More objects and devices are connected to digital networks than ever before. Things - from your phone to your car, from the heating to the lights in your house - have gathered the ability to sense their environments and create information about what is happening. Things have become media, able to both generate and communicate information.

This has become known as 'the internet of things'. In this accessible introduction, Graham Meikle and Mercedes Bunz observe its promises of convenience and ...

Robotic vision, the combination of robotics and computer vision, involves the application of computer algorithms to data acquired from sensors. The research community has developed a large body of such algorithms but for a newcomer to the field this can be quite daunting. For over 20 years the author has maintained two open-source MATLAB (R) Toolboxes, one for robotics and one for vision.

They provide implementations of many important algorithms and allow users to work with real problems, not...

The workbenches of hobbyists, hackers, and makers have become overrun with microcontrollers, computers-on-a-chip that power homebrewed video games, robots, toys, and more. In Making Things Talk, Tom Igoe, one of the creators of Arduino, shows how to make these gadgets talk. Whether you need to connect some sensors to the Internet or create a device that can interact wirelessly with other creations, this book shows you what you need.

Although they are powerful, the projects in this book are in...

Basic Otorhinolaryngology: A Step-by-Step Learning Guide, Second Edition, is an accessible introduction to the core concepts and potentially complex interrelationships in otorhinolaryngology and head and neck surgery. The fully revised new edition includes latest developments and up-to-date terminology, up-to-date diagnostic and treatment methods, and succinct overviews of important international consensus documents and position papers in the field. The book presents material in an engaging a...

Het livre de l'élève bestaat uit een inleidende unité en twaalf unités. Elke unité heeft de volgende opbouw:

Een introductiepagina die de voorkennis van de cursisten activeert en hen voorbereidt op het thema. De leerdoelen worden hier aangegeven.

Zes pagina’s leerstof verdeeld in deel A en deel B. In gekleurde kaders staan de belangrijkste taalfuncties en grammaticale onderwerpen. Regelmatig moeten cursisten een schema of regel aanvullen. In elke unité staan verwijzingen naar oefening...

The second half of the book equips readers with the skills needed to undertake sociolinguistic research of their own. This is an ideal introductory text for students taking courses in sociolinguistics, language and society, language in use or language variation.

In het cahier d’exercices staan extra oefeningen om thuis of in de les te maken. Het cahier d’exercices biedt per unité 20 à 25 oefeningen. Elke unité bevat de volgende onderdelen:

- Oefeningen om woordenschat en taalfuncties te oefenen en te herhalen;

- Rendez-vous d’affaires met oefeningen om de verworven kennis toe te passen in werksituaties;

- Phonétique met oefeningen met betrekking tot de uitspraak;

- Test met 18 meerkeuzevragen.

De unités 4, 8 en 12 zijn herhalingsunités.

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER A former Wall Street quant sounds the alarm on Big Data and the mathematical models that threaten to rip apart our social fabric with a new afterword

A manual for the twenty-first-century citizen . . . relevant and urgent. Financial Times

NATIONAL BOOK AWARD LONGLIST NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY The New York Times Book Review The Boston Globe Wired Fortune Kirkus Reviews The Guardian Nature On Point

We live in the age of the algorithm. Increasing...

This book identifies the mindset, processes, and actual behaviors that contribute to successful reform efforts and provide school leaders with concrete tools enabling them to be more effective.