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- Date: 21 Jan 93 15:39:47 GMT
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- >From: nb@Sunburn.Stanford.EDU (Nancy Blachman)
- Subject: Januray 18: How to Get a Technical Book Published
- Message-ID: <1993Jan16.022743.3083@CSD-NewsHost.Stanford.EDU>
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- Organization: Computer Science Department, Stanford University.
- Date: Sat, 16 Jan 1993 02:27:43 GMT
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- How to Get A Technical Book Published
-
- talk by
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- Nancy Blachman
- Variable Symbols, Inc.
-
- BMUG Math SIG Meeting at 7 pm on Monday, January 18, 1993
-
-
- Have you thought about writing a book? In this talk
- Nancy Blachman will discuss answers to questions such as:
- Why should you write a book? How do you get started? What
- does a publisher do and how can you find one that will be
- interested in your book? What will a publisher typically
- offer in terms of advances and royalities to a first time
- author? What should you include in a contract with a publisher?
-
- In this talk Ms. Blachman will share her experiences negotiating
- with publishers and writing the tutorial books "Mathematica:
- A Practical Approach" (Prentice-Hall, 1992), "Using Maple"
- (Brooks/Cole, 1993) and the guides "Mathematica Quick
- Reference, Version 2" (Variable Symbols and Addison-Wesley,
- 1992) and "Maple V Quick Reference" (Brooks/Cole, 1992).
-
- "Mathematica: A Practical Approach", a general introductory
- text on Mathematica, was in its fourth printing after having
- been out a year. It has been translated into Japanese and
- Spanish. After being out 6 months, the Mathematica Quick
- Reference is in its third printing and is being translated
- into German and Japanese.
-
- This presentation will be at the BMUG office at 2055 Center Street
- in Berkeley. The office is near the north west corner of Center Street
- and Shattuck Ave. which is half a block from the Berkeley BART station.
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- Driving directions:
- Take the University exit off 80.
- Head east on University toward the UC Berkeley campus.
- Turn right at Shattuck (McDonalds will be at the corner.)
- Go 2 blocks.
- Turn right on Center and look for parking.
- I recommend the parking garage on the left, as the one on
- the right closes at 8 pm.
-
- For more information on the Berkeley Macintosh Users Group (BMUG)
- Mathematics Special Interest Group (SIG), contact:
- Nancy Blachman
- Variable Symbols, Inc
- 2161 Shattuck Ave., Suite 202
- Berkeley, CA 94704-1313
- Email: nb@eris.berkeley.edu
- or nb@cs.stanford.edu
- Fax: 510-843-8702
- Telephone: 510-843-8701
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- Subject: The BMUG Math SIG Meetings for February
-
- FFT in Image Processing
- talk
- by
- Alice Gies
- PhD candidate, Bioengineering, UCSF-UC Berkeley
- on
- Monday, February 15th at 7 pm
- at
- BMUG, 2055 Center Street, Berkeley
-
- The discrete Fourier transform, implemented through the FFT algorithm, is
- a frequently used technique in image processing. This talk will try to
- convey an intuitive appreciation of what the two dimensional FFT of a
- digital image means and hence how it can be useful in image processing.
-