Intelligent agents for mobile and virtual media

As the Internet and the WWW impact on corporate and private activities, the human-computer interface is becoming a central issue for the designers of these systems. Such interfaces will decide the success or failure of future technologies, which will have...

 Advanced Server Virtualization VMware and Microsoft Platforms in the Virtual Data Center

Presenting practical guidelines and examples, Advanced Server Virtualization emphasizes design, implementation, and management from both a technical and consultative point of view. It features step-by-step guidelines for planning, deployment, installing, ...

  Building Interactive Worlds in 3D Virtual Sets and Pre-Visualization for Games, Film and the Web

Create functional and artistic virtual worlds! Virtual sets are redefining the way film directors, dancers, scientists, medical researchers, architects, TV producers and web designers develop simulations in relationship to a real world situation. ...

 Virtual Reality and the Built Environment

This is the first text to focus on virtual reality applications for design of the built environment. This guide explores the use of virtual reality at the practical level. It provides an overview of industrial applications of virtual reality and explores ...

 Virtualization with Microsoft Virtual Server 2005 Free Your Infrastructure from Physical Limitations

Free Your Infrastructure from Physical Limitations Microsoft Virtual Server 2005 is a versatile application that has multiple practical applications in your IT environment. Virtual Server can meet your needs whether you need to implement a test, prod...

 Spatial Augmented Reality Merging Real and Virtual Worlds

Like virtual reality, augmented reality is becoming an emerging platform in new application areas for museums, edutainment, home entertainment, research, industry, and the art communities using novel approaches which have taken augmented reality beyond tr...

 Scripting VMware Power Tools Automating Virtual Infrastructure Administration

Scripting VMware Power Tools shows readers scripting techniques using both ESX and Linux commands to automate administrative tasks of ESX Server. It covers VMware ESX Server native tools and discusses in detail the different scripting APIs and how they ca...

  An Introduction to Programming Using Alice

An Introduction to Programming Using Alice provides the novice programmer with a highly motivating view of object-oriented programming. Alice is an easy-to-use system for programming objects in a three-dimensional virtual world, much like a video game. Th...

 Information Visualization Beyond the Horizon

Information visualization is not only about creating graphical displays of complex and latent information structures; it contributes to a broader range of cognitive, social, and collaborative activities. This is the first book to examine information visua...

 Information Visualization Beyond the Horizon

Information visualization is not only about creating graphical displays of complex and latent information structures; it contributes to a broader range of cognitive, social, and collaborative activities. This is the first book to examine information visua...

 The HP Virtual Server Environment Making the Adaptive Enterprise Vision a Reality in Your Datacenter

Use HP virtualization to maximize IT service quality, agility, and value Includes coverage of HP's new Integrity Virtual Machines, Global Workload Manager, Virtualization Manager, and Capacity Advisor Plan, implement, and manage virtualization to dr...

  The VMware Workstation 5 Handbook

Bring the Power of Virtualization Software to Your Next Project! VMware is the leading virtual machine software available today and it is the foundation for next generation computing as it allows users to run multiple operating systems simultaneously...

 Virtual Machines

This book offers a unique insight into the building of virtual machines for sequential, object-oriented and parallel languages, and uses comparisons of different VMs to provide actual, practical examples. State transitions are used as a formal techniqu...

 Virtualization with VMware ESX Server Free Your Infrastructure from Physical Limitations

IT groups are seeking strategies to deliver more reliable, adaptable, and scalable infrastructure solutions at a predictable cost. Virtualization brings us one step closer to utility computing as more of our enterprise clients view themselves as utilities...

 The Virtual Handshake Opening Doors and Closing Deals Online

Powerful networking tools that drive rapid, sustainable growth. Online social networks such as LinkedIn, blogs, and Meetup have enjoyed phenomenal growth in the past year. They are among many new social software tools in an arsenal that also includ...

 Virtual Machines

Virtual Machine technology applies the concept of virtualization to an entire machine, circumventing real machine compatibility constraints and hardware resource constraints to enable a higher degree of software portability and flexibility. Virtual machin...

 Bodies in Technology

New technologies suggest new ideas about embodiment: our "reach" extends to global sites through the Internet; we enter cyberspace through the engines of virtual reality. In this book, a leading philosopher of technology explores the meaning of bodies in ...

 Handbook of Virtual Humans

Virtual Humans simulations are becoming increasingly popular and many systems are now available to animate Virtual Humans. Such systems encompass several different domains including autonomous agents in virtual environments, human factors analysis, traini...

 Virtual Private Networks

This book explains how to plan and build a Virtual Private Network (VPN), a collection of technologies that creates secure connections or "tunnels" over regular Internet lines. It discusses costs, configuration, and how to install and use VPN technologies...

 Understanding Virtual Reality Interface, Application and Design

Understanding Virtual Reality arrives at a time when the technologies behind virtual reality have advanced to the point that it is possible to develop and deploy meaningful, productive virtual reality applications. The aim of this thorough, accessible exp...

 Uncanny Networks Dialogues with the Virtual Intelligentsia

For Geert Lovink, interviews are imaginative texts that can help to create global, networked discourses not only among different professions but also among different cultures and social groups. Conducting interviews online, over a period of weeks or month...

  Virtual reality technologies for future telecommunications systems

In a face-to-face conversation, only 10 % of the message is conveyed by words, the remaining 90 % is carried via vocal pitch, emphasis, facial expressions, body language, and other related factors. The challenge for future telecommunication systems will b...

 Building Linux Virtual Private Networks (VPNs)

Building Linux Virtual Private Networks provides detailed descriptions, analysis, and setup for VPN tunneling solutions. Specifically, each of the following most popular VPN solutions are covered: PPTP, IPSec, L2TP, Free S/Wan, and SSH1. In addition, ther...

 Introduction to virtual reality

During the last decade the word virtual became one of the most exposed words in the English language. Today we have virtual universities, virtual offices, virtual pets, virtual actors, virtual museums, virtual doctors - and all because of virtual reality....

  CCNA Virtual Lab, platinum edition

Get Hands-on Experience, Sharpen Your Skills, and Advance Your Career with the CCNA Virtual Lab Platinum Edition If you're serious about passing the CCNA exam (640-801), you need hands-on experience with routers and switches. The CCNA Virtual Lab Platinu...

 Apache cookbook

Apache is far and away the most widely used web server platform in the world. Both free and rock-solid, it runs more than half of the world's web sites, ranging from huge e-commerce operations to corporate intranets and smaller hobby sites, and it continu...

 Virtual Applications Applications with Virtual Inhabited 3D Worlds

Virtual Applications: Applications with Virtual Inhabited 3D Worlds deals with the use of virtual inhabited 3D spaces in different domains of society. (Other volumes deal with interaction, production methodology and space.) From focusing on virtual rea...

 Uncanny networks Dialogues with the virtual intelligentsia

For Geert Lovink, interviews are imaginative texts that can help to create global, networked discourses not only among different professions but also among different cultures and social groups. Conducting interviews online, over a period of weeks or month...

 Virtual private networking

A guide to delivering secure remote access to private enterprise networks. Using the public communications infrastructure to connect remote users to an organization's network is a cost-effective and efficient way to provide communication and collaborat...

  Virtual Reality Technology

A groundbreaking Virtual Reality textbook is now even better Virtual reality is a very powerful and compelling computer application by which humans interact with computer-generated environments in a way that mimics real life and engages various senses. Al...

  Programming for the Java virtual machine

The core of Java technology, the Java virtual machine is an abstract computing machine that enables the Java platform to host applications on any computer or operating system without rewriting or recompiling. Anyone interested in designing a language or w...

 Building and managing virtual private networks Business to business using the Internet

This in-depth overview covers all of the bases for corporations considering the transition to Virtual Private Networks. The primary benefit of VPNs is that they will cost corporations half as much as current data networks. Featuring a complete overview of...

  Virtual Humans A Build-It-Yourself Kit, Complete with Software and Step-by-Step Instructions

Creating the illusion of personality: This first-of-its-kind book-and-CD package makes it possible. Foreword by Ray Kurzweil, author, The Age of Spiritual Machines Virtual humans may seem like something out of science fiction, but they are alread...

 Designing Virtual Worlds

Designing Virtual Worlds is the most comprehensive treatment of virtual world design to-date from one of the true pioneers and most sought-after design consultants. It's a tour de force of VW design, stunning in intellectual scope, spanning the literary,e...

 High Wired On the Design, Use, and Theory of Educational Moos

The essays in High Wired are arranged in a practical sequence, beginning with the context and history of MOOs, followed by more technical essays on how to set up and administer a MOO. Subsequent essays discuss applications for the use of MOOs in education...

 Windows 2000 Virtual Private Networking

Thaddeus Fortenberry, MCSE, MCT is a leading expert in Virtual Private Networking and the Windows" platform. As Compaq's' Program Manager of Virtual Private Networks, he designs the global specifications for tunneling and deploying tunnel servers. He has ...

 Virtual Private Networking A View From the Trenches

Everybody's talking about VPN technology-now you can do something about it! Virtual Private Networking: A View from the Trenches lets you cut through the hype and get down to building VPNs that really work to increase your productivity as you cut your co...

 Professional Guide to Audio Plug-ins and Virtual Instruments

Enhance your system with this complete reference to plug-ins and virtual instruments for the major MIDI + Audio systems Understand the capabilities and limitations for professional use as well as practical considerations demonstrated through hands-...

 Virtual Storytelling Using Virtual Reality Technologies for Storytelling

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the first International Conference on Virtual Storytelling, ICVS 2001, held in Avignon, France, in September 2001. The 20 revised full papers presented together with four invited papers were carefully revi...

 The Java Virtual machine specification

The nucleus of the Java™ 2 platform, the Java™ virtual machine is the technology that enables the Java 2 platform to host applications on any computer or operating system without rewriting or recompiling. The Java virtual machine is also respo...