This book focuses on practical algorithms that have been used to solve key problems in data mining and which can be used on even the largest datasets.

Advantages of storing data and using other software-as-a-service or cloud computing models to solve contemporary business and personal data storage problems.

A free, open textbook covering a two-quarter pre-calculus sequence including trigonometry.

This book presents, to a broad audience, mathematical tools and algorithms for signal representation. It comprehensively covers both classical Fourier techniques and newer basis constructions from filter banks and multiresolution analysis-wavelets.

This book covers the main ideas behind nonlinear partial differential equations (PDEs) methods for digital image enhancement and multiscale image representations.

This book traces the history of the artificial intelligence, from the early dreams of eighteenth-century (and earlier) pioneers to the more successful work of today's AI engineers. It has many diagrams and easy-to-understand descriptions of AI programs.

Provides a quick "heads up" to the most important issues when choosing and configuring hardware for use with SQL Server, by providing a series of specific tips or pieces of advice.

This book teaches the reader the skills necessary to build his/her own apps for the iPhone. It covers the basics as well as more advanced topics. New iOS 5 specific features are also covered.

A collection of over 250 PHP functions with clear explanations in language anyone can understand, followed with as many examples as it takes to understand what the function does and how it works.

Provides the knowledge you need to start building iPad apps.

In this book, the author builds, sharpens, and demonstrates tools for educated guessing and down-and-dirty, opportunistic problem solving across diverse fields of knowledge—from mathematics to management.

This book aims to introduce you to a powerful tool for analyzing and designing systems – whether electronic, mechanical, or thermal.

This book teaches the reader the skills necessary to build his/her own apps for the iPhone with Xcode development environment version 4.

To prepare for the next generation of electronic devices, this course teaches the theory of current, voltage and resistance from atoms up.

This book explores the history of private and public rights in scientific discoveries and applied engineering, leading to the development of worldwide patent systems.

This book is designed to be a textbook for graduate-level courses in approximation algorithms. It assumes familiarity with algorithms, mathematical proofs about the correctness of algorithms, probability theory and NP-completeness.

This book reviews modern computer networks with a particular focus on performance and quality of service.

This book takes a long hard look at both the current state of the software industry itself, and of current software development practices. It concentrates on worst practices or the factors that have so often led to failure of software projects.

This book provides an overview of the iPhone hardware and the architecture of iOS 4. An introduction to programming in Objective-C is provided followed by an in-depth look at the design of iPhone applications and user interfaces.

This book describes 45 algorithms from the field of Artificial Intelligence. All algorithm descriptions are complete and consistent to ensure that they are accessible, usable and understandable by a wide audience.