The Dragonlover's Guide to Pern by A Mccaffrey

The Dragonlover's Guide to Pern by A Mccaffrey

The application of intelligent imaging techniques to industrial vision problems is an evolving aspect of current machine vision research. Machine vision is a relatively new technology, more concerned with systems engineering than with computer science, and with much to offer the manufacturing industry in terms of improving efficiency, safety and product quality. Beginning with an introductory chapter on the basic concepts, the authors develop these ideas to describe intelligent imaging techniques for use in a new generation of industrial imaging systems. Sections cover the application of AI languages such as Prolog, the use of multi-media interfaces and multi-processor systems, external device control, and colour recognition. The text concludes with a discussion of several case studies that illustrate how intelligent machine vision techniques can be used in industrial applications.

Jody Lynn Nye lists her main career activity as 'spoiling cats.' When not engaged upon this worthy occupation, she writes fantasy and science fiction books and short stories. She has published over 45 books and more than 120 short stories. Among the novels Jody has written are her epic fantasy series, The Dreamland, beginning with Waking In Dreamland, five contemporary humorous fantasies, Mythology 101, Mythology Abroad, Higher Mythology (the three collected as Applied Mythology), Advanced Mythology, The Magic Touch, and the Taylor's Ark series, medical science. Strong Arm Tactics, a humorous military science fiction novel, the first of The Wolfe Pack series. Jody also wrote The Dragonlover's Guide to Pern, a non-fiction-style guide to the world of internationally best-selling author Anne McCaffrey's popular world. She also collaborated with Anne McCaffrey on four science fiction novels, The Death of Sleep, Crisis On Doona, Treaty At Doona and The Ship Who Won, and wrote a solo sequel to The Ship Who Won: The Ship Errant. Jody co-authored the Visual Guide to Xanth with best-selling fantasy author Piers Anthony, and edited an anthology of humorous stories about mothers in science fiction, fantasy, myth and legend, entitled Don't Forget Your Spacesuit, Dear! She wrote eight books with the late Robert Lynn Asprin, License Invoked, a contemporary fantasy set in New Orleans, and seven set in Asprin's Myth Adventures universe. Since Asprin's passing, she has published Myth-Quoted and Dragons Deal (Ace Books), third in Asprin's Dragons series. Her newest series is the Lord Thomas Kinago books, beginning with View From the Imperium and Fortunes of the Imperium (Baen Books). Her newest books are Rhythm of the Imperium, an e-collection of cat stories, Cats Triumphant (Event Horizon), Dragons Run (fourth in the Dragons series) and Launch Pad, an anthology of science fiction stories co-edited with Mike Brotherton. Upcoming are the next Myth-Adventures novel, Myth-Fits, her novella in the second in the Clan of the Claw series, Tooth and Claw, and Wishing on a Star, a Stellar Guild collaboration (Arc Manor Press). Jody lives in the northwest suburbs of Chicago, with her husband Bill Fawcett, a writer, game designer, military historian and book packager, and a black cat, Jeremy. Jody and Bill are the fiction reviewers for Galaxy's Edge Magazine. Jody is on the net at www.jodynye.com and mythadventures.net, on Facebook as Jody Lynn Nye, and Twitter @JodyLynnNye.

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ISBN 13	9780345379467
ISBN 10	0345379462
Title	The Dragonlover's Guide to Pern
Author	A Mccaffrey
Series	Del Rey Science Fiction
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Random House USA Inc
Year published	1992-10-06
Number of pages	30
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