This book is a comprehensive history of computer graphics in Hollywood cinema. As the first such work of its kind, it is an essential reference for anyone interested in the history of cinema, visual effects, or computer graphics, and the industries of which they are a part. 

This book discusses how to use modern software engineering practices for machine learning. Comprising a broad overview of how to design machine learning pipelines as well as the state-of-the-art tools we use to make them, Marco Scutari and Mauro Malvestio provide a multi-disciplinary view of how traditional software engineering can be adapted to and integrated with the workflows of domain experts and probabilistic models.

This book shows how to use a proven framework for developing practical agents that handle real-world business and personal tasks. Micheal Lanham shows how to use prompt engineering to create agents with distinct personas and profiles, and develop multi-agent collaborations that thrive in unpredictable environments.

At the ripe age of three, Mike Drucker got his very first Nintendo console—the Nintendo Entertainment System—and he was hooked. Every video game felt like a new chapter was opening in his life, expanding his world for the better and—sometimes—for worse. Final Fantasy VII, for example, helped him navigate the pitfalls of an early crush. And Dance Dance Revolution taught him how to almost, kinda move his body appropriately to music.

This book offers a structured approach to understanding database fundamentals, SQL programming, and data modeling best practices. James M. Reneau bridges the gap between theory and practical application by covering fundamental topics such as data modeling, normalization, and entity-relationship diagrams, all while introducing real-world database management principles. He includes step-by-step instructions on how to use MySQL, MariaDB, SQLite, and Microsoft SQL Server.

This autobiography of Bill Gates is not about Microsoft or the Gates Foundation or the future of technology. Instead, it’s the personal story of Bill Gates' childhood, early passions and pursuits. Gates details his struggles to fit in and his discovery of a world of coding and computers in the dawn of a new era, and the path that took him from midnight escapades at a nearby computer center to his college dorm room, where he sparked a revolution that would change the world.

In October 2008, someone going by the name Satoshi Nakamoto posted a white paper outlining “a peer-to-peer electronic cash system” called Bitcoin to an arcane listserv populated by Cypherpunks. This book catalogs Benjamin Wallace's attempt over 15 years to unmask the figure behind the currency and the world it wrought. Tracking leads from London to Oslo to Los Angeles, from coastal Australia to the Arizona desert, Wallace takes readers through a rogues’ gallery tour of Nakamoto suspects—from benevolent geniuses like cryptographer Hal Finney to difficult ones like a reclusive polymath known to his followers only as Jim; from the mercurial Australian Craig Wright, who claims to be Nakamoto, to a secret team at the National Security Agency.

This book looks at the use of differential privacy (DP) for protecting personal data by introducing carefully calibrated random numbers, called statistical noise, when the data is used. Google, Apple, and Microsoft have all integrated the technology into their software, and the US Census Bureau used DP to protect data collected in the 2020 census. In this book, Simson Garfinkel presents the underlying ideas of DP, and helps explain why DP is needed in today’s information-rich environment, why it was used as the privacy protection mechanism for the 2020 census, and why it is so controversial in some communities.

This book delves into programming 64-bit ARM CPUs. Following a fast-paced introduction to the art of programming in assembly and the GNU Assembler (Gas) specifically, Randall Hyde explores memory organization, data representation, and the basic logical operations you can perform on simple data types.

This book starts at the beginner level and shows how to use Flutter to create apps.  Kevin Moore shows how to develop a movie app with animations,  a movie API to get the latest movie information, and uses Firebase to store user information. The app connects to the internet, saves data locally, and uses Firebase to handle user accounts and send notifications. Readers will learn how to make the app work on websites and computers, respond to user actions, and add extra features from Flutter's package library. The final steps cover testing, making it run faster, and getting it ready for users to download.

This book shows how to handle errors, inefficiencies, and outdated paradigms by exploring the most common mistakes you'll find in production C++ code. Rich Yonts reveals the problems you'll inevitably encounter as you write new C++ code and diagnose legacy applications, along with practical techniques you need to resolve them. It covers C++ 98 through 23, with an emphasis on diagnosing and improving legacy code.

This book provides a unified overview of concepts and features of a comprehensive variety of rule-based programming languages.  Thom Frühwirth presents formalisms including multiset transformation, term rewriting systems, colored Petri nNets and logical algorithms. Frühwirth also introduces rule-based systems including production rules, event-condition-action rules and datalog, as well as rule-based programming languages for functional orogramming, constraint logic programming and concurrent constraint programming.