XNA 2.0 Game Programming Recipes: A Problem-Solution Approach

XNA 2.0 Game Programming Recipes: A Problem-Solution ApproachPublisher: Apress
Language: English
ISBN: 159059925X
Paperback: 648 pages
Data: Jul 2008
Format: PDF
Description: Join the game development revolution today! XNA greatly simplifies the development of your own games, lowering the barrier for programmers to get into game development. In XNA, you can start coding your games from the very start, a true revelation compared to other game programming environments. XNA doesn’t sacrifice power for this ease of use - it is built entirely on DirectX technology.

XNA expert Riemer Grootjans brings together a selection of the hottest recipes in XNA programming for the Windows PC and Xbox360 console. Advanced XNA programmers, experienced coders new to games development, and even complete beginners will find XNA 2.0 Game Programming Recipes an invaluable companion when building games for fun or as commercial products.
What you’ll learn

XNA 2.0 Game Programming Recipes covers virtually every feature of the XNA 2.0 framework. It focuses primarily on 2D and 3D graphics programming, but other game programming features such as Audio playback and Networking are also discussed in detail.

These are some of the topics that are being covered in-depth:

* How to create 2D graphics
* 3D rendering techniques at various levels of difficulty
* Loading, rendering and animating 3D Models
* To read input devices: Keyboard, Mouse, Xbox360 Controller
* Use Audio to spice up your game
* Add Networking to your game to challenge your friends
* Learn about the architectural XNA features, such as GameComponents
* The Content pipeline: one of the 3 major components in XNA Game Development
* A whole list of HLSL techniques!


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Data Mining and Applications in GenomicsPublisher

Data Mining and Applications in GenomicsPublisher: Springer
Language: English
ISBN: 1402089740
Paperback: 164 pages
Data: Oct 2008
Format: PDF
Description: Data Mining and Applications in Genomics contains the data mining algorithms and their applications in genomics, with frontier case studies based on the recent and current works at the University of Hong Kong and the Oxford University Computing Laboratory, University of Oxford. It provides a systematic introduction to the use of data mining algorithms as an investigative tool for applications in genomics. Data Mining and Applications in Genomics offers state of the art of tremendous advances in data mining algorithms and applications in genomics and also serves as an excellent reference work for researchers and graduate students working on data mining algorithms and applications in genomics.


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Swarm Intelligence: Introduction and ApplicationsPublisher

Swarm Intelligence: Introduction and ApplicationsPublisher: Springer
Language: English
ISBN: 3540740880
Paperback: 286 pages
Data: Oct 2008
Format: PDF
Description: The laws that govern the collective behavior of social insects, flocks of birds, or fish schools continue to mesmerize researchers. While individuals are rather unsophisticated, in cooperation they can solve complex tasks, a prime example being the ability of ant colonies to find shortest paths between their nests and food sources. Task-solving results from self-organization, which often evolves from simple means of communication, either directly or indirectly via changing the environment, the latter referred to as stigmergy. Scientists have applied these principles in new approaches, for example to optimization and the control of robots. Characteristics of the resulting systems include robustness and flexibility. This field of research is now referred to as swarm intelligence.

The contributing authors are among the top researchers in their domain. The book is intended to provide an overview of swarm intelligence to novices, and to offer researchers in the field an update on interesting recent developments. Introductory chapters deal with the biological foundations, optimization, swarm robotics, and applications in new-generation telecommunication networks, while the second part contains chapters on more specific topics of swarm intelligence research such as the evolution of robot behavior, the use of particle swarms for dynamic optimization, and organic computing.


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Introduction to Video Search EnginesPublisher

Introduction to Video Search EnginesPublisher: Springer
Language: English
ISBN: 3540793364
Paperback: 276 pages
Data: Oct 2008
Format: PDF
Description: Video search engines enable users to take advantage of constantly growing video resources like, for example, video on demand, Internet television and YouTube, for a wide variety of applications including entertainment, education and communications.

David Gibbon and Zhu Liu describe the current state of video search engine technology and inform us about opportunities to contribute to the development of this field. Their book has a practical emphasis with the goal of bringing readers up to date on the state of the art in multimedia search technologies and systems. It explains the overall process of video content acquisition, indexing and retrieval with browsing, it provides overviews of constituent technologies such as information retrieval, Internet video systems, video and multimedia processing to extract index data, and it gives examples of research prototypes and existing commercial systems and describes their features. In parallel with the functional discussion, a historical perspective is provided, including many references to academic and industrial sources. Background information on digital media encoding and streaming standards, and information retrieval is also offered, making the book self-contained.

“Introduction to Video Search Engines” is intended for professionals and senior undergraduates or first-year graduate students in computer science or computer engineering, specializing in computer vision or multimedia systems. As multimedia search spans multiple disciplines, it is also valuable as a state-of-the-art reference for researchers and developers working in constituent technologies such as speech processing or information retrieval who seek to broaden their knowledge beyond their current areas of expertise.


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Multidisciplinary PerspectivesPublisher: Springer

Web Search: Multidisciplinary PerspectivesPublisher: Springer
Language: English
ISBN: 3540758283
Paperback: 352 pages
Data: Mar 2008
Format: PDF
Description: Web search engines have emerged as one of the dominant technologies of modern life, leaving few aspects of our everyday activities untouched. Search engines are not just indispensable tools for finding and accessing information online, but have become a defining component of the human condition and can be conceptualized as a complex behavior embedded within an individual’s everyday social, cultural, political, and information-seeking activities.

This book investigates Web search from the non-technical perspective, bringing together chapters that represent a range of multidisciplinary theories, models, and ideas about Web searching. They examine the various roles and impacts of Web searching on the social, cultural, political, legal, and informational spheres of our lives, such as the impact on individuals, social groups, modern and postmodern ways of knowing, and public and private life. By critically examining the issues, theories, and formations arising from, and surrounding, Web searching, Web Search: Multidisciplinary Perspectives represents an important contribution to the emerging multidisciplinary body of research on Web search engines.

The new ideas and novel perspectives on Web searching gathered in this volume will prove valuable for research and curricula in the fields of social sciences, communication studies, cultural studies, information science, and related disciplines.

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First of all I would like to inform why there was a gap in the posting. I got married on Sep 11th, so was bit busy with my marriage work, honey moon, etc. Now, I'm back with a new energy to post things in my blog. Hope my blog is informative & keep you coming again for latest postings. Feel free to post your comments so that I can come up with better postings.

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