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Gamers at work: stories behind the games people play
Ramsay M., Apress, Berkeley, CA, 2012. 356 pp. Type: Book (978-1-430233-51-0)
This book is a collection of 17 interviews with a variety of successful game company founders, from ’80s figures such as Nolan Bushnell of Atari and “Wild Bill” Stealey of MicroProse to current creators wh...
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Jul 11 2012 |
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Promoting the prosaic: the case for process-control computers
Aylen J. IEEE Annals of the History of Computing 32(3): 94-96, 2010. Type: Article
Aylen’s brief article is on the role of the Cold War in spurring military computer systems, which were then adapted and adopted by vendors and innovators to create new and powerful process-control computers....
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Dec 7 2010 |
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Nanofabrication, nanoinstrumentation and nanoassembly by nanorobotic manipulation
Fukuda T., Nakajima M., Liu P., ElShimy H. International Journal of Robotics Research 28(4): 537-547, 2009. Type: Article
Eric Drexler first described possible methods for creating nanometer scale devices in the mid-1980s [1]. Since then, various methods, including some not described by Drexler, have been attempted, with many of them finding success....
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Sep 2 2009 |
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Using the OPC standard for real-time process monitoring and control
Liu J., Lim K., Ho W., Tan K., Tay A., Srinivasan R. IEEE Software 22(6): 54-59, 2005. Type: Article
The industrial controls business is usually conservative; customers are reluctant to change software and hardware once their process is running smoothly. Software and hardware are only updated when they cannot be repaired or supported ...
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Apr 7 2006 |
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Embedded computing and Formula One racing
Waldo J. IEEE Pervasive Computing 4(3): 18-21, 2005. Type: Article
Formula One (F1) racing is a contest of seconds. A lot of time and money is spent to reduce those seconds. For the cars, that means measuring a large number of variables to determine where and how to make changes. This paper is an inte...
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Feb 15 2006 |
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Data structures and algorithms using Visual Basic.NET
McMillan M., Cambridge University Press, New York, NY, 2005. 412 pp. Type: Book (9780521547659)
Computer programs usually exist to manipulate large amounts of data. Visual Basic (VB) has added various data structures as it has evolved, to help with such manipulations. Visual Basic .NET (VB.NET) adds several new data structures, w...
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Nov 10 2005 |
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The cult of Mac
Kahney L., No Starch Press, San Francisco, CA, 2004. Type: Book (9781886411838)
This is a wonderful coffee table book, about Macintosh fanatics, for Macintosh owners and devotees. It’s full of tales and colorful pictures of the loving obsession and just plain oddness that exists in the Macintosh world. I...
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Feb 7 2005 |
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The digital hand: how computers changed the work of American manufacturing, transportation, and retail industries
Cortada J., Oxford University Press, 2003. Type: Book (9780195165883)
In 1776, Adam Smith published An inquiry into the nature and causes of the wealth of nations. In that seminal book on economics, he described the “invisible hand” of self-interest, guiding the economy of a na...
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Dec 28 2004 |
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The Visual Basic .NET programming language
Vick P., Pearson Higher Education, Upper Saddle River, NJ , 2004. 480 pp. Type: Book (9780321169518)
Many books on Visual Basic (VB) .NET tend to be a bit thick, covering many topics that may not be relevant, with long pieces of example code. This is not one of those books. The author has created a compact and tight book on the subjec...
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Jul 15 2004 |
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Monitoring of the change of the level of liquids and loose materials in reservoirs
Simeonov I. Computer systems and technologies (Proceedings of the 4th international conference conference, Rousse, Bulgaria, Jun 19-20, 2003) 48-53, 2003. Type: Proceedings
Level control is one of the basic variables measured when controlling a process (temperature, pressure, and flow being the others). There are a variety of methods for measuring the level in a tank, and this paper describes a technique ...
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