Maria Soto

This book features 13 current artists pursuing varying mediums of art, exploring their individual processes and their journeys into the art world specific to them. As a photographer, author Maria Soto chose to showcase her own work while documenting the artwork of these 13 talented artists who have inspired her on her journey. She hopes these fascinating journeys will inspire all artists, both new and those in varying stages of their art career. The premise of her book was to encourage in their continued quest for creating art, and that each story will give direction and confidence to artists who may be questioning the current stage of their career.

This book features 13 current artists pursuing varying mediums of art, exploring their individual processes and their journeys into the art world specific to them. As a photographer, author Maria Soto chose to showcase her own work while documenting the artwork of these 13 talented artists who have inspired her on her journey. She hopes these fascinating journeys will inspire all artists, both new and those in varying stages of their art career. The premise of her book was to encourage artists in their continued quest for creating art, and that each story will give direction and confidence to artists who may be questioning the current stage of their career.

Embedded systems are everywhere in contemporary life and are supposed to make our lives more comfortable. In industry, embedded systems are used to manage and control complex systems (e.g. nuclear power plants, telecommunications and flight control) and they are also taking an important place in our daily activities (e.g. smartphones, security alarms and traffic lights). In the design of embedded systems, memory allocation and data assignment are among the main challenges that electronic designers have to face. In fact, they impact heavily on the main cost metrics (power consumption, performance and area) in electronic devices. Thus designers of embedded systems have to pay careful attention in order to minimize memory requirements, thus improving memory throughput and limiting the power consumption by the system’s memory. Electronic designers attempt to minimize memory requirements with the aim of lowering the overall system costs. A state of the art of optimization techniques for memory management and data assignment is presented in this book.