The Home Computer Companion


Book Description

A compilation of information on home computing topics, including a software buying guide, The Home Computer Companion is broken into three main parts. The first is a short introduction to buying and setting up a home computer. The second part covers topics relating to home computing, from ergonomics to kids and computer.




Astronomer's Computer Companion


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This guide to using computer technology for space exploration opens exciting new worlds to home computer users. The CD-ROM includes software demos, shareware, images and a list of links to resources mentioned in the book.




The Gardener's Computer Companion


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Experienced horticulturist and computer instructor Bob Boufford demonstrates how popular software programs can help keep garden journals, maintain planting calendars, organize seed company addresses, and chart plant growth and performance. He also covers the hot new area of landscape design by computer.




The Needlecrafter's Computer Companion


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"The Needlecrafter's Computer Companion" shows readers hundreds of ways to use an ordinary home computer to create needlework designs as innovative as their imaginations or as traditional as the ones in Grandma's hope chest. Interviews with computer-savvy stitchers give the book a personal feel and make it more accessible to the novice.




The Probability Companion for Engineering and Computer Science


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Using examples and building intuition, this friendly guide helps readers understand and use probabilistic tools from basic to sophisticated.




Inside Computer Music


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Inside Computer Music is an investigation of how new technological developments have influenced the creative possibilities of composers of computer music in the last 50 years. This book combines detailed research into the development of computer music techniques with thorough studies of ninecase studies analysing key works in the musical and technical development of computer music. The text is linked to demonstration videos of the techniques used and software which offers readers the opportunity to try out emulations of the software used by the composers for themselves and view videointerviews with the composers and others involved in the production of the musical works. The software also presents musical analyses of each of the nine case studies using software and video alongside text to enable readers to engage with the musical structure aurally and interactively.




The Complexity Theory Companion


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Here is an accessible, algorithmically oriented guide to some of the most interesting techniques of complexity theory. The book shows that simple algorithms are at the heart of complexity theory. The book is organized by technique rather than by topic. Each chapter focuses on one technique: what it is, and what results and applications it yields.




The Genealogist's Computer Companion


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Explains how to use the computer, the Internet, and genealogical software to trace one's family history.




Companion Technology


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Future technical systems will be companion systems, competent assistants that provide their functionality in a completely individualized way, adapting to a user’s capabilities, preferences, requirements, and current needs, and taking into account both the emotional state and the situation of the individual user. This book presents the enabling technology for such systems. It introduces a variety of methods and techniques to implement an individualized, adaptive, flexible, and robust behavior for technical systems by means of cognitive processes, including perception, cognition, interaction, planning, and reasoning. The technological developments are complemented by empirical studies from psychological and neurobiological perspectives.




Companion to the Papers of Donald Knuth


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Donald E. Knuth's seminal publications, such as Selected Papers on Fun and Games and Selected Paper on the Design of Algorithms, have earned him a loyal following among scholars and computer scientists, and his award-winning textbooks have becomes classics that are often given credit for shaping the field. In this volume, he explains and comments on the changes he has made to his work over the last twenty years in response to new technologies and the evolving understanding of key concepts in computer science. His commentary is supplemented by a full bibliography of his works and a number of interviews with Knuth himself, which shed light on his professional life and publications, as well as provide interesting biographical details. A giant in the field of computer science, Knuth has assembled materials that offer a full portrait of both the scientist and the man. The final volume of a series of his collected papers, Companion to the Papers of Donald Knuth is essential for the Knuth completist.