Southern California has it all! Its rich diversity in climate, terrain, people, opportunities, and ideas cannot be overstated. With an open mind, Southern California welcomes the new, the wacky, and the absurd just as much as the brilliant and traditional. In more than 220 spectacular images and cap[...]
Peer-to-Peer (P2P) networks enable users to directly share digital content (such as audio, video, and text files) and real-time data (such as telephony traffic) with other users without depending on a central server. This book explains the conceptual operations and architecture underlying basic P2P [...]
The American painter John Singer Sargent's (1856-1925) world of images is full of contrasts. The technically brilliant Sargent had an impressive international career, especially with his elegant portraits of personalities from the upper echelons of international high society, but there are also seve[...]