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Evolvable Hardware (EHW) has emerged as a sub-domain of artificial evolution represented by a design methodology (consortium of methods) involving the application of Evolutionary Algorithms (EA) to the synthesis of digital and analogue electronic circuits and systems. Nevertheless, the most benefit for the society and indeed most revolutionizing application of EA is its hardware implementation leading to the EHW. These new EA based methodologies led to a new type of machines that is evolved to attain a desired behaviour, which means they have a behavioural computational intelligence. EHW is a special case of the adaptive hardware, namely being strongly related to the Adaptive Systems (AS) and the Adaptive Hardware (AH). The book presents a careful selection of the field that very well reflects the breadth of this high technology and its terminology and applications in context of the AS/AH. The harmonious symbiosis of the engineering approach and the accurate scientific methodology features the aspects of highly relevant and practical design principles governing the development of EHW and its connections with AS/AH. This book is both attractive and useful for everybody interested in the design and analysis of EHW in context of AS/AH and implementation of real time adaptive hardware hybrid intelligent systems.

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This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Evolvable Systems, ICES 2007, held in Wuhan, China, in September 2007.

The 41 revised full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 123 submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections on digital hardware evolution, analog hardware evolution, bio-inspired systems, mechanical hardware evolution, evolutionary design, evolutionary algorithms in hardware design, and hardware implementation of evolutionary algorithms.

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This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Evolvable Systems, ICES 2005, held in Sitges, Spain in September 2005.

The 21 revised full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected. The papers are organized in topical sections on fault tolerance and recovery, platforms for evolving digital systems, evolution of analog circuits, evolutionary robotics, evolutionary hardware design methodologies, bio-inspired architectures, and applications.

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This digital document is an article from E Semanal, published by Servicios Editoriales Sayrols S.A. de C.V. on May 21, 2001. The length of the article is 1223 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: La puesta a punto del hardware: actualizacion del BIOS.(industria de computadoras, Mexico)(TT: Updating hardware: BIOS.)(TA: computer industry, Mexico)
Author: David Garza Marín
Publication: E Semanal (Magazine/Journal)
Date: May 21, 2001
Publisher: Servicios Editoriales Sayrols S.A. de C.V.
Volume: 17Issue: 456Page: 20

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This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Evolvable Systems, ICES 2008, held in Prague, Czech Republic, in September 2008.

The 28 revised full papers and 14 revised poster papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 52 submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections on evolution of analog circuits, evolution of digital circuits, hardware-software codesign and platforms for adaptive systems, evolutionary robotics, development, real-world applications, evolutionary networking, evolvable artificial neural networks, and transistor-level circuit evolution.

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Discusses a 'bio-inspired' implementation of human-brain computer architecture called brainware, through 8 papers from an IIZUKA conference held in 1998. Serves as a reference for graduate students and inspiration for further research on the topic. ... Read more

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This digital document is an article from Hardware Retailing, published by National Retail Hardware Association on September 1, 2009. The length of the article is 1800 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: Alternative is hot; bio-mass stoves warm up sales in heating department.(CATEGORY SPOTLIGHT)
Author: Jaime Koch
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Date: September 1, 2009
Publisher: National Retail Hardware Association
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What is a BIOS? BIOS, pronounced "bye-ose," is an acronym that standsfor Basic Input Output System. The BIOS is built-in software that determineswhat a computer can do without accessing programs from a disk. On PCs, theBIOS contains all the code required to control the keyboard, display screen,disk drives, serial communications, and a number of miscellaneous functions.Furthermore, The BIOS is responsible for booting your PC by providing abasic set of instructions. The BIOS performs all the necessary tasks that needto be initiated at start-up time: POST(Power-On Self Test, booting anoperating system from FDD or HDD). In essence, it is necessary to upgradethe BIOS on your PC in order to maintain or inevitably obtain compatibilitywith the PC industries latest hardware, software and operating systems. ... Read more

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Bios Tuning
Most comprehensive information on tweaking any computer's BIOS.
A great help in speeding Start-up time and booting to the Op system.

This was a very helpful purchase. I'd recommend this to any computer user, novice or expert.


Jerry

The Bios Barrier
The author of this book is the best known person on the working of the bios. This book the proof of it. It is easy to understand and to find what you are looking for.

ok
Again, I got lucky. The book came in a bag envelope. No real damage to book. But, thank you all. I use to work in the post office, and I can tell everyone first hand that we all use to throw all kinds of mail like baseballs, really.Other times, I would try to take care of packages. But, really, I'm glad I got this book. If your a super geek like me, you would love this book, thanks.

Outdated Glossary with Some Recommendations.
This book is little more than a glossary of BIOS entries which may or may not match the ones in your computer.If you purchased a computer within the last year, this book will be of no help.It does not cover PCIE cards or dual video-card platforms.The terms rarely match up to specific BIOS terms, so you have to read through to find what you are looking for. What's worse this book is organized alphabetically.This is just the glossary to a book that was never written.There is no logical layout that will let you know what you need. For example, why not group all of the topics that affect RAM in one? Discuss RAM and how your BIOS interacts with it? No, instead you have to look through until you can find the entry for the BIOS menu.If I had the exact BIOS Mr. Wong had when he wrote this, it would be useful.However, I don't. I have a more recent BIOS and without a guide to how the thing works and why, this glossary is useless.I got more out of the guide posted on Tom's Hardware than this book.

Outdated
Unimpressive.I bought this to help with overclocking an Asus P5B Deluxe motherboard (launched mid 2006) and it didn't even mention most of the BIOS options I wanted to know about.The book advertises that it gives you 3 months access to the online Bios guide that is supposedly updated, but when I went online to activate that, it said the "promotion had expired".It's a dictionary of bios terms, not a guide.And the items covered are more pertinent to motherboards of 2004, not those made in 2007.One could use google or wikipedia and get the same or better explanations as those in this book. ... Read more

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The second edition of this bestselling guide covers the next generation Phoenix BIOS, used in major PC compatible, EISA, and 486-based computers. Anyone developing software for these machines needs this important information. ... Read more

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The book constitutes the thoroughly refereed post-workshop proceedings of the First Workshop on Bio-Inspired Design of Networks, BIOWIRE 2007, held in Cambridge, UK, in April 2007.

The 35 revised full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from many high quality submissions. All recent developments in the field of bio-inspired design of networks are addressed, with particular regard to wireless networks and the self-organizing properties of biological networks. The papers are organized in topical sections on biological networks, network epidemics, complex networks, bio-inspired network mode, network protocol in wireless communication, data management, distributed computing, and security.

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This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Evolvable Systems, ICES 2001, held in Tokyo, Japan in October 2001.
The 30 revised full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected for inclusion in the book. The papers are organized in topical sections on evolutionary design of electronic circuits, embryonic electronics, biologically-based systems, evolutionary robotics, evolutionary optimization, evolutionary learning, and applications. ... Read more

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This is the most complete technical reference availablefor the system BIOS in today's PCs. Most motherboards come with littleor no documentation describing the BIOS and what little exists isusually written in difficult to follow broken E -"Invaluable..." ishow Jerry Pournelle reviewed this book in Byte Magazine. Tom'sHardware web site refers to Phil Croucher's BIOS Companion as"excellent and extremely comprehensive" and a "must read" -The onlybook of its type that is current and written on current generationBIOS The author's self published version of the book has sold over5000 copies through the internet, small distributors, and word ofmouth alone -Phil Croucher is the most recognized expert in this areaand has a tremendous following on the Internet. He is such arecognized expert, that major BIOS vendors use his book for theirsupport technicians -Part of Que's highly visible Scott MuellerLibrary series, building on the success of Scott Mueller's Upgradingand Repairing PCs ... Read more

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Great but beginning to need update
This book is worth far more than is charged for it. Very well written. Probably the most-used reference book in my shop. However, it is beginning to need an update to keep up with most of the latest BIOS versions. Still a great value as the feature explainations trigger your thinking and allow you to figure out many related BIOS features in some of the newer versions. When Phil updates it again, I will buy it again.

A superb book
For those who need or want to fine tune, or simply understand, the basic and advanced features of their PC's BIOS, this book is an invaluable guide. It has a very broad range and covers both fundamental and more advanced topics as well as issues specific to particular bios types ( AMI, PHOENIX, etc. ) and versions. This is one book you need to have as a PC technician and a valuable resource for trouble shooting and configuring your personalPC even if your not. ... Read more

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The ultimate sourcebook on interrupts for PC programmers. Now updated and expanded, PC Interrupts, 2nd Ed. includes DOS 6, Windows 3.1, Novell DOS, and other new APIs. ... Read more

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The Absolute Reference!
Nobody else could write a book like PC Interrupts, than Ralf Brown & Jim Kyle. This book is not only a reference, it is written from programmers for programmers and all the needs of an experienced developer. The titlespeaks for itself, the book is a milestone in Computer Literature andtraces a long period of general PC development. May be, that the most ofthe stuff is dated, but anyway there's often enough a good reason to readsome and the enormous information impact makes the book valuable for everyprogrammer, today and forever. I recommend the book particularly!

Interrupts? -> Get Brown & Kyle's book
The classic Brown-Kyle book, this book is just great it has all theinterrupts and third party calls info that every programmer needs I can't say anymore about this book just that it rocks!

Absolutely neccessary guide to interrupts
The difinitive edition of Ralf Brown's Interrupt List, PC INTERRUPTS lists every DOS and BIOS interrupt call I have ever needed.This book should reside on the shelf of anyone interested in low-level code, especially assembly.-nick black ... Read more

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Carefully researched and written, PC Hardware in a Nutshell, 2nd Edition is packed with useful and unbiased information, including how-to advice for specific components, ample reference material, and a comprehensive case study on building a PC. To the point yet complete, this book provides an enormous amount of timeless information intended for anyone who buys, builds, upgrades, or repairs PCs in a corporate, small business, or home setting.In addition to coverage of the fundamentals and general tips about working on PCs, this book includes chapters focusing on motherboards, processors, memory, floppies, hard drives, optical drives, tape devices, video devices, input devices, audio components, communications, power supplies, and maintenance.Special emphasis is given to upgrading and troubleshooting existing equipment so you can get the most from your existing investments.Amazon.com Review
PC Hardware in a Nutshell: A Desktop Quick Reference relies on an eternal truth of the computer industry: legacy systems never die. This book focuses on the technologies that have provided Wintel personal computers with various capabilities over the years. Like most of its competitors, this book addresses the PC on a subsystem level, and deals with video cards, hard-disk interfaces, memory, and other pieces of the componentry puzzle that hardware integrators need to figure out. The authors do a great job of explaining the differences between (and relative merits of) IDE and SCSI hard-drive interfaces, various video buses, competing processors, and other technologies. They also prove themselves adept at explaining general assembly procedures and troubleshooting strategies.

This book distinguishes itself from its most popular competitors by emphasizing the authors' opinions on hardware products. It's refreshing to see authors recommend Product A for high-performance systems in which price is not an issue, Product B for economical home systems, and Product C for organizational workstations. On the other hand, the recommendations, prices, and similar values will change over time. The authors maintain a great Web site, at which you can find their current recommendations. (The Web site, on the other hand, doesn't include the book's high-quality tutorial on designing and assembling a system from zero.) Even the photographs that appear in this book--traditionally a weak point among hardware books--are clear. --David Wall

Topics covered: Personal computers that comply with Microsoft Windows and Intel compatibility requirements. The authors address processors, memory, hard disks, optical media, removable magnetic disks, video cards, power supplies, and more. Also, there are instructions for assembling a machine from scratch, and some coverage of troubleshooting problems. ... Read more

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Pull-no-punches opinionated and highly detailed
Robert Thompson is a man who doesn't hold back from giving his opinion on why something is good or bad, either on his website or in his books.In _PC Hardware in a Nutshell_, he tells you just what he thinks of what's good and bad about PC components in just about any category you can think of, and backs it up with all the facts, figures and personal experiences you could ever ask for.Every chapter includes historical information on the components under discussion, detailed reviews of what they do and how they do it, and recommendations on what to use (and what not to use).The final chapter walks you through building your own machine step-by-step, though, this being an omnibus book, the chapter is necessarily slightly skimpy in comparison to _Building The Perfect PC_.The writing style is clear and lively, in fact the book is well worth reading as a book even if you don't need any specific information at the time.The only real complaint I have is something the author has no control over - the fact that new PC hardware comes out so fast that it's just impossible to review every single new thing in a paper edition. (Well, that and the fact that Thompson doesn't like Western Digital because he's had bad experiences with their hard drives, whereas I've been using WD exclusively for years and never yet have had one go out on me.I think that can be chalked up, though, more to the fact that there's just so much PC hardware out there that different people are just going to end up having completely different experiences with components from a particular manufacturer.That, or I just got lucky with WD hard drives.)All in all, this book is truly indispensable.

Power to the People!
Let me start out with a huge thanks to O'Reilly. I'm not a big fan of large corporations or publishers - but I have come to trust O'Reilly implicitly wherever technical issues are concerned. Although I'm certain that they are not the "perfect" publisher, nor in the business for wholly (ha!) altruistic reasons, I AM amazed by the remarkable originality, diversity, range, quality, accuracy, and honorable business practices of this publisher. Oftentimes I wonder how they manage to maintain such a level, when their current library is so chock-full of tough-to-follow acts.

That said, PC Hardware in a Nutshell does not fail to meet up to these high expectations. Let me get the review portion of my review out of the way - simply put, this is the book I have been hunting for a couple years. That I did not immediately search the O'Reilly library only shows that I am a bit silly. I should have known better. End of review.

But I would like to carry this a bit further, and go out on a limb to discuss the only complaint prior reviewers have voiced: that the book is too "Microsoft-centric."

Rather than a weakness, I believe that this is actually a strength. Let me offer big kudos to the authors and publisher for realizing that a serious, yet accessible, compendium of computer hardware knowledge was necessary. The folks who register such complaints are those least in need of an in-depth introduction to PC hardware. These are the high priests of hi-tech, who rule the roost by virtue of their knowledge-monopoly on all issues technical. They would have you believe that if it was not hand-crafted from spare parts, duct tape, and copious amounts of solder and configured with the most obscure version of Linux, then it's only fit for a 4-year-old. They are, quite simply, dead wrong. Let them compile their own "PC Hardware for Only the Most Serious Tech Gurus", I say!

Thompson's very first point is that he intended the book to be of the most practical usability possible. The practical reality is that the people who desperately need such a compendium are poor fools, like Yours Truly, who are too technical to be satisfied with tutorials on how to use Microsoft Office, yet are not quite knowledgeable enough to get right under the hood of their PCs (never mind build a Linux box from spare hatpins and Reynolds Wrap). We, the "psuedo-techies", often do not come equipped with enough experience, knowledge, or confidence to take ourselves to the next level. We are the crowd who are using Microsoft products, yet would love to learn enough to understand exactly WHY Microsoft means "mush-mind" and Linux is God - but will never get there without a guide. This book is the guide, and to me it says, "Psuedo-techies unite! Power to the people!"

A bit dated
This is a great book that covers every aspect of building a PC. However, as of August 2004, the 3rd edition of this book is a bit dated. For example PC3200 memory is considered the newest memory and both Pentium 4 Prescott processors and Athlon 64 processors were not out when this book was published. If you are buying this book, you may want to wait for a 4th edition, unless you are looking to assemble an old computer.

I would not accept the author's hardware recommendations as the final word. For one thing, the components they review are in many cases no longer manufactured. Magazine reviews and PC hardware Web sites are going to have different opinions on what the best components are.

All you need for PC hardware
This book is amazingly concise and thorough, yet also very easy to read. It contains many helpful photographs, and the authors maintain a great website that is tremendously useful and is a great addition to the book. I am not a big fan of the "In a Nutshell" computer books published by O'Reilly, but this book is definitely an exception. It's great for both beginners and experts.

A Gem of a PC primer!
O'Reilly's an up and coming publisher of computer related books. Maybe a kingpin already. This selection is a true quick reference guide. Written by the Thompsons, this selection gives you a thorough look into buying, assembling and operating computers. You do need a basic understanding to get anything out of this book, but if this is the case, you won't be disappointed. I have a first edition copy, and it's still current. That says a lot, a first edition published four years ago is still not too outdated! Think about it. How many computer related books can you think of that's relatively current after four years? Huh? ... Read more

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Laminated quick reference guide. Covers Overview of the A+ exam, the Motherboard,CPU, Memory, BIOS/CMOS/Firmware, Video, Bus Standards,Terminology. ... Read more

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This digital document is an article from Software Industry Report, published by Millin Publishing, Inc. on November 20, 2000. The length of the article is 429 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: STMICROELECTRONICS INTROS APP-SPECIFIC FLASH MEMORY FOR FIRMWARE HUB BIOS.(Product Announcement)
Publication: Software Industry Report (Newsletter)
Date: November 20, 2000
Publisher: Millin Publishing, Inc.
Volume: 32Issue: 22Page: 1

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This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed proceedings of the First International Conference on InformationTechnology in Bio- and Medical Informatics, held in Bilbao, Spain, in September 2010.The 14 selected long papers and 8 selected short papers are divided in the following groups:Workflow management and database; Decision support and data management in biomedicine; Medical data modelling and information retrieval; Data mining in bioinformatics; Knowledge representation and data management in bioinformatics; Biological data and signal processing. ... Read more

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This digital document is an article from EDP Weekly's IT Monitor, published by Millin Publishing, Inc. on November 20, 2000. The length of the article is 429 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: STMICROELECTRONICS ANNOUNCES APPLICATION-SPECIFIC FLASH MEMORY FOR FIRMWARE HUB BIOS.(Product Announcement)
Publication: EDP Weekly's IT Monitor (Magazine/Journal)
Date: November 20, 2000
Publisher: Millin Publishing, Inc.
Volume: 41Issue: 45Page: 5

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