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A Benchmark Dataset for Manipuri Meetei-Mayek Handwritten Character Recognition

This work introduces a handwritten Manipuri Meetei-Mayek character dataset which consists of more than 5000 data samples which were collected from a diverse population group that belongs to different age groups (from 4 years to 60 years), genders, educational backgrounds, occupations, communities from three different districts of Manipur, India (Imphal East District, Thoubal District and Kangpokpi District) during March and April 2019.

Subjects:: Computing
Keywords:: Optical pattern recognition
Resource Type:: Others

e-book

A Brief Introduction to Engineering Computation with MATLAB

A Brief Introduction to Engineering Computation with MATLAB is specifically designed for students with no programming experience. However, students are expected to be proficient in First Year Mathematics and Sciences and access to good reference books are highly recommended. Students are assumed to have a working knowledge of the Mac OS X or Microsoft Windows operating systems. The strategic goal of the course and book is to provide learners with an appreciation for the role computation plays in solving engineering problems. MATLAB specific skills that students are expected to be proficient at are: write scripts to solve engineering problems including interpolation, numerical integration and regression analysis, plot graphs to visualize, analyze and present numerical data, and publish reports.

Subjects:: Mechanical Engineering and Computing
Keywords:: MATLAB Engineering mathematics
Resource Type:: e-book

e-book

A Byte of Python

"A Byte of Python" is a free book on programming using the Python language. It serves as a tutorial or guide to the Python language for a beginner audience. If all you know about computers is how to save text files, then this is the book for you.

Subjects:: Computing
Keywords:: Computer programming Programming languages (Electronic computers) Textbooks Python (Computer program language)
Resource Type:: e-book

e-book

A First Course in Electrical and Computer Engineering

This book was written for an experimental freshman course at the University of Colorado. The course is now an elective that the majority of our electrical and computer engineering students take in the second semester of their freshman year, just before their first circuits course. Our department decided to offer this course for several reasons: we wanted to pique student' interest in engineering by acquainting them with engineering teachers early in their university careers and by providing with exposure to the types of problems that electrical and computer engineers are asked to solve; we wanted students entering the electrical and computer engineering programs to be prepared in complex analysis, phasors, and linear algebra, topics that are of fundamental importance in our discipline; we wanted students to have an introduction to a software application tool, such as MATLAB, to complete their preparation for practical and efficient computing in their subsequent courses and in their professional careers; we wanted students to make early contact with advanced topics like vector graphics, filtering, and binary coding so that they would gain a more rounded picture of modern electrical and computer engineering. In order to introduce this course, we had to sacrifice a second semester of Pascal programming. We concluded that the sacrifice was worth making because we found that most of our students were prepared for high-level language computing after just one semester of programming. We believe engineering educators elsewhere are reaching similar conclusions about their own students and curriculums. We hope this book helps create a much needed dialogue about curriculum revision and that it leads to the development of similar introductory courses that encourage students to enter and practice our craft.Students electing to take this course have completed one semester of calculus, computer programming, chemistry, and humanities. Concurrently with this course, students take physics and a second semester of calculus, as well as a second semester in the humanities. By omitting the advanced topics marked by asterisks, we are able to cover Complex Numbers through Linear Algebra, plus two of the three remaining chapters. The book is organized so that the instructor can select any two of the three. If every chapter of this book is covered, including the advanced topics, then enough material exists for a two-semester course. The first three chapters of this book provide a fairly complete coverage of complex numbers, the functions e^x and e^jand phasors. Our department philosophy is that these topics must be understood if a student is to succeed in electrical and computer engineering. These three chapters may also be used as a supplement to a circuits course. A measured pace of presentation, taking between sixteen and eighteen lectures, is sufficient to cover all but the advanced sections in Complex Numbers through Phasors. The chapter on "linear algebra" is prerequisite for all subsequent chapters. We use eight to ten lectures to cover it. We devote twelve to sixteen lectures to cover topics from Vector Graphics through Binary Codes. (We assume a semester consisting of 42 lectures and three exams.) The chapter on vector graphics applies the linear algebra learned in the previous chapter to the problem of translating, scaling, and rotating images. "Filtering" introduces the student to basic ideas in averaging and filtering. The chapter on "Binary Codes" covers the rudiments of binary coding, including Huffman codes and Hamming codes. If the users of this book find "Vector Graphics" through "Binary Codes" too confining, we encourage them to supplement the essential material in "Complex Numbers" through "Linear Algebra" with their own course notes on additional topics. Within electrical and computer engineering there are endless possibilities. Practically any set of topics that can be taught with conviction and enthusiasm will whet the student's appetite. We encourage you to write to us or to our editor, Tom Robbins, about your ideas for additional topics. We would like to think that our book and its subsequent editions will have an open architecture that enables us to accommodate a wide range of student and faculty interests. Throughout this book we have used MATLAB programs to illustrate key ideas. MATLAB is an interactive, matrix-oriented language that is ideally suited to circuit analysis, linear systems, control theory, communications, linear algebra, and numerical analysis. MATLAB is rapidly becoming a standard software tool in universities and engineering companies. (For more information about MATLAB, return the attached card in the back of this book to The MathWorks, Inc.) MATLAB programs are designed to develop the student's ability to solve meaningful problems, compute, and plot in a high-level applications language. Our students get started in MATLAB by working through “An Introduction to MATLAB,” while seated at an IBM PC (or look-alike) or an Apple Macintosh. We also have them run through the demonstration programs in "Complex Numbers". Each week we give three classroom lectures and conduct a one-hour computer lab session. Students use this lab session to hone MATLAB skills, to write programs, or to conduct the numerical experiments that are given at the end of each chapter. We require that these experiments be carried out and then reported in a short lab report that contains (i) introduction, (ii) analytical computations, (iii) computer code, (iv) experimental results, and (v) conclusions. The quality of the numerical results and the computer graphics astonishes students. Solutions to the chapter problems are available from the publisher for instructors who adopt this text for classroom use. We wish to acknowledge our late colleague Richard Roberts, who encouraged us to publish this book, and Michael Lightner and Ruth Ravenel, who taught "Linear Algebra" and "Vector Graphics" and offered helpful suggestions on the manuscript. We thank C. T. Mullis for allowing us to use his notes on binary codes to guide our writing of "Binary Codes". We thank Cédric Demeure and Peter Massey for their contributions to the writing of "An Introduction to MATLAB" and "The Edix Editor". We thank Tom Robbins, our editor at Addison-Wesley, for his encouragement, patience, and many suggestions. We are especially grateful to Julie Fredlund, who composed this text through many drafts and improved it in many ways. We thank her for preparing an excellent manuscript for production.

Subjects:: Electrical Engineering and Computing
Keywords:: Computer engineering MATLAB Electrical engineering Textbooks
Resource Type:: e-book

e-book

A Tale of Two Systems

This is the story of a web-based information system rebuild. The system in question is www.teachengineering.org, a digital library of K-12 engineering curriculum that was built from the ground up with established technology and which for 13 years enjoyed lasting support from its growing user community and its sponsors. These 13 years, however, cover the period during which smart phones and tablets became commonplace, during which the Internet of Things started replacing the Semantic Web, during which NoSQL databases made their way out of the research labs and into everyday development shops, during which we collectively started moving IT functions and services into ‘the cloud,’ and during which computing performance doubled a few times, yet again. During this same period, TeachEngineering’s user base grew from a few hundred to more than 3 million users annually, its collection size quadrupled, it went through several user interface renewals, and significant functionality was added while having an exemplary service record, and it enjoyed continued financial support from its sponsors. In this monograph we provide a side-by-side of this rebuild. We lay out the choices made in the old architecture —we refer to it as TE 1.0— and compare and contrast them with the choices made for TE 2.0. We explain why both the 1.0 and 2.0 choices were made and discuss the advantages and disadvantages associated with them.

Subjects:: Computing
Keywords:: Web site development Web sites -- Design Textbooks
Resource Type:: e-book

e-book

A brief introduction to engineering computation with MATLAB

"A Brief Introduction to Engineering Computation with MATLAB is specifically designed for students with no programming experience. However, students are expected to be proficient in First Year Mathematics and Sciences and access to good reference books are highly recommended. Students are assumed to have a working knowledge of the Mac OS X or Microsoft Windows operating systems. The strategic goal of the course and book is to provide learners with an appreciation for the role computation plays in solving engineering problems. MATLAB specific skills that students are expected to be proficient at are: write scripts to solve engineering problems including interpolation, numerical integration and regression analysis, plot graphs to visualize, analyze and present numerical data, and publish reports."--BC Campus website.

Subjects:: Computing and Mechanical Engineering
Keywords:: Textbooks Systems engineering
Resource Type:: e-book

MOOC

AI For Everyone

AI is not only for engineers. If you want your organization to become better at using AI, this is the course to tell everyone--especially your non-technical colleagues--to take. In this course, you will learn: - The meaning behind common AI terminology, including neural networks, machine learning, deep learning, and data science - What AI realistically can--and cannot--do - How to spot opportunities to apply AI to problems in your own organization - What it feels like to build machine learning and data science projects - How to work with an AI team and build an AI strategy in your company - How to navigate ethical and societal discussions surrounding AI

Subjects:: Computing
Keywords:: Artificial intelligence
Resource Type:: MOOC

Others

Abaqus e-learning

4RealSim serves its customers by providing Dassault Systemes’ SIMULIA products (Abaqus, Isight, Tosca, fe-safe, Simpack, XFLOW), VCollab and HyperSizer.
4RealSim offers high-quality Finite Element engineering services to assess, validate and optimize the response of products, assemblies and processes.
4RealSim offers training and mentoring to learn the analysis tools and improve FEA methodologies. Trainings are available online or organized in class rooms.
4RealSim offers customer-tailored and regulatory compliant Computer Modelling & Simulation services for the life-science and medical-device industry.

Subjects:: Business Information Technology and Computing
Keywords:: Abaqus (Electronic resource) Finite element method
Resource Type:: Others

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Advanced SQL

Take your SQL skills to the next level.

Subjects:: Computing
Keywords:: Database management SQL (Computer program language)
Resource Type:: Others

e-book

Advances in Security in Computing and Communications

In the era of Internet of Things (IoT) and with the explosive worldwide growth of electronic data volume, and associated need of processing, analysis, and storage of such humongous volume of data, several new challenges are faced in protecting privacy of sensitive data and securing systems by designing novel schemes for secure authentication, integrity protection, encryption, and non-repudiation. Lightweight symmetric key cryptography and adaptive network security algorithms are in demand for mitigating these challenges. This book presents some of the state-of-the-art research work in the field of cryptography and security in computing and communications. It is a valuable source of knowledge for researchers, engineers, practitioners, graduates, and doctoral students who are working in the field of cryptography, network security, and security and privacy issues in the Internet of Things (IoT). It will also be useful for faculty members of graduate schools and universities.

Subjects:: Computing
Keywords:: Data protection Computer security Computer networks -- Security measures Data encryption (Computer science)
Resource Type:: e-book

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Agent Based Modeling using AnyLogic Professional

Agent based modeling focuses on the individual active components of a system. This is in contrast to both the more abstract system dynamics approach, and the process-focused discrete event method. With agent based modeling, active entities, known as agents, must be identified and their behavior defined. They may be people, households, vehicles, equipment, products, or companies, whatever is relevant to the system. Connections between them are established, environmental variables set, and simulations run. The global dynamics of the system then emerge from the interactions of the many individual behaviors. AnyLogic combines professional discrete event, system dynamics, and agent based modeling in one platform for efficient, no compromise results. In our white paper, Multimethod Simulation Modeling for Business Applications, we investigate these three main simulation modeling approaches and construct a multimethod model example to illustrate the advantages of multimethod simulation modeling. Read the white paper and see why hybrid models are always a better choice!

Course related:: CE631 Simulation and IT Applications in Construction
Subjects:: Business Information Technology and Computing
Keywords:: Computer simulation Multiagent systems System analysis -- Data processing
Resource Type:: Others

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Agent-Based Evolutionary Game Dynamics

This book is a guide to implement simple agent-based evolutionary models using NetLogo. All the models we implement are agent-based, i.e. individual agents and their interactions are explicitly represented in the models. To formalise agents’ interactions we use the basic framework of Evolutionary Game Theory. NetLogo is a multi-agent programmable modeling environment used by hundreds of thousands of students, teachers and researchers all around the globe. No coding experience is necessary to fully understand the contents of this book.

Subjects:: Computing
Keywords:: Game theory Computer simulation Textbooks
Resource Type:: e-book

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Agile Software Development: It’s Implication for AI products and Developers

Software developments is advancing the technological world today. This changes have far more reaching implications in I.T industries such as Big data, Artificial intelligence and Agile Software development methodologies. Competition in the software development ecosystem has made developers to build software that are quick and reliable and often referred to as Agile development. Agile transformation is real and requires rethinking the business management, recruitment process and data strategy in a bid to stimulate disruptive solutions from within in-house development and deployment. AI product development would require rapid transformational changes within any organization. This can be accomplished by establishing specific operating models that permit development teams with the freedom of technology choice. This publication highlights some operating models that can be adopted to improve the success of AI products using Agile software development methodologies.

Subjects:: Computing
Keywords:: Agile software development
Resource Type:: Others

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Algorithm Visualizer

Algorithm Visualizer is an interactive online platform that visualizes algorithms from code. Learning an algorithm gets much easier with visualizing it.

Subjects:: Computing
Keywords:: Algorithms Information visualization
Resource Type:: Others

e-book

Algorithms and Data Structures With Applications to Graphics and Geometry

An introductory coverage of algorithms and data structures with application to graphics and geometry.

Subjects:: Computing
Keywords:: Algorithms Data structures (Computer science) Textbooks
Resource Type:: e-book

Courseware

Algoritmiek

This course treats various methods to design and analyze datastructures and algorithms for a wide range of problems. The most important new datastructure treated is the graph, and the general methods introduced are: greedy algorithms, divide and conquer, dynamic programming and network flow algorithms. These general methods are explained by a number of concrete examples, such as simple scheduling algorithms, Dijkstra, Ford-Fulkerson, minimum spanning tree, closest-pair-of-points, knapsack, and Bellman-Ford. Throughout this course there is significant attention to proving the correctness of the discussed algorithms. All material for this course is in English. The recorded lectures, however, are in Dutch.

Subjects:: Computing
Keywords:: Algorithms Data structures (Computer science)
Resource Type:: Courseware

e-book

An Introduction to Computer Networks - Second Edition

An Introduction to Computer Networksis a free and open general-purpose computer-networking textbook, complete with diagrams and exercises.It covers the LAN, internetworking and transport layers, focusing primarily on TCP/IP. Particular attention is paid to congestion; other special topics include queuing, real-time traffic, network management, security and the ns simulator. The book is suitable as the primary text for an undergraduate or introductory graduate course in computer networking, as a supplemental text for a wide variety of network-related courses, and as a reference work.

Subjects:: Computing
Keywords:: Computer networks Computer network protocols Textbooks
Resource Type:: e-book

e-book

An Introduction to Matlab and Mathcad

This textbook, or really a “coursebook” for a college freshman-level class, has been updated for Spring 2014 and provides an introduction to programming and problem solving using both Matlab and Mathcad. We provide a balanced selection of introductory exercises and real-world problems (i.e. no “contrived” problems). We include many examples and screenshots to guide the reader. We assume no prior knowledge of Matlab or Mathcad.

Subjects:: Computing
Keywords:: MATLAB MathCAD Textbooks
Resource Type:: e-book

e-book

An Introduction to Ontology Engineering

This first general textbook An introduction to ontology engineering has as main aim to provide the reader with a comprehensive introductory overview of ontology engineering. A secondary aim is to provide hands-on experience in ontology development that illustrate the theory. The book is divided into three blocks: Block I: logic foundations for ontologies both regarding the languages (mainly First Order predicate Logic, Description Logics, and OWL) and automated reasoning. Block II: developing good ontologies with methods and methodologies, the top-down approach with foundational ontologies, and the bottom-up approach to extract as much useful content as possible from legacy material. Block III: advanced topics with a selection of areas of specialisation, including Ontology-Based Data Access, the interaction between ontologies and natural languages (multilingual ontologies, controlled natural language), and advanced modelling with additional language features (fuzzy and temporal ontologies).

Subjects:: Computing
Keywords:: Ontologies (Information retrieval) Computer software -- Development Textbooks
Resource Type:: e-book

Presentation

Analyzing Word Frequencies in Large Text Corpora using Inter-arrival Times and Bootstrapping

This video was recorded at European Conference on Machine Learning and Principles and Practice of Knowledge Discovery in Databases (ECML PKDD), Athens 2011. Comparing frequency counts over texts or corpora is an important task in many applications and scientific disciplines. Given a text corpus, we want to test a hypothesis, such as "word X is frequent", "word X has become more frequent over time", or "word X is more frequent in male than in female speech". For this purpose we need a null model of word frequencies. The commonly used bag-of-words model, which corresponds to a Bernoulli process with fixed parameter, does not account for any structure present in natural languages. Using this model for word frequencies results in large numbers of words being reported as unexpectedly frequent. We address how to take into account the inherent occurrence patterns of words in significance testing of word frequencies. Based on studies of words in two large corpora, we propose two methods for modeling word frequencies that both take into account the occurrence patterns of words and go beyond the bag-of-words assumption. The first method models word frequencies based on the spatial distribution of individual words in the language. The second method is based on bootstrapping and takes into account only word frequency at the text level. The proposed methods are compared to the current gold standard in a series of experiments on both corpora. We find that words obey different spatial patterns in the language, ranging from bursty to non-bursty/uniform, independent of their frequency, showing that the traditional approach leads to many false positives.

Subjects:: Management and Computing
Keywords:: Computational linguistics Text processing (Computer science) Discourse analysis -- Data processing
Resource Type:: Presentation

Others

Anyone can learn cyber security with TryHackMe: Hands-on cyber security training through real-world scenarios

Learning cyber security on TryHackMe is fun and addictive. Earn points by answering questions, taking on challenges and maintain your hacking streak through short lessons. Learn by following a structured paths and reinforce your skills in a real-world environment by completing guided, objective-based tasks and challenges.

Subjects:: Computing
Keywords:: Computer security
Resource Type:: Others

e-book

Aprendiendo a Programar en Python con mi Computador: Primeros pasos rumbo a cómputos de gran escala en las Ciencias e Ingenierías

Este libro está dirigido, principalmente, a Estudiantes y Docentes que quieren aprender a programarcomo forma de fortalecer sus capacidades cognoscitivas y así obtener un beneficio adicional de su computador para lograr un mejor provecho de sus estudios. Dada la orientación del libro respecto a programar para resolver problemas asociados a las Ciencias e Ingenierías, el requisito mínimo de matemáticas que hemos elegido para presentar el contenido del mismo se cubre, normalmente, en el tercer año del bachillerato. No obstante, el requisito no es obligatorio para leer el libro en su totalidad y adquirir los conocimientos de programación obviando el contenido matemático.

Subjects:: Computing
Keywords:: Computer programming Programming languages (Electronic computers) Textbooks Python (Computer program language)
Resource Type:: e-book

e-book

Aprendizaje Colaborativo Apoyado por Computador

Comunidad creada para compartir experiencias en torno al uso de Tecnologías de la Información como apoyo a procesos de enseñanza-aprendizaje usando modelos de aprendizaje colaborativo

Subjects:: Computing
Keywords:: Education--Effect of technological innovations on Computer-assisted instruction Textbooks
Resource Type:: e-book

Others

ArcGIS Living Atlas of the World

ArcGIS Living Atlas of the World is the foremost collection of geographic information from around the globe. It includes maps, apps, and data layers to support your work.

Subjects:: Land Surveying and Geo-Informatics and Computing
Keywords:: Geospatial data Geographic information systems
Resource Type:: Others

Courseware

ArchiStar Academy

ArchiStar Academy has world class software and training for architects, engineers and universities students.

Subjects:: Computing
Keywords:: Design Technology
Resource Type:: Courseware

Others

Arduino Tutorial 1: Getting Started with the Arduino for Beginners

Guys, our original series on the Arduino Microcontroller was insanely popular. Those original lessons had some great technical content, but the production quality of the videos was pretty low. Because of that, I want to go in and redo the arduino tutorials, taking advantage of improved production capabilities I now have, and using fresh hardware and software. For those who have taken the original series, the first few lessons will be material you already have learned. You can choose to review the material, or just skip to the later lessons. In this new series of lessons, I will be using this Arduino kit. So, enough of this small talk, lets get right into the new and improved lessons.

Course related:: EE2007 Computer System Fundamentals
Subjects:: Computing
Keywords:: Programmable controllers Arduino (Programmable controller)
Resource Type:: Others

Courseware

Artificial Intelligence

This course includes interactive demonstrations which are intended to stimulate interest and to help students gain intuition about how artificial intelligence methods work under a variety of circumstances.

Subjects:: Computing
Keywords:: Artificial intelligence
Resource Type:: Courseware

e-book

Artificial Intelligence

Artificial intelligence (AI) is a potent buzzword and happening technology which has greatly impacted the lifestyle of every human being either directly or indirectly and is shaping the future of tomorrow. In fact, AI is fast becoming an intrinsic part of our daily life and is not confined to university research labs, even if remarkable progress has been made in this domain. The benefit of this phenomenon is widely recognized in diversified areas, ranging from medicine to security to consumer applications and business, and resulting in improvements in the quality of life of humankind. Every new disruptive technology has its own pros and cons and AI is no exception to this rule. Privacy, data protection, and the rights of individuals pose social and ethical challenges.

Subjects:: Computing
Keywords:: Artificial intelligence
Resource Type:: e-book

e-journal

Ashdin Publishing

In this journal platform, you can find the articles which published under the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported (CC-BY) license. They may be downloaded, printed, distributed, or posted online as long as they are properly attributed. The journal including:
Computer Reviews Journal
Journal of Drug and Alcohol Research
Journal of Evolutionary Medicine Journal of Orthopaedics and Trauma
MathLAB Journal Socialsci Journal
To Chemistry Journal
To Physics Journal
Mintage Journal of Pharmaceutical and Medical Sciences
Journal of Foreign Language Education and Technology

Subjects:: Medicine, Chemistry, Computing, Biology, Foreign Language Learning, and Physics
Keywords:: Science Periodicals Computer science Language languages--Computer-assisted instruction Medicine Technology Chemistry Social sciences Physics
Resource Type:: e-journal

Others

Audacity

Audacity is an easy-to-use, multi-track audio editor and recorder for Windows, macOS, GNU/Linux and other operating systems. Audacity is free, open source software

Subjects:: Computing
Keywords:: Audacity (Computer file) Digital audio editors
Resource Type:: Others

Video

Beginners Guide To Virtual Reality

With so many new users picking up virtual reality headsets for the 2019 holiday season, it's time for a 2020 beginners guide to virtual reality. Let's dive into PC Specs, recommended headsets, setup, comfort, locomotion, motion sickness, free games and a lot more.

Subjects:: Interactive and Digital Media and Computing
Keywords:: Computer simulation Virtual reality Human-computer interaction
Resource Type:: Video

Courseware

Big Data Strategies to Transform Your Business

While big data infiltrates all walks of life, most firms have not changed sufficiently to meet the challenges that come with it. In this course, you will learn how to develop a big data strategy, transform your business model and your organization. This course will enable professionals to take their organization and their own career to the next level, regardless of their background and position. Professionals will learn how to be in charge of big data instead of being subject to it. In particular, they will become familiar with tools to: - assess their current situation regarding potential big data-induced changes of a disruptive nature, - identify their options for successfully integrating big data in their strategy, business model and organization, or if not possible, how to exit quickly with as little loss as possible, and - strengthen their own position and that of their organization in our digitalized knowledge economy The course will build on the concepts of product life cycles, the business model canvas, organizational theory and digitalized management jobs (such as Chief Digital Officer or Chief Informatics Officer) to help you find the best way to deal with and benefit from big data induced changes. During the course, your most pressing questions will be answered in our feedback videos with the lecturer. In the assignments of the course, you will choose a sector and a stakeholder. For this, you will develop your own strategy and business model. This will help you identify the appropriate organizational structure and potential contributions and positions for yourself.

Subjects:: Management and Computing
Keywords:: Business -- Data processing Big data
Resource Type:: Courseware

Video

Blender 3D - Low Poly Character Clothing

A tutorial on setting up clothing to low poly character.

Subjects:: Interactive and Digital Media and Computing
Keywords:: Blender (Computer file) Three-dimensional display systems Computer animation Computer graphics
Resource Type:: Video

e-book

Blueprints: Creating, Describing, and Implementing Designs for Larger-Scale Software Projects

Blueprints is a concise yet comprehensive coverage of Object-Oriented Analysis and Design concepts, suitable for a second programming course in Computer Science. It introduces and teaches application development in a command-line environment, and assumes basic expertise with the Java programming language.

Subjects:: Computing
Keywords:: System analysis System design Textbooks
Resource Type:: e-book

e-book

Business Information Systems: Design an App for That

We set out to design an introductory course governed by four themes: Give students a good idea of what a career in MIS looks like by doing MIS. Enhance the professionalism of deliverables by teaching design and usability concepts. Promote creativity by assigning projects that demand it. Teach students about cloud computing by having them do cloud computing. Students in an introductory Management Information Systems (MIS) course often ask what a career in MIS looks like. Lacking a clear vision, they make their own assumptions. Often they assume the career involves programming with little human interaction. That MIS is a technical field could not be further from the truth. MIS job descriptions typically require candidates to be able to collaborate, communicate, analyze needs and gather requirements. They also list the need for excellent written and communication skills. In other words, MIS workers are constantly interacting with other people both inside and outside the organization. They are coming up with creative solutions to business problems. This course is designed to help students get a feel for what a career in MIS would be like. Our students report that they learn more about information systems from their internships than from their IS courses. Consequently, we designed a course that looks very much like an internship—an introduction to the field followed by a substantial project. Chapter 1 begins by introducing the information systems landscape. Here we discuss all the usual suspects: the information systems triangle, the systems development life cycle, transaction systems (ERP, SCM, CRM), collaboration systems, and business intelligence systems. Other aspects of the landscape such as usability, outsourcing, database concepts and so forth are introduced throughout chapter in Chapter 2 where they fit in naturally with the flow of the project. Chapter 2 is the substantial project which runs over a number of chapters. Over the course of the semester, students plan, build, and develop a proposal for an iPhone application. They develop a very realistic mockup. They also build a website to help market and support the app. Students are engaged because the project is fun and feels real. However, they are simultaneously learning business concepts and MIS skills. Prior to the existence of this course, we were only able to give such an interesting project at the senior level. Now, even as freshmen, students have a real experience of MIS in operation. A by product of creating an engaging course is increased enrollment in the MIS major. Even students who have never heard of MIS become excited about the major and either switch majors or add it as a double major or minor. Many other books have students study tools and then do a case. By contrast, most of this book is a case. Much like the real world, we introduce tools when needed, and only to the extent needed, to get at each part of the case.

Subjects:: Industrial and Systems Engineering and Computing
Keywords:: Business information services Management information systems Textbooks Application software -- Development
Resource Type:: e-book

Presentation

Business Process Mining and Formalization

This video was recorded at COIN / ACTIVE Summer School on Advanced Technologies for Knowledge Intensive Networked Organizations, Aachen 2010. Part 1. Context Computing. Context is used as a term for packaging information for a particular need. A criterion for selecting or prioritization information from a broader pool of information could be called contextual model. Search can be contextual: http://searchpoint.ijs.si. The relevance of Context in computing seems to be growing. Many application areas see an opportunity in extending its value by introducing "context sensitivity". More details do to be found in ISWC2006 Tutorial on "context sensitivity": http://videolectures.net/iswc06_athens_ga/ Part 2. Text Mining & Light Weight Semantics. Videolectures discusses the following topics: - levels of text representations - modeling the data (Support Vector Machine) - classification into large taxonomies (DMoz) - visual & contextual search (Search Point) - multilingual search - news bias, news visualization - text enrichment (Enrycher) - knowledge based summarization - question answering (AnswerArt) - Cyc knowledge base and reasoning

Subjects:: Management and Computing
Keywords:: Data mining Information resources management Business -- Data Processing Management information systems
Resource Type:: Presentation

Video

But what is a Neural Network? | Deep learning, chapter 1

This video introduces the basic concept and the overall working process of the ANN models, especially how the backpropogation works. How to establish a deep neuro network.

Course related:: LGT6801 Guided Study in Logistics I
Subjects:: Computing
Keywords:: Machine learning Neural networks (Computer science)
Resource Type:: Video

Others

C Programming Exercises, Practice, Solution

C is a general-purpose, imperative computer programming language, supporting structured programming, lexical variable scope and recursion, while a static type system prevents many unintended operations. C was originally developed by Dennis Ritchie between 1969 and 1973 at Bell Labs, and used to re-implement the Unix operating system. It has since become one of the most widely used programming languages of all time, with C compilers from various vendors available for the majority of existing computer architectures and operating systems. The best way we learn anything is by practice and exercise questions. We have started this section for those (beginner to intermediate) who are familiar with C programming. Hope, these exercises help you to improve your C programming coding skills. Currently, following sections are available, we are working hard to add more exercises.

Subjects:: Computing
Keywords:: Programming languages (Electronic computers) C (Computer program language)
Resource Type:: Others

Video

C++ Tutorial for Beginners - Full Course

This course will give you a full introduction into all of the core concepts in C++.

* Contents *

-- (0:00:00) Introduction

-- (0:01:38) Windows Installation

-- (0:04:54) Mac Installation

-- (0:08:44) Setup & Hello World

-- (0:12:29) Drawing a Shape

-- (0:19:55) Variables

-- (0:31:43) Data Types

-- (0:39:15) Working With Strings

-- (0:49:00) Working With Numbers

-- (0:59:41) Getting User Input

-- (1:05:32) Building a Calculator

-- (1:09:28) Building a Mad Libs

-- (1:13:45) Arrays

-- (1:20:03) Functions

-- (1:29:47) Return Statement

-- (1:35:22) If Statements

-- (1:47:15) If Statements (con't)

-- (1:55:58) Building a Better Calculator

-- (2:02:20) Switch Statements

-- (2:10:47) While Loops

-- (2:18:53) Building a Guessing Game

-- (2:29:18) For Loops

-- (2:38:32) Exponent Function

-- (2:45:21) 2d Arrays & Nested Loops

-- (2:54:55) Comments

-- (2:59:11) Pointers

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Course related:: COMP1011 Programming Fundamentals
Subjects:: Computing
Keywords:: C++ (Computer program language)
Resource Type:: Video

Courseware

CEE 20: Introduction to Computational Engineering Problem Solving

Introduction to computer programming within a numerical computing environment (MATLAB or similar) including types of data representation, graphical display of data, and development of modular programs with application to engineering analysis and problem solving.

Subjects:: Computing
Keywords:: Engineering -- Data processing Computer programming Engineering -- Computer programs
Resource Type:: Courseware

Presentation

COIN Baseline services and negotiation support

This video was recorded at COIN / ACTIVE Summer School on Advanced Technologies for Knowledge Intensive Networked Organizations, Aachen 2010. Organized by COIN FP7 Integrated Project (http://www.coin-ip.eu/) and ACTIVE FP7 Integrated Project (http://www.active-project.eu), the summer school seeks to bring together students, scholars and researchers from industry in order to foster collaboration and interoperability through innovative software solutions and share the recent research developments from well-established researchers and educators. The main topics of the summer school are: Interoperability and collaboration models and solutions, Enterprise interoperability and collaboration services, Innovative knowledge and semantically powered technologies, Knowledge process and context modeling, Pro-active knowledge tools, Large scale analytics and reasoning tools, Business cases and real case studies. More about the event at http://coin-active-ss.ijs.si/

Subjects:: Management and Computing
Keywords:: Enterprise application integration (Computer systems) Internetworking (Telecommunication) Management information systems Information resources management
Resource Type:: Presentation

Presentation

COIN System Demos

This video was recorded at COIN / PlanetData Winter School on Knowledge Technologies for Complex Business Environments, Ljubljana 2011. Organized by COIN FP7 Integrated Project and PlanetData FP7 Network of Excellence, the school seeks to bring together students, scholars and researchers from industry in order to foster collaboration and interoperability with innovative services and project large-scale data management in business environments. The main topics of the winter school are: Interoperability and collaboration models and solutions, Enterprise interoperability and collaboration services, Innovative knowledge and semantically powered technologies, Knowledge process and context modelling, Pro-active knowledge tools, Large scale analytics and reasoning tools, Business cases and real case studies.

Subjects:: Management and Computing
Keywords:: Enterprise application integration (Computer systems) Internetworking (Telecommunication) Management information systems Information resources management
Resource Type:: Presentation

Presentation

COIN meets Science 2.0

This video was recorded at COIN / PlanetData Winter School on Knowledge Technologies for Complex Business Environments, Ljubljana 2011. Organized by COIN FP7 Integrated Project and PlanetData FP7 Network of Excellence, the school seeks to bring together students, scholars and researchers from industry in order to foster collaboration and interoperability with innovative services and project large-scale data management in business environments. The main topics of the winter school are: Interoperability and collaboration models and solutions, Enterprise interoperability and collaboration services, Innovative knowledge and semantically powered technologies, Knowledge process and context modelling, Pro-active knowledge tools, Large scale analytics and reasoning tools, Business cases and real case studies. Detailed information can be found here.

Subjects:: Management and Computing
Keywords:: Information resources management Internetworking (Telecommunication) Management information systems
Resource Type:: Presentation

Presentation

COIN services and innovation

This video was recorded at COIN / PlanetData Winter School on Knowledge Technologies for Complex Business Environments, Ljubljana 2011. Organized by COIN FP7 Integrated Project and PlanetData FP7 Network of Excellence, the school seeks to bring together students, scholars and researchers from industry in order to foster collaboration and interoperability with innovative services and project large-scale data management in business environments. The main topics of the winter school are: Interoperability and collaboration models and solutions, Enterprise interoperability and collaboration services, Innovative knowledge and semantically powered technologies, Knowledge process and context modelling, Pro-active knowledge tools, Large scale analytics and reasoning tools, Business cases and real case studies.

Subjects:: Management and Computing
Keywords:: Enterprise application integration (Computer systems) Internetworking (Telecommunication) Management information systems Information resources management
Resource Type:: Presentation

Courseware

CS229 - Machine Learning

This course provides a broad introduction to machine learning and statistical pattern recognition. Topics include: supervised learning (generative/discriminative learning, parametric/non-parametric learning, neural networks, support vector machines); unsupervised learning (clustering, dimensionality reduction, kernel methods); learning theory (bias/variance tradeoffs; VC theory; large margins); reinforcement learning and adaptive control. The course will also discuss recent applications of machine learning, such as to robotic control, data mining, autonomous navigation, bioinformatics, speech recognition, and text and web data processing.

Subjects:: Computing
Keywords:: Pattern perception -- Statistical methods Machine learning
Resource Type:: Courseware

MOOC

CS50's Introduction to Computer Science

This is CS50x , Harvard University's introduction to the intellectual enterprises of computer science and the art of programming for majors and non-majors alike, with or without prior programming experience. An entry-level course taught by David J. Malan, CS50x teaches students how to think algorithmically and solve problems efficiently. Topics include abstraction, algorithms, data structures, encapsulation, resource management, security, software engineering, and web development. Languages include C, Python, SQL, and JavaScript plus CSS and HTML. Problem sets inspired by real-world domains of biology, cryptography, finance, forensics, and gaming. The on-campus version of CS50x , CS50, is Harvard's largest course.

Course related:: COMP1011 Programming Fundamentals
Subjects:: Computing
Keywords:: Computer programming Computer science
Resource Type:: MOOC

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CS50’s Introduction to Artificial Intelligence with Python

This course explores the concepts and algorithms at the foundation of modern artificial intelligence, diving into the ideas that give rise to technologies like game-playing engines, handwriting recognition, and machine translation. Through hands-on projects, students gain exposure to the theory behind graph search algorithms, classification, optimization, reinforcement learning, and other topics in artificial intelligence and machine learning as they incorporate them into their own Python programs. By course’s end, students emerge with experience in libraries for machine learning as well as knowledge of artificial intelligence principles that enable them to design intelligent systems of their own.

Course related:: COMP3011 Design and Analysis of Algorithms, COMP1001 Problem Solving Methodology in Information Technology, COMP4434 Artificial Intelligence, and COMP2011 Data Structures
Subjects:: Human-Computer Interaction and Computing
Keywords:: Computer programming Computer science Python (Computer program language) Artificial intelligence
Resource Type:: Courseware

Others

Codecademy: Learn to Code for Free

Learn to Code for Free. We're here to make coding more accessible, so everyone can learn the skills they need to upgrade their careers. For example, you can learn Python, HTML, CSS, and JavaScript.

Subjects:: Computing
Keywords:: Computer programming Programming languages (Electronic computers)
Resource Type:: Others

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Communicating with Mobile Technology

This course covers the basics of J2ME and explores mobile imaging and media creation, GPS location, user-centered design, usability testing, and prototyping. Java experience is recommended.

Subjects:: Computing
Keywords:: Mobile apps Mobile computing Cell phone systems Application software -- Development
Resource Type:: Courseware

Courseware

Computation Structures

This course introduces architecture of digital systems, emphasizing structural principles common to a wide range of technologies. It covers the topics including multilevel implementation strategies, definition of new primitives (e.g., gates, instructions, procedures, processes) and their mechanization using lower-level elements. It also includes analysis of potential concurrency, precedence constraints and performance measures, pipelined and multidimensional systems, instruction set design issues and architectural support for contemporary software structures.

Subjects:: Electrical Engineering and Computing
Keywords:: Digital electronics
Resource Type:: Courseware

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