Blackie's Dictionary of Computer Science

Blackie's Dictionary of Computer Science
Author: Blackie
Publisher: S. Chand Publishing
Total Pages: 442
Release: 2013
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 8121941539

The book provides a wide coverage of entries across software. Hardware, firmware, operating systems, protocols, networking, data bases, graphics, security, artificial intelligence, programming logic, mathematics, game theory, software engineering and related areas of IT industry. The key features of the book are:

Blackie's Dictionary of Geography

Blackie's Dictionary of Geography
Author: Blackie
Publisher: S. Chand Publishing
Total Pages: 382
Release: 2000*
Genre: Reference
ISBN: 8121941237

The book covers entries from various branches of discipline of Geography – physical, human, modern, social and cultural geography. This book will be of interest to the readers from the discipline of geography, geology, sociology, economics, cultural-anthropology, political scientists and historians as well as for aspiring civil servants. The key features of the book are: 1) Extensive and ......

Data-Centric Safety

Data-Centric Safety
Author: Alastair Faulkner
Publisher: Elsevier
Total Pages: 542
Release: 2020-05-27
Genre: Technology & Engineering
ISBN: 0128233222

Data-Centric Safety presents core concepts and principles of system safety management, and then guides the reader through the application of these techniques and measures to Data-Centric Systems (DCS). The authors have compiled their decades of experience in industry and academia to provide guidance on the management of safety risk. Data Safety has become increasingly important as many solutions depend on data for their correct and safe operation and assurance. The book's content covers the definition and use of data. It recognises that data is frequently used as the basis of operational decisions and that DCS are often used to reduce user oversight. This data is often invisible, hidden. DCS analysis is based on a Data Safety Model (DSM). The DSM provides the basis for a toolkit leading to improvement recommendations. It also discusses operation and oversight of DCS and the organisations that use them. The content covers incident management, providing an outline for incident response. Incident investigation is explored to address evidence collection and management.Current standards do not adequately address how to manage data (and the errors it may contain) and this leads to incidents, possibly loss of life. The DSM toolset is based on Interface Agreements to create soft boundaries to help engineers facilitate proportionate analysis, rationalisation and management of data safety. Data-Centric Safety is ideal for engineers who are working in the field of data safety management.This book will help developers and safety engineers to: - Determine what data can be used in safety systems, and what it can be used for - Verify that the data being used is appropriate and has the right characteristics, illustrated through a set of application areas - Engineer their systems to ensure they are robust to data errors and failures

Urban Design and Representation

Urban Design and Representation
Author: Barbara E.A. Piga
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 218
Release: 2017-03-06
Genre: Science
ISBN: 3319518046

This book explores how environmental urban design can benefit from established and emerging representation and simulation techniques that meet the need for a multisensory approach. Bringing together contributions by researchers and practicing professionals that approach the topics discussed from both theoretical and practical perspectives and draw on case-study applications, it addresses important themes including digital modeling, physical modeling, mapping, and simulation. The chapters are linked by their relevance to simple but crucial questions: How can representational solutions enhance an urban design approach in which people’s well-being is considered the primary goal? How can one best represent and design the ambiance of places? What kinds of technologies and tools are available to support multisensory urban design? How can current and future environments be optimally represented and simulated, taking into account the way in which we experience places? Shedding new light on these key questions, the book offers both a reference guide for those engaged in applied research, and a toolkit for professionals and students.

Blackie's Dictionary of Quotations

Blackie's Dictionary of Quotations
Author: Blackie
Publisher: S. Chand Publishing
Total Pages: 326
Release:
Genre: Reference
ISBN: 8121941229

Contains a compilation of quotable quotes An ideal reference for one and all More than 4000 entries.

Blackie's Compact Dictionary

Blackie's Compact Dictionary
Author: Blackie
Publisher: S. Chand Publishing
Total Pages: 361
Release:
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 8121940907

Over 20,000 words, including the most common words. Definitions explanatory and presented in simple language. Sentences for almost all words to clearly understand the usage of the word. Parts of speech clearly mentioned

The Computer and Information Science and Technology Abbreviations and Acronyms Dictionary

The Computer and Information Science and Technology Abbreviations and Acronyms Dictionary
Author: David W. South
Publisher: CRC Press
Total Pages: 318
Release: 1994-05-06
Genre: Computers
ISBN: 9780849324444

Written for the professional and the layman, the book provides the meanings of important and interesting acronyms in the broad area of computing and information science and technology. The acronyms and abbreviations contained in this book were created by the men and women of the computer and information age to save time and space and eliminate unnecessary repetition and wordage. The book is of value to engineers, scientists, technologists, executives and managers in technical fields, programmers, systems analysts, writers, and computer owners or potential buyers.

In Concert

In Concert
Author: Philip Auslander
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
Total Pages: 305
Release: 2021-01-04
Genre: Music
ISBN: 0472128396

The conventional way of understanding what musicians do as performers is to treat them as producers of sound; some even argue that it is unnecessary to see musicians in performance as long as one can hear them. But musical performance, counters Philip Auslander, is also a social interaction between musicians and their audiences, appealing as much to the eye as to the ear. In Concert: Performing Musical Persona he addresses not only the visual means by which musicians engage their audiences through costume and physical gesture, but also spectacular aspects of performance such as light shows. Although musicians do not usually enact fictional characters on stage, they nevertheless present themselves to audiences in ways specific to the performance situation. Auslander’s term to denote the musician’s presence before the audience is musical persona. While presence of a musical persona may be most obvious within rock and pop music, the book’s analysis extends to classical music, jazz, blues, country, electronic music, laptop performance, and music made with experimental digital interfaces. The eclectic group of performers discussed include the Beatles, Miles Davis, Keith Urban, Lady Gaga, Nicki Minaj, Frank Zappa, B. B. King, Jefferson Airplane, Virgil Fox, Keith Jarrett, Glenn Gould, and Laurie Anderson.