Das Buch richtet sich an alle, die Kenntnisse uber die faszinierende Welt der Computernetze und des Internets benotigen. Es begleitet Sie zuverlassig vom ersten Einstieg in das Thema bis hin in die berufliche Praxis. Es unterstutzt Sie auf dem Wege zu Prufungen und in der beruflichen Weiterbildung.
In zehn uberschaubaren Kapiteln und in strukturierter Form erhalten Sie eine Einfuhrung in die grundlegenden Konzepte, Technologien und Zusammenhange. Sie werden schrittweise an die komplexe Thematik herangefuhrt und durch anschauliche Grafiken unterstutzt. Nach der Durcharbeitung des Buches haben Sie ein solides Fundament - fur die weitere Beschaftigung mit dem Thema sowie fur die berufliche Praxis.
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This work includes research work performed during Ph. D studies of the author. The work includes four main parts. The first part presents former work about the concept of uncanny valley and the work performed by the author in this regard. Findings suggest that the concept of uncanny valley is not supported by the experiments. The second part of the work presents a new approach to build grammar for speech recognition using both Command and Control Grammar and Dictation Grammar for an interactive robot. The third part presents interaction through speech along with recognition of emotion from speech through linguo-acoustic classification of speech in which emotions of human user are recognized from acoustic contents of speech supported by linguistics. Finally in the fourth part the interactive robot is proposed to be used as a friendly instructor to native Chinese children to teach English.

Publisher's Note: Products purchased from Third Party sellers are not guaranteed by the publisher for quality, authenticity, or access to any online entitlements included with the product. Maximize the power of your Palm Pre!This easy-to-follow guide shows you how to get the most out of the innovative smartphone built on the Palm webOS platform. How to Do Everything: Palm Pre helps you navigate the interface, load data from various sources, and use all the communication features--phone, email, and messaging. You'll surf the Web, snap photos, enjoy multimedia, download cool apps, and keep your Pre running at peak performance. This one-stop resource covers it all! Configure and customize your Pre Connect to data from multiple sources Make calls and send emails, texts, and instant messages Connect to wireless networks and access the Internet Load contacts, calendar items, memos, and tasks Navigate with GPS Listen to music, watch videos, and take photos Install and use third-party apps Secure, troubleshoot, and maintain your Pre About the Authors: Rick Broida is the author or coauthor of more than a dozen books, including How to Do Everything with Your Zune. He writes for PC World, Popular Science, Wired, CNET's Cheapskate Blog, and BNET's Business Hacks. Dave Johnson is the author or coauthor of more than three dozen books, including How to Do Everything with Your Digital Camera. He writes regularly for PC World and blogs daily for BNET's Business Hacks.

The information age technology revolution promises enormous benefits to the U.S. and global economies. Yet if those benefits are to be fully realized, policymakers in the U.S. and abroad must rethink some fundamental premises about how economic activity has traditionally been governed. Should we continue to regulate industries the way we have in the past? Does the digital age require a new approach to antitrust enforcement? To best facilitate global electronic commerce, what changes are needed in intellectual property law, professional licensing requirements, laws governing privacy and content, and policies relating to standards? And what steps, if any, are required to best ensure that all citizens have access to the new technologies? This book examines these and other policy issues. It draws on a spring 1997 conference sponsored by the Brookings Institution and the Cato Institute where leading experts in various fields related to information technology presented their views. Copublished with the Cato Institute

A guide to the most recent, advanced features of the widely used OpenMP parallel programming model, with coverage of major features in OpenMP 4.5. This book offers an up-to-date, practical tutorial on advanced features in the widely used OpenMP parallel programming model. Building on the previous volume, Using OpenMP: Portable Shared Memory Parallel Programming (MIT Press), this book goes beyond the fundamentals to focus on what has been changed and added to OpenMP since the 2.5 specifications. It emphasizes four major and advanced areas: thread affinity (keeping threads close to their data), accelerators (special hardware to speed up certain operations), tasking (to parallelize algorithms with a less regular execution flow), and SIMD (hardware assisted operations on vectors). As in the earlier volume, the focus is on practical usage, with major new features primarily introduced by example. Examples are restricted to C and C++, but are straightforward enough to be understood by Fortran programmers. After a brief recap of OpenMP 2.5, the book reviews enhancements introduced since 2.5. It then discusses in detail tasking, a major functionality enhancement; Non-Uniform Memory Access (NUMA) architectures, supported by OpenMP; SIMD, or Single Instruction Multiple Data; heterogeneous systems, a new parallel programming model to offload computation to accelerators; and the expected further development of OpenMP.

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Carefully detailed screenshots and step-by-step directions illustrate how to use Sony's new consumer-level video and audio editing applications, in a concise, time-efficient way. Readers learn the rudiments of navigating Vegas Movie Studio and the companion audio applications, Sound Forge Audio Studio and ACID Music Studio, to perform a complete range of tasks, from editing video and audio, to compositing and outputting their final project. This is the eighth book in the new VASST Instant Series produced in cooperation with the Sundance Media Group.

By staying current, remaining relevant, and adapting to emerging course needs, Operating System Concepts by Abraham Silberschatz, Peter Baer Galvin and Greg Gagne has defined the operating systems course through nine editions. This second edition of the Essentials version is based on the recent ninth edition of the original text.

Operating System Concepts Essentials comprises a subset of chapters of the ninth edition for professors who want a shorter text and do not cover all the topics in the ninth edition.

The new second edition of Essentials will be available as an ebook at a very attractive price for students. The ebook will have live links for the bibliography, cross-references between sections and chapters where appropriate, and new chapter review questions. A two-color printed version is also available.

Der vorliegende Band des Kompendiums Medieninformatik beschaftigt sich mit der Medienpraxis. Er behandelt Aspekte der praktischen Informatik und ihre Anwendung in der Medientechnik wie die Entwicklung von Multimedia-Anwendungen, Grundlagen der Computergrafik sowie Theorie und Praxis von Mediendatenbanken. Hinzu kommen ausgewahlte Anwendungen der Medieninformatik: Mit Content-Related-Technologien konnen mediale Informationen in besonders effizienter Weise organisiert, strukturiert und an die richtigen Empfanger verteilt werden.

Zusammen mit dem Band "Mediennetze" beschreibt das Kompendium Medieninformatik die komplette Wertschopfungskette von digitalen Mediendaten: Erzeugung, Kodierung, Transport durch drahtgebundene oder drahtlose Netze bis hin zum Endnutzer."