-- Discusses the design of streaming media servers in single disk drive and multi-disk platforms. -- Bonus CD includes a sample streaming media server for hands-on learning, developed at IMSC - the ONLY federally funded multimedia research center. -- Covers actual techniques and applications, including the theoretical underpinnings and mathematical origins.
This book covers the fundamental issues and advanced techniques that underlie the design of modern, high-performance and large scale Continuous Media (CM) servers on various multi-disk platforms. CM continue to be some of the most demanding data types in many newly emerging applications. Those new applications include digital editing systems, digital libraries, corporate training networks, and entertainment databases (video-on-demand, interactive TV). In order to effectively support CM's large size and real-time-display functions, the design of streaming CM servers has to be quite different from that of traditional file or database systems. The topics included are designed to teach system designers, multimedia applications engineers and other professionals the optimization techniques necessary to maximize the performance of these complex servers for the diversity inherent in CM applications. To illustrate this concept, the book features an accompanying CD complete with a working example of tutorial CM software to experience running a CM server hands-on.

Streaming Media Server Design

Computers & Technology

Dashti, Ali

Kim, Seon Ho

Shahabi, Cyrus

Web Development & Design

PRENTICE/HALL

In Search of Omar Khayyam

Reference

Encyclopedias & Subject Guides

Columbia Univ. Pr.

Describes the poetic works of Khayyam, the history of his popularity in the West, and the debate about which of the works attributed to him were actually written by Khayyam in an attempt to recognize his true thoughts and works.

Word Search for Kids ages 8-10

Puzzle World

Khayyam has been the subject of speculation on the part of literary critics ever since Edward Fitzgerald published his own version of the Rubaiyat in 1859. This edition represented the first opportunity to study in English the work of Khayyam by a Persian scholar. There is no conclusive evidence to prove which of the many quatrains attributed to Khayyam are authentic. Ali Dashti therefore constructs a likeness of the poet from references found in the works of writers of his day or immediately after, and from Khayyam’s own works on philosophy, mathematics and astronomy, of which the authenticity is not questioned. Khayyam emerges as a widely read and broad-minded scholar, immersed in his own studies, cautious and moderate, averse to committing himself on controversial questions. Using this portrait Dashti draws up a list of some hundred quatrains which are in keeping with Khayyam’s character. Selling point: An elegant and accurate translation which throws light on the nature of Khayyam’s religious and philosophical beliefs.

Biographies & Memoirs

Routledge

Through use of the earliest sources together with psychological & sociological analysis, this book explores the leadership offered by Mohammad. It attempts to dispel the fog of superstition built up around him & discusses problems that are rarely examined.

Twenty Three Years: A Study of the Prophetic Career of Mohammad

Politics & Social Sciences

Social Sciences

Mazda Pub

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