Customer Review: In my work I must review large data bases. We typically fit various models to the data. I've used the method of least squares to perform the analyses and found a reference to Wolberg's book. After reading several chapters I realized that there were several important aspect of this method that I... more info
Customer Review: For anyone who is new to robotics or interfacing motors in general, this book will be well received. What I liked about it is the way it encourages the use of electrical principles to achieve common robotics goals over microcontroller based control. (If you want your robot to come on at night... more info
Customer Review: The model included with the text is VERY difficult to build. I am an engineer and it took me about 5 hours to build. I was planning to use it for my middle school Robotics class. But not now. Construction requires ALOT of very fine tieing, threading, and crimping. The wires are difficult to see and... more info
Customer Review: This book will provide the most benefit to someone who has already written a computer chess program and is looking to improve it. The chapters on extended forward-pruning were especially informative and a number of high-level programs currently use the adaptive null-move pruning presented here.more info