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Wow! eBook: Computer Animation, 3rd Edition - 6 new eBooks


Wow! eBook: Computer Animation, 3rd Edition - 6 new eBooks

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Computer Animation, 3rd Edition

Posted: 09 Apr 2013 10:14 AM PDT

Computer Animation, 3rd Edition

Book Description

Driven by demand from the entertainment industry for better and more realistic animation, technology continues to evolve and improve. The algorithms and techniques behind this technology are the foundation of this comprehensive book, which is written to teach you the fundamentals of animation programming.

In this third edition, the most current techniques are covered along with the theory and high-level computation that have earned the book a reputation as the best technically-oriented animation resource. Key topics such as fluids, hair, and crowd animation have been expanded, and extensive new coverage of clothes and cloth has been added. New material on simulation provides a more diverse look at this important area and more example animations and chapter projects and exercises are included. Additionally, spline coverage has been expanded and new video compression and formats (e.g., iTunes) are covered.

  • Includes companion site with contemporary animation examples drawn from research and entertainment, sample animations, and example code
  • Describes the key mathematical and algorithmic foundations of animation that provide you with a deep understanding and control of technique
  • Expanded and new coverage of key topics including: fluids and clouds, cloth and clothes, hair, and crowd animation
  • Explains the algorithms used for path following, hierarchical kinematic modelling, rigid body dynamics, flocking behaviour, particle systems, collision detection, and more

Table of Contents
Chapter 1. Introduction
Chapter 2. Technical Background
Chapter 3. Interpolating Values
Chapter 4. Interpolation-Based Animation
Chapter 5. Kinematic Linkages
Chapter 6. Motion Capture
Chapter 7. Physically Based Animation
Chapter 8. Fluids. Liquids & Gases
Chapter 9. Modeling and Animating Human Figures
Chapter 10. Facial Animation
Chapter 11. Behavioral Animation
Chapter 12. Special Models for Animation

Appendix A. Rendering Issues
Appendix B. Background Information and Techniques

Book Details

  • Hardcover: 542 pages
  • Publisher: Morgan Kaufmann; 3rd Edition (August 2012)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 0124158420
  • ISBN-13: 978-0124158429
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Private Cloud Computing

Posted: 09 Apr 2013 10:10 AM PDT

Private Cloud Computing

Book Description

Private cloud computing enables you to consolidate diverse enterprise systems into one that is cloud-based and can be accessed by end-users seamlessly, regardless of their location or changes in overall demand. Expert authors Steve Smoot and Nam K. Tan distill their years of networking experience to describe how to build enterprise networks to create a private cloud. With their techniques you’ll create cost-saving designs and increase the flexibility of your enterprise, while maintaining the security and control of an internal network. Private Cloud Computing offers a complete cloud architecture for enterprise networking by synthesizing WAN optimization, next-generation data centers, and virtualization in a network-friendly way, tying them together into a complete solution that can be progressively migrated to as time and resources permit.

  • Describes next-generation data center architectures such as the virtual access-layer, the unified data center fabric and the “rack-and-roll” deployment model
  • Provides an overview of cloud security and cloud management from the server virtualization perspective
  • Presents real-world case studies, configuration and examples that allow you to easily apply practical know-how to your existing enterprise environment
  • Offers effective private cloud computing solutions to simplify the costly and problematic challenge of enterprise networking and branch server consolidation

Table of Contents
Chapter 1. Next-Generation IT Trends
Chapter 2. Next-Generation Data Center Architectures and Technologies
Chapter 3. Next-Generation WAN and Service Integration
Chapter 4. Branch Consolidation and WAN Optimization
Chapter 5. Session Interception Design and Deployment
Chapter 6. WAN Optimization in the Private Cloud
Chapter 7. SAN Extensions and IP Storage
Chapter 8. Cloud Infrastructure as a Service
Chapter 9. Case Studies

Book Details

  • Paperback: 424 pages
  • Publisher: Morgan Kaufmann (October 2011)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 0123849195
  • ISBN-13: 978-0123849199
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Engineering a Compiler, 2nd Edition

Posted: 09 Apr 2013 10:04 AM PDT

Engineering a Compiler, 2nd Edition

Book Description

This entirely revised second edition of Engineering a Compiler is full of technical updates and new material covering the latest developments in compiler technology. In this comprehensive text you will learn important techniques for constructing a modern compiler. Leading educators and researchers Keith Cooper and Linda Torczon combine basic principles with pragmatic insights from their experience building state-of-the-art compilers. They will help you fully understand important techniques such as compilation of imperative and object-oriented languages, construction of static single assignment forms, instruction scheduling, and graph-coloring register allocation.

  • In-depth treatment of algorithms and techniques used in the front end of a modern compiler
  • Focus on code optimization and code generation, the primary areas of recent research and development
  • Improvements in presentation including conceptual overviews for each chapter, summaries and review questions for sections, and prominent placement of definitions for new terms
  • Examples drawn from several different programming languages

Table of Contents
Chapter 1. Overview of Compilation
Chapter 2. Scanners
Chapter 3. Parsers
Chapter 4. Context-Sensitive Analysis
Chapter 5. Intermediate Representations
Chapter 6. The Procedure Abstraction
Chapter 7. Code Shape
Chapter 8. Introduction to Optimization
Chapter 9. Data-Flow Analysis
Chapter 10. Scalar Optimizations
Chapter 11. Instruction Selection
Chapter 12. Instruction Scheduling
Chapter 13. Register Allocation

Book Details

  • Hardcover: 824 pages
  • Publisher: Morgan Kaufmann; 2nd Edition (February 2011)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 012088478X
  • ISBN-13: 978-0120884780
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Data Mining: Concepts and Techniques, 3rd Edition

Posted: 09 Apr 2013 10:00 AM PDT

Data Mining: Concepts and Techniques, 3rd Edition

Book Description

The increasing volume of data in modern business and science calls for more complex and sophisticated tools. Although advances in data mining technology have made extensive data collection much easier, it's still always evolving and there is a constant need for new techniques and tools that can help us transform this data into useful information and knowledge.

Since the previous edition's publication, great advances have been made in the field of data mining. Not only does the third of edition of Data Mining: Concepts and Techniques continue the tradition of equipping you with an understanding and application of the theory and practice of discovering patterns hidden in large data sets, it also focuses on new, important topics in the field: data warehouses and data cube technology, mining stream, mining social networks, and mining spatial, multimedia and other complex data. Each chapter is a stand-alone guide to a critical topic, presenting proven algorithms and sound implementations ready to be used directly or with strategic modification against live data. This is the resource you need if you want to apply today's most powerful data mining techniques to meet real business challenges.

  • Presents dozens of algorithms and implementation examples, all in pseudo-code and suitable for use in real-world, large-scale data mining projects.
  • Addresses advanced topics such as mining object-relational databases, spatial databases, multimedia databases, time-series databases, text databases, the World Wide Web, and applications in several fields.
  • Provides a comprehensive, practical look at the concepts and techniques you need to get the most out of your data

Table of Contents
Chapter 1. Introduction
Chapter 2. Getting to Know Your Data
Chapter 3. Preprocessing
Chapter 4. Data Warehousing and On-Line Analytical Processing
Chapter 5. Data Cube Technology
Chapter 6. Mining Frequent Patterns, Associations and Correlations: Concepts and
Chapter 7. Advanced Frequent Pattern Mining
Chapter 8. Classification: Basic Concepts
Chapter 9. Classification: Advanced Methods
Chapter 10. Cluster Analysis: Basic Concepts and Methods
Chapter 11. Advanced Cluster Analysis
Chapter 12. Outlier Analysis
Chapter 13. Trends and Research Frontiers in Data Mining

Book Details

  • Hardcover: 744 pages
  • Publisher: Morgan Kaufmann; 3rd Edition (June 2011)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 0123814790
  • ISBN-13: 978-0123814791
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Computer Architecture, 5th Edition

Posted: 09 Apr 2013 09:56 AM PDT

Computer Architecture, 5th Edition

Book Description

The computing world today is in the middle of a revolution: mobile clients and cloud computing have emerged as the dominant paradigms driving programming and hardware innovation today. The Fifth Edition of Computer Architecture focuses on this dramatic shift, exploring the ways in which software and technology in the cloud are accessed by cell phones, tablets, laptops, and other mobile computing devices. Each chapter includes two real-world examples, one mobile and one datacenter, to illustrate this revolutionary change.

  • Updated to cover the mobile computing revolution
  • Emphasizes the two most important topics in architecture today: memory hierarchy and parallelism in all its forms.
  • Develops common themes throughout each chapter: power, performance, cost, dependability, protection, programming models, and emerging trends (“What’s Next”)
  • Includes three review appendices in the printed text. Additional reference appendices are available online.
  • Includes updated Case Studies and completely new exercises.

Table of Contents
Chapter 1. Fundamentals of Quantitative Design and Analysis
Chapter 2. Memory Hierarchy Design
Chapter 3. Instruction-Level Parallelism and Its Exploitation
Chapter 4. Data-Level Parallelism in Vector, SIMD, and GPU Architectures
Chapter 5. Multiprocessors and Thread-Level Parallelism
Chapter 6. The Warehouse-Scale Computer

Appendix A. Instruction Set Principles
Appendix B. Review of Memory Hierarchy
Appendix C. Pipelining: Basic and Intermediate Concepts

Book Details

  • Paperback: 856 pages
  • Publisher: Morgan Kaufmann; 5th Edition (September 2011)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 012383872X
  • ISBN-13: 978-0123838728
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An Introduction to Parallel Programming

Posted: 09 Apr 2013 09:53 AM PDT

An Introduction to Parallel Programming

Book Description

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 students how to compile, run and modify example programs.
Key features:

  • Takes a tutorial approach, starting with small programming examples and building progressively to more challenging examples
  • Focuses on designing, debugging and evaluating the performance of distributed and shared-memory programs
  • Explains how to develop parallel programs using MPI, Pthreads, and OpenMP programming models

Table of Contents
Chapter 1. Why Parallel Computing
Chapter 2. Parallel Hardware and Parallel Software
Chapter 3. Distributed Memory Programming with MPI
Chapter 4. Shared Memory Programming with Pthreads
Chapter 5. Shared Memory Programming with OpenMP
Chapter 6. Parallel Program Development
Chapter 7. Where to Go from Here

Book Details

  • Hardcover: 392 pages
  • Publisher: Morgan Kaufmann (January 2011)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 0123742609
  • ISBN-13: 978-0123742605
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