Computer Engineering

Plastic built the modern world. Where would we be without bike helmets, baggies, toothbrushes, and pacemakers? But a century into our love affair with plastic, we're starting to realize it's not such a healthy relationship. Plastics draw dwindling fossil fuels, leach harmful chemicals, litter landscapes, and destroy marine life. As journalist Susan Freinkel points out in this engaging and eye-opening book, we're nearing a crisis point.

In Eisenhower's Sputnik Moment, Yanek Mieczkowski examines the early history of America's space program, reassessing Eisenhower's leadership. He details how Eisenhower approved breakthrough satellites, supported a new civilian space agency, signed a landmark science education law, and fostered improved relations with scientists. Offering a fast-paced account of this Cold War episode, Mieczkowski demonstrates that Eisenhower built an impressive record in space and on earth.

The AI Mastery 3-in-1 Collection is your roadmap to go from experimenting with AI to building a cash-generating machine powered by automation, precision, and creativity. Whether you’re brand new or already using ChatGPT, this collection bridges the gap between potential and profit.

Ideal for beginners, intermediates, freelancers, and small-business owners who value results now—not someday. No fluff. No recycled blog posts. No get-rich-quick nonsense—just a toolkit you’ll actually use.

De toute éternité, les communications à distance, les télécommunications, se sont avérées essentielles pour les humains. Selon les époques, elles ont fait appel à l'imagination ou à l'ingénierie, et toujours de manière industrieuse. Ainsi, les trompettes, les tambours, la fumée ou le langage sifflé transmettaient des messages aux populations locales bien avant l'avènement du télégraphe optique, du télex ou de la téléphonie.

The Untold Story of Steve Jobs's Wilderness Years—and the Creation of a Legend In 1985, Steve Jobs—the brilliant, volatile founder of Apple Computer—walked out of his company's headquarters, driven from the very corporation he had created. What happened next would transform not only his...

To ensure that applications are reliable and always available, more businesses today are moving applications to AWS. But many companies still struggle to design and build these cloud applications effectively. With this practical guide, software, DevOps, and cloud engineers will learn how to implement resilient designs and configurations in the cloud using hands-on independent labs.

The first-ever inside look at DARPA—the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency—the maverick and controversial group whose futuristic work has had amazing civilian and military applications, from the Internet to GPS to driverless cars America's greatest idea factory isn't Bell Labs...

ACTIVATE AN ALTERED LEVEL OF CONSCIOUSNESSOpen your psychic senses and expand your perception abilities at the mudra level of consciousness with this two-part system of hypnotic and sleep suggestions. This adaptation of the ancient meditation technique of touching index finger and thumb together...

In the fast-paced world of oil and gas pipelines, innovation is key. With the PHMSA Mega Rule reshaping the industry, companies need cutting-edge solutions to stay compliant, safe, and efficient. This audiobook is your essential guide to leveraging GIS technology to meet these new challenges and elevate your operations. This comprehensive guide explores the integration of Virtual GIS with advanced technologies to enhance compliance, safety, and efficiency in pipeline operations.

Listen to Quality Assurance to discover everything you need to know about testing and software quality, step by step to increase your software skill set. Learn how to dominate computer systems. All your basic knowledge in one purchase!

In an unparalleled collaboration, two leading global thinkers in technology and foreign affairs give us their widely anticipated, transformational vision of the future: a world where everyone is connected - a world full of challenges and benefits that are ours to meet and to harness. Eric Schmidt is one of Silicon Valley’s great leaders, having taken Google from a small startup to one of the world’s most influential companies. Jared Cohen is the director of Google Ideas and a former adviser to secretaries of state Condoleezza Rice and Hillary Clinton.

Dive into the essence of Agile methodologies with "Agile Manifesto: Unpacking the Agile Manifesto for Modern Development." This comprehensive guide explores each of the core values and principles declared in the Agile Manifesto, providing a deep and actionable understanding tailored for today's dynamic development environments.

You can learn the most popular frameworks, use the best programming languages, and work at the biggest tech companies, but if you cultivate bad habits, it will be hard for you to become a top developer. This book doesn't offer a straight path or pre-defined formula of success. This book is a result of a quest. A quest to uncover what habits can be cultivated to become a better software engineer.

The beauty of ChatGPT is that it does the heavy lifting for you, giving you all the time to focus on your full-time job, while your personal AI employee works round the clock to deliver results. This is the new realm of opportunities, where earning money is less of a grind and more of having your very own AI assistants. The only question is… are you ready to step into this future? This is the tech revolution you’ve been waiting for — leave the headaches of traditional businesses behind and let AI transform how you earn money today.

Ever feel like you don’t even own the hardware and software you paid dearly for? Ever get the impression that you have to ask for permission before installing or changing a program on your device? Ever feel like Facebook and Instagram are listening to your conversations to show you relevant ads? You’re not alone. Half-baked products and services that chip away at your sense of ownership, independence and privacy are a part of a global wave of corporate indifference that micromanages and spies on honest, uniformed customers.

This is a two book bundle related to starting to master Python programming language and dominating the Linux operating system!

This audiobook is the first part of a trilogy to follow Software Wasteland. In Software Wasteland, we detailed the current poor state of application software development. We offered some tactical advice for reducing some of the worse of the excess. This is the first book in the "what to do instead" trilogy. From the age of punched cards to today's internet-driven systems, one thing has stayed fairly constant: software vendors and their implementers have been driving the enterprise IT industry. This is changing.

Reactive Design Patterns is a clearly written guide for building message-driven distributed systems that are resilient, responsive, and elastic. In this book you'll find patterns for messaging, flow control, resource management, and concurrency, along with practical issues like test-friendly designs. All patterns include concrete examples using Scala and Akka.

This book is dedicated to helping JavaScript Full Stack Developers interview for new positions, capture the job offer of their dreams and move up the career ladder. It is primarily geared toward "Full Stack front-end" developers. Along with answering technical JavaScript questions, the book also covers other front-end languages such as Angular, Express, MongoDB, Node.js, and more.