Authors:Luis M. Camarinha-Matos, Willy Picard,
Publisher: Springer
Keywords: ifip, poznan, september, poland, information, communication, enterprises, technology, virtual, networks, collaborative, ninth, working, conference, pervasive
Number of Pages: 635
Published: 2008-08-08
List price: $239.00
ISBN-10: 0387848363
ISBN-13: 9780387848365

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the IFIP TC 5 WG 5.5 9th Working Conference on Virtual Enterprises held in Poznan, Poland on September 8-10, 2008. The IFIP series publishes state-of-the-art results in the sciences and technologies of information and communication. The scope of the series includes: foundations of computer science; software theory and practice; education; computer applications in technology; communication systems; systems modeling and optimization; information systems; computers and society; computer systems technology; security and protection in information

Author: Rosalind W. Picard
Publisher: The MIT Pre
Keywords: computing, affective
Number of Pages: 304
Published: 2000-07-31
List price: $29.00
ISBN-10: 0262661152
ISBN-13: 9780262661157

As a scientist who works in computer development, Rosalind Picard is accustomed to working with what is rational and logical. But in her research on how to enable computers to better perceive the world, she discovered something surprising: In the human brain, a critical part of our ability to see and perceive is not logical, but emotional. Therefore, for computers to have some of the advanced abilities we desire, it may be necessary that they comprehend and, in some cases, feel emotions. Affective Computing isn’t about making PCs that get grumpy when you enter repeated errors or that may

Author: Liza Picard
Publisher: St. Martin’s Griffin
Keywords: city, tale, london, victorian
Number of Pages: 416
Published: 2007-02-20
List price: $21.99
ISBN-10: 0312366590
ISBN-13: 9780312366599

For readers who enjoy their history told with a sense of gusto, verve, and a keen eye for detail, Liza Picard brings Victorian London to fruitful life.With her trademark wit and passionate interest in the quirky realities of everyday life, Liza Picard vividly recalls all the splendors and horrors of Victorian life. As suburbs expanded and roads multiplied, London was ripped apart to make way for railway lines and stations, sewers, and the world’s first subway. “Deserving poor” saw the first public housing projects, and significant advances were made in medicine. Using unpublished d

Author: Liza Picard
Publisher: Weidenfeld & Nicolson History
Keywords: 1660s, life, everyday, london, restoration
Number of Pages: 376
Published: 2003-05-01
List price: $16.50
ISBN-10: 1842127306
ISBN-13: 9781842127308

Making use of every possible contemporary source - diaries, memoirs, advice books, government papers, almanacs, even the Register of Patents - Liza Picard presents an enthralling picture of how life in London was really lived in the 1600s: the houses and streets, gardens and parks, cooking, clothes and jewellery, cosmetics, hairdressing, housework, laundry and shopping, medicine and dentistry, sex, education, hobbies, etiquette, law and crime, religion and popular beliefs. ’There is almost no aspect of life in Restoration London that is not meticulously described in these 300-odd pag

Author: Liza Picard
Publisher: St. Martin’s Griffin
Keywords: london, elizabethan, life, everyday, elizabeth
Number of Pages: 368
Published: 2005-06-01
List price: $18.95
ISBN-10: 0312325665
ISBN-13: 9780312325664

This picture of the London of Queen Elizabeth (1558-1603) is the result of Liza Picard’s curiosity about the practical details of daily life that almost every history book ignores. As seen in her two previous, highly acclaimed books-Restoration London and Dr. Johnson’s London-she has immersed herself in contemporary sources of every kind. She begins with the River Thames, the lifeblood of Elizabethan London. The city, on the north bank of the river, was still largely confined within old Roman walls. Upriver at Westminster were the royal palaces, and between them and the crowded

Author: E. Rafaela Picard
Publisher: PowerKids Press
Keywords: awareness, library, drug, neighborhood, drugs, danger
Number of Pages: 24
Published: 1998-08
List price: $21.25
ISBN-10: 0823950514
ISBN-13: 9780823950515

Explains how illegal drugs hurt people and the areas in which they live, how to detect the signs of drug use and sales in a neighborhood, and how to avoid drug dealers.

Author: Edmond Picard
Publisher: BiblioLife
Keywords: drame, comedie, journalist, ambidextre
Number of Pages: 202
Published: 2009-06-04
List price: $26.99
ISBN-10: 1110402236
ISBN-13: 9781110402236