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Paperback, 375 pages
Publisher: The MIT Press
Publication Date: 2001-06-18


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    The Digital Divide refers to the perceived gap between those who have access to the latest information technologies and those who do not. If we are indeed in an Information Age, then not having access to this information is an economic and social handicap. Some people consider the Digital Divide to be a national crisis, while others consider it an over-hyped non-issue. This book presents data supporting the existence of such a divide in the 1990s along racial, economic, ethnic, and education lines. But it also presents evidence that by 2000 the gaps are rapidly closing without substantive public policy initiatives and spending. Together, the contributions serve as a sourcebook on this controversial issue....

Authors: Tracy Kidder.
Hardcover, 416 pages
Publisher: Modern Library
Publication Date: 1997-06-24


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    Winner of the Pulitzer Prize and the American Book Award, The Soul of a New Machine was a bestseller on its first publication in 1981. With the touch of an expert thriller writer, Tracy Kidder recounts the feverish efforts of a team of Data General researchers to create a new 32-bit superminicomputer. A compelling account of individual sacrifice and human ingenuity, The Soul of a New Machine endures as the classic chronicle of the computer age and the masterminds behind its technological advances.
"A superb book," said Robert Pirsig, author of Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance. "All the incredible complexity and chaos and exploitation and loneliness and strange, half-mad beauty of this field are honestly and correctly drawn." The Washington Post Book World said, "Kidder has created compelling entertainment. He offers a fast, painless, enjoyable means to an initial understanding of computers, allowing us to understand the complexity of machines we could only marvel at before, and to appreciate the skills of the people who create them."
The Modern Library has played a significant role in American cultural life for the better part of a century. The series was founded in 1917 by the publishers Boni and Liveright and eight years later acquired by Bennett Cerf and Donald Klopfer. It provided the foundation for their next publishing venture, Random House. The Modern Library has been a staple of the American book trade, providing readers with affordable hardbound editions of important works of literature and thought. For the Modern Library's seventy-fifth anniversary, Random House redesigned the series, restoring as its emblem the running torch-bearer created by Lucian Bernhard in 1925 and refurbishing jackets, bindings, and type, as well as inaugurating a new program of selecting titles. The Modern Library continues to provide the world's best books, at the best prices.

Tracy Kidder has written a new Introduction to this Modern Library edition....

    The computer revolution brought with it new methods of getting work done--just look at today's news for reports of hard-driven, highly-motivated young software and online commerce developers who sacrifice evenings and weekends to meet impossible deadlines. Tracy Kidder got a preview of this world in the late 1970s when he observed the engineers of Data General design and build a new 32-bit minicomputer in just one year. His thoughtful, prescient book, The Soul of a New Machine, tells stories of 35-year-old "veteran" engineers hiring recent college graduates and encouraging them to work harder and faster on complex and difficult projects, exploiting the youngsters' ignorance of normal scheduling processes while engendering a new kind of work ethic.

These days, we are used to the "total commitment" philosophy of managing technical creation, but Kidder was surprised and even a little alarmed at the obsessions and compulsions he found. From in-house political struggles to workers being permitted to tease management to marathon 24-hour work sessions, The Soul of a New Machine explores concepts that already seem familiar, even old-hat, less than 20 years later. Kidder plainly admires his subjects; while he admits to hopeless confusion about their work, he finds their dedication heroic. The reader wonders, though, what will become of it all, now and in the future. --Rob Lightner...

Authors: Jack Goldsmith. Tim Wu.
Hardcover, 238 pages
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Publication Date: 2006-03-17


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    Is the Internet erasing national borders? Will the future of the Net be set by Internet engineers, rogue programmers, the United Nations, or powerful countries? Who's really in control of what's happening on the Net?
In this provocative new book, Jack Goldsmith and Tim Wu tell the fascinating story of the Internet's challenge to governmental rule in the 1990s, and the ensuing battles with governments around the world. It's a book about the fate of one idea--that the Internet might liberate us forever from government, borders, and even our physical selves. We learn of Google's struggles with the French government and Yahoo's capitulation to the Chinese regime; of how the European Union sets privacy standards on the Net for the entire world; and of eBay's struggles with fraud and how it slowly learned to trust the FBI. In a decade of events the original vision is uprooted, as governments time and time again assert their power to direct the future of the Internet. The destiny of the Internet over the next decades, argue Goldsmith and Wu, will reflect the interests of powerful nations and the conflicts within and between them.
While acknowledging the many attractions of the earliest visions of the Internet, the authors describe the new order, and speaking to both its surprising virtues and unavoidable vices. Far from destroying the Internet, the experience of the last decade has lead to a quiet rediscovery of some of the oldest functions and justifications for territorial government. While territorial governments have unavoidable problems, it has proven hard to replace what legitimacy governments have, and harder yet to replace the system of rule of law that controls the unchecked evils of anarchy. While the Net will change some of the ways that territorial states govern, it will not diminish the oldest and most fundamental roles of government and challenges of governance.
Well written and filled with fascinating examples, including colorful portraits of many key players in Internet history, this is a work that is bound to stir heated debate in the cyberspace community....

Authors: Bud E. Smith. Arthur Bebak.
Paperback, 364 pages
Publisher: For Dummies
Publication Date: 2003-07-25
Edition: 6 Sub

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    Crear Páginas Web Para Dummies®, 6a Edición
La Web es el medio de publicación más sofisticado, abierto y sencillo jamás creado, un grupo infinito de interconexiones cruzadas entre una serie de puntos siempre crecientes y una comunidad en el sentido más estricto de la palabra. Su página Web puede ser su plataforma para decir o mostrar lo que desee a los millones de personas con acceso a la Internet global. Puede hablar sobre usted mismo o su negocio. Puede publicar una pequeña historia o una colección de bromas. Puede mostrar dibujos de su perro o del último producto de su compañía. Su propia imaginación es el único límite a lo que puede poner en la Web.

Si ha utilizado la Web antes y ahora está listo para entrar en el amplio mundo en línea con su propia página, Crear Páginas Web Para Dummies, 6ta Edición, es el lugar donde puede hacer sus deseos realidad. Sin ninguna experiencia previa (o instrucciones técnicas dolorosas), puede encarrilarse para

• Abordar suficiente HTML como para formatear con los mejores
• Incorporar gráficos, sonidos y video en sus páginas
• Proveer vínculos a otros sitios
• Utilizar bien las herramientas de publicación de la Web que pueden aliviar su carga de trabajo
• Diseñar y entregar páginas que las personas desearán visitar de nuevo

Divertido, informativo, educativo, Crear Páginas Web para Dummies, 6ta Edición, cubre temas de páginas Web desde principiantes a intermedios, incluyendo:

• Configurar un plan de edición en la Web
• Utilizar media docena de herramientas diferentes
• Publicar una página Web por medio de los servicios basados en la Web y los servicios en línea más importantes
• Expandir su página a un sitio Web completo
• Agregar opciones interactivas e invitar la retroalimentación
• Mantener su página actual y en un buen orden de trabajo

El contenido revisado y actualizado en esta edición también muestra lo último sobre crear páginas AOL y GeoCities, además de conocimientos para agregar opciones de multimedia que impresionar´n a sus visitantes.(El libro incluye un CD-ROM cargado con una variedad de programas de PC y Macintosh y demos – ¡para ofrecer una navegación fluida con el fin de lograr su propio lugar en la Web!)...

Authors: Ruediger Kuehr. Eric Williams.
Paperback, 300 pages
Publisher: Kluwer Academic
Publication Date: 2003-10
Edition: 1

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    Personal computers have made life convenient in many ways, but what about their impacts on the environment due to production, use and disposal? Manufacturing computers requires prodigious quantities of fossil fuels, toxic chemicals and water. Rapid improvements in performance mean we often buy a new machine every 1-3 years, which adds up to mountains of waste computers. How should societies respond to manage these environmental impacts?
This volume addresses the environmental impacts and management of computers through a set of analyses on issues ranging from environmental assessment, technologies for recycling, consumer behaviour, strategies of computer manufacturing firms, and government policies. One conclusion is that extending the lifespan of computers (e.g. through reselling) is an environmentally and economically effective strategy that deserves more attention from governments, firms and the general public....

Authors: Anthony Reyes; Richard Brittson; Kevin O'Shea; Jim Steel.
Paperback, 448 pages
Publisher: Syngress Publishing
Publication Date: 2007-02-26


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    As a cyber crime investigator you've undoubtedly encountered situations where there's little or no guidance to aid you in your decision making process. Often, you find yourself posting 'hypothetical' questions to an anonymous list server, in the hope that some stranger's answer would ring true. Although you've done your due diligence, sleepless nights accompany you as you contemplate how your decision will come back to haunt you. Cyber Crime Investigations: Bridging the Gaps Between Security Professionals, Law Enforcement, and Prosecutors and companion web site provide you with all the information necessary to make educated and authoritative decisions when is comes to cyber crime investigative issues. The book begins with a chapter describing the most common challenges faced by person's investigating cyber related incidents. The next chapters introduce the readers to the problems they will encounter at each step of the investigative process. Issues dealing with response, collection, documentation and prosecution of cyber related crimes are addressed and laid out for the reader to make educated decisions. Each step of the cyber investigate methodology is covered and both sides of the issue are addressed equally. Even though the authors present both sides of the issue evenly, ultimately they will choose what course of action they would take and explain why. Where investigative tools are discussed, the author will detail the functionality of the tool, and provide examples of how the tool is use in the illustrated scenario....

Authors: Siva Vaidhyanathan.
Hardcover, 256 pages
Publisher: Basic Books
Publication Date: 2004-04-13
Edition: 1

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Authors:
Hardcover, 426 pages
Publisher: The MIT Press
Publication Date: 2004-06-18


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    The concept of social capital, or the value that can be derived from social ties created by goodwill, mutual support, shared language, common beliefs, and a sense of mutual obligation, has been applied to a number of fields, from sociology to management. It is only lately, however, that researchers in information technology and knowledge management have begun to explore the idea of social capital in relation to their fields. This collection of thirteen essays by computer scientists, sociologists, communication specialists, economists, and others presents a multidisciplinary look at this particular intersection of information technology and social science and the need to adopt a sociotechnical perspective.

For the most part the contributors take a positive view of the interplay of social capital, knowledge sharing, and community building. Some essays look at specific instances, including the on-line and face-to-face relationships of a community of athletes, the building of social capital among Iranian NGOs, and the Internet-based communities created by the open-source movement, while others discuss more general ideas of civic and personal communities. The last four essays examine computer applications that augment social capital, including topic- and member-centered communications spaces such as the Expert Finder and the Loops system and virtual repositories of knowledge such as the Answer Garden and Pearls of Wisdom....

Authors: Rachel Levine.
Paperback, 111 pages
Publisher: AuthorHouse
Publication Date: 2001-01-08


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    Everyone knows what a Yenta is, right? A busybody. In the old days, if not for her, how would you know what was going on? So why do you need a Yenta in the Cyber Age when everyone and his brother-in-law not only reads the newspaper but 86% of you are publishing your own?Don't be such a big shot! You think I would write a whole book if I didn't know a little something? So, go pay for the book already. From me you get a guarantee that you will laugh so hard you'll plotz....

Authors: J. D. Lasica.
Hardcover, 320 pages
Publisher: Wiley
Publication Date: 2005-05-02


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    "An indispensable primer for those who want to protect their digital rights from the dark forces of big media."
-Kara Swisher, author of aol.com
The first general interest book by a blogger edited collaboratively by his readers, Darknet reveals how Hollywood's fear of digital piracy is leading to escalating clashes between copyright holders and their customers, who love their TiVo digital video recorders, iPod music players, digital televisions, computers, and other cutting-edge devices. Drawing on unprecedented access to entertainment insiders, technology innovators, and digital provocateurs-including some who play on both sides of the war between digital pirates and entertainment conglomerates-the book shows how entertainment companies are threatening the fundamental freedoms of the digital age....