The Organization of Information or Maximum Lego NXT

The Organization of Information

Author: Arlene G Taylor

The extensively revised and completely updated second edition of this popular textbook provides LIS practitioners and students with a vital guide to the organization of information. After a broad overview of the concept and its role in human endeavors, Taylor proceeds to a detailed and insightful discussion of such basic retrieval tools as bibliographies, catalogs, indexes, finding aids, registers, databases, major bibliographic utilities, and other organizing entities. After tracing the development of the organization of recorded information in Western civilization from 2000 B.C.E. to the present, the author addresses topics that include encoding standards (MARC, SGML, and various DTDs), metadata (description, access, and access control), verbal subject analysis including controlled vocabularies and ontologies, classification theory and methodology, arrangement and display, and system design.

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A basic textbook for students of library and information studies, and a guide for practicing school library media specialists. Describes the impact of global forces and the school district on the development and operation of a media center, the technical and human side of management, programmatic activities, supportive services to students, and the quality and quantity of resources available to support programs. Includes a glossary that does not indicate pronunciation. No dates are notes for previous editions. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknew.com)

See also: Ethics at Work or Organizational Ethics and the Good Life

Maximum Lego NXT: Building Robots with Java Brains

Author: Brian Bagnall

Over 24 fun and challenging projects using the next generation of LEGO® MINDSTORMS™ and the Java™ programming language
LEGO® MINDSTORMS™ NXT is an incredible new kit for building and programming your own robotic inventions. Maximum Lego NXT explores the new LEGO® MINDSTORMS™ kit, giving readers a diverse set of projects, building tips, programming code, complete 3D rendered building instructions and hundreds of illustrations to help you realize your robotic dreams.
Using Java™, the most popular and easy to use programming language available, this book will give you months of entertainment and exploration. It introduces the new MINDSTORMS™ NXT kit, including the new intelligent NXT brick, Bluetooth™, powerful new servo motors, the all new sound sensor, the light sensor that can detect color and brightness, the touch sensor for detecting when the robot bumps into objects, and the powerful new ultrasonic sensor that pings the environment like a bat. Maximum NXT includes:Easy to follow instructions by the author of Core LEGO® MINDSTORMS™ Programming. Explores all available sensors and expansion products available for the NXT kit, including unique projects interfacing a video camera, cell phone, GPS enabled Bluetooth devices, and many more. An exciting collection of 24 complete projects, including a chess playing robot, an exoskeleton for your hand, a Mars Rover, a robotic arm you can control through the Internet, a 3D object scanner, team soccer robots and many more. Introduces 12 in-depth programming projects including navigation, mapping, precise robotic arm control,voice control and global localization. Artificial Intelligence concepts including Vision analysis, Rodney Brooks' Subsumption Architecture, Reinforcement Learning, and Genetic Algorithms. Exciting projects that use third-party sensors like compass, acceleration/tilt sensor, and port expanders. A full chapter on building with the new LEGO stud-less brick paradigm. A complete tutorial on programming Java™ How to install a free development environment for leJOS NeXT, the Java™ Virtual Machine for the NXTMaximum LEGO NXT is the ultimate LEGO MINDSTORMS guide:
• Meet Your NXT • Getting Started with leJOS • Java for Primates • The leJOS API • Construction Techniques • Bite into Bluetooth • Robots with Vision • Grabby Robots • Balancing Robots • Sound and the NXT • Navigation • Mapping • GPS and Rough Terrain • Exoskeletons • Telepresence and the Internet • Scanning • AI Robotics • Index and Appendices