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From: dml@esl.com (Denis Lynch)
Newsgroups: misc.books.technical,ba.market.misc,sci.geo.geology,ba.general,comp.ai.edu
Subject: IEEE Journals -- Free to a good home
Date: 5 Nov 92 21:20:57 GMT
Followup-To: alt.books.technical
Distribution: ba

I have a couple of boxes of IEEE journals that I will never use again:

IEEE Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence, 1981 through March 1992, with  
one or two issues missing plus a few 1980 issues.

IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing, 1981 through present.

I could possibly be talked out of my collection of Computing Surveys if that  
helps. (About the same time period).

I'd like to see these go to a person or institution that could make use of  
them, rather than having them take up space in my garage or some landfill.

Send me mail or call me (408.743.6318) if you're interested!

--Denis Lynch, ESL Inc.
Newsgroups: misc.books.technical,sci.math
From: R1STORY@VM1.CC.UAKRON.EDU
Subject: Re: Advanced Math/CS book shop in London?
Organization: The University of Akron
Date: Mon, 9 Nov 1992 15:54:36 GMT

In article <1992Nov8.043606.2425@cbnewsl.cb.att.com>
wjh@cbnewsl.cb.att.com (william.j.hery) writes:
 
>I will be traveling to London in a week, and I would like to find one
>or two good scientific/technical bookstores to browse in. I am particularly
>interested in post-grad books and monographs in mathematics (especially
>combiatorics) and computer architecture from British/European publishers
>that aren't easy to find in the US. I also might make a side trip to
>Cambridge, so stores there are also of interest.
>
>Email responses to me and I will post a summary.
>
>Bill Hery
>AT&T Bell Labs
>201-386-2362
>hery@att.COM
dp
dp In London, Dillon's bookstore is quite good.  It has a rather large
dp technical collection -- mathematics, computer science, statistics
dp (my areas of interest), and holdings in most all the sciences, literature
dp and the arts.  It's near the British museum.  Look for advertisements
dp on the wall in the underground.  Say hello to my younger brother, who is
dp one of the floor managers, Richard Story (basement floor:earth sciences).
dp Math., Stat., and C.S. are also basement floor.
dp -------------------------------------------------------------------------
dp D.P. Story
dp The University of Akron
dp Akron, OH  44325
dp -------------------------------------------------------------------------
From: sivap-s@acsu.buffalo.edu (Suresh .S)
Newsgroups: misc.books.technical
Subject: Re: Heard of this book?
Date: 12 Nov 92 10:27:21 GMT
Organization: UB
X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.1 PL6]


Paul J. Wickman (pwickman@cerebus.cc.edu) wrote:
: 
: 	Operating Systems - Madnick/Donovan
: 
: 	Anybody heard of or read this book?  How is it and about how
: much does it cost new?

We used to have this as text in India for our OS course. The book is a
classic but  very very much outdated.   It  deals with  IBM  360, if I
remember correct..

-- 
Suresh Sivaprakasam                    
Department of Computer Science,    SUNY Buffalo,    Amherst,   NY - 14260-0001
Internet :sivap-s@cs.Buffalo.EDU               Bitnet : sivap-s@SUNYBCS.BITNET
From: grover@brahmand.Eng.Sun.COM (Vinod Grover)
Newsgroups: misc.books.technical
Subject: Semantics text sought
Date: 5 Nov 1992 17:41:41 GMT
Organization: Sun Microsystems, Inc.  Mt. View, Ca.
Distribution: usa
Reply-To: grover@brahmand.Eng.Sun.COM (Vinod Grover)
NNTP-Posting-Host: brahmand


I am looking for the 2 volume text entitled "A Theory of Programming Lanuguage
Semantics" by Milne & Strachey. The book is apparently out-of-print, and I'd
be willing to give upto the original price of the set. 

Vinod Grover
Newsgroups: misc.books.technical
From: Fabrizio Sebastiani <fabrizio@iei.pi.cnr.it>
Subject: WANTED: address of Bantam Books
X-Xxmessage-Id: <A72809F359010363@mac-sebastiani.iei.pi.cnr.it>
X-Xxdate: Thu, 12 Nov 92 17: 17:39 GMT
Organization: Italian National Council of Research
X-Useragent: Nuntius v1.1.1d12
Date: Thu, 12 Nov 1992 12:13:05 GMT

Could anyone provide me with an address (or better: fax number; or even
better: e-mail) of Bantam Books?  Please, answer by e-mail, as I do not
read this newsgoup very regularly.

Thanks a lot for anyone who will provide any info.         Fabrizio

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Istituto di Elaborazione dell'Informazione        Fax : +39.(0)50.554342
Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche               Telex : 590305 IEICNR I
Via S. Maria, 46 - 56126 Pisa (ITALY)    E-mail : fabrizio@iei.pi.cnr.it
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Newsgroups: misc.books.technical,sci.math
From: wjh@cbnewsl.cb.att.com (william.j.hery)
Subject: Advanced Math/CS book shop in London?
Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories
Date: Sun, 8 Nov 1992 04:36:06 GMT
Followup-To: poster

I will be traveling to London in a week, and I would like to find one
or two good scientific/technical bookstores to browse in. I am particularly
interested in post-grad books and monographs in mathematics (especially
combiatorics) and computer architecture from British/European publishers
that aren't easy to find in the US. I also might make a side trip to
Cambridge, so stores there are also of interest.

Email responses to me and I will post a summary.

Bill Hery
AT&T Bell Labs
201-386-2362
hery@att.COM
From: urszula@garnet.berkeley.edu ( Urszula Frydman )
Newsgroups: misc.books.technical
Subject: looking for recommendations for object oriented programming books
Date: 11 Nov 1992 18:05:15 GMT
Organization: University of California, Berkeley
Distribution: usa
NNTP-Posting-Host: garnet.berkeley.edu

I am looking for recommendations for books on Object Oriented Programming and
Object Oriented Databases for reasonably technical person.  Should include
problem sets (and solutions!).

Please email responses to bernhardt@dofm.berkeley.edu

Thanks!
Newsgroups: misc.books.technical
From: c9036984@cc.newcastle.edu.au (Definition of Flying: One must merely throw themselves at the ground and miss)
Subject: Books for Sale
Organization: University of Newcastle, AUSTRALIA
Date: Thu, 5 Nov 1992 09:21:12 GMT

[Posted on behalf of a friend, please see below for contact details ]
AUSTRALIAN Readers only:

I am moving interstate in less then 3 weeks time and would like to get
rid of as much of my 'excess baggage' before I go, so that I dont have to
find somewhere to store it. I have a number of items that I would like
to sell to anyone interested.... here's a list... make me an offer... I'll
probably
take it..

BOOKS:
Computer Science An overview  2nd Ed  J. Glenn Brookshear
Digital Design 2nd Ed  M. Morris Mano
Cooper's Condensed Pascal
Computers: The User Perspective 2nd Ed
EE130 & EE170 Laboratory Manual
Introduction to Computer Technology  Dr B.J.Cook
Microprocessors & Programmed Logic  K.L. Short

Make me an offer, I'll probably accept it

bloodgor@maria.wustl.edu
or
Scott English
29 Roe St               681558
Mayfield NSW
2304

Newsgroups: misc.books.technical
From: haim@dancer.uucp (24103-kilov)
Subject: Re: looking for recommendations for object oriented programming books
Organization: Bellcore, Livingston, NJ
Distribution: usa
Date: Wed, 11 Nov 92 20:28:10 GMT


Some good ones that come to mind:

Bertrand Meyer. Object-oriented software construction. Prentice-Hall, 1988.
John Hughes. Object-oriented databases. Prentice-Hall, 1991.
E.W.Dijkstra. A discipline of programming. Prentice-Hall, 1976.
Grady Booch. Object-oriented design with applications. Addison-Wesley, 1992.

These books are not about a particular miraculous tool, language, or
methodology (and the passages about these can be skipped in the first and
third books). They show the concepts in a clear manner and explain what
abstraction is. 

Hope this helps.

-Haim Kilov
haim@bcr.cc.bellcore.com
From: AGRGB@ASUACAD.BITNET
Newsgroups: misc.books.technical
Subject: 4 sale: WordPerfect for Windows
Date: 8 Nov 92 21:44:39 GMT
Organization: Arizona State University

Hey now,

"PC Guide to WordPerfect for Windows"
never used; just purchased - this is the current edition
list price $27.95
asking price $15 plus shipping.

thanks, Rich
From: mincy@think.com (Jeffrey Mincy)
Newsgroups: misc.invest
Subject: Re: Neural Nets Based Systems
Date: 9 Nov 1992 19:13:21 GMT
Organization: Thinking Machines Corporation, Cambridge MA, USA
NNTP-Posting-Host: mjolnir.think.com

In article <1992Nov9.150959.26529@philabs.philips.com> ehf@philabs.philips.com (Eberhard Fisch) writes:
>
>I am interested in investigating the potential of neural networks for forcasting
>markets. Im looking for articles or books dealing with the application of neural
>nets for forcasting market moves or finding patterns that occur in markets. I
>am not looking for, nor do I expect, neural nets or any other model for 
>market analysis to be a magic solution. I just want to see whether neural network
>based systems have merit. 
>Any opinions from people who have had some experience in using some of the 
>standard neural network software or have developed their own software are 
>welcome. 

The WSJ did the following article a few weeks ago:

"Fidelity's Bradford Lewis Takes Aim at Indexes With His 'neural Network'
Computer Program, by Robert Mcgough

... 
This fund is an index killer, he says of his fidelity disciplined equity fund.
Mr Lewis leaves the stock-picking to a "neural network," a computer program
that tries to mimic the intricate structure of the human brain.
...
Disciplined equity has beaten the S&P 500 by 2.3 to 5.6 percentage points in 
each of three years to 1991.  It's doint the same in the ytd with 5.8% return
...Only three other stock funds tracked by lipper did better than the market in
all four of these periods.
...

Anyway, perhaps this gives you some information.

-- 

-- jeff
mincy@think.com
Newsgroups: misc.invest
From: khoover@cbnewsj.cb.att.com (kent.d.hoover)
Subject: Re: Offset 401(k) Rollover Withholding
Organization: AT&T
Distribution: usa
Date: Fri, 6 Nov 1992 20:36:53 GMT

In article <1dect6INNsic@CASPER.NA.CS.YALE.EDU> chang-mark-yan-ming@cs.yale.edu (Mark Yan-Ming Chang) writes:
>
>When they withhold some of the 401(k) money before giving you the check, can't
>you just decrease your income tax withholding to offset it?
>
>By the time you need to file tax return, withholding from 401(k) and
>withholding from your income should do the same to pay your tax, right?
>
Yes, but if you do roll it over into a new account, YOU have to cough up that
20% out of your pocket because Uncle's taken it from you.  (Sure, you  can get
it "back" next April.)

Cheers,
Kent Hoover
From: fod@elroy.jpl.nasa.gov (Frank O'Donnell)
Newsgroups: misc.invest
Subject: Snapple and abortion issue
Date: 13 Nov 92 18:32:43 GMT
Article-I.D.: elroy.1992Nov13.183243.15936
Organization: Jet Propulsion Laboratory

Some days or weeks back in this newsgroup in a
discussion of Snapple's IPO, buyout, etc, someone
posted a message noting that the company's founders
donated heavily to anti-abortion causes; and that
those who disagreed with that position and who
took social issues into account in their buying
habits (both as consumers and stockholders) might
want to take that into account.

Is there any more substantiation of this?  A
number of my (previously Snapple-loving) friends
were disturbed to hear this, but would like more
corroboration.

Frank
frank@jplpost.jpl.nasa.gov
From: schin@acs.bu.edu (neil schier)
Newsgroups: misc.invest
Subject: LEAPS anyone?
Date: 8 Nov 92 17:49:05 GMT
Distribution: usa
Organization: Boston University, Boston, MA, USA


Hello
]
I am interested in purchasing LEAPS (long range call options) on Boeing.

Has anyone out there ever bought LEAPS?

Regards
Neil Schier
From: ask@cbnews.cb.att.com (Arthur S. Kamlet)
Newsgroups: misc.invest
Subject: Re: Investing Quickly
Date: 12 Nov 92 22:59:23 GMT
Distribution: usa
Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories,  Columbus, Ohio

In article <1992Nov12.172224.2749@eng.umd.edu> georgec@eng.umd.edu (George B. Clark) writes:
>It can easily take over two weeks to establish a new account with a
>mutual fund familiy. First, you request an application form. A week
>later, you get it in the mail. Then it takes several more days before
>the account is actually opened, and shares are bought.
>
>Is there a quicker way? A Schwab One account, perhaps?
>
>Recently I decided to invest in INVESCO-Financial Health Sciences
>mutual fund. At a 52-week low of $33 per share, down from $47 per
>share, it was a bargain. But now the price has shot up to $38, and
>I'm still waiting on the U.S. Mail, and it may soon be priced too
>high to be a good buy.
>
>In the future, perhaps I should keep account application forms for
>all major mutual fund families. Then when any one of them presents a
>buying opportunity, I can act quickly.

You could try faxing the application and wiring the funds, but
that's a pain.

If you have an account in a few large fund families, you can often
shift from one fund to another in the same family with just a phone
call.  This doesn't help you too much, though.   Of course, if you
want to buy into a closed end fund, just call your broker and he'll
do it real quickly. But I think you mean open end funds, right?
-- 
Art Kamlet  a_s_kamlet@att.com  AT&T Bell Laboratories, Columbus
Newsgroups: misc.invest
From: mmf@evolving.com (Mark Frazier)
Subject: Re: Boycott Colorado
Date: Fri, 13 Nov 1992 16:51:33 GMT
Organization: Evolving Systems, Inc.
X-Newsreader: Tin 1.1 PL4

Scott.Johnson@FtCollinsCO.NCR.COM ( Scott Johnson) writes:
: 
: While I hesitate to use words nearly as strong as "remarkably stupid and
: rather irrelevant" towards people I don't even know (c'mon would you
: have used those words if the original poster were face to face with
: you?), I have to agree that closing accounts with investment companies
: in CO does not have the intended message.  I live in Colorado, and the
: biggest hit in terms of boycotts would be to tourism, etc. not to
: investment companies that invest in nation/world-wide companies.  

Of course, it is questionable just how much that would do, since Keystone,
Breckenridge, and Steamboat Springs ski areas are now owned by the Japanese.
However, I don't think too many locals would be upset by a drastic decrease
in skiiers, especially on powder days!


MMF
From: jld@cbnewsc.cb.att.com (J. L. David)
Newsgroups: misc.invest
Subject: IRA Rollovers (was Re: Offset 401(k) Rollover Withholding)
Date: 12 Nov 92 21:30:37 GMT
Article-I.D.: cbnewsc.1992Nov12.213037.26151
Distribution: usa
Organization: AT&T

In article <BxM5wq.GCC@news.cso.uiuc.edu>, acheng@ncsa.uiuc.edu (Albert Cheng) writes:
> 
> And also remember, IRA allows you taking rollover
> only ONCE a year.  Be careful.

This is only true if you take possession of the money.  There is no
limit on the number of trustee-to-trustee IRA rollovers that can be
made in one year.

Jeff David
From: doug_d@sdd.hp.com (Doug Deprenger)
Newsgroups: misc.invest
Subject: Re: Investing Quickly
Date: 12 Nov 1992 21:16:29 GMT
Organization: Hewlett-Packard, San Diego Division
Distribution: usa
NNTP-Posting-Host: hpsdl126.sdd.hp.com
Keywords: mututal funds

In article <dcEe02P02a9C01@JUTS.ccc.amdahl.com>, nyp00@cd.amdahl.com (Nicholas Y. Pang) writes:
|> In article <1992Nov12.172224.2749@eng.umd.edu>, georgec@eng.umd.edu
|> (George B. Clark) writes:
|> |> It can easily take over two weeks to establish a new account with a
|> |> mutual fund familiy. First, you request an application form. A week
|> |> later, you get it in the mail. Then it takes several more days
|> |> before
|> |> the account is actually opened, and shares are bought.
|>  
|> I have a Schwab One Account for the exact reason.
|> 
|> Note that Schwab has over 80 funds (and the list is growing) that you can
|> purchase with NO TRANSACTION FEES (NTF). This include INVESCO (Finl Progs).
|> Jack White also has a similar setup. Call them for a list and RESTRICTIONS

   I called Jack White about this program. None of the mutual funds under his
   program were income type (muni bonds, taxable bonds, hi yield, ...). They
   were all stock funds.

   doug

|> (e.g. 4 trades a year for NTF funds).
|> 
|> I have been slowly moving my No-Load Mutual Funds to my Schwab Acct.
|> Single statement, single phone number, almost every no-load fund available
|> (some with no fee; others with a minimal fees @ $30 for $5000 investment),
|> and instant transaction (end of the day) versus weeks.
|>  
|> -- 
|> Nicholas Pang         nyp00@cd.amdahl.com       
|> Amdahl Corporation    nyp00@outs.ccc.amdahl.com
From: chedley@carthago.intel.com (CHEDLEY_AOURIRI)
Newsgroups: misc.invest
Subject: Re: Surviving Clintonomics
Date: 7 Nov 92 01:45:27 GMT
Reply-To: chedley@carthago.intel.com (CHEDLEY_AOURIRI)
Organization: Intel-Corp,_Hillsboro,_Oregon

In article <3480023@hpwrce.mayfield.hp.com>, kingsley@hpwrce.mayfield.hp.com (Kingsley Morse) writes:
|> 
|> 
|> 			Clintonomics
|> 
|> 	The San Jose Mercury News had these suggestions for surviving 
|> President Clinton's term in office:
|> 
|> 	1.) Change from variable rate mortgages to fixed rate, so your
|> 	interest payments stay fixed as inflation goes up.
|> 
|> 	2.) Invest in commodities, which tend to do well during inflation.
|> 

So, the assumption is that Clinton will re-inflate the economy.
I do'nt think he will. The FED (still under Greenspan for one more year)
and the bond market will oppose any re-inflation moves...

|> 	3.) Buy high technology stocks; Clinton favors high tech.

Great!! But how is that going to increase the earnings and the stock price
of high tech companies?

-- 
..CHEDLEY..
..!{uunet|tektronix|ogicse}!littlei!chedley    chedley@carthago.intel.com     
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Standard Disclaim: The above statements and opinions are strictly mine,
and do not represent any company or organization's position.
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Newsgroups: misc.invest
Subject: Re: 401(k) Rollover Advice
From: gary@cdthq.UUCP (Gary Heston)
Date: Fri, 06 Nov 92 19:14:16 CST
Organization: Garys' Home for Obsolete Computers

ables@hal.com (King Ables) writes:

> From article <prspool.720888204@terra>, by prspool@siemens.com. (Peter Spool)
> >
> > The MOST IMPORTANT thing to do, is to arrange a DIRECT TRANSFER of your 401
> > funds from your previous employer, to your new employer, or to your IRA acc
> 
> It's not that critical, I've accepted checks from two accounts and rolled the
> over.  You have 60 days to do this with NO penalty.  You lose interest for 
> each day you *don't* do it, so if you can do a direct transfer, you keep your
> money working the whole time, but that is the only real advantage.

This changes thanks to Congress, as of January 1. This is about the
fourth time the discussion has come up since the Wall Street Journal
article back in July.

Mr. Spool will be correct in just under two months; until then, Mr. Ables
is correct.

Damn Congress anyway....

Gary Heston, at home....
gary@cdthq.uucp
From: gilman@cshl.org (Michael Gilman)
Newsgroups: misc.invest
Subject: Index funds
Date: 10 Nov 92 02:10:49 GMT
Followup-To: misc.invest
Organization: Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory


What is the view of the misc.invest crowd on index funds? Clearly, they are
less sexy than highly managed funds, but they are almost by definition
guaranteed to perform at least as well as the average managed fund. It
seems to me this makes index funds suitable for the core of your portfolio,
while still allowing you to spice things up with a few interesting
aggressive funds.

I have noticed that Vanguard has recently announced a Balanced Index Fund.
60% of this fund tracks the Wilshire 5000  stock index and 40% tracks the
Salomon Bros. Investment-Grade Bond Index. The appeal of the fund is that
you can track both indices with a single $3000 minimum investment.

Any thoughts or opinions on this fund or indexing in general?

Thanks to all.
From: stuart@wstuart (Stuart Hood)
Newsgroups: misc.invest
Subject: Re: Financial markets quoting services?
Date: 12 Nov 92 15:21:43 GMT
Reply-To: stuart@siesoft.co.uk
Organization: Siemens Nixdorf Information Systems Ltd.
X-Newsreader: Tin 1.1 PL4

lott@bogner.informatik.uni-kl.de (Christopher Lott AGSE) writes:
: In article <foo> james@engrs.unl.edu (James Nau) writes:
: >In article <1992Nov6.110412.9686@uklirb.informatik.uni-kl.de> I write:
: >>
: >>    Copyright violation is the fundamental problem with creating a
: >>    public database of stock information.
: >
: >Would this fall under the same category as the phone-book case?
: >I thought two years or so ago that the courts said the information
: >in a phone book couldn't be copyrighted.  But, I don't recall much
: 
: Here is what's behind my note.  A while back (year?) there was a discussion
: about creating a public DB on the net that would hold stock info.  The
: real problem is filling the DB.  Scanning prices from newsprint is apparently
: not reliable, and anyhow those lists are copyrighted.  Data given out
: by paid services are available for "one-time use" or some such restriction.
: What restrictions does ClariNet place on its subscribers?  Surely there
: are some.
: 
: A compiler of this sort of data can be tripped up extremely easily.  The
: data provider need only seed their data with errors each day - a mistaken
: closing price, wrong dividend (off by a penny?), bogus stock name, etc.,
: and they can prove that you took their data.  Busted.
: 
: The only way appears to be to compile multiple sources, compare them against
: each other, and thereby validate and combine the data.  It's not the info
: that's copyrighted, but the list/compilation.   Build your own compilation
: and you should be home-free.  But getting a full closing report for free
: is apparently impossible.  


This could be done on a server-like basis.  If someone is willing
to act as a central database and others volunteer to feed prices
into it then, given enough support, we could have a fair coverage
of at least the major stocks and indexes.

The server should ideally be on the internet to be as up to date
as possible but email could be used by those (like me :-()  not
on the net.

Any interest?

Stuart.
-
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