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1. Progress on Cryptography: 25 Years of Cryptography in China (The Springer International Series in Engineering and Computer Science)
2. Professional Pilot, Second Edition
3. Fast Forward: America's Leading Experts Reveal How The Internet Is Changing Your Life
4. Symbols, Computation, and Intentionality: A Critique of the Computational Theory of Mind
5. Ada, the Enchantress of Numbers: A Selection from the Letters of Lord Byron's Daughter and Her Description of the First Computer (The Pickering Masters)
6. Me : The Cyborg Self and the Networked City
7. Shipcraft 2 - King George V Class Battleships
8. Studies in Operating Systems (A.P.I.C. Studies in Data Processing; No. 13)
9. Information Operations: Doctrine, Tactics, Techniques, and Procedures
10. One Morning in Sarajevo: 28 June 1914
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Sabre Foundation White Paper Offers New Digital Paths For Philanthropy To Make Nonprofits Self-Funding An 11-month research project concludes that "digital donations" can leverage policy change, public land transfers, and skills to make nonprofit groups self-funding in troubled areas of the world. The Sabre Foundation-sponsored, and Whitehead Foundation-backed, research conclusions are now being applied in countries including Kyrgyzstan and Sri Lanka. [PRWEB Oct 12, 2005]
Intel Chips in on DTV Transition The chipmaker tells Congressional panel TV spectrum will accelerate wireless
broadband rollout.
Cisco Gains in Storage Switch Space Cisco continued its amazing run in the storage switch space in the first quarter, according to Dell'Oro group, but McData showed signs of stabilizing.
ARE CONTAINER SHIPPERS AND CONSIGNEES CUTTING (COST) CORNERS TO SACRIFICE THE SECURITY AND THE SAFETY OF THE CITIZENS OF USA AND EUROPE? Containers transport 95% of all consumables. The major governments should now consider introduction of legislature to prevent another 9-11 catastrophe, as Robert Bonner of US Customs and Border Protection (CBP) rightfully predicted.
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Progress on Cryptography: 25 Years of Cryptography in China (The Springer International Series in Engineering and Computer Science)
Authors: Hardcover, 262 pagesPublisher: Springer Publication Date: 2004-04-28 Edition: 1 Reviews :
Cryptography in Chinese consists of two characters meaning "secret coded". Thanks to Ch'in Chiu-Shao and his successors, the Chinese Remainder Theorem became a cornerstone of public key cryptography. Today, as we observe the constant usage of high-speed computers interconnected via the Internet, we realize that cryptography and its related applications have developed far beyond "secret coding". China, which is rapidly developing in all areas of technology, is also writing a new page of history in cryptography. As more and more Chinese become recognized as leading researchers in a variety of topics in cryptography, it is not surprising that many of them are Professor Xiao's former students. Progress on Cryptography: 25 Years of Cryptography in China is a compilation of papers presented at an international workshop in conjunction with the ChinaCrypt, 2004. After 20 years, the research interests of the group have extended to a variety of areas in cryptography. This edited volume includes 32 contributed chapters. The material will cover a range of topics, from mathematical results of cryptography to practical applications. This book also includes a sample of research, conducted by Professor Xiao's former and current students. Progress on Cryptography: 25 Years of Cryptography in China is designed for a professional audience, composed of researchers and practitioners in industry. This book is also suitable as a secondary text for graduate-level students in computer science, mathematics and engineering. ...
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Professional Pilot, Second Edition
Authors: John Lowery.
Hardcover, 336 pages
Publisher: Iowa State Press
Publication Date: 2001-07-30
Edition: 2
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Fast Forward: America's Leading Experts Reveal How The Internet Is Changing Your Life
Authors: Alfred C. Sikes. Hardcover, 320 pagesPublisher: William Morrow Publication Date: 2000-05-01 Edition: 1st Reviews :
In the final few years of the twentieth century, an agent of social change has burst into prominence, one that may well have a greater and quicker cumulative effect than all the changes that have ever gone before. It is the rise of the Internet--the electronic interactive community that links the world's people and businesses. Now, in the infancy of this new medium, leading American thinkers and business people lend you their expertise and make startling predictions about the future in the pages of this fascinating book. The very speed and productivity of computers have accelerated the pace of change--and their ubiquity means that the Internet affects nearly every walk of life. For Fast Forward, former Federal Communications Commission chairman Alfred C. Sikes assembled a "power panel" of twenty-four Americans from a variety of disciplines who are leading the march into tomorrow, and asked them to provide an authoritative glimpse into the wondrous world of potential that is literally at our fingertips. How will instantaneous electronic mail--and even more sophisticated methods of communication still to come--continue to erase the geographical boundaries between far-flung families? What will be the effect of virtual shopping and instantaneous price comparisons on bricks-and-retail stores and on their customers? When individuals and families have access to vast resources of medical information, how will the doctor-patient relationship change? And amid all this communication and linking of computers and households, how are we to ensure our families' privacy and security? Many of these questions have been posed before. But never before has such an impressive array of experts been brought to bear on them: journalists, entrepreneurs in the New Economy, media executives, financial authorities, health care professionals, futurists, and more--the ultimate collection of brainpower for the Information Age. Here is a stimulating, provocative book of dazzling ideas and informed speculation that will be essential reading as we enter a new millennium at Internet speed-Fast Forward.Some of the most distinguished and forward-thinking minds in America answer the questions: how is the Internet changing human life today, and how will that change affect us in the future? Concentrating on ten major subject areas (family, health, investing, education, business, careers, shopping, entertainment, privacy, and the future), the authors have gathered a list of thinkers including journalist Ken Auletta, New York Stock Exchange chairman Richard A. Grasso, Dr. C. Everett Koop, America Online's Robert Pittman, futurist Alvin Toffler, Charles Schwab, Excite.com's George Bell, Inc. magazine editor-in-chief George Gendron, net-culture analyst Esther Dyson, Women.com founder Ellen Pack, and many more. Together, they provide a fascinating, authoritative look into the present and the future of net life....
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Symbols, Computation, and Intentionality: A Critique of the Computational Theory of Mind
Authors: Steven W. Horst. Hardcover, 340 pagesPublisher: University of California Press Publication Date: 1996-03-15 Reviews :
The computational theory of mind--the belief that the mind can be likened to a computer and that cognitive states possess the generative and compositional properties of natural languages--has proven enormously influential in recent philosophical studies of cognition. In this carefully argued critique, Steven Horst pronounces the theory deficient. He refutes its claims and assumptions, particularly the assertion that symbolic representations need not have conventional meaning. Horst goes on to sketch a new methodology for looking at the philosophy of psychology, one that provides a more fruitful way of comparing computational psychology with rival views emerging from connectionism and neuroscience. Original and comprehensive, his book is certain to provoke controversy and stimulate debate....
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Ada, the Enchantress of Numbers: A Selection from the Letters of Lord Byron's Daughter and Her Description of the First Computer (The Pickering Masters)
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Hardcover, 439 pages
Publisher: Critical Connection
Publication Date: 1998-03
Edition: 1st
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Sony Ericsson accessories Sony Ericsson launched three new handsfree sets that make it extremely easy to use mobile phones and other devices in a diversity of environments. An all-new Bluetooth headset, a car handsfree for ultra-safe call handling while driving, and a...
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Me : The Cyborg Self and the Networked City
Authors: William J. Mitchell. Paperback, 269 pagesPublisher: The MIT Press Publication Date: 2004-10-01 Reviews :
2004 IEEE-USAB Award for Distinguished Literary Contributions Furthering Public Understanding of the Profession. With Me the author of City of Bits and e-topia completes an informal trilogy examining the ramifications of information technology in everyday life. William Mitchell describes the transformation of wireless technology in the hundred years since Marconi—the scaling up of networks and the scaling down of the apparatus for transmission and reception. It is, he says, as if "Brobdingnag had been rebooted as Lilliput"; Marconi's massive mechanism of tower and kerosene engine has been replaced by a palm-size cellphone. If the operators of Marconi's invention can be seen as human appendages to an immobile machine, today's hand-held devices can be seen as extensions of the human body. This transformation has, in turn, changed our relationship with our surroundings and with each other. The cellphone calls from the collapsing World Trade Center towers and the hijacked jets on September 11 were testimony to the intensity of this new state of continuous electronic engagement. Thus, Mitchell proposes, the "trial separation" of bits (the elementary unit of information) and atoms (the elementary unit of matter) is over. With increasing frequency, events in physical space reflect events in cyberspace, and vice versa; digital information can, for example, direct the movement of an aircraft or a robot arm. In Me Mitchell examines the effects of wireless linkage, global interconnection, miniaturization, and portability on our bodies, our clothing, our architecture, our cities, and our uses of space and time. Computer viruses, cascading power outages, terrorist infiltration of transportation networks, and cellphone conversations in the streets are symptoms of a dramatic new urban condition—that of ubiquitous, inescapable network interconnectivity. He argues that a world governed less and less by boundaries and more and more by connections requires us to reimagine and reconstruct our environment and to reconsider the ethical foundations of design, engineering, and planning practice....
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Shipcraft 2 - King George V Class Battleships
Authors: Roger Chesneau. Paperback, 64 pagesPublisher: Chatham Publishing Publication Date: 2004-03-16 Edition: 1st Reviews :
The 'ShipCraft' series provides in-depth information about building and modifying model kits of famous warship types. Lavishly illustrated, each book takes the modeler through a brief history of the subject class, using scale plans to highlight differences between sisterships and changes in their appearance over their careers, then moves to an extensive photographic survey of either a high-quality model or a surviving example of the ship. Hints on building the model, and on modifying and improving the basic kit, are followed by a section on paint schemes and camouflage, featuring numerous color profiles and highly-detailed line drawings. The strengths and weaknesses of available kits of the ships are reviewed, and the book concludes with a section on research references - books, monographs, large-scale plans and relevant websites. This volume features the King George V class battleships, the most modern Royal Navy battleships of WW2 and a very popular modeling subject. The King George V herself helped sink the Bismarck, and the Prince of Wales was famously sunk by Japanese aircraft in the Far East. Ships of this class served throughout the war in many theatres, and their changes of armament and color scheme during this time offer many opportunities to the ship modeler to modify basic kits to show ships at different periods in their lives. ...
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Studies in Operating Systems (A.P.I.C. Studies in Data Processing; No. 13)
Authors: R. M. McKeag.
Hardcover, 273 pages
Publisher: Academic Press
Publication Date: 1976-07
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Information Operations: Doctrine, Tactics, Techniques, and Procedures
Authors: U.S. Army and www.survivalebooks.com. Kindle Edition, pagesPublisher: U.S. Army and www.survivalebooks.com Publication Date: 2003-11-11 Reviews :
As the key integrating manual for IO, this manual prescribes IO doctrine and tactics, techniques, and procedures (TTP). It also establishes doctrine and TTP for the IO elements of operations security and military deception. This manual implements joint IO doctrine established in JP 3-13, Joint Doctrine for Information Operations; JP 3-54, Joint Doctrine for Operations Security; and JP 3-58, Joint Doctrine for Military Deception. This manual establishes the following as the definition of IO used by Army forces: Information operations is the employment of the core capabilities of electronic warfare, computer network operations, psychological operations, military deception, and operations security, in concert with specified supporting and related capabilities, to affect or defend information and information systems, and to influence decisionmaking. This definition supersedes the definition of IO in FM 3-0. It is consistent with joint initiatives....
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One Morning in Sarajevo: 28 June 1914
Authors: David James Smith. Hardcover, 336 pagesPublisher: WN Publication Date: 2009-03-03 Reviews :
It was the shot that led to World War I and the death of countless millions: the assassination of Archduke Ferdinand. This historical account of what happened on that day in June 1914 is every bit as gripping as The Day of the Jackal. Focusing on the man behind the killing, and using newly available sources (including the few surviving witnesses), David James Smith brilliantly reinvestigates and reconstructs the events that determined the shape of the twentieth century. - An exciting non-fiction account that reads like a popular thriller ...
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Frist, Clinton Prescribe Healthcare IT Bill New legislation seeks to set standards implementing an interoperable IT network.
Google Uses Blog to Spin Court Decision Search engine and insurance company fight it out in court of public opinion.
Is Google Shutting Out The Blind? Web site accessibility is generally bad, disability activists say. But they charge that the search leader is deaf to their requests.
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