A Short Guide to Operational Risk
This comprehensive yet concise guide provides an accessible introduction to operational risk management for professionals across all industries and sectors. The renowned author defines operational risk and its crucial role within holistic enterprise-wide risk governance frameworks. In a highly practical manner, the book guides readers through the core processes of identifying, assessing, [...]
Accelerators in Silicon Valley
Building Successful Startups
This book analyzes over 20 different accelerators through interviews with their staff. Features like mission, selection process, funding models, mentoring programs and startup showcase events are explored.
Ada for the Embedded C Developer
This book introduces Ada for embedded C developers, comparing it to C syntax while providing guidance on real-time, multithreading features and verifying concurrent programs with SPARK and static analysis tools for safety-critical systems programming.
Artificial Intelligence
Foundations of Computational Agents
Written by professors David Poole and Alan Mackworth, this comprehensive textbook from Cambridge University Press, spanning over 680 pages, presents artificial intelligence through the framework of designing intelligent computational agents. Recommended for: Undergraduate and graduate students studying AI Courses, computer science and related fields. Suitable for students with some programming background. Beginner [...]
Assetization
Turning Things into Assets in Technoscientific Capitalism
This edited volume examines the concept of "assetization" - how things are turned into assets that can be owned, traded, and capitalized on for profit in today's technoscientific capitalist system.
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How Amazon Branded Convenience and Normalized Monopoly
This book analyzes how Amazon promoted a brand image of convenience, comfort, personalized service and seamless customer experience through its e-commerce platform and services like Prime shipping.
Database Design
This open textbook presents a complete guide to database design principles and practice. It aims to equip students and professionals with skills to develop robust, maintainable database systems using the relational model. The textbook covers fundamental concepts and advances to modeling, normalization, transactions and administration. Practical exercises reinforce learning. Recommended for: Beginner [...]
Global Fintech
Financial Innovation in the Connected World
The book analyzes foundational innovations and their prompting of transitions in banking, payments and services. Contributors assess regulatory frameworks and policies, providing perspectives from academia, industry and government. Case studies evaluate recommendations for assessing mergers and standards.
Innovation matters
Competition Policy for the High-Technology Economy
This openly accessible work proposes refocusing competition policy priorities towards innovation promotion over price effects, particularly for high-technology industries. Through analyses of frameworks such as Arrow's replacement effect and views of iterative technological advancement, the book evaluates how network impacts and cumulative innovation influence these sectors.
Introduction to the GNAT Toolchain
“Introduction to the GNAT Toolchain” is a comprehensive tutorial aimed at beginners who want to set up an Ada development environment using the GNU Ada (GNAT) toolchain. The book provides step-by-step guidance on installing and configuring the necessary build tools for compiling and managing Ada projects from the command line. It focuses [...]
Open Softwear
Fashionable prototyping and wearable computing using the Arduino
This free, open-source book teaches the fundamentals of integrating microcontrollers, electronics and coding into fashion and textile designs using the popular Arduino platform. It covers all aspects of getting started with wearable technology projects, from choosing hardware components to uploading finished programs. Examples explore utilizing digital and analog pins, programming inputs and [...]
Selling the American people
Advertising, Optimization, and the Origins of Adtech
This comprehensive open access book provides a deep-time perspective on the origins and evolution of data-driven digital advertising. Through a detailed historical analysis tracing back to the 1950s emergence of computerization, it examines how technical specialists in advertising and media progressively blended computation, quantitative methodologies, and calculative logics into a powerful ideology [...]