the Python package installation and analysis process, with frequent exercises throughout so you can ... Read more

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Would you like to gather big datasets, analyze them, and visualize the results, all in one program? If this describes you, then Introduction to Python Programming for Business and Social Science Applications is the book for you. Authors Frederick Kaefer and Paul Kaefer walk you through each step of the Python package installation and analysis process, with frequent exercises throughout so you can
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Engineering Lakehouses with Open Table Formats

Build scalable and efficient lakehouses with Apache Iceberg, Apache Hudi, and Delta Lake

by Dipankar Mazumdar, Vinoth Govindarajan ...

Jump-start your journey toward mastering open data architectural patterns by learning the fundamentals and applications of open table formatsKey FeaturesBuild lakehouses with open table formats using compute engines such as Apache Spark, Flink, Trino, and PythonOptimize lakehouses with techniques such as pruning, partitioning, compaction, indexing, and clusteringFind out how to enable seamless ... Read more

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Jump-start your journey toward mastering open data architectural patterns by learning the fundamentals and applications of open table formatsKey FeaturesBuild lakehouses with open table formats using compute engines such as Apache Spark, Flink, Trino, and PythonOptimize lakehouses with techniques such as pruning, partitioning, compaction, indexing, and clusteringFind out how to enable seamless
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O Futuro Das Profissões

by Professor Doutor Fernando Antonio Dal Piero Dal Piero ...

O título O Futuro das Profissões: O Impacto da Inteligência Artificial Geral no Mercado de Trabalho é, ao mesmo tempo, uma provocação e um convite ao leitor. O título instiga reflexões sobre o futuro do mercado de trabalho e as novas possibilidades que estão surgindo em meio às rápidas transformações tecnológicas, sociais e econômicas. Mais do que uma análise simples, o título é uma promessa: este ... Read more

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O título O Futuro das Profissões: O Impacto da Inteligência Artificial Geral no Mercado de Trabalho é, ao mesmo tempo, uma provocação e um convite ao leitor. O título instiga reflexões sobre o futuro do mercado de trabalho e as novas possibilidades que estão surgindo em meio às rápidas transformações tecnológicas, sociais e econômicas. Mais do que uma análise simples, o título é uma promessa: este
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Estratégia Jungle

Bases para um ecossistema de experiência eficazes

by Gabriel Pinheiro ...

A partir dos aprendizados apresentados, vamos explorar como estruturar a inovação de forma sustentável, evitando a dependência de figuras visionárias para que processos ou iniciativas possam escalar de maneira intencional.Este conteúdo é valioso para product managers, desenvolvedores, designers, estrategistas, profissionais de customer experience (CX), marketing, recursos humanos, pesquisadores, ... Read more

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A partir dos aprendizados apresentados, vamos explorar como estruturar a inovação de forma sustentável, evitando a dependência de figuras visionárias para que processos ou iniciativas possam escalar de maneira intencional.Este conteúdo é valioso para product managers, desenvolvedores, designers, estrategistas, profissionais de customer experience (CX), marketing, recursos humanos, pesquisadores,
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Introduction to Python for Science and Engineering

by David J. Pine ...

Series series Series in Computational Biophysics
Introduction to Python for Science and Engineering offers a quick and incisive introduction to the Python programming language for use in any science or engineering discipline. The approach is pedagogical and “bottom up,” which means starting with examples and extracting more general principles from that experience. No prior programming experience is assumed.Readers will learn the basics of Python ... Read more

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Introduction to Python for Science and Engineering offers a quick and incisive introduction to the Python programming language for use in any science or engineering discipline. The approach is pedagogical and “bottom up,” which means starting with examples and extracting more general principles from that experience. No prior programming experience is assumed.Readers will learn the basics of Python
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