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The Informational Complexity of Learning: Perspectives on Neural Networks and Generative Grammar, 1st edition
Authors: Partha Niyogi
Venue:  (1997)

:Among other topics, The Informational Complexity of Learning: Perspectives on Neural Networks and Generative Grammar brings together two important but very different learning problems within the same analytical framework. The first concerns the problem of learning functional mappings using neural networks, followed by learning natural language grammars in the principles and parameters tradition of Chomsky. These two learning problems are seemingly very different. Neural networks are real-valued, infinite-dimensional, continuous mappings. On the other hand, grammars are boolean-valued, finite-dimensional, discrete (symbolic) mappings. Furthermore the research communities that work in the two areas almost never overlap. The book's objective is to bridge this gap. It uses the formal techniques developed in statistical learning theory and theoretical computer science over the last decade to analyze both kinds of learning problems. By asking the same question - how much information does it take to learn - of both problems, it highlights their similarities and differences. Specific results include model selection in neural networks, active learning, language learning and evolutionary models of language change.
Oracle8 DBA: Backup and Recovery Exam Cram
Authors: Debbie Wong
Venue:  (2000)

:This guide prepares OCP-DBA candidates to take Test 3Oracle8: Backup and Recovery, supplies insights on backup and recovery issues and methodologies, provides practice questions accompanied by fully explained answers, and serves as a reference and troubleshooting guide. Readers get proven test-taking strategies, tips on handling trick questions, and a "cram sheet" for last-minute review. The ACM Portal is published by the Association for Computing Machinery. Copyright © 2010 ACM, Inc. Terms of Usage Privacy Policy Code of Ethics Contact Us Useful downloads: Adobe Acrobat QuickTime Windows Media Player Real Player
Using Wireless Communications in Business
Authors: Andrew M. Seybold
Venue:  (1994)

:This one-of-a-kind guide offers applications from a business perspective toward a complete understanding of wireless communication systems. In clear, non-technical language, Using Wireless Communications in Business explains what technologies are available now and what will be available in the future, the capabilities of wireless communication systems, and the legal issues involved.
Multimedia retrieval through spatio-temporal activity maps
Authors: Gopal Pingali, Agata Opalach, Ingrid Carlbom
Venue: Proceedings of the ninth ACM international conference on Multimedia (2001)

As multiple video cameras and other sensors generate very large quantities of multimedia data in media productions and surveillance applications, a key challenge is to identify the relevant portions of the data and to rapidly retrieve the corresponding sensor data. Spatio-temporal activity maps serve as an efficient and intuitive graphical user interface for multimedia retrieval, particularly when the media streams are derived from multiple sensors observing a physical environment. We formulate the media retrieval problem in this context, and develop an architecture for interactive media retrieval by combining spatio-temporal "activity maps" with domain specific event information. Activity maps are computed from trajectories of motion of objects in the environment, which in turn are derived automatically by analysis of sensor data. We present an activity map based video retrieval system for the sport of tennis and demonstrate that the activity map based scheme significantly helps the user in a) discovering the relevant portions of the data, and b) non-linearly retrieving the corresponding media streams.
Every picture tells a story: learning to look at space scientific data images
Authors: George Tuthill, Stephanie Stevenson
Venue: Proceedings of the 1998 ACM/IEEE conference on Supercomputing (CDROM) (1998)

Understanding scientific image data requires us to connect two-dimensional images to three-dimensional reality. Our knowledge of space science changes as our skill for seeing what is in the night sky increases. With eyes as their only tools, early people surveyed the skies, telling stories to explain what they observed. For centuries humankind studied the sky adding new perceptions to the old. The advent of telescopes provided even better means of observation. This clearer sight contributed to a new understanding of what occurs in our universe. The telescope led to the discovery of new stars and planets. Our knowledge of the heavens changed as we revised our old understanding to fit the new observations. Today with tools developed by NASA we can see beyond our solar system to the far universe. Space probes and the Hubble Space Telescope send pictures back to earth giving expanded views of objects in and beyond our solar system. For the first time we have a chance to see the heavenly bodies up close. Understanding what we see is our task. We use our previous knowledge added to new observations to begin to unravel the mysteries of space. It is up to us to learn to look at these images to gain a new view of space.Cognitive research disproves the statement; "Every picture is worth a thousand words." Image processing in the human brain occurs at two hundred million bits per second, while language processing occurs at one hundred bits per second, literally every picture tells a story of one million words. Scientific image data supplies an immediate visual appeal to student. Images and image processing increase the rate of data perception and interpretation by the human brain. By visualizing information students gain the power to see data in new and unique ways opening the door to original scientific discovery.Through funding from NASA, faculty at Montana State University and classroom teachers from across the nation have developed an extensive library of on-line and interactive K-12 science education materials for teaching astronomy. Closely aligned with the NRC National Science Education Standards, these web-based lessons make maximum use of exciting on-line NASA resources, data, and images. In addition to classroom-ready materials using contemporary teaching strategies, MSU's Center for Educational Resources (CERES) project has developed several on-line NASA data search engines and two graduate level distance learning courses, available over the Internet to K-12 teachers.The goals of the CERES project are to:&bull; map NASA-based resources to the National Reacearch Council's (NRC) National Science Education Standards (NSES)&bull; increase understanding of scientific image data for K-12 teachers and students( a tutorial is under development)&bull; bring NASA -based electronic sources and data to classrooms&bull; provide exemplary classroom ready activities for students on lineon line&bull; Internet-based courses for in-service K-12 teachers
Microsoft Windows 2000 Professional Unleashed
Authors: Paul Cassel
Venue:  (2000)

:Windows 2000 Professional Unleashed is an invaluable reference for networking professionals and power users who need answers fast. This book teaches you how to optimize the Windows 2000 system for the most efficient performance based on your specific work habits. Within the pages of this book you will find everything you need to solve your problems in a clear and direct way. Topics include troubleshooting the setup, tuning Windows 2000 performance, using Windows 2000 on laptops, configuring multimedia devices, Windows 2000 network services, Internet Information Service, and more. As a part of the successful Unleashed series, this book focuses on installation, configuration, and administration. Case Studies tackle real-world situations that EVERY user will face. Windows 2000 Professional Unleashed will make sure users are up and running and productive, and tweak your system so it's optimized and running at top capacity CD-ROM contains Windows 2000 and web utilities.
Bandwidth-allocation policies for unicast and multicast flows
Authors: Arnaud Legout, Jörg Nonnenmacher, Ernst W. Biersack
Venue: IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking (TON) (2001)

Using multicast delivery to multiple receivers reduces the aggregate bandwidth required from the network compared to using unicast delivery to each receiver. However, multicast is not yet widely deployed in the Internet. One reason is the lack of incentive to use multicast delivery. To encourage the use of multicast delivery, we define a new bandwidth-allocation policy, called LogRD, taking into account the number of downstream receivers. This policy gives more bandwidth to a multicast flow as compared to a unicast flow that shares the same bottleneck, without starving the unicast flows, however. The LogRD policy also provides an answer to the question on how to treat a multicast flow compared to a unicast flow sharing the same bottleneck. We investigate three bandwidth-allocation policies for multicast flows and evaluate their impact on both receiver satisfaction and fairness using a simple analytical study and a comprehensive set of simulations. The policy that allocates the available bandwidth as a logarithmic function of the number of receivers downstream of the bottleneck achieves the best tradeoff between receiver satisfaction and fairness.
Creating single-sourced tutorials
Authors: Carl Stieren
Venue: Proceedings of IEEE professional communication society international professional communication conference and Proceedings of the 18th annual ACM international conference on Computer documentation: technology & teamwork (2000)

Suppose you want to integrate a tutorial - or several tutorials - into your product documentation. Doing so can let your users check their understanding and ability to use what they've learned. In HTML documentation, for example, you could structure your pre-exam documentation so that it builds toward a core set of principles and procedures that you identify as necessary for a typical user. At OmniMark, we had two pieces to this puzzle, but they hadn't been integrated. We had our HTML documentation for our product, SureSpeed, and the tool to build this documentation, an OmniMark program called kbook2html. We also had a program called examcgi that built online tutorials. To integrate them, I built kexam, a documentation builder written in OmniMark that produces both the HTML documentation, and a set of exams that are templates for a the CGI program, examcgi. To the user, it's all one.
Handbook of Biosensors and Electronic Noses: Medicine, Food, and the Environment, 1st edition
Authors: Erika Kress-Rogers
Venue:  (1996)

:In developing the electronic nose and biosensor devices,researchers not only copy biochemical pathways, but also use nature's approach to signal interpretation as a blueprint for man-made sensing systems. Commercial biosensors have demonstrated their benefits and practical applications, providing high sensitivity and selectivity, combined with a significant reduction in sample preparation assay time and the use of expensive reagents. The Handbook of Biosensors and Electronic Noses discusses design and optimization for the multitude of practical uses of these devices including:
Creating the Standard Desktop Environment in a Non-Standard World
Authors: Catherine Yang
Venue: Proceedings of the 29th annual ACM SIGUCCS conference on User services (2001)

The purpose of this paper is to give user services staff an overview of issues to consider when trying to standardize desktop environments and deliver software upgrades to faculty, staff and students, as well as to provide some tried and true solutions to these problems.
Cathedrals, libraries and bazaars
Authors: Ken Krechmer
Venue: Proceedings of the 2002 ACM symposium on Applied computing (2002)

The open source and open standards movements are sometimes confused and sometimes clash. This seems unfortunate as they are both vital to the growing acceptance of technology and have much to offer each other. Expanding on the metaphors offered by Eric Raymond in his paper "The Cathedral and the Bazaar," this essay describes the similarities and differences between the concepts of open source and open standards. Openness has a very different meaning as applied to software programs or technical standards. As this essay attempts to explain, the open source and open standards movements are most closely related by their desire to allow competition to thrive based on merit, not market dominance.
A semantic approach to the dynamic design of interaction controls in conversation systems
Authors: Michelle X. Zhou, Keith Houck
Venue: Proceedings of the 7th international conference on Intelligent user interfaces (2002)

To support a full-fledged, multimedia human-computer conversation, we are building an intelligent framework, called Responsive Information Architect (RIA), which can automatically synthesize multimedia responses during the conversation. As part of its visual response generation, RIA dynamically creates context-sensitive interaction controls that are visual interfaces through which users can further interact with RIA. To enable the systematic design of inter¿action controls, we study and abstract control properties. In particular, in this paper we present a semantic model that captures the intentional, presentational, and behavioral char¿acteristics of interaction controls. Using this model, we show how to systematically sketch the semantics of an interaction control.
Introduction to Windows 95 Networking
Authors: Alan Westenbroek
Venue:  (1995)

:Complete, beginning level reference on networking with Windows 95, this book explains how Windows 95 connects and works with various network environments. The text shows how to quickly connect and utilize networked resources. Covers all aspects of networking using Windows 95 with NetWare, Banyan Vines, UNIX, Internet, and MS Nets (Windows NT/Workgroups).
Way of Z
Authors: Jonathan Jacky
Venue:  (1996)

:This self-contained tutorial on Z, a formal notation for modeling, specifying and designing computer systems and software, presents realistic case studies emphasizing safety-critical systems. It includes exercises with solutions, reference materials and a guide to further reading.
Intelligent Systems for Engineering: A Knowledge-Based Approach, 1st edition
Authors: Ram D. Sriram
Venue:  (1997)

:This comprehensive, well-illustrated book covers knowledge-based systems and neural networks with the emphasis on engineering applications throughout. The book includes appendices which survey the commercially available knowledge-based system building tools, a critical treatment of inexact inference techniques, and an analysis of device representation, Designed with the graduate student in mind, the book will also be of great value as a reference work for practicing electrical engineers.
Sams Teach Yourself Javaserver Pages in 24 Hours with Cdrom, 1st edition
Authors: Jose Annunziato
Venue:  (2000)

:Sams Teach Yourself JavaServer Pages in 24 Hours guarantees to teach 24 one-hour lessons on JSP and its ties to other J2EE techologies, including Servlets and JDBC. Additionally, this book covers the comprehensive development of JSPs using tools such as BEA's WebLogic Server and Apache Tomcat. Each lesson builds on the previous one, allowing the reader to understand the subject of JSPs from the ground-up. Sams Teach Yourself JavaServer Pages in 24 Hours teaches JSP architecture and components from the very beginning. Learn how JSP interacts with other J2EE technologies, including Servlets and JDBC. The reader should be able to use this book to build and deliver a web application. The ACM Portal is published by the Association for Computing Machinery. Copyright © 2010 ACM, Inc. Terms of Usage Privacy Policy Code of Ethics Contact Us Useful downloads: Adobe Acrobat QuickTime Windows Media Player Real Player
Optical and wireless communications: next generation networks
Authors: Matthew N.O. Sadiku
Venue:  (2002)

Optical and Wireless Communications: Next Genration Network covers both types of networks in a unique presentation ideal for formal coursework, self-study, and professional reference. Part I: Optical Networks covers optical fibers, transmitters, receivers, multiplexers, amplifiers, and specific networks, including FDDI, SONET, fiber channel, and wavelength-routed networks. Part II: Wireless Network examines fundamental concepts and specific wireless networks, such as wireless LAN, wireless ATM, wireless local loop, and wireless PBXs. This section also explores cellular technologies and satellite communications.
Introduction to Networking, 2nd edition
Authors: Barry Nance
Venue:  (1993)

:With all of the changes in networking and operating systems, the need for a complete reference becomes essential. Using real-world examples, this updated book will teach users how to design the perfect system and add new capabilities to their networks-in no time.Provides information on using the Internet and the World Wide Web with a networkShows how to mix and match networking technologies to meet any needUpdated to cover Windows NT 4 NetWare 4.11, IntranetWare, and Windows 95
Encapsulating objects with confined types
Authors: Christian Grothoff, Jens Palsberg, Jan Vitek
Venue: Proceedings of the 16th ACM SIGPLAN conference on Object-oriented programming, systems, languages, and applications (2001)

Object-oriented languages provide little support for encapsulating objects. Reference semantics allows objects to escape their defining scope. The pervasive aliasing that ensues remains a major source of software defects. This paper introduces Kacheck/J a tool for inferring object encapulation properties in large Java programs. Our goal is to develop practical tools to assist software engineers, thus we focus on simple and scalable techniques. Kacheck/J is able to infer confinement for Java classes. A class and its sublasses are confined if all of their instances are encapsulated in their defining package. This simple property can be used to identify accidental leaks of sensitive objects. The analysis is scalable and efficient; Kacheck/J is able t infer confinement on a corpus of 46,000 classes (115 MB) in 6 minutes
Document collaboration and tacit knowledge
Authors: Jason Swarts
Venue: Proceedings of IEEE professional communication society international professional communication conference and Proceedings of the 18th annual ACM international conference on Computer documentation: technology & teamwork (2000)

In this paper I will discuss how process documents, video recordings of a person's writing, mediate the way people collaborate with one another to construct texts. First, I talk about tacit knowledge and how it is inarticulate without a medium that supports articulation. I then talk about cognitive tools that support collaboration and how video, as such a tool, can support multiple ways of "seeing" a text, enabling coordination between the various ways people understand how a text works. Finally, I report preliminary findings of a study that suggest specific ways process documents facilitate greater collaboration and coordination between the different perspectives of the collaborators.
Quick Course in Microsoft Windows 98, 1st edition
Authors: CORPORATE Inc Online Press
Venue:  (1998)

:Microsoft Windows 98 is the path to 32-bit desktop computing that's easy, reliable, fast, and fully integrated with the Internet. Quick Course in Microsoft Windows 98 is the quick way to tap this power, covering just the information and training you need. The ACM Portal is published by the Association for Computing Machinery. Copyright © 2010 ACM, Inc. Terms of Usage Privacy Policy Code of Ethics Contact Us Useful downloads: Adobe Acrobat QuickTime Windows Media Player Real Player
Developing Secure Applications with Visual Basic
Authors: Davis Chapman
Venue:  (2000)

:Using client-proven methods, and over 15 years of programming experience, expert author Davis Chapman empowers developers to create powerful, secure applications. Developing Secure Applications with Visual Basic first provides you with an understanding of encryption, and then guides you through adding security features to your own applications using the Microsoft CryptoAPI, and the new security features of Windows 2000. Developers who have been confused by the high-end, academic style of other encryption books and cryptography theory will delight with Chapman's understandable style and hands-on methods. This book covers security topics developers want and need to know including File Encryption, Encrypted Communications, Working with Certificates, Digital Signatures, SChannel Communications (SSL), Secure E-Mail, and much more.
Multi-paradigm programming using C++
Venue:  (2001)

Multi-Paradigm Programming using C++ is a self-contained reference book for those studying and using C++. Starting from scratch, Dirk Vermeir explains the idea of address, value and type in C++ before quickly moving on to cover the more important aspects of the language such as classes, templates, generic programming and inheritance. He includes recent developments in C++, such as STL and the iostream library, and there is also a chapter devoted to program design principles.By using plenty of examples to illustrate the text, the reader is stimulated and inspired to see how they can use what they have learnt in other more sophisticated applications.
Tutorials for the Biomedical Sciences: Animations, Simulations, and Calculations Using Mathematica
Authors: Charles Pidgeon
Venue:  (1996)

:Tutorials for the Biomedical Sciences is an exciting new book and computer disk package designed to help instructors, researchers, and undergraduate students achieve a greater comprehension of the basic chemical and physicochemical processes as related to drug action, drug discovery, and biomedical science in general. The Tutorials use Mathematica software as an instructional tool to display, animate, and calculate various complex physical phenomena in a highly understandable manner. The Mathematica software integrates text and graphics and allows for rapid calculation. The ACM Portal is published by the Association for Computing Machinery. Copyright © 2010 ACM, Inc. Terms of Usage Privacy Policy Code of Ethics Contact Us Useful downloads: Adobe Acrobat QuickTime Windows Media Player Real Player
Business Information Warehouse for SAP with CD-ROM, 1st edition
Authors: Naeem Hashmi
Venue:  (2000)

:Business Information Warehouse is the core information hub of all modules in SAP. This book shows you how to implement a data warehouse that can support reporting and analysis needs across diverse organizations and business functions. The author, Naeem Hashmi, was a member of the BW development team at SAP and covers just what you need to know to get to the core of the system and to the top of your field. The ACM Portal is published by the Association for Computing Machinery. Copyright © 2010 ACM, Inc. Terms of Usage Privacy Policy Code of Ethics Contact Us Useful downloads: Adobe Acrobat QuickTime Windows Media Player Real Player
Applied Statistics with Microsoft Excel, 1st edition
Authors: Gerald Keller
Venue:  (2000)

:Gerald Keller's new APPLIED STATISTICS WITH MICROSOFT½ EXCEL integrates Excel into the general introductory statistics course. Keller, the co-author of the market-leading STATISTICS FOR MANAGEMENT AND ECONOMICS, Fifth Edition, incorporates his proven three-step problem-solving process throughout this book. The first step, "Identify," is the work a statistician does before the calculations are performed, which entails organizing the experiment, gathering the data, and deciding which statistical techniques to employ. The second step, "Compute," is the computation with Excel. In this step, Keller shows the manual calculation for the simplest of techniques only. For example, he describes how to calculate the sample mean, variance, and standard deviation, how to compute the z-interval estimate of, and the z-test of. The third step, "Interpret," is the interpretation of the computer output, which requires an understanding of statistical concepts.