Authors: Milton L. Mueller.
Hardcover, 327 pages
Publisher: The MIT Press
Publication Date: 2002-05-01
Edition: 1st

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    In Ruling the Root, Milton Mueller uses the theoretical framework of institutional economics to analyze the global policy and governance problems created by the assignment of Internet domain names and addresses. "The root" is the top of the domain name hierarchy and the Internet address space. It is the only point of centralized control in what is otherwise a distributed and voluntaristic network of networks. Both domain names and IP numbers are valuable resources, and their assignment on a coordinated basis is essential to the technical operation of the Internet. Mueller explains how control of the root is being leveraged to control the Internet itself in such key areas as trademark and copyright protection, surveillance of users, content regulation, and regulation of the domain name supply industry.

Control of the root originally resided in an informally organized technical elite comprised mostly of American computer scientists. As the Internet became commercialized and domain name registration became a profitable business, a six-year struggle over property rights and the control of the root broke out among Internet technologists, business and intellectual property interests, international organizations, national governments, and advocates of individual rights. By the late 1990s, it was apparent that only a new international institution could resolve conflicts among the factions in the domain name wars. Mueller recounts the fascinating process that led to the formation of a new international regime around ICANN, the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers. In the process, he shows how the vaunted freedom and openness of the Internet is being diminished by the institutionalization of the root....

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:
Paperback, 344 pages
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Publication Date: 2006-07-06


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    During the past decade, technology has become more pervasive, encroaching more and more on our lives. Computers, cell phones, and the internet have an enormous influence not only on how we function at work, but also on how we communicate and interact outside the office. Researchers have been documenting the effect that these types of technology have on individuals, families, and other social groups. Their work addresses questions that relate to how people use computers, cell phones, and the internet, how they integrate their use of new technology into daily routines, and how family function, social relationships, education, and socialization are changing as a result. This research is being conducted in a number of countries, by scientists from a variety of disciplines, who publish in very different places. The result is that it is difficult for researchers and students to get a current and coherent view of the research literature. This book brings together the leading researchers currently investigating the impact of information and communication technology outside of the workplace. Its goal is to develop a consolidated view of what we collectively know in this fast-changing area, to evaluate approaches to data collection and analysis, and to identify future directions for research. The book will appeal to professionals and students in social psychology, human-technology interaction, sociology, and communication....

Authors: George Beekman. Michael J. Quinn.
Paperback, 688 pages
Publisher: Prentice Hall
Publication Date: 2005-02-21
Edition: 7

Authors: William Bogard.
Paperback, 217 pages
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Publication Date: 1996-01-26


Reviews :

    This compelling book is an exploration of the imaginary of perceptual control technologies at the beginning of the twenty-first century. William Bogard constructs a 'social science fiction' of how the revolution in simulation technology reconfigures and intensifies the role of surveillance in war, work, sexuality, and private life, enabling forms of control which hyper realize our experience of time, space, agency, and society itself. His is a critique of the imaginary in which control breaks free of its prior limits, an imaginary of unmediated perception with effects everywhere in fantastic systems for the relentless conversion of objects, events, and people into information....

Authors:
Paperback, 753 pages
Publisher: Springer
Publication Date: 2008-10-24
Edition: 1

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This book, in conjunction with the volume LNAI 5288, constitutes the refereed proceedings of theFirst World Summit, WSKS 2008, held in Athens, Greece, in September 2008. The 95 revised full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 286 submissions. The topics include applications for the human and the society; information systems and information technology; knowledge management and e-learning; libraries, digital culture and electronic tourism; e-business, egovernment and e-banking; politics and policies for the knowledge society; sustainable development for the knowledge society.

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Authors:
Paperback, 418 pages
Publisher: Springer
Publication Date: 2007-11-09
Edition: 1

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This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Business Process Management, BPM 2007, held in Brisbane, Australia, in September 2007.

The 21 revised full papers, 1 industrial paper, and 8 short papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 152 submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections on business process maturity and performance, business process modeling, case studies, compliance and change, process configuration and execution, formal foundations of BPM, business process mining, and semantic issues in BPM.

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Authors: Laurie Ann Ulrich.
Paperback, 288 pages
Publisher: Wiley
Publication Date: 2003-02-14
Edition: 1st

Reviews :

    * Presents the capabilities of Photoshop Elements in an easy-to-understand language geared to the home user
* Enables readers to restore damaged archival photos, repair scratches and tears, enhance color, and correct poor exposure
* Makes the reader a digital plastic surgeon who can correct wrinkles, blemishes, figure flaws, and "bad hair days"
* Includes information about printing, storing, and protecting images
* Appeals to the growing market of consumers interested in genealogy and preserving family heritage...

Authors: PhD, CISM, John Rittinghouse. PhD, CISSP, CISM, William M. Hancock.
Hardcover, 1287 pages
Publisher: Digital Press
Publication Date: 2003-08-21


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    Cybersecurity Operations Handbook is the first book for daily operations teams who install, operate and maintain a range of security technologies to protect corporate infrastructure. Written by experts in security operations, this book provides extensive guidance on almost all aspects of daily operational security, asset protection, integrity management, availability methodology, incident response and other issues that operational teams need to know to properly run security products and services in a live environment.

Provides a master document on Mandatory FCC Best Practices and complete coverage of all critical operational procedures for meeting Homeland Security requirements.

· First book written for daily operations teams
· Guidance on almost all aspects of daily operational security, asset protection, integrity management
· Critical information for compliance with Homeland Security...

Authors: Neil Storey.
Textbook Binding, 453 pages
Publisher: Addison Wesley
Publication Date: 1996-08-28
Edition: 2

Reviews :

    Increasingly microcomputers are being used in applications where their correct operation is vital to ensure the safety of the public and the environment: from anti-lock braking systems in automobiles, to fly-by-wire aircraft, to shut-down systems at nuclear power plants. It is, therefore, vital that engineers be aware of the safety implications of the systems they develop. This book is an introduction to the field of safety-critical computer systems written for any engineer who uses microcomputers within real-time embedded systems. It assumes no prior knowledge of safety, or of any specific computer hardware or programming language. This text is intended for both engineering and computer science students, and for practising engineers within computer related industries. The approach taken is equally suited to engineers who consider computers from a hardware, software or systems viewpoint....