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Book Title:- Game Programming Gems 6
http://www.amazon.com/Game-Programming-Gems-CD-ROM-Development/dp/1584504501
Product Description
Welcome to the sixth volume of the Game Programming Gems series. With team sizes constantly expanding, developers are finding themselves pushed to become increasingly specialized. This makes it important to have cutting-edge, ready-to-use material in your specialization, as well as resources that you can call upon if you need to work outside your area of expertise. Volume 6 has been explicitly designed with your current challenges in mind. With the new generation of machines, players expect higher-fidelity models and animations, fancier physics and graphics effects, and more intelligent AI. All of these capabilities require robust teams and longer schedules, so to help ensure that your games are still delivered on time and on budget, you'll find 50 all new articles written by experts in game technology from many different backgrounds and over twenty countries. This volume also includes a brand new section dedicated to Scripting and Data-Driven Systems, which is focused entirely on the growing trend of removing the programmer from the data-tweaking loop. So, whether you're a new game programmer starting out on this exciting path, a grizzled, industry veteran, or a most welcome visitor, we hope that you will find inspiration, insight, and at least one or two true gems to use in your world!
About Co Author (from CineFXLabs)
GopalaKrishna Palem - Academic experience as a research Scholor @ IIT Bombay and professional experience @ Microsoft
Basically a reseacher in the core computation fields of Automata Theory, Algorithmic Information Theory also the Creator of: CarMusty Environment, CFugue Runtime, PlayByEar Tool, Movie Creation Library, Screen Capture library, Simulation Recording Library ground breaking tools used by passionate research scholors and Technical architects of computer science & Engineering.
also a Gold member of code project by contributing to developer resource society
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Book Title:- It Virtualization Best Practices: A Lean, Green Virtualized Data Center Approach
http://www.amazon.com/Virtualization-Best-Practices-Virtualized-Approach/dp/1583473548/ref=sr_1_3?ie=UTF8&qid=1292433147&sr=8-3
Product Description
Written by experts in the field, this indispensable guide provides a services-patterns approach to transforming IT infrastructures to a virtualized state to derive compelling business value for organizations. Thorough and informative, this account will demonstrate how businesses can become more productive in managing overall costs, more agile in provisioning new business services and improving time to market, more proactive in catering to rapidly changing business models and client demands, and more charged as an engine for fueling business growth.
About the Author
Mickey Iqbal is an IBM Distinguished Engineer and a member of the IBM Academy of Technology. He lives in Plano, Texas. Mithkal Smadi is an IBM Distinguished Engineer in Integrated Service Delivery. He lives in Round Rock, Texas. Chris Molloy is an IBM Distinguished Engineer and a member of IBM's Academy of Technology. He lives in Raleigh, North Carolina. Jim Rymarczyk is an IBM Fellow and the Chief Virtualization Technologist for IBM’s Systems and Technology Group. He is a former computer science adjunct professor at Union College and a member of the IEEE, the ACM, and the IBM Academy of Technology. He lives in Austin, Texas.
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Book Title:- The ITSM Experience: Real Life Remarkable ITSM Experiences - 2010 Edition
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1742444741/ref=pd_lpo_k2_dp_sr_1?pf_rd_p=1278548962&pf_rd_s=lpo-top-stripe-1&pf_rd_t=201&pf_rd_i=1438243065&pf_rd_m=ATVPDKIKX0DER&pf_rd_r=1XMFVYQN205S4X3ZJTPW
Product Description
This 2010 edition of the ITSM Experience Book is the Second edition, consisting of all new experiences. Our goal is to show you a range of interesting stories to challenge you to realize that ITSM takes many forms and that if you choose to, you can bring this thinking to your career, your product or your company. This book is a sketchbook, not a manual, filled with the ideas and musings from ITSM professionals, students and those who are just dabbling in the theory. What they all have in common is that they are YOUR stories. They represent the tough work done out there. Stuff to get you going. This book is a great resource -- lots of research, plenty of tips, and loaded with detailed anecdotes offering a unique insight into the ITSM universe. If you are new to ITSM, this book will help you figure out how people are using ITSM and encourage you to get started. If you are a casual user, this book will give you ideas on how to hone your skills. If you are an expert, this book may surprise you with how others use ITSM, and how much more you can learn. This book is designed primarily for the non-technical IT person, who wants to learn about the business, and the fun, of using ITSM. Find out how ITSM has been implemented all over the world. We hope it inspires you to begin, continue with or complete your ITSM journey
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Book Title:- The ITIL Experience
http://www.amazon.com/ITIL-Experience-Real-Remarkable-Experiences/dp/1742442188
Product Description
If you are new to ITIL, this Book will help you figure out how to get up and going. If you are a casual user, this Book will give you ideas on how to hone those skills. If you are an expert, this Book will surprise you with how others use ITIL, and how much more you can learn, find out how ITIL has been implemented all over the world. Let it inspire you to begin, continue with or complete your ITIL journey.
We compiled your 67 stories to help users of ITIL see what we mean when we talk about remarkable IT Service Management. Every single story in this Book is about the edges. These are companies (big and small) and individuals (successful and not-yet-successful) who made the scary choice to stand out and be remarkable. As a result of doing something wonderful, out of the ordinary, or just GREAT, they have managed to create a service/experience worth talking about.
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Book Title:- IT Savvy : What Top Executives Must know to go from pain to gain
http://www.amazon.com/Savvy-What-Executives-Must-Know/dp/1422181014/ref=pd_rhf_shvl_12
Product Description
Digitization of business interactions and processes is advancing full bore. But in many organizations, returns from IT investments are flatlining, even as technology spending has skyrocketed.
These challenges call for new levels of IT savvy: the ability of all managers-IT or non-IT-to transform their company's technology assets into operational efficiencies that boost margins. Companies with IT-savvy managers are 20 percent more profitable than their competitors.
In IT Savvy, Peter Weill and Jeanne Ross-two of the world's foremost authorities on using IT in business-explain how non-IT executives can acquire this savvy. Concise and practical, the book describes the practices, competencies, and leadership skills non-IT managers need to succeed in the digital economy. You'll discover how to:
-Define your firm's operating model-how IT can help you do business
-Revamp your IT funding model to support your operating model
-Build a digitized platform of business processes, IT systems, and data to execute on the model
-Determine IT decision rights
-Extract more business value from your IT assets
Packed with examples and based on research into eighteen hundred organizations in more than sixty countries, IT Savvy is required reading for non-IT managers seeking to push their company's performance to new heights.
About the Author
Peter Weill is chairman of the Center for Information Systems Research (CISR) at MIT. Ziff-Davis and eweek.com named him twenty-fourth of the 100 most influential people in IT. Jeanne W. Ross is director of MIT CISR and founding senior editor and former editor-in-chief of MISQ Executive, a journal for managers translating research findings into action.
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Book Title:- Understanding variation- The key to managing the chaos
http://www.amazon.com/Understanding-Variation-Key-Managing-Chaos/dp/0945320531
Product Description
We live in the Information Age, and much of that information comes to us in the form of numbers. But before numerical information can be useful it must be analyzed, interpreted, and assimilated. Unfortunately, teaching the techniques for making sense of data has been neglected at all levels of our educational system. As a result, through our culture there is little appreciation of how to effectively use the volumes of data generated by both business and government. This book can remedy that situation. Readers report that this book as changed both the way they look a data and the very form their monthly reports. It has turned arguments about the numbers into a common understanding of what needs to be done about them. These techniques and benefits have been thoroughly proven in a wide variety of settings. Read this book and use the techniques to gain the benefits for your company
About the Author
Dr. Donald J. Wheeler has been actively planting the seeds of transformation in companies and organizations around the world for over 25 years. His classes have been credited with being the essential element in turning companies around and taking them from red ink to black. In less spectacular ways his seminars have been the foundation for establishing learning cultures within many organizations in various industries. Unlike so many classes where the emphasis is upon techniques, Dr. Wheeler's classes go far beyond mere techniques to teaching the way of thinking needed to use those techniques effectively. He has worked with over 250 companies in chemical processing, health care, medical equipment, information technology, steel and aluminum production, agribusiness, food production and processing, electronics, pulp and paper processing, automotive suppliers, government agencies, and banking. Dr. Wheeler has taught over 1000 seminars in the USA, Canada, Mexico, England, Scotland, Ireland, Wales, Norway, Sweden, Finland, Germany, Belgium, Switzerland, Portugal, South Africa, Brazil and Malaysia. Over 60,000 students from the US and 32 countries on five continents have attended his seminars, which are held in Knoxville, Tennessee. Marketing research shows that word of mouth advertising brings in the majority of these students. We love it when our clients and students tell their friends and colleagues how good Dr. Wheeler's classes are! Along with his acclaimed seminars, Dr. Wheeler has also authored or coauthored twenty books which collectively form the definitive library for Discovery through Data Analysis. His books are being used throughout the US and in over 41 countries around the world. Dr. Wheeler has M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Statistics from Southern Methodist University. He taught at the University of Tennessee for 12 years where he was an Associate Professor of Statistics. He is a Fellow both the American Statistical Association and the American Society for Quality, and he was an associate of Dr. W. Edwards Deming until his death in 1993. In short, Dr. Wheeler is the internationally recognized expert on Data Analysis and SPC. He has the knowledge, the experience, and the ability to communicate that knowledge and experience to others.
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