The enormous popularity of the Nintendo Wii, Guitar Hero, and smaller games like Bejeweled or Zuma has turned the stereotype of the obsessed young male gamer on its head. Players of these casual games are not required to possess an intimate knowledge of video game history or to devote weeks or months to play. At the same time, many players of casual games show a dedication and skill that is anything but casual. In A Casual Revolution, Jesper Juul describes this as a reinvention of video games, and of our image of video game players, and explores what this tells us about the players, the games, and their interaction. With this reinvention of video games, the game industry reconnects with a general audience. Many of today's casual game players once enjoyed Pac-Man, Tetris, and other early games, only to drop out when video games became...]]>
High Performance Heterogeneous Computing
door Jack Dongarra Alexey L. Lastovetsky

An analytical overview of the state of the art, open problems, and future trends in heterogeneous parallel and distributed computing This book provides an overview of the ongoing academic research, development, and uses of heterogeneous parallel and distributed computing in the context of scientific computing. Presenting the state of the art in this challenging and rapidly evolving area, the book is organized in five distinct parts: * Heterogeneous Platforms: Taxonomy, Typical Uses, and Programming Issues * Performance Models of Heterogeneous Platforms and Design of'Heterogeneous Algorithms * Performance: Implementation and Software * Applications * Future Trends High Performance Heterogeneous Computing is a valuable'reference for researchers and practitioners in the area of high performance heterogeneous computing. It also serves as...]]>
After Effects Apprentice
door Chris Meyer Trish Meyer

New to the 2nd edition are as mentioned below. It includes all instructions, screen shots, Guided Tour video training movies, and project files updated for After Effects CS4. CS3 and CS4 features have been integrated throughout, including the pervasive use of Shape layers, Layer Styles, and Brainstorm. This title features more integration with other Adobe applications, including using After Effects with Illustrator, Photoshop (including new Vanishing Point and 3d Layer exercises) and Flash CS4. It contains redesigned first and last lessons, including an all-new final project that walks through the creation of a widescreen broadcast TV promo. It features free bonus chapters on the DVD from other books on Photoshop, Cinema 4D, Flash, and broadcast design. If you're new to After Effects and want to get up to speed quickly, "After Effects...]]>
Art of Game Design - A Book of Lenses
door Jesse Schell

Anyone can master the fundamentals of game design - no technological expertise is necessary. "The Art of Game Design: A Book of Lenses" shows that the same basic principles of psychology that work for board games, card games and athletic games also are the keys to making top-quality videogames. Good game design happens when you view your game from many different perspectives, or lenses. While touring through the unusual territory that is game design, this book gives the reader one hundred of these lenses - one hundred sets of insightful questions to ask yourself that will help make your game better. These lenses are gathered from fields as diverse as psychology, architecture, music, visual design, film, software engineering, theme park design, mathematics, writing, puzzle design, and anthropology. Anyone who reads this book will be...]]>
Adobe Photoshop CS4 for Photographers: The Ultimate Workshop
door Martin Evening Jeff Schewe

Professional commercial photographer and digital imager Jeff Schewe (based in Chicago, USA) has teamed up with best-selling "Photoshop" author Martin Evening to create this goldmine of information for advanced Photoshop users. Building on Martin Evening's successful "Adobe Photoshop for Photographers" series of titles, this new guide takes the same winning approach and applies it to a professional Photoshop workflow. Highly visual, with clear, step-by-step tutorials, this advanced guide will really appeal to those who want to see how the experts approach Photoshop, producing consistent top-quality results on time and to budget. The authors describe in detail how to carry out some of their favorite Photoshop image editing and retouching techniques using examples taken from real-life professional shoots. The techniques described here...]]>
Computer Organization and Design - The Hardware/software Interface
door David A. Patterson John L. Hennessy

The classic textbook for computer systems analysis and design, "Computer Organization and Design", has been thoroughly updated to provide a new focus on the revolutionary change taking place in industry today: the switch from uniprocessor to multicore microprocessors. This new emphasis on parallelism is supported by updates reflecting the newest technologies with examples highlighting the latest processor designs, benchmarking standards, languages and tools. As with previous editions, a MIPS processor is the core used to present the fundamentals of hardware technologies, assembly language, computer arithmetic, pipelining, memory hierarchies and I/O. Along with its increased coverage of parallelism, this new edition offers new content on Flash memory and virtual machines as well as a new and important appendix written by industry...]]>
Informatiebeveiliging in de zorg
door Wel, J. van der

De Inspectie voor de Gezondheidszorg heeft in het verleden geconstateerd dat ziekenhuizen onvoldoende aandacht schenken aan de risico's die de toepassing van ICT met zich meebrengt. De auteur noemt als een van de hoofdoorzaken hiervan dat informatiebeveiliging nog te veel een zaak is van specialisten die te weinig aandacht hebben voor het geheel. Ook houden vrijwel uitsluitend hoofden informatievoorziening zich bezig met die beveiliging en kunnen ze onvoldoende het lijnmanagement en de directies erbij betrekken. Zorgvuldig handelen en de geheimhoudingsbelofte van medici volstaan bovendien niet meer om te voorkomen dat medische fouten optreden.

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Dit boek gaat over het voordeel van beveiliging indien betrokkenen het nut en de noodzaak ervan inzien en beveiliging niet als een hindernis ervaren. Met...]]>
Googlepedia
door Miller, M.

Of het nu om een persoonlijke website gaat of om die van uw bedrijf, het is erg belangrijk dat deze zichtbaar is in de zoekresultaten van Google. En dan wilt u ook nog dat de site zo hoog mogelijk in de resultaten terechtkomt. Gebruikmaken van Google is een van de meest effectieve manieren om uw online bekendheid te vergroten. In Googlepedia: Maak je website vindbaar wordt stap voor stap uitgelegd hoe je dat doet. U leest wat u wel en wat u beter niet kunt doen om de ranking bij Google te verbeteren. Dit boek gaat echter nog een paar stappen verder. Google biedt namelijk veel meer handige hulpmiddelen die bovendien gratis zijn. Zo leest u hoe u het verkeer op uw website kunt analyseren met behulp van Webmaster Tools en Google Analytics. Met de resultaten van die analyse kunt u uw website weer verder optimaliseren. En als u...]]>
Klantgerichte websites

Steeds meer bedrijven en organisaties zijn te vinden op het internet. Een verstandige zet, want een groot aantal mensen raadpleegt internet als belangrijke bron van informatie. Op het internet vindt u uw potentiële klanten: of u nu wilt verkopen, meer leden wilt werven voor uw sportclub of uw bestaande klanten goed wilt informeren.

De hedendaagse websitebezoeker is veeleisend:
- hij wil uw website gemakkelijk kunnen vinden
- hij wil niet te lang wachten voordat uw site verschijnt
- hij wil snel de gewenste informatie vinden
- hij wil alles goede kunnen lezen en bekijken
- hij wil een snelle reactie op vragen of bestellingen

Technisch is het steeds eenvoudiger om een website te maken. Geavanceerde softwarepakketten met heldere instructieboeken zorgen ervoor...]]>