The book tackles an important contemporary issue – the social integration of immigrants in a large metropolis – by way of the detailed case study of one Canadian city.
This book focuses on optical wireless communications (OWC), an emerging technology with huge potential for the provision of pervasive and reliable next-generation communications networks.
The focus of this book remains on fundamentals rather than on the details required for interesting but difficult applications, such as magnetic confinement fusion, or the phenomena that occur with extremely high-intensity short-pulse lasers ...
The book also offers a discussion of the emerging law applying to computer technology and the internet, and considers issues of particular importance to New Zealand, such as the intellectual property rights of Maori.