I was pleasantly surprised when in November 2005 a message arrived from Wayne
Wheeler, the new computer science editor of Springer Verlag, notifying me that he in
tends to qualify this book as a Springer major reference work (MRW), thereby releasing
past restrictions on page counts, freeing me from ...
A few years ago I became interested in first person shooter games and in particular how the world levels are created and rendered in real time. At the same time I found myself in between jobs and so I embarked on an effort to learn about 3D rendering with the goal of creating my own 3D rendering en ...
If you are a C++ programmer who desires a fuller understanding of what is going on "under the hood," then Inside the C++ Object Model is for you!
Inside the C++ Object Model focuses on the underlying mechanisms that support object-oriented programming within C++: constructor semantics, temporary ge ...
A decade ago, I first wrote that people moved, and networks needed to adapt to the
reality that people worked on the go. Of course, in those days, wireless LANs came
with a trade-off. Yes, you could use them while moving, but you had to trade a great
deal of throughput to get the mobility. Although ...
One of the very first books published on the social impact of the mobile phone
was Timo Kopomaa’s The City in Your Pocket: Birth of the Mobile Information Society.
The book, published in 2000, was based on research that Kopomaa had under-
taken for Nokia and Sonera as part of his doctoral studies i ...
The field of cyber security, or information security, or information
assurance, depending on your preference, is an interdisciplinary one.
It is part computer science, part statistics, part psychology, part law,
and a part of many other fields. Moreover, any cyber security practi-
tioner needs to kn ...
It all started rather innocuously. I walked into Dr GT Murthy’s office one fine day, andchanged my life. “Doc” was then the General Manager, Central R&D, of a very largeelectrical company headquartered in Bombay. In his new state-of-the-art electronics center,he had hand-picked some of India’s b ...
