Proof of Concept

Proof of Concept

Author: Gwyneth Jones

Publisher: Tordotcom

Published: 2017-04-11

Total Pages: 90

ISBN-13: 0765387360

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Proof of Concept is an action-adventure science fiction novella from Arthur C. Clarke Award-winning author Gwyneth Jones. On a desperately overcrowded future Earth, crippled by climate change, the most unlikely hope is better than none. Governments turn to Big Science to provide them with the dreams that will keep the masses compliant. The Needle is one such dream, an installation where the most abstruse theoretical science is being tested: science that might make human travel to a habitable exoplanet distantly feasible. When the Needle’s director offers her underground compound as a training base, Kir is thrilled to be invited to join the team, even though she knows it’s only because her brain is host to a quantum artificial intelligence called Altair. But Altair knows something he can’t tell. Kir, like all humans, is programmed to ignore future dangers. Between the artificial blocks in his mind, and the blocks evolution has built into his host, how is he going to convince her the sky is falling? At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.


The Essential Guide to Navigate Your Proof of Concept

The Essential Guide to Navigate Your Proof of Concept

Author: Tony M Matos

Publisher: Independently Published

Published: 2020-09-02

Total Pages: 140

ISBN-13:

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SETTING A STANDARD: The Essential Guide to Navigating Your Proof of Concept is your guide to understanding how to execute a world-class PoC. This book was released to document the essential best practices for managing a world-class Proof of Concept. By this, we mean we want to set a high standard for qualifying, defining, executing and closing a Proof of Concept. ELEVATING OUR GAME: The Essential Guide to Navigate Your Proof of Concept promotes methodologies to counter and replace the often haphazard approach used to manage a proof of concept. This book outlines practical and applicable ways to ensure that your proof of concept is "world-class". The Essential Guide to Navigate Your Proof of Concept promotes a methodology and a new approach to increase your technical win-rate. Sales teams should leverage a Proof of Concept as a strategic sales tool to win business - but that is not always the case. To improve how your sales team leverages a Proof of Concept, learn and apply the book's principles. The Essential Guide to Navigate Your Proof of Concept proposes that a Proof of Concept execute at a "world-class" standard by equipping sales engineers on the best practices that elevate their approach, technique and processes when managing a Proof of Concept. This book was written for sales engineers by a sales engineer with real-world experience working in leading enterprise-scale organizations.The Essential Guide to Navigate Your Proof of Concept promotes a clear and understandable approach for managed a Proof of Concept using a four-step methodology. Along with purpose-built tools and templates, it enables a sales engineer to qualify, define, execute, and close a Proof of Concept. TAKING A WORLD-CLASS APPROACH: The Essential Guide to Navigate Your Proof of Concept provides a sales engineer with an approach to establishing and maintaining a high standard for executing a proof of concept. THE REASON FOR EXECUTING A POC IS TO GET THE WIN: For a sales engineer, it is critical to acquire the technical win from a proof of concept. Earning a technical win means that a customer has reviewed your solution and selected it over others. This means that as a sales engineer, you have won the opportunity from a technical perspective. But that doesn't mean it leads to an actual purchase order. Executing a world-class proof of concept also means that you set up the outcome of a PoC to also earn the business win (purchase order). A FRAMEWORK AND TOOLS TO GET THE JOB DONE: The Essential Guide to Navigating Your Proof of Concept is written to inform and guide sales engineers through the planning and process of high-quality proof of concept customer-centric experience.


Applied Signal Processing

Applied Signal Processing

Author: Thierry Dutoit

Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media

Published: 2010-06-10

Total Pages: 456

ISBN-13: 0387745351

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Applied Signal Processing: A MATLAB-Based Proof of Concept benefits readers by including the teaching background of experts in various applied signal processing fields and presenting them in a project-oriented framework. Unlike many other MATLAB-based textbooks which only use MATLAB to illustrate theoretical aspects, this book provides fully commented MATLAB code for working proofs-of-concept. The MATLAB code provided on the accompanying online files is the very heart of the material. In addition each chapter offers a functional introduction to the theory required to understand the code as well as a formatted presentation of the contents and outputs of the MATLAB code. Each chapter exposes how digital signal processing is applied for solving a real engineering problem used in a consumer product. The chapters are organized with a description of the problem in its applicative context and a functional review of the theory related to its solution appearing first. Equations are only used for a precise description of the problem and its final solutions. Then a step-by-step MATLAB-based proof of concept, with full code, graphs, and comments follows. The solutions are simple enough for readers with general signal processing background to understand and they use state-of-the-art signal processing principles. Applied Signal Processing: A MATLAB-Based Proof of Concept is an ideal companion for most signal processing course books. It can be used for preparing student labs and projects.


Design Tools and Methods in Industrial Engineering

Design Tools and Methods in Industrial Engineering

Author: Caterina Rizzi

Publisher: Springer Nature

Published: 2019-09-19

Total Pages: 989

ISBN-13: 3030311546

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This book reports on cutting-edge design methods and tools in industrial engineering, advanced findings in mechanics and material science, and relevant technological applications. Topics span from geometric modelling tools to applications of virtual/augmented reality, from interactive design to ergonomics, human factors research and reverse engineering. Further topics include integrated design and optimization methods, as well as experimental validation techniques for product, processes and systems development, such as additive manufacturing technologies. This book is based on the International Conference on Design Tools and Methods in Industrial Engineering, ADM 2019, held on September 9–10, 2019, in Modena, Italy, and organized by the Italian Association of Design Methods and Tools for Industrial Engineering, and the Department of Engineering “Enzo Ferrari” of the University of Modena and Reggio Emilia, Italy. It provides academics and professionals with a timely overview and extensive information on trends and technologies in industrial design and manufacturing.


Achieving Proof of Concept in Drug Discovery and Development

Achieving Proof of Concept in Drug Discovery and Development

Author: Helen Yu

Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing

Published: 2016-11-25

Total Pages: 281

ISBN-13: 1785369377

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One of the major shortcomings of the current drug discovery and development process is the inability to bridge the gap between early stage discoveries and pre-clinical research in order to advance innovations beyond the discovery phase. This book examines a drug discovery and development model, where the respective expertise of academia and industry are brought together to take promising discoveries through to proof of concept, providing a means to de-risk the drug discovery and development process.


PoC or GTFO, Volume 3

PoC or GTFO, Volume 3

Author: Manul Laphroaig

Publisher: No Starch Press

Published: 2021-01-29

Total Pages: 804

ISBN-13: 1718500645

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Volume 3 of the PoC || GTFO collection--read as Proof of Concept or Get the Fuck Out--continues the series of wildly popular collections of this hacker journal. Contributions range from humorous poems to deeply technical essays bound in the form of a bible. The International Journal of Proof-of-Concept or Get The Fuck Out is a celebrated collection of short essays on computer security, reverse engineering and retrocomputing topics by many of the world's most famous hackers. This third volume contains all articles from releases 14 to 18 in the form of an actual, bound bible. Topics include how to dump the ROM from one of the most secure Sega Genesis games ever created; how to create a PDF that is also a Git repository; how to extract the Game Boy Advance BIOS ROM; how to sniff Bluetooth Low Energy communications with the BCC Micro:Bit; how to conceal ZIP Files in NES Cartridges; how to remotely exploit a TetriNET Server; and more. The journal exists to remind us of what a clever engineer can build from a box of parts and a bit of free time. Not to showcase what others have done, but to explain how they did it so that readers can do these and other clever things themselves.


Mastering Technical Sales

Mastering Technical Sales

Author: John Care

Publisher: Artech House

Published: 2008

Total Pages: 360

ISBN-13: 1596933402

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This indispensable sales tool shows you the ropes of lead qualification, the RFP process, and needs analysis and discovery, and explains how your technical know-how can add invaluable leverage to sales efforts at every step. You learn how to plan and present the perfect pitch, demonstrate products effectively, build customer relationship skills, handle objections and competitors, negotiate prices and contracts, close the sale, and so much more.


Concepts of Proof in Mathematics, Philosophy, and Computer Science

Concepts of Proof in Mathematics, Philosophy, and Computer Science

Author: Dieter Probst

Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG

Published: 2016-07-25

Total Pages: 392

ISBN-13: 1501502646

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A proof is a successful demonstration that a conclusion necessarily follows by logical reasoning from axioms which are considered evident for the given context and agreed upon by the community. It is this concept that sets mathematics apart from other disciplines and distinguishes it as the prototype of a deductive science. Proofs thus are utterly relevant for research, teaching and communication in mathematics and of particular interest for the philosophy of mathematics. In computer science, moreover, proofs have proved to be a rich source for already certified algorithms. This book provides the reader with a collection of articles covering relevant current research topics circled around the concept 'proof'. It tries to give due consideration to the depth and breadth of the subject by discussing its philosophical and methodological aspects, addressing foundational issues induced by Hilbert's Programme and the benefits of the arising formal notions of proof, without neglecting reasoning in natural language proofs and applications in computer science such as program extraction.


Design Theory

Design Theory

Author: Pascal Le Masson

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2017-04-06

Total Pages: 390

ISBN-13: 3319502778

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This textbook presents the core of recent advances in design theory and its implications for design methods and design organization. Providing a unified perspective on different design methods and approaches, from the most classic (systematic design) to the most advanced (C-K theory), it offers a unique and integrated presentation of traditional and contemporary theories in the field. Examining the principles of each theory, this guide utilizes numerous real life industrial applications, with clear links to engineering design, industrial design, management, economics, psychology and creativity. Containing a section of exams with detailed answers, it is useful for courses in design theory, engineering design and advanced innovation management. "Students and professors, practitioners and researchers in diverse disciplines, interested in design, will find in this book a rich and vital source for studying fundamental design methods and tools as well as the most advanced design theories that work in practice". Professor Yoram Reich, Tel Aviv University, Editor-in-Chief, Research In Engineering Design. "Twenty years of research in design theory and engineering have shown that training in creative design is indeed possible and offers remarkably operational methods - this book is indispensable for all leaders and practitioners who wish to strengthen theinnovation capacity of their company." Pascal Daloz, Executive Vice President, Dassault Systèmes


The Art of Application Performance Testing

The Art of Application Performance Testing

Author: Ian Molyneaux

Publisher: "O'Reilly Media, Inc."

Published: 2009-01-23

Total Pages: 162

ISBN-13: 0596555431

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This practical book provides a step-by-step approach to testing mission-critical applications for scalability and performance before they're deployed -- a vital topic to which other books devote one chapter, if that. Businesses today live and die by network applications and web services. Because of the increasing complexity of these programs, and the pressure to deploy them quickly, many professionals don't take the time to ensure that they'll perform well and scale effectively. The Art of Application Performance Testing explains the complete life cycle of the testing process, and demonstrates best practices to help you plan, gain approval for, coordinate, and conduct performance tests on your applications. With this book, you'll learn to: Set realistic performance testing goals Implement an effective application performance testing strategy Interpret performance test results Cope with different application technologies and architectures Use automated performance testing tools Test traditional local applications, web-based applications, and web services (SOAs) Recognize and resolves issues that are often overlooked in performance tests Written by a consultant with 30 years of experience in the IT industry and over 12 years experience with performance testing, this easy-to-read book is illustrated with real-world examples and packed with practical advice. The Art of Application Performance Testing thoroughly explains the pitfalls of an inadequate testing strategy and offers you a robust, structured approach for ensuring that your applications perform well and scale effectively when the need arises. "Ian has maintained a vendor-agnostic methodology beautifully in this material. The metrics and graphs, along with background information provided in his case studies, eloquently convey to the reader, 'Methodology above all, tools at your discretion...' Ian's expertise shines through throughout the entire reading experience."-- Matt St. Onge, Enterprise Solution Architect, HCL Technologies America / Teradyne