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Desktop Video Studio: Random House Newmedia Series Apple New Media Library
Authors: Andrew Soderberg, Tom Hudson
Venue:  (1995)

:This definitive book/CD-ROM package gives you highly accessible, one-stop information, tutorials, and software for creating, editing, and integrating your own digital video for multimedia, corporate marketing, home video specials, employee or customer training and information, public relations, advertising, and broadcast.Packed with authoritative information, tutorials, real-world techniques, a good dose of humor and actual software, Desktop Video Studio has everything you need to create professional-quality video productions of your own.The book features expert advice on setting up a desktop video system (including reviews and guidance on choosing hardware and software for particular uses); capturing and producing video; preparing video for various uses, including multimedia, broadcast, videotape, and more; and professional hints and techniques that everyone can use. It also clarifies and offers solutions for some of the stickier issues of today's desktop video technology, including cross-platform considerations, file formats, and compression choices.Included: The advantages and pitfalls of competing hardware platforms, software tools and compression technologies Cross-platform video standards Capturing and compressing video and audio Editing video and audio Using video and audio in multimedia Video cards and "total solutions" Digital video sources Shooting it yourself Professional applications and case studies Advanced tips and techniques Expert product reviews: what to buy for your particular needs Bibliography and references Guestperspectives from some of the most accomplished and well-known experts in the field.The CD-ROM contains all the software you need to produce professional-quality video, including the full retail versions of Apple Media Tool 1.2, Macromedia Director 4.0 for Macintosh and Windows, Adobe Photoshop 3.0 for Macintosh and Windows, SoundEdit 16 for the Macintosh, Sonic Foundry Sound Forge for Windows, and Adobe Premiere 4.0 for Macintosh and Windows (all of which can be test-driven, purchased, and installed right off the disc in the U.S. and Canada), as well as hundreds of megabytes of clip media and utilities, animated tutorials, and a searchable, electronic version of the book (see the inside flap for details).Andrew Soderberg is president of Toucan Studios, whose current client list includes Apple Computer, Cascom International, Fractal Design, Domark Software, Spectral Innovations, and others. He worked at Atari in the 1980s developing interactive laserdisc-based kiosks before joining Apple Computer in 1990 as its Evangelist responsible for the creation of QuickTime hardware by third-party developers. Tom Hudson is executive producer of Toucan Studios, and has worked as an award-winning instructional designer and producer for Atari and Apple Computer.
Threshold Entrepreneur: A New Business Venture Simulation, Team Version with Disk, 1st edition
Authors: Philip H. Anderson, Timothy W. Scott, David A. Beveridge
Venue:  (1999)

:Threshold Entrepreneur: Team Version is a user-friendly Windows-based simulation which allows users to launch ,manage, and operate their own small business enterprise, while facing computer-initiated situations. It provides users with an opportunity to apply their knowledge of entrepreneurship to the process of managing a start-up business in a safe (simulated) environment. It allows them to learn from their mistakes without having to suffer a real financial loss, and improves their odds for success when they begin their business enterprise. Readers manage the start-up of a business that sells two plastic products, which are sold through retail markets to the general public. In the Team version, users are part of a group that manages its own company, and the company competes with other companies in the same marketplace that are managed by other groups. Readers use two screens to enter their decisions on company mission, goals, policies, strategies, and sales estimates; and, they can review previous quarters' decisions and results either on the screen or on print outs as they work. They see the results of their decisions and have an opportunity to correct mistakes in the following quarters of operation. They also process the decisions for the companies managed by the computer for their competitors. The program determines the number of products each company sells and produces a series of operations, marketing, and financial reports for the readers' company. The programs also rate the companies and rank them according to their performance on sales revenues, net income, return on equity, and accuracy in forecasting sales.
Oracle8i Certified Professional SQL and PL/SQL Exam Guide
Authors: Jason S. Couchman
Venue:  (2001)

:Prepare to pass the OCP SQL & PL/SQL exam. Officially authorized by Oracle Corporation,this book/CD-ROM package offers comprehensive coverage of all material on this exam. Chapter self-tests complete with in-depth explanations are included. The CD-ROM contains more than 250 practice questions that link further information on the subject in the electronic version of the book. Get Certified with Official Exam Prep Material from Oracle Press Prepare to pass the OCP SQL & PL/SQL exama required exam for both OCP DBA and Application Developer certificationsusing this Oracle Press study guide. Throughout each chapter,you'll find in-depth details of all the material covered on this challenging exam followed by practice questions and chapter summaries to highlight what you've learned. Written for novices and experts alike,this book and CD-ROM package is the most comprehensive exam preparation tool available for this Oracle8i Certified Professional exam. Featuring a logical methodology designed to reinforce learning,this exam guide offers: 100% complete coverage of all official exam objectivesMore than 500 practice questionsincluding scenario-based and short-answer question formatsDemos you can follow along withbased on standard Oracle demonstration tables contained in every database software releaseExercises at the end of all chapter discussions so you can apply your Oracle knowledge right awayTips,examples,and reviews in every topic discussion to help you remember the key concepts for OCPTwo-minute drillsquick and concise checklists that summarize each chapter's main pointsChapterself-testsexam-based questions complete with in-depth explanations Book and CD-ROM include more than 500 interactive exam-based questions. CD-ROM contains interactive exam feature that simulates the actual OCP exams through hotlinked questions,answers,and explanations.
Computational Intelligence Processing in Medical Diagnosis
Authors: Manfred Schmitt
Venue:  (2002)

:Computational intelligence techniques are gaining momentum in the medical prognosis and diagnosis. This volume presents advanced applications of machine intelligence in medicine and bio-medical engineering. Applied methods include knowledge bases, expert systems, neural networks, neuro-fuzzy systems, evolvable systems, wavelet transforms, and specific internet applications. The volume is written in view of explaining to the practitioner the fundamental issues related to computational intelligence paradigms and to offer a fast and friendly-managed introduction to the most recent methods based on computer intelligence in medicine.
A+ Practice Tests: Exam 220-221, 220-222 with Cdrom, 2nd edition
Authors: Mike A. Pastore
Venue:  (2001)

:"Surveys of our readers indicate that practice tests are critical for exam success. A+ Practice Tests Exam Cram, Second Edition, offers you the affordable way to put the finishing touches on your preparation for the real exams." "Use A+ Practice Tests, Second Edition in conjunction with A+ Exam Cram, Second Edition for the ultimate exam preparation experience." "Further your exam success and save time with detailed answer explanations that are mapped to the corresponding Exam Cram to reinforce key concepts." "Take two practice tests for each exam covered." "Learn more than just the correct answers. Explanations detail why the correct answers are right and why the wrong answers are wrong." Get feedback on how much you really know.
Motion Smoothing Using Wavelets
Authors: Chung-Chi Hsieh
Venue: Journal of Intelligent and Robotic Systems (2002)

Smooth motion generation is an important issue in the computer animation and virtual reality areas. The motion of a rigid body consists of translation and orientation. The former is described by a space curve in 3-dimensional Euclidean space, while the latter is represented by a curve in the unit quaternion space. Although there exist well-known techniques for smoothing the translation data, smoothing the orientation data is yet to be explored due to the nonlinearity of the unit quaternion space. This paper presents a wavelet-based algorithm for smoothing noise-embedded motion data and the experiment shows the effectiveness of the proposed algorithm.
Speech and Audio Signal Processing: Processing and Perception of Speech and Music, 1st edition
Authors: Ben Gold, Nelson Morgan
Venue:  (1999)

:Speech and Audio Signal Processing provides the most current and comprehensive coverage of speech and audio signal processing available today. These topics include everything from basic foundation material on digital signal processing, pattern recognition acoustics, and hearing to material of historical significance not found anywhere else. The text also contains a range of applications of the technology, with strong focus on speech recognition and coding.
Secure Internet Practices: Best Practices for Securing Systems in the Internet and E-Business Age, 2nd edition
Authors: Jody Patilla, Craig Robinson, Peter Thermos, Edward P. Moser, Patrick McBride
Venue:  (2001)

:Is your e-business secure? Have you done everything you can to protect your enterprise and your customers from the potential exploits of hackers, crackers, and other cyberspace menaces? As we expand the brave new world of e-commerce, we are confronted with a whole new set of security problems. Dealing with the risks of Internet applications and e-commerce requires new ways of thinking about security. Secure Internet Practices: Best Practices for Securing Systems in the Internet and e-Business Age presents an overview of security programs, policies, goals, life cycle development issues, infrastructure, and architecture aimed at enabling you to effectively implement security at your organization. In addition to discussing general issues and solutions, the book provides concrete examples and templates for crafting or revamping your security program in the form of an Enterprise-Wide Security Program Model, and an Information Security Policy Framework. Although rich in technical expertise, this is not strictly a handbook of Internet technologies, but a guide that is equally useful for developing policies, procedures, and standards. The book touches all the bases you need to build a secure enterprise. Drawing on the experience of the world-class METASeS consulting team in building and advising on security programs, Secure Internet Practices: Best Practices for Securing Systems in the Internet and e-Business Age shows you how to create a workable security program to protect your organization's Internet risk.
Souvenir: flexible note-taking tool to pinpoint and share media highlights
Authors: Anselm Spoerri
Venue: Proceedings of the 25th annual international ACM SIGIR conference on Research and development in information retrieval (2002)

Digital media audio/video can be difficult to search and share in a personal way. Souvenir is a software system that offers users a flexible and comprehensive way to use their handwritten or text notes to retrieve and share specific media moments. Users can take notes on a variety of devices, such as the paper-based CrossPad, the Palm Pilot and standard keyboard devices. Souvenir segments handwritten notes into an effective media index without the need for handwriting recognition. Users can use their notes to create hyperlinks to random-access media stored in a digital library. Souvenir also has web publishing and email capabilities to enable anyone to access or email media moments directly from a web page. Souvenir annotations capture information that can not be easily inferred by automatic media indexing tools.
Parallel dynamic programming for solving the string editing problem on a CGM/BSP
Authors: C. E. R. Alves, E. N. Cáceres, F. Dehne
Venue: Proceedings of the fourteenth annual ACM symposium on Parallel algorithms and architectures (2002)

In this paper we present a coarse-grained parallel algorithm for solving the string edit distance problem for a string A and all substrings of a string C. Our method is based on a novel CGM/BSP parallel dynamic programming technique for computing all highest scoring paths in a weighted grid graph. The algorithm requires \log p rounds/supersteps and O(\fracn^2p\log m) local computation, where $p$ is the number of processors, p^2 \leq m \leq n. To our knowledge, this is the first efficient CGM/BSP algorithm for the alignment of all substrings of C with A. Furthermore, the CGM/BSP parallel dynamic programming technique presented is of interest in its own right and we expect it to lead to other parallel dynamic programming methods for the CGM/BSP.
Sap R/3 Administrator's Handbook, 2nd edition
Authors: Jose Antonio Hernandez
Venue:  (1999)

:Demystify today's premier client/server enterprise software The all-in-one guide to successfully implementing enterprise-wide business process engineering now brings you up to speed on the #1 software's latest features. SAP R/3Handbook,Second Edition,by JosE Antonio Hernandez,explains in easy-to-follow steps all stages of R/3 installation,implementation,operation and support. You learn about the workings of the ABAP/4 development workbench,the transport system,R/3 service distribution,systems architectures and system administration,and get an in-depth look at the Basis system. In this new edition,you'll find new and expanded chapters on the latest SAP features,including:*The Profile Generator and the Management of Users and Authorizations*SAP Database Administration including Oracle8 and Microsoft SQL Server 7*Advanced new options within the CCMS,including new R/3 installation tools*Much more Demystify today's premier client/server enterprise software!The all-in-one guide to successfully implementing enterprise-wide business process engineering now brings you up to speed on the #1 software's latest features. SAP R/3Handbook,Second Edition,by Jose Antonio Hernandez,explains in easy-to-follow steps all stages of R/3 installation,implementation,operation and support. You learn about the workings of the ABAP/4 development workbench,the transport system,R/3 service distribution,systems architectures and system administration,and get an in-depth look at the Basis system. In this new edition,you'll find new and expanded chapters on the latest SAP features,including:The Profile Generator and the Management of Users and AuthorizationsSAPDatabase Administration including Oracle8 and Microsoft SQL Server 7Advanced new options within the CCMS,including new R/3 installation toolsMuch more
Experience with distributed processing on a host/satellite graphics system
Authors: Janet Michel, Andries van Dam
Venue: ACM SIGGRAPH Computer Graphics (1976)

The problem cf distributing an application between two processors has been investigated by studying an interactive graphics application that is divided between a time-shared host computer and a dedicated satellite system. The division of labor in the application is determined by a network flow assignment algorithm. The effect of variation in availability of the host computer on the distribution of the application is also studied. In particular, host availability is an important factor in determining the task distribution. As host availability decreased, procedures miqrate from the host to the satellite.
War and Peace in the Global Village, 3rd edition
Authors: Marshall McLuhan, Quentin Fiore
Venue:  (2001)

:War and Peace in The Global Village is a collage of images and text that sharply illustrates the effects of electronic media and new technology on man. Marshall McLuhan wrote this book thirty years ago and following its publication predicted that the forthcoming information age would be "a transitional era of profound pain and tragic identity quest". Marshall McLuhan illustrates the fact that all social changes are caused by introduction of new technologies. He interprets these new technologies as extensions or "self-amputations of our own being", because technologies extend bodily reach. McLuhan's ideas and observations seem disturbingly accurate and clearly applicable to the world in which we live. War and Peace in the Global Village is a meditation on accelerating innovations leading to identity loss and war.
Computer Graphics for Java Programmers, 1st edition
Authors: Leendert Ammeraal, Leen Ammeraal
Venue:  (1998)

:Computer Graphics for Java Programmers is a good place to start for those with a little experience of Java who wish to create and manipulate 2D and 3D graphical objects. Two-dimensional subjects discussed include logical coordinates, triangulation of polygons and both Bezier and B-spline curve fitting. There is also a chapter about transformations, culminating in a useful Java class for 3D rotations about an arbitrary axis. The perspective representation of 3D solid objects is discussed in detail, including efficient algorithms for hidden-face and hidden-line elimination. These and many other algorithms are accompanied by complete, ready-to-run Java programs which can be downloaded from the accompanying web site.
Normal Forms and Bifurcations of Discrete Time Nonlinear Control Systems
Authors: Arthur J. Krener, Long Li
Venue: SIAM Journal on Control and Optimization (2001)

The quadratic and cubic normal forms of discrete time nonlinear control systems are presented. These are the normal forms with respect to the group of state coordinate changes and invertible state feedbacks. We introduce the concept of a control bifurcation for such systems. A control bifurcation takes place at an equilibrium where there is a loss of linear stabilizability in contrast to a classical bifurcation, which typically takes place at an equilibrium where there is a loss of linear stability. We present the analogous control bifurcations to the well-known classical bifurcations; the fold, the transcritical, the flip, and the Neimark--Sacker bifurcations. When the loop is closed, a control bifurcation can lead to a classical bifurcation.
On the Quadratic Convergence of the Simplified Mizuno--Todd--Ye Algorithm for Linear Programming
Authors: Clovis C. Gonzaga, Richard A. Tapia
Venue: SIAM Journal on Optimization (1997)

It is known that the Mizuno--Todd--Ye predictor-corrector primal-dual Newton interior-point method generates a duality-gap sequence which converges quadratically to zero, and this is accomplished with an iteration complexity of $O(\sqrt n L)$. Very recently, the present authors demonstrated that the iteration sequence generated by this method converges, and this convergence is to the analytic center of the solution set. In the current work we show that within a finite number of iterations, the Newton corrector step can be replaced with a simplified Newton corrector step, and the resulting algorithm maintains $O(\sqrt n L)$ iteration complexity, quadratic convergence of the duality-gap sequence to zero, and convergence of the iteration sequence (however, not necessarily to the analytic center). The simplified predictor-corrector algorithm requires only one linear solve per iteration in contrast to the two linear solves per iteration required by the original predictor-corrector algorithm.
Linux Clustering: Building and Maintaining Linux Clusters
Authors: Charles Bookman
Venue:  (2002)

:Linux Clusteringis the premier resource for system administrators wishing to implement clustering solutions on the many typses of Linux systems. It guides Linux Administrators through difficult tasks while offering helpful tips and tricks. Not only does it offer a comprehensive look at today's clustering technology, but it provides system administrators the tools needed to keep their servers up and running with the lowest effort.The first section helps the Linux administrator prepare the best way to keep multiple computers up and streamlined. The second part introduces the reader to the heart of clustering technology and provides step by step examples on how to install and maintain even the most difficult clusters. Also included in the appendixes are hard to find unparalleled resources for system administrators. These are excellent resource of information. The web site contains examples of code that readers can freely cut and paste into their own programs, as well as links to clustering information and software.
The First Computers: History and Architectures
Authors: Raul Rojas, Ulf Hashagen
Venue:  (2002)

:This history of computing focuses not on chronology (what came first and who deserves credit for it) but on the actual architectures of the first machines that made electronic computing a practical reality. The book covers computers built in the United States, Germany, England, and Japan. It makes clear that similar concepts were often pursued simultaneously and that the early researchers explored many architectures beyond the von Neumann architecture that eventually became canonical. The contributors include not only historians but also engineers and computer pioneers. An introductory chapter describes the elements of computer architecture and explains why "being first" is even less interesting for computers than for other areas of technology. The essays contain a remarkable amount of new material, even on well-known machines, and several describe reconstructions of the historic machines. These investigations are of more than simply historical interest, for architectures designed to solve specific problems in the past may suggest new approaches to similar problems in today's machines.
CEO: Building a $400 Million Company from the Ground Up
Authors: Sandra L. Kurtzig, Tom Parker
Venue:  (1994)

:In 1971,Sandy Kurtzig was a 24-year old working wife,thinking of starting a family and looking for a job she could do at home. Armed with two years' experience selling computer time-sharing and a little programming know-how,she setup shop helping small-to mid-size companies streamline their manufacturing and accounting operations. Starting with just $2,000 and working in a spare bedroom,Kurtzig built ASK Computer Systems into the fastest-growing software company in the United States,with clients including Eastman Kodak,Hughes Aircraft,and Emerson Electric. In 1981,Kurtzig became the first woman to take a high-tech company public,bringing off a successful public offering in the midst of a Wall Street slump. CEO is her story; here she shares the business savvy,resourcefulness,and will to win that made it all happen.
The Unofficial Guide to Online Genealogy
Authors: Pamela Rice Hahn
Venue:  (2000)

:Genealogy is one of the hottest topics on the Internet, with thousands of sites, forums, and newsgroups clamoring to help-or confuse-family history sleuths. How do people cut through the noise and find the best tools to trace their roots? This opinionated guide can help. Zeroing in on the science of online genealogical research, author Pamela Rice Hahn shows readers how to: Map out a research strategy Target the best Internet resources Dig up info and swap leads with other researchers Evaluate genealogy software Steer clear of hype, dead ends, and time-wasters Organize a family reunion