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Different multi-media techniques demonstrate aspects of surface formation. Beginning with plate tectonics, numerous photos document the individual landscapes and their origin. Using selected typical landscapes, an animated model illustrates how the changes take place. Includes a built-in navigator, online help, glossary and more than 100 examples from all over the world.

"After introducing the basics of educational planning, the design process, and the benefits of designing and using multimedia, this book offers the practical knowledge you need to create powerful educational resources." "The possibilities are endless. Anyone with basic PowerPoint skills can use this book to create powerful educational material for themselves, their colleagues, their students, or their own children."--Jacket.

Presentation designer and internationally acclaimed communications expert Garr Reynolds, creator of the most popular Web site on presentation design and delivery on the net --presentationzen.com -- shares his experience in a provocative mix of illumination, inspiration, education, and guidance that will change the way you think about making presentations with PowerPoint or Keynote. Presentation Zen challenges the conventional wisdom of making "slide...

This book provides an introduction to the software process improvement field. It details the steps to setting up a CMMI (Capability Maturity Model Integration) improvement initiative; implementing the various CMMI process areas and maturity levels; and conducting appraisals.

"This book examines how use of open source software (OSS) is affecting society, business, government, education, and law, including an overview of the culture from which OSS emerged and the process though which OSS is created and modified. Readers will gain an understanding of the complexities and the nuances related to OSS adoption and the range of its applications"--Provided by publisher.

Be it chess or Go, artificial intelligence has swept aside human grandmasters. Now, this human-surpassing AI technology is leaping from the game console into the real world. A taxi company in Japan has boosted passenger numbers by 20% by introducing an AI system that anticipates peak demand and dispatches cars accordingly. In the US, AI is used in courtrooms to calculate the risk of recidivism and help determine prison terms. This new technology is...

"The Art of Agent-Oriented Modeling is an introduction to agent-oriented software development for students and for software developers who are interested in learning about new software engineering techniques."--Foreword.

"This book covers all you need to know to model and design software applications from use cases to software architectures in UML and shows how to apply the COMET UML-based modeling and design method to real-world problems. The author describes architectural patterns for various architectures, such as broker, discovery, and transaction patterns for service-oriented architectures, and addresses software quality attributes including maintainability,...

In this lively series of essays, Tom Dean explores interesting fundamental topics in computer science with the aim of showing how computers and computer programs work and how the various subfields of computer science are connected. Along the way, he conveys his fascination with computers and enthusiasm for working in a field that has changed almost every aspect of our daily lives. The essays touch on a wide range of topics, from digital logic and...