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Fortune Magazine February 5 2007

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Fortune Magazine February 5 2007
PDF | English | 131 Pages | 24.1 MB

Fortune magazine is America’s second longest-running business magazine after Forbes magazine. Henry Luce founded the magazine in 1930. His publishing business, consisting of Time, Life, Fortune, and Sports Illustrated, grew to become Time Warner, the world’s largest media conglomerate, before it was acquired by AOL in 2000. Fortune is especially known for its annual features ranking companies by revenue.

PC Magazine March 06 2007

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PC Magazine March 06 2007
PDF | English | 116 Pages | 20.9 MB

PC Magazine is a computer magazine published biweekly (except in January and July) both in print and online. The magazine is published by Ziff-Davis Publishing Holdings Inc. The first edition was released in January 1982 as a monthly called PC (the “Magazine” was not added to the logo until the first major redesign in January 1986). The magazine moved to biweekly publication in 1983 after a single monthly issue swelled to more than 800 pages.

Fundamentals of Photonics

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Fundamentals of Photonics
992 pages | Wiley-Interscience; 1 edition (August 15, 1991) | English | ISBN-10: 0471839655 | ISBN-13:9780471839651 | PDF | 11.5 MB

In recent years, photonics has found increasing applications in such areas as communications, signal processing, computing, sensing, display, printing, and energy transport. Now, Fundamentals of Photonics is the first self-contained introductory-level textbook to offer a thorough survey of this rapidly expanding area of engineering and applied physics. Featuring a logical blend of theory and applications, coverage includes detailed accounts of the primary theories of light, including ray optics, wave optics, electromagnetic optics, and photon optics, as well as the interaction of light with matter, and the theory of semiconductor materials and their optical properties.

Presented at increasing levels of complexity, these sections serve as building blocks for the treatment of more advanced topics, such as Fourier optics and holography, guidedwave and fiber optics, photon sources and detectors, electro-optic and acousto-optic devices, nonlinear optical devices, fiber-optic communications, and photonic switching and computing. Included are such vital topics as:

* Generation of coherent light by lasers, and incoherent light by luminescence sources such as light-emitting diodes
* Transmission of light through optical components (lenses, apertures, and imaging systems), waveguides, and fibers
* Modulation, switching, and scanning of light through the use of electrically, acoustically, and optically controlled devices
* Amplification and frequency conversion of light by the use of wave interactions in nonlinear materials Detection of light by means of semiconductor photodetectors

Each chapter contains summaries, highlighted equations, problem sets and exercises, and selected reading lists. Examples of real systems are included to emphasize the concepts governing applications of current interest, and appendices summarize the properties of one- and two-dimensional Fourier transforms, linear-systems theory, and modes of linear systems.

An Instructor’s Manual presenting detailed solutions to all the problems in the book is available from the Wiley editorial department.

Computer Shopper - March 2007

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Computer Shopper - March 2007
PDF | English | 21.45 MB
Freshen Up Your PC:
Top 25 Upgrades Under $100
You don’t need a fat wallet to breathe some new life into your old PC. We round up the best upgrades you can give your system for less than a Benjamin.

Feature Extraction and Image Processing

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Focusing on feature extraction while also covering issues and techniques such as image acquisition, sampling theory, point operations and low-level feature extraction, the authors have a clear and coherent approach that will appeal to a wide range of students and professionals. This is an ideal module text for courses in artificial intelligence, image processing and computer vision. It is an essential reading for engineers and academics working in this cutting-edge field. It is supported by free software on a companion website.

Commercial Photoshop Retouching: In the Studio

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Commercial Photoshop Retouching: In the Studio
O’Reilly Media | ISBN: 059600849X | 257 pages | August 22, 2005 | CHM | 6MB

 
For both Mac and Windows PC users, Photoshop CS2 is the market leader and industry standard for commercial bitmap image manipulation. Also known as the “digital dark room,” Photoshop is the unparalleled tool of choice among graphics professionals and hobby photographers alike.
Written by 20-year photo retouching veteran Glenn Honiball, Commercial Photoshop Retouching: In the Studio is the only book to deliver advice for the photographer and artist working with Photoshop CS 2 in a real world commercial environment. Honiball offers incomparable technical and artistic guidance for professionals, graphic artists, photographers, and just about anyone involved in creating and manipulating digital images.
Production artists face unrealistically tight deadlines and heavy workloads that leave little time for trial and error. Photo retouchers need practical, immediate Photoshop solutions to help them produce quality images with minimal effort and in a short amount of time. All the tools, techniques, and skills you need to achieve consistent, professional results with Photoshop CS2 can be found in Commercial Photoshop Retouching: In the Studio.
Anyone with intermediate-to-advanced Photoshop skills–whether you want to explore photo retouching personally or as an imaging professional or student–can use Commercial Photoshop Retouching: In the Studio to produce sharp, expert, extraordinary photos that don’t look retouched.
Under Honibell’s seasoned direction, you’ll be able to tackle your greatest photo-retouching challenges with ease, precision and efficiency. He guides you through Photoshop CS2’s new and innovative features; explains advanced capabilities; shows you how to adapt and custom-fit the software to meet your needs; offers time-saving tips for accelerating your workflow; and delivers advice and inspiration for exercising your own creative genius.
Commercial Photoshop Retouching: In the Studio is the ideal resource for any digital artist who wants to develop and perfect professional-level retouching using Photoshop CS 2. With this book, you will bring photo correction and manipulation to a whole new level.