Product Description: This book is a comprehensive "how to guide" for virtual archaeology, describing the fundamental principles, techniques, and algorithms of the field. The book begins with an overview of the most commonly used techniques, methods, and algorithms available for documenting, studying, and recreating historical sites...read more

Product Description: Drawing on the results of his own scholarly research as well as that of others the author offers, for the first time, a comprehensive and documented history of theories of the atom from Democritus to the twentieth century. This is not history for its own sake...read more

Product Description: This collection contains the research presented at VAST 2007, the 8th International Symposium on Virtual Reality, Archaeology and Cultural Heritage, which will take place November 27-29, in Brighton, UK. Topics include those that advance the state of the art either in potential computing science solutions, which are directly inspired by needs of the cultural heritage sector, or use the best of current computing science solutions in novel applications to cultural heritage challenges...read more

Product Description: Meeting the growing demands for speed and quality in rendering computer graphics images requires new techniques. Practical parallel rendering provides one of the most practical solutions. This book addresses the basic issues of rendering within a parallel or distributed computing environment, and considers the strengths and weaknesses of multiprocessor machines and networked render farms for graphics rendering...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Contributors from The Netherlands, Denmark, Norway, the US, and the UK have contributed 22 papers (first presented at a meeting held in September 2001 at the U. of Bristol, UK, where all three editors teach computer science) on concurrency in computer communication design...read more

Product Description: Reviews of the previous edition: ??i??In this academic bestseller - indeed, one of the most widely read books ever written in the history and philosophy of science - Alan Chalmers provides a refreshingly lucid introduction ...Drawing on illuminating historical examples, he asks and answers some of the most fundamental questions about the nature of science and its methods??i??i??' - Ronald L...read more

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