“…Featuring 24 interviews with new and established international designers, the collection covers everything from coats designed to protect digital privacy to high-performing jeans that combat air pollution to hi-vis cyclewear that responds to urban harassment. …”

“…In anticipation of the event, it unveils state-of-the-art information and research on the latest policies, traffic loading measurements, in-situ measurements and condition surveys, functional testing, deflection measurement evaluation, structural performance prediction for pavements and tracks, new construction and rehabilitation design systems, frost affected areas, drainage and environmental effects, reinforcement, traditional and recycled materials, full scale testing and on case histories of road, railways and airfields. …”

“…With research into a variety of geographic regions, chapters shed light on the various ways by which musicians' work is performed, constructed and managed at different times and show that musicians' working practices have been marked by precarity, insecurity and short-term contracts long before capitalism invited everybody to 'be creative'. …”

“…The two main reasons for performing redundant measurements are the wish to increase the accuracy of the results computed and the requirement to be able to check for errors. …”

“…Andrew Campana centers hybrid poetic forms in modern and contemporary Japan--many of which have never been examined in detail before--including the cinepoem, the tape recorder poem, the protest performance poem, the music video poem, the online sign language poem, and the augmented reality poem. …”

“…This workshop aims at researchers from both data management, computer architecture, and storage systems who are interested in optimizing database performance on modern computing infrastructure by designing new data management techniques and tools…”

“…This year's workshop continues its tradition of being the premier forum for presentation of research results and experience reports on leading edge issues of Quality of Experience (QoE) on any visual multimedia, including QoE assessment on VoD for movies, dramas, variety shows, User Generated Contents(UGC) on social networks, live streaming videos for gaming/shopping/social, etc; QoE assessment for different video formats in multimedia services, including 2D, stereoscopic 3D, High Dynamic Range (HDR), Augmented Reality (AR), Virtual Reality (VR), 360, Free-Viewpoint Video(FVV), etc, and Key performance indicators (KPI) analysis for QoE. The mission of the workshop is to share novel idea or solution that fulfill the users' new requirements on quality of experience on advanced multimedia technology, and identify new directions for future research and development. …”

“…Ten oral sessions on "Feature Extraction and Face Recognition", "Target Detection", "Intelligent Signal Analysis and Processing", "Target Tracking", "Pattern Recognition", "Computer Science and Information Technology", "Digital Image Analysis and Methods", "Cloud Computing and High-Performance Computing", "Image Processing Technology and Application", "Software and Information Engineering" were successfully held under the joint efforts of session chairs and all presenters. …”

“…WSDM publishes original, high-quality papers related to search and data mining on the Web and the Social Web, with an emphasis on practical yet principled novel models of search and data mining, algorithm design and analysis, economic implications, and in-depth experimental analysis of accuracy and performance. This year's conference hosts an exciting technical program, including invited talks, as well as refereed full papers. …”

“…ACM FPGA is the premiere forum for the presentation of new and exciting research on all aspects of FPGA technology, which include:Novel FPGA architectures and circuits.Advances in CAD tools for FPGAs, in areas such as technology mapping, placement, routing, and others.High-level design methodologies that permit FPGA design at higher levels of abstraction.New applications for FPGAs, particularly for energy efficient and high performance computation. While we will miss the usual in-person interactions and escape from winter cold in beautiful Monterey Bay, we have done our best to provide opportunities for direct connections. …”

“…Another example is medical robotic systems, which allow doctors to perform minimallyinvasive surgeries that were not possible before. …”

“…Results range from basic research in computer vision, machine learning, data mining, human robot interaction, and big data, to engineering applications in robotics, sensors, devices and software solutions that address physical, cognitive, and mental performance assessment and monitoring. The conference addresses the needs of both healthy individuals and persons with special needs, such as providing safe in-home care for the elderly, or persons with Dementia, Alzheimer's, Parkinson's, chronic arthritis, PTSD, low vision, autism, COPD, Traumatic Brain Injury, and other conditions…”

“…The ISSAC meeting is a showcase for original research contributions on all aspects of computer algebra and symbolic mathematical computation, including: Algorithmic aspects: •Exact and symbolic linear, polynomial and differential algebra •Symbolic-numeric, homotopy, perturbation and series methods •Computational algebraic geometry, group theory and number theory, quantifier elimination and logic •Computer arithmetic •Summation, recurrence equations, integration, solution of ODEs & PDEs •Symbolic methods in other areas of pure and applied mathematics •Complexity of algebraic algorithms and algebraic complexity Software aspects: •Design of symbolic computation packages and systems •Language design and type systems for symbolic computation •Data representation •Considerations for modern hardware •Algorithm implementation and performance tuning •Mathematical user interfaces •Use with systems for, e.g., digital libraries, course-ware, simulation and optimization, automated theoremproving, computer-aided design, and automatic differentiation Application aspects: •Applications that stretch the current limits of computer algebra algorithms or systems, use computer algebra in new areas or new ways, or apply it in situations with broad impact…”

“…Conventional Cloud infrastructures provide higher levels of reliability and performance than Edge resources to large groups of different users, also acting as a computing-power capacitor for the Edge of the network. …”

“…Using recent studies on rhetorical culture, Hartin illustrates how James takes Jesus ' sayings and performs them again in his own way to speak to the hearers/readers of his own world. …”

“…A procedure is described for using representative models for individual product components to estimate the expected overall level of variation in the performance of a final product. Three methods of tolerance analysis are presented and the merits of each are discussed: Worst Case Analysis, Root Sum of Squares Analysis, and Six Sigma Tolerance Analysis. …”

“…Refactoring has proven its value in a wide range of development projects—helping software professionals improve system designs, maintainability, extensibility, and performance. Now, for the first time, leading agile methodologist Scott Ambler and renowned consultant Pramodkumar Sadalage introduce powerful refactoring techniques specifically designed for database systems. …”

“…In this ebook, you will learn how to: Navigate the Edge interface to begin creating web-based animation Perform computer-based animation, particularly frame-by-frame animation and auto-generation Create simple objects and learn ways to animate them Use the Text tool to create live text elements within Edge Animate HTML pages And as Edge evolves, watch for new ebooks as Adobe releases new versions of the software with extended features and capabilities…”

“…Now, VMware’s leading storage expert thoroughly demystifies the “black box” of vSphere 6 storage and provides illustrated, step-by-step procedures for performing every key task associated with it. Mostafa Khalil presents techniques based on years of personal experience helping customers troubleshoot storage in their vSphere production environments. …”

“…In addition to the book’s check lists of what activities need to be performed, the author offers suggestions on how tasks could be carried out. …”