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Electrical Circuit Analysis Using the TI-85 or TI-86, 1st edition
Authors: Richard Aston
Venue:  (1999)

:This innovative book uses the hand-held programmable graphing calculator as both a calculating tool and a pedagogical tool to teach readers how to do classical circuit analysis and how to make mathematical models of electrical networks that can be programmed on the TI-85 or 86. Introduces a generic method that is compatible with any mathematical computer program. Emphasizes using the computer (specifically the programmable, hand-held graphing calculator TI-85 or 86) as an analysis tool. Tasks include solving for all currents or voltages in any AC or DC circuit of up to 20 nodes or loops; exploring frequency response curves; and performing sensitivity studies on the effects of individual resistor, capacitor, or inductor elements. Includes exercises that require complete computer programs for a variety of common circuits such as bridge circuits, delta-wye circuits, balanced and unbalanced three-phase networks, transistor equivalent circuits, transformer circuits, ladder networks, passive and active filters, differential amplifiers, and instrumentation amplifiers. Other topics include instantaneous power, harmonic representation of square waves, bandwidth filters, and more. For those with an interest in DC/AC Circuits. 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
The invasiveness of off-line memory checking
Authors: Miklós Ajtai
Venue: Proceedings of the thiry-fourth annual ACM symposium on Theory of computing (2002)

Memory checking is the task of checking the correctness of a sequence of "store" and "retrieve" operations. The operations are performed in a large unreliable memory. A checker using a much smaller but completely reliable memory tries to decide whether they were executed correctly. M. Blum, W. Evans, P. Gemmel, S. Kannan and M. Naor, has shown in 1991 that the off-line checking of a sequence of memory operations concerning a RAM consisting of n registers can be done, in a probabilistic sense, by a checker using only O(log n) reliable memory and a constant number of RAM operation per each "store" and "retrieve" operations (with log n word length), moreover no unproven cryptographic assumptions are needed in the proof. The probability of error will be polynomially small in n. The solution however requires the checker to store some extra information in the unreliable memory, that is, the checking protocol is invasive. (In this solution the time of each "store" operation must be stored together with the data and must be supplied to the checker at the time of the corresponding retrieve operation.) In this paper we prove that off-line memory checking, in the sense described above, is necessarily invasive, even if we make the problem somewhat easier for the checker to exclude trivial counter-examples. We show that even if the checker is allowed to read a constant number of registers from the large memory after each "store" or "retrieve" instruction, off-line non-invasive memory checking is not possible. Moreover for the case when the invasiveness consists of storing some extra information together with each piece of data and retrieving it together with the data we give a quantitative lower bound on the amount of extra "invasive" information stored in the memory. Namely, if the checker has O(log n) memory and the probability of error is polynomially small than the "invasiveness" of the mentioned method of [5] is optimal upto a constant factor. With other words the total number of extra bits that must be written in the memory is at least &egr;T log T, where T is the number of store and retrieve operations. In the lower bounds we do not restrict the computational power of the checker at all, in fact we only assume that the checker is an n-way branching program with O(log n) bits of memory.
PhotoMesa: a zoomable image browser using quantum treemaps and bubblemaps
Authors: Benjamin B. Bederson
Venue: Proceedings of the 14th annual ACM symposium on User interface software and technology (2001)

PhotoMesa is a zoomable image browser that uses a novel treemap algorithm to present large numbers of images grouped by directory, or other available metadata. It uses a new interaction technique for zoomable user interfaces designed for novices and family use that makes it straightforward to navigate through the space of images, and impossible to get lost.PhotoMesa groups images using one of two new algorithms that lay out groups of objects in a 2D space-filling manner. Quantum treemaps are designed for laying out images or other objects of indivisible (quantum) size. They are a variation on existing treemap algorithms in that they guarantee that every generated rectangle will have a width and height that are an integral multiple of an input object size. Bubblemaps also fill space with groups of quantum-sized objects, but generate non-rectangular blobs, and utilize space more efficiently.
Living on the Fault Line: Managing for Shareholder Value in the Age of the Internet
Authors: Geoffrey A. Moore
Venue:  (2000)

:The fault line--that dangerous, unstable seam in the economy where the Internet and other powerful innovations meet and create market-shattering tremors. Every company lives on it; no manager can control it. Everyone must learn to deal with it. Now, Geoffrey Moore, author of Crossing the Chasm and Inside the Tornado, two bestselling works that helped guide the high-tech revolution, explores the new management paradigms that will guide businesses in the twenty-first century, showing them how to survive and thrive on the fault line. In this long-awaited new book, Moore turns his attention to the most important question for businesses: How can companies that rose to prominence prior to the age of the Internet manage for shareholder value now that the Internet is upon us? The old management truths are dead. Business models that worked admirably until the last decade of the twentieth century must be replaced. The dotcoms are invading every sector of commerce, overturning established relationships, reengineering markets, attacking long-established price points, and disintermediating longstanding institutions. What should management do when it is under direct assault from companies no one ever heard of even a few years ago? In a book that will reset the management agenda in the age of the Internet, Moore shows why sensitivity to stock price is the single most important lever for managing in the future, both as a leading indicator of shifts in competitive advantage and as an employee motivator for making necessary changes in organizations heretofore impervious to change. He prescribes a new agenda for management teams that includes New strategies for achieving and sustaining competitive advantage New metrics to keep management teams on course with these strategies A specific blueprint for how the blue-chip companies can meet the challenge of the dotcoms Models of organizational change for each stage of market development The crucial role of declaring a culture inenabling swift response to global change Today practically every company, whether inside the high-tech sector or not, is living on the fault line. By synthesizing his groundbreaking earlier work on the dynamics of technology-based markets with a new focus on managing publicly held corporations for shareholder value, Geoffrey Moore provides a highly prescriptive guide for any company struggling to manage the disruptive forces of the new economy. In Crossing the Chasm and Inside the Tornado, Moore created a new language for navigating the technology adoption life cycle. In Living on the Fault Line, he once again offers a brilliant set of navigational tools to help meet today's defining management challenge-managing for shareholder value in the age of the Internet.
Presenting Java, 1st edition
Authors: John December
Venue:  (1995)

:Teaching people about the Java language and how HotJava applets are being used to enhance Web presentations, this text covers what Java is, how it integrates with the Web, the significance of Java and the kinds of applications possible. This book describes object-oriented programming, and it includes an overview of object-oriented design issues.
Managing It at Board Level, 2nd edition
Authors: Kit Grindley
Venue:  (1995)

:Bringing all the latest manangement trends up-to-date, this book includes outsourcing and re-engineering, and exposes the "culture gap" between IT staff and the rest of the company, the problem of measuring the benefits of the escalating investment in computers, the dependency of most big companies on massive computer systems they no longer understand, and much more.
Broadband Networking, 1st edition
Authors: James Grayson Trulove
Venue:  (1999)

:CRC Press, LLC presents the Best Practices In series. Auerbach publishing, a world-renowned leader in Information Technology and Information Systems, announces a bold new publishing program to serve the ever increasing needs of the IT professional. This series is designed to provide cutting-edge techniques and practices of leading IT organizations; these are must have reference works for any IT organization. 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
Getting Hits: The Definitive Guide to Promoting Your Web Site
Authors: Don Sellers
Venue:  (1997)

:Getting Hits explains in easy-to-understand language the underlying concepts behind the art of Web site promotion. Just a few of the topics you'll learn include: using search engines with URLs; finding related Internet groups or lists; understanding the nuances of click throughs and ad rates; and distributing press releases to key Internet contacts.
What makes people trust online gambling sites?
Authors: Bhiru Shelat, Florian N. Egger
Venue: CHI '02 extended abstracts on Human factors in computing systems (2002)

A validated model of trust was used as a framework for an empirical study to identify on- and offline factors that influence gamblers' perception of an online casino's trustworthiness. The results suggest that the quality with which casino's address gamblers' trust concerns by providing appropriate content is the prime factor. However, designing for trust must be part of consistent strategy that also involves customer service usability.
Stochastic lambda calculus and monads of probability distributions
Authors: Norman Ramsey, Avi Pfeffer
Venue: Proceedings of the 29th ACM SIGPLAN-SIGACT symposium on Principles of programming languages (2002)

Probability distributions are useful for expressing the meanings of probabilistic languages, which support formal modeling of and reasoning about uncertainty. Probability distributions form a monad, and the monadic definition leads to a simple, natural semantics for a stochastic lambda calculus, as well as simple, clean implementations of common queries. But the monadic implementation of the expectation query can be much less efficient than current best practices in probabilistic modeling. We therefore present a language of measure terms, which can not only denote discrete probability distributions but can also support the best known modeling techniques. We give a translation of stochastic lambda calculus into measure terms. Whether one translates into the probability monad or into measure terms, the results of the translations denote the same probability distribution.
Dynamic generation of personalized VRML content: a general approach and its application to 3D e-commerce
Authors: Luca Chittaro, Roberto Ranon
Venue: Proceedings of the seventh international conference on 3D Web technology (2002)

The capability of (semi)automatically adapting the content, structure, and/or presentation of a Web site to address the interests and preferences of each individual user is more and more considered as a key factor to increase user satisfaction and building customer loyalty. However, while a large body of literature is available about making traditional Web sites adaptive, it is surprising that no research effort has been yet devoted to the problem of adapting Web3D content and presentation. This paper focuses on this topic, proposing a general approach to build adaptive 3D Web sites, and illustrating a specific application of the approach to a 3D e-commerce case study. The architecture we propose, called AWE3D (Adaptive WEb 3D), is based on a combination of readily available and platform-independent Web technologies so that it can be reproduced by interested readers.
DOS/VSE Iccf
Authors: Steve Eckols
Venue:  (1994)

:This book teaches you how to use ICCF to edit and compile programs, manage and maintain library members, submit background jobs to POWER and handle their output, and run jobs interactively. In addition, you'll learn how to write and execute your own procedures and macros.
MacIntosh Os9, 2nd edition
Authors: CORPORATE Against the Clock,  Inc. Staff
Venue:  (2000)

:This two-color, spiral bound book offers users easy reference and access while they work at their computersno matter what hardware environment they work in. It works for software across hardware platformsboth Mac and Windows, employing project-based instruction to teach users the basics of the software programs while they complete real-world projects. A user-friendly icon system indicates key information, activities, or instruction, and directs readers to these important areaseliminating the need to pore over entire sections of the book. Chapter openers provide a preview of the chapter goals and objectives, while sidebar comments and a variety of exercises throughout, give learners insights into specific tasks, and strengthens their basic awareness of software functions. Illustrations of completed assignments presents users with a guide for finalizing projects. For graphic arts and computer design professionals, and for use in corporate training environments.
VR user interface: closed world interaction
Authors: Ching-Rong Lin, R. Bowen Loftin
Venue: Proceedings of the ACM symposium on Virtual reality software and technology (2000)

In this paper, we describe a user interface technique that uses a bounding box as a m taphor to facilitate interaction in a Virtual Reality (VR) environment. Because this technique is based on the observation that some of the VR application fields are contained in a closed world, we call it Closed World Interaction (CWI). After the user defines a closed world, the necessar virtual buttons are shown around the closed world which is presented by a frame. These virtual buttons are then used to interact with models. We also integrate some of the 2D Windows, Icons, Mouse and Pointer (WIMP) metaphors into CWI technique, reflecting our belief that users will be able to adapt to this environment quickly, A series of user studies were conducted to investigate the effectiveness of this technique. The results indicate that users can define a closed world quickly. Experience appears to be an important factor, and users can be trained to become familiar with CWI in the VR environment. The constrained interactions can also enhance the accuracy of selection. Two-handed manipulation somewhat improves the speed.
Introductory Combinatorics, 3rd edition
Authors: Kenneth P. Bogart
Venue:  (2000)

:Introductory Combinatorics, Third Edition, is designed for introductory courses in combinatorics, or moregenerally, discrete mathematics for students in a wide variety of disciplines: mathematics, computer science, statistics, operations research, physical sciences, and behavioral sciences. The rapid growth in the breadth and depth of the field of combinatorics in the last several decades, first in graph theory and designs and more recently in enumeration and ordered sets, has led to a recognition of combinatorics as a field with which the aspiring mathematician should become familiar. A long-overdue new edition of a popular set, Introductory Combinatorics, Third Edition, presents a broad comprehensive survey of modern combinatorics that is important to the various scientific fields of study.
Building Intranets with Lotus Notes 4.0
Authors: A. Steven Krantz
Venue:  (1997)

:In this book, author Steve Krantz first introduces the Internet, intranets, Notes, and Domino. He then helps you analyze your requirements and guides you through the step-by-step process of planning, designing, and implementing an intranet based on Domino. This book also features an exclusive "Members only" web site which offers updates and additional resources - only accessible by our readers! 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 Java (Special Edition), 2nd edition
Authors: Joseph Weber
Venue:  (1996)

:Featuring all-new, completely up-to-date coverage based on the new release of Java, this is a thorough reference that explains how to program Java applets for any intended use. The Black Coffee CD-ROM contains over 100 Java applets, all verified to run under Java, and also includes the Sun JDK, other Java development tools, and a collection of Special Edition books in HTML format.
More than dotting the i's --- foundations for crossing-based interfaces
Authors: Johnny Accot, Shumin Zhai
Venue: Proceedings of the SIGCHI conference on Human factors in computing systems: Changing our world, changing ourselves (2002)

Today's graphical interactive systems largely depend upon pointing actions, i.e. entering an object and selecting it. In this paper we explore whether an alternate paradigm --- crossing boundaries --- may substitute or complement pointing as another fundamental interaction method. We describe an experiment in which we systematically evaluate two target-pointing tasks and four goal-crossing tasks, which differ by the direction of the movement variability constraint (collinear vs. orthogonal) and by the nature of the action (pointing vs. crossing, discrete vs. continuous). We found that participants' temporal performance in each of the six tasks was dependent on the index of difficulty formulated in the same way as in Fitts' law, but that the parameters differ by task. We also found that goal crossing completion time was shorter or no longer than pointing performance under the same index of difficulty. These regularities, as well as qualitative characterizations of crossing actions and their application in HCI, lay the foundation for designing crossing-based user interfaces
Cognitive and task influences on Web searching behavior
Authors: Kyung-Sun Kim, Bryce Allen
Venue: Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology (2002)

Users' individual differences and tasks are important factors that influence the use of information systems. Two independent investigations were conducted to study the impact of differences in users' cognition and search tasks on Web search activities and outcomes. Strong task effects were found on search activities and outcomes, whereas interactions between cognitive and task variables were found on search activities only. These results imply that the flexibility of the Web and Web search engines allows different users to complete different search tasks successfully. However, the search techniques used and the efficiency of the searches appear to depend on how well the individual searcher fits with the specific task.
Office 2000 for Busy People, 1st edition
Authors: Peter Weverka
Venue:  (1999)

:Get up and running with Office 2000 right away using this visually powerful learning tool. You will quickly master the essentials of the #1 office applications suite. You will learn to take advantage of the seamless integration among all of the Office productsWord, Excel, Access, PowerPoint, Outlook, Internet Explorer, and Publisher. Packed with four-color art, annotated figures, and step-by-step directions, Office 2000 for Busy People shows you the best, most efficient way to accomplish you tasks while offering you insights into how the suite's powerful features can make you more productive.
Desktop Computing Workbook: A Guide for Using 15 Programs in MacIntosh and Windows Formats with CD (Audio), 1st edition
Authors: Paul Martin Lester
Venue:  (1995)

:This book combines coverage of desktop design aesthetics and computer program basics with practical workbook assignments. It discusses 15 different programs in both Macintosh and Windows formats (including basic instructions for using CorelDraw, Director, Excel, FreeHand, HyperCard, Illustrator, Lotus 1-2-3, Netscape, PageMaker, Persuasion, Photoshop, PowerPoint, QuarkXPres, Word, and WordPerfect). 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
Mous Essentials: PowerPoint 2000, 1st edition
Authors: Linda Bird
Venue:  (2000)

: ALL MOUS Essentials books are certified to the Expert Level by Microsoft as approved test preparation guides for the MOUS exams. A unique appendix entitled Preparing for MOUS Certification provides information like how to register, what is covered in the tests, how the tests work, and levels of certification. Each Project opens with Required Activities for both levels of the exam objectives. These activities are indicated throughout the Projects by icons distinguishing core vs. expert objectives. Exam Notes and Inside Stuff sidebars provide students with extra tips and tricks on preparing for and taking the MOUS exams. MOUS PinPoint software provides computer-based training and assessment tools for students to complete the projects and practice for the MOUS exams. MOUS PinPoint includes Project Review Tests along with "Show Me" training for each MOUS Exam Skill Set covered within the Project. In addition, each MOUS PinPoint has a capstone final exam that mirrors the actual MOUS exams. Instructor's resources include the Instructor's Resource CD-ROM and Companion Web site. The IRCD contains Instructor's Manuals, PowerPoints, Test Manager, Student Data Files, and Solutions Files for all four applications.
Glossbrenner's Guide to ShareWare for Small Businesses, 1st edition
Authors: Alfred Glossbrenner
Venue:  (1992)

:Here shareware expert Alfred Glossbrenner tells you exactly what you need to know to benefit from the power of personal computing and put it to work in your business or profession quickly, easily, and inexpensively.