springer london jul 2003 (6 results)

Taschenbuch. Condition: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -Robert Strom and Anne Sprague present, for the first time, a brand new treatment of the study and exploration of Mercury through the Mariner and then Messenger missions that will stir the imagination of readers and break new ground in the scientific frontier of our understanding of the planet.Provides the most up-to-date and comprehensive discussion of MercuryCovers all aspects of the planet's exploration by the Mariner 10 and future missions, including MessengerThe planned, accompanying CD ROM will contain all of the best individual Mariner 10 images, the data for each image, photomosaics, maps, some MESSENGER graphics, and public domain software for the PC and Mac. 264 pp. Englisch.

Buch. Condition: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -Alias|Wavefront's Maya 3D animation software is an integrated collection of tools for creating computer generated images, used in nearly every blockbuster special effects film that has been released in the last few years. The first choice for digital content creators, Maya combines animation, dynamics, modelling and rendering tools, enabling you to create digital characters and visual effects for live action films or stand-alone animation. 340 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condition: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -Russian spacesuits is a unique contribution to space science. The authors, part of the original Zveda team that manufactured spacesuits for the first Russian space flights, still play an integral role in spacesuit research and development. Thus there is no-one better to describe the technical innovations of the past 40 years, which enabled Gagarin's first flight in 1961, the first space walk in 1965 and the Mir missions of the 1980s and 1990s, and which have culminated in today's International space Station. The authors also describe how the political climate within the Soviet Union and internationally has affected the development of the space programme and their work. Many documents are published for the first time that, together with photographs, detailed descriptions of the events of the time and the authors' personal memories, provide a fascinating review of a previously unknown aspect of space science 404 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condition: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -Mobile Robotics: A Practical Introduction (2nd edition) is an excellentintroduction to the foundations and methods used for designing completelyautonomous mobile robots.A fascinating, cutting-edge, research topic, autonomous mobile robotics isnow taught in more and more universities. In this book you are introducedto the fundamental concepts of this complex field via twelve detailed casestudies that show how to build and program real working robots.Topics covered in clued learning, autonomous navigation in unmodified,noisy and unpredictable environments, and high fidelity robot simulation.This new edition has been updated to include a new chapter on noveltydetection, and provides a very practical introduction to mobile roboticsfor a general scientific audience. It is essential reading for 2nd and3rd year undergraduate students and postgraduate students studyingrobotics, artificial intelligence, cognitive science and robotengineering. The update and overview of core concepts in mobile roboticswill assist and encourage practitioners of the field and set challenges toexplore new avenues of research in this exiting field.The author is Senior Lecturer at the Department of Computer Science at theUniversity of Essex.'A very fine overview over the relevant problems to be solved in theattempt to bring intelligence to a moving vehicle.'Professor Dr. Ewald von Puttkamer, University of Kaiserslautern'Case studies show ways of achieving an impressive repertoire of kinds oflearned behaviour, navigation and map-building. The book is an admirableintroduction to this modern approach to mobile robotics and certainlygives a great deal of food for thought. This is an important andthough-provoking book.'Alex M. Andrew in Kybernetes Vol 29 No 4 and Robotica Vol 18 300 pp. Englisch.

Buch. Condition: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -More and more, the shape of the IT organization is critical to business systems delivery, yet all too often this definition is approached in a haphazard fashion - often based on old theory and out-dated experiences rather than being moulded to the realities of the world in which we work. Shaping the IT Organization considers how one should go about the moulding of an IT function in order to ensure effective output from the resources within that organization. It focuses on understanding precisely the elements and challenges within such a definition. Key topics covered: What is an organization : Issues and key considerations for IT from an organizational perspective, including the idea of the 'organization lifecycle' and the very real impact this can have within the IT environment.Why change : The impact of generic business approaches demanded by current business models and pressures.Solutions vs Products: The IT organizational impact of moving from a product-based to a solutions-based business model.Outsourcing: The increasing trend to place critical elements of IT's delivery capability outside the core business means that IT functions are often poorly aligned to both manage these relationships and rise to the challenges that outsourcing offers.Resource Management: Fundamental questions about people and the need to adapt resource management approaches to take a radical approach to how we both manage and empower the people within those models in order to deliver what is required. 224 pp. Englisch.

Buch. Condition: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -Mankind has a fascination with measurement. Down the centuries we have produced a plethora of incompatible and duplicatory systems for measuring everything from the width of an Egyptian pyramid to the concentration of radioactivity near a nuclear reactor and the value of the fine structure constant. With the introduction first of the metric system and of its successor the Système International d'Unités (SI), the scientific community has established a standard method of measurement based on only seven core units.The Encyclopaedia of Scientific Units, Weights and Measures converts the huge variety of units from all over the world in every period of recorded history into units of the SI. Featuring: - An A - Z of conversion tables for over 10,000 units of measurements.- Tables of the fundamental constants of nature with their units.- Listings of professional societies, and national standardization bodies for easy reference. -An extensive bibliography detailing further reading on the multifarious aspects of measurement and its units. This huge work is simply a 'must have' for any reference library frequented by scientists of any discipline or by those with historical interests in units of measurement such as archaeologists. 872 pp. Englisch.