SMITH: désidération (prologue)

Prologue

Table of Contents Prologue

Come and listen to the story of how Battlefield 1942 was made. Starting with the first steps of coming up with a game-concept and persuading a publisher to sign a deal. Moving on to the huge efforts, complex process and the hurdles that needed to be overcome in production, and ending with the final stages of Alpha and Beta-testing.

Prologue -- Blueprints for Action

In 1999, the Institute of Medicine report To Err Is Human: Building a Safer Health System advanced a clear challenge to create safer environments in health care. The message of the report has resonated ever since, from the halls of Congress to the hallways of health care facilities across the nation. Less clear, however, was when and how the concern about unsafe systems would be translated into...

Cloud Computing: a Prologue

An emerging internet based super computing model is represented by cloud computing. Cloud computing is the convergence and evolution of several concepts from virtualization, distributed storage, grid, and automation management to enable a more flexible approach for deploying and scaling applications. However, cloud computing moves the application software and databases to the large data centers...

Prologue: Regular polytopes

Current Version January 1, 2005 To motivate the study of finite reflection groups and Coxeter groups more generally, I’ll begin by briefly sketching the classification of regular polytopes. Convex polytopes are fundamental objects in mathematics which can be viewed in a number of equivalent ways: as the convex hull of a finite set of points in R, as the intersection of a finite number of half-s...