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Freehand 5.5 for MacIntosh (Visual QuickStart Guide)
Authors: Sandee Cohen
Venue:  (1996)

:This is a fast, easy, and fun way to learn the complexities of FreeHand 5.5, the latest version of this enormously popular illustration program for the Macintosh. Instructions in the book are clear and concise and kept to a minimum, while pictures - hundreds of screenshots and dozens of striking illustrations created by professional artists and designers who work with FreeHand on a daily basis - do most of the talking. Whether you're a beginning to advanced graphic designer or a fine artist who wants to transfer your skills to the computer, this book provides an ideal introduction to FreeHand 5.5, covering all the fundamentals, from startup to image creation, from manipulation to importing the finished product into page-layout programs. Plus it includes loads of useful tips. The most accessible book for learning FreeHand 5.5‹use it to learn FreeHand or as a quick reference guide. The only book that covers the step-by-step how-to's of FreeHand at the same time it inspires users with dozens of example of the program's artistic possibilities.
Introduction to Information Systems, 10th edition
Authors: James A. O'Brien
Venue:  (2000)

:Introduction to Information Systems 9/E is a traditional book because of the organization of the table of contents and the five-level framework that is used to describe the stages of Information Systems development. This text provides brief but complete coverage of the major topics covered in a first course and has been thoroughly revised to reflect the movement toward enterprise-wide business applications. All case studies and real-world problems have been updated to correspond with this movement as well The 9E is the "Essentials" version of O'Brien's books. The text's focus is on teaching the general business manager how to use and manage the most current IT technologies like the Internet,Intranets,and Extranets for electronic commerce and enterprise collaboration,and how IT contributes to competitive advantage,reengineering business processes,and decision making
Macworld ClarisWorks 4 Bible, 1st edition
Authors: Steven A. Schwartz
Venue:  (1995)

:When it comes to all around value and ease of use, nothing beats ClarisWorks -- and Version 4 of this all-in-one word processing, spreadsheet, database, and graphics package is the best yet. To find out just how much excellent work -- and fun -- you can get out of ClarisWorks 4, take a look at Macworld ClarisWorks 4 Bible. Here, columnist and computer book author Steven Schwartz offers his own expert tips and techniques on using ClarisWorks to... Take advantage of style sheets for consistent high quality in all your documents Hammer out budgets for yourself, your family, and your business Explore financial what-ifs with ClarisWorks' built-in spreadsheet Piece together database, spreadsheet, and graphic elements into one comprehensive report for work or for school Maintain mailing lists and generate letters for work, family, or community activities Create word processing documents and save them in HTML format for ready publishing on the Internet's World Wide Web
Fast Approximate Energy Minimization via Graph Cuts
Authors: Yuri Boykov, Olga Veksler, Ramin Zabih
Venue: IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence (2001)

Many tasks in computer vision involve assigning a label (such as disparity) to every pixel. A common constraint is that the labels should vary smoothly almost everywhere while preserving sharp discontinuities that may exist, e.g., at object boundaries. These tasks are naturally stated in terms of energy minimization. In this paper, we consider a wide class of energies with various smoothness constraints. Global minimization of these energy functions is NP-hard even in the simplest discontinuity-preserving case. Therefore, our focus is on efficient approximation algorithms. We present two algorithms based on graph cuts that efficiently find a local minimum with respect to two types of large moves, namely expansion moves and swap moves. These moves can simultaneously change the labels of arbitrarily large sets of pixels. In contrast, many standard algorithms (including simulated annealing) use small moves where only one pixel changes its label at a time. Our expansion algorithm finds a labeling within a known factor of the global minimum, while our swap algorithm handles more general energy functions. Both of these algorithms allow important cases of discontinuity preserving energies. We experimentally demonstrate the effectiveness of our approach for image restoration, stereo and motion. On real data with ground truth, we achieve 98 percent accuracy.
Hackers: Crime in the Digital Sublime
Authors: Paul A. Taylor
Venue:  (1999)

:Freedom fighers or anarchists? In Hackers, Paul A. Taylor looks at these characters and the perennial battle between computer hackers and the security industry. He talks to computer scientists, security experts, and the hackers themselves about the practicalities,objectives, and the wider implications of what they do. In astonishingly frank interviews, Taylor provides a revealing and richly sourced account of the debates that surround this controversial practice. He reveals that extreme conciliation and antagonism from the computer industry toward hackers creates potentially dangerous outcomes and argues that a new middle way must be found if we are to make the most of society's high-tech meddlers.
Value-Added Records Management: Protecting Corporate Assets and Reducing Business Risks
Authors: Karen L. Sampson
Venue:  (1992)

:As litigation threats, government demands, and office technologies change how we do business, the author calls on business management for fresh perspectives regarding records management. The evolution from paper-based to multi-media business information systems contributes to a fragmentation and loss of control of those systems. An organization will need to organize, integrate, and carefully manage its various information systems in order to harness their power. The book examines the changing roles of records management to support, protect, and add value to the enterprise. Rather than a narrow focus on the style of records and their storage, the author proposes a broader focus on how a record's content and value relate to legal issues and business needs. The author illustrates situations in which proper record-keeping is necessary for a business to preserve its legal rights and to protect itself from undue harm and losses. Management strategies are suggested to prevent or minimize the risks of poor records management and its consequences. In order to provide better information at lower costs, the strategies help narrow the gap between the function's capabilities and its actual applications in business today. An enterprise-wide records management program is proposed for the highest returns on the investments to meet both business and legal requirements. Such a program will require strong interactions between different business activities and management levels. By illustrating what can go wrong--or right--with business records, the book provides a new appreciation of the need for judicious records management while it serves as a decision-making guide for executives, top management, and professionals. 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
Windows 98 for Dummies, 1st edition
Authors: Andy Rathbone
Venue:  (1998)

:Andy Rathbone has helped millions of novice Windows users figure out the bars, buttons, and boxes in Windows 3.1 and Windows 95 -- making Windows&reg; 95 For Dummies&reg; one of the best-selling computer books in the world. Now, Andy demystifies Windows 98 with Windows 98 For Dummies -- giving you all the information you need to make your PC more efficient and a lot easier to use. Inside, find helpful advice on how to Make older versions of DOS and Windows programs work under Windows 98 Save time on the Internet with features like Internet Explorer, the Active Desktop, and the Channel menu Customize your desktop to work like a Web page -- or return to the "classic" look of Windows 95 Find your way around even when nobody is available to help you Make Windows 98 keep itself up-to-date with the Windows Tune-Up Wizard Browse the Web with the Windows 98 Internet tools Play CDs, watch television or videos, and listen to music with the Windows 98 program's multimedia features
CICS/6000 Application Development
Authors: Neil Kolban
Venue:  (1996)

:Discussing how CICS/6000 relates to DB2/6000, Sybase, and Oracle, IBM insider Neil Kolban addresses real-world end user scenarios and problems not covered in IMB's voluminous documentation. This tightly focused guide also included helpful AIX commands and tips. 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
Get on with It: The Gay and Lesbian Guide to Getting Online
Authors: Richard Laermer
Venue:  (1997)

:From an overview of how the Internet worksincluding a primer on computer communication and explanations of how providers like America Online, CompuServe, Microsoft Network, and the many lesser-known companies operateto a savvy insider's evaluation of the services available to gay men and lesbians online, Richard Laermer presents a definitive survey of what's happening in queer cyberspace today and how to make the most of it. Get On With It describes how to meet people with common interests, find information on health and other personal issues, keep up with the latest news, learn about travel or drag, and simply do more online. More than 350 World Wide Web sites and other internet access areas are discussed and rated candidly. Learn how to use E-mail uniquely, join newsgroups en masse, get into chat areas, surf the Net for outrageous and unpredictable sites, and where to go "off-line." Such controversial matters as pornography, privacy, and censorship are also investigated in detail. 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
Organized to Be Your Best!: Simplify and Improve how You Work, 4th edition
Authors: Susan Silver
Venue:  (2000)

:This is the one book you need to get control over your desk, your computer and your demanding work life. Rely on the "bible of organization" and you'll see how to: Control multiple, ever-changing projects and priorities, intense workloads and information overload Manage e-mail, voice, fax and other instant communications Devise a time and information management system that works for you Work more effectively with others Master a messy desk and the paper jungle and turn piles into files Maximize your work space, including alternative, virtual and home offices Get the most from your computer and the Internet Susan Silver is a nationally recognized organizational expert and founder of the management consulting firm Positively Organized! She lives in Los Angeles.
Inside the Java Virtual Machine
Authors: Bill Venners
Venue:  (1996)

From the Book:My primary goal in writing this book was to explain the Java virtual machine-and several core Java APIs closely related to the virtual machine-to Java programmers. Although the Java virtual machine incorporates technologies that have been tried and proven in other programming languages, prior to Java, many of these technologies had not yet entered into common use. As a consequence, many programmers will encounter these technologies for the first time as they begin to program in Java. Garbage collection, multi-threading, exception handling, dynamic extension---even the use of a virtual machine itself-might be new to many programmers. The aim of this book is to help programmers understand how all these things work, and in the process we hope to help them become more adept at Java programming. Another goal I had in mind as I wrote this book was to experiment a bit with the changing nature of text. Web pages have three interesting characteristics that differentiate them from paper-based text: they are dynamic (can evolve over time), they are interactive (especially if you embed Java applets in them), and they are interconnected (you can easily navigate from one to another). Besides the traditional text and figures, this book includes several Java applets (in a mini-Web site on the CD-ROM) that serve as interactive illustrations of the concepts presented in the text. In addition, I maintain a Web site at art ima. com on the Internet that serves as a launching point for readers to find more (and more current) information about the topics covered in the book. This book is composed of all of these components: text, figures, interactive illustra. tions, and constantly evolving links tofurther reading.
Visual C++ Database Programming Tutorial
Authors: Wendy Sarrett
Venue:  (1998)

:This book covers the key technologies in the Microsoft data access strategy and how to fit them together effectively with enterprise clients and servers. After completing this title, the reader should be able to properly design an efficient database, access that information, and write a professional application using OLE DB.
Easy Lotus Notes 4.5, 2nd edition
Authors: Elaine J. Marmel
Venue:  (1997)

:With an existing user base of over seven million people, Lotus Notes is expecting phenomenal growth with its newest release, Lotus Notes 4.5. The new features promise to increase corporate adoption of Notes-creating huge demand for this quick and visual guide to getting up to speed on the basic features of this program.Covers sending and receiving email, opening, editing, and posting changes to documents in a database, creating a database, accessing Notes remotely, and customizing NotesUses fully illustrated, step-by-step approachFeatures a new, more effective and up-to-date interior design
Improving Latency Tolerance of Multithreading through Decoupling
Authors: Joan-Manuel Parcerisa, Antonio Gonzalez
Venue: IEEE Transactions on Computers (2001)

The increasing hardware complexity of dynamically scheduled superscalar processors may compromise the scalability of this organization to make an efficient use of future increases in transistor budget. SMT processors, designed over a superscalar core, are therefore directly concerned by this problem. This work presents and evaluates a novel processor microarchitecture which combines two paradigms: simultaneous multithreading and access/execute decoupling. Since its decoupled units issue instructions in-order, this architecture is significantly less complex, in terms of critical path delays, than a centralized out-of-order design, and it is more effective for future growth in issue-width and clock speed. We investigate how both techniques complement each other. Since decoupling features an excellent memory latency hiding efficiency, the large amount of parallelism exploited by multithreading may be used to hide the latency of functional units and keep them fully utilized. Our study shows that, by adding decoupling to a multithreaded architecture, fewer threads are needed to achieve maximum throughput. Therefore, in addition to the obvious hardware complexity reduction, it places lower demands on the memory system. Since one of the problems of multithreading is the degradation of the memory system performance, both in terms of miss latency and bandwidth requirements, this improvement becomes critical for high miss latencies, where bandwidth might become a bottleneck. Finally, although it may seem rather surprising, our study reveals that multithreading by itself exhibits little memory latency tolerance. Our results suggest that most of the latency hiding effectiveness of SMT architectures comes from the dynamic scheduling. On the other hand, decoupling is very effective at hiding memory latency. An increase in the cache miss penalty from 1 to 32 cycles reduces the performance of a 4-context multithreaded decoupled processor by less than 2 percent. For the nondecoupled multithreaded processor, the loss of performance is about 23 percent.
Microsoft SQL Server 2000 Administrator's Pocket Consultant
Authors: William R. Stanek
Venue:  (2000)

:Microsoft SQL Server 2000 Administrator's Pocket Consultant is the hands-on, immediate reference you need as you deal with the details of Microsoft SQL Server administration in small, medium, and large organizations. Ideal at the desk or on the go from server to server, this fast-answers guide focuses on what you need to do in specific situations as you support and manage Microsoft SQL Server 2000. Topics covered include: SQL basics administration tools configuring and tuning managing the enterprise database administration, security backup and recovery importing and exporting data data replication monitoring and profiling creating tables and indexes automation and maintenance more.
Constructing faithful representations of finitely-generated torsion-free nilpotent groups
Authors: Willem A. De Graaf, Werner Nickel
Venue: Journal of Symbolic Computation (2002)

We formulate an algorithm for calculating a representation by unipotent matrices over the integers of a finitely-generated torsion-free nilpotent group given by a polycyclic presentation. The algorithm works along a polycyclic series of the group, each step extending a representation of an element of that series to the next element. Copyright 2002 Academic Press
Ada 95 bindings for the NCSA hierarchical data format
Authors: Bruce R. Barkstrom
Venue: ACM SIGAda Ada Letters (2001)

This paper describes Ada95 bindings for HDF4 and HDF5, the current versions of the NCSA Hierarchical Data Format (HDF). These self-describing file formats are intended for storage of large, diverse collections of scientific data and for retrieving subsets of these data. The libraries also support data compression, chunking of large arrays, and automatic conversion of vendor-specific binary formats for a variety of data types.
Linux: The Complete Reference, 3rd edition
Authors: Richard Petersen
Venue:  (1999)

:The most comprehensive Linux reference available! Covers all major upgrades including the latest kernel version 2. 4 and new versions of Red Hat,Caldera,and SuSE. Also includes 2 bonus CDs containing Red Hat Linux and Caldera's OpenLinux eServer. The Ultimate In-Depth Linux Resource!Take advantage of the powerful capabilities of Linux using this comprehensive and easy-to-use reference. Featuring up-to-date coverage of everything from installation and configuration to system administration and programming,this valuable reference covers all the latest distributions of Linux and the Linux 2. 4 kernel. New chapters include full details on system,network,and security setup tasks as well as coverage of the KOffice and Evolution office suites. The 2 CD-ROMs contain Red Hat Linux 7 and Caldera OpenLinux eDesktop 2. 4. For anyone wanting to learn to install,administer,or program using the latest Linux platform,this is your one-stop guide. Learn to install Linux including latest versions of RedHat and CalderaConfigure settings for network,system,security,and kernel 2. 4Master KDE 2. 0,Gnome,KOffice,Evolution,and the ShellSet up and manage serversFTP,Apache,news,proxy,and moreUse network administration tools,SAMBA,and SendmailManage users,file systems,and devicesEnsure network security using firewall and encryption methodsDeploy powerful database,office,and desktop applicationsLearn to program on Linux using BASH shell scripts,Perl,Tcl/TK,Gawk,and LaTec,along with programming tools such as the gcc compiler,RCS,and more
What is that?: gesturing to determine device identity
Authors: Colin Swindells, Kori M. Inkpen
Venue: CHI '02 extended abstracts on Human factors in computing systems (2002)

Computing devices can seamlessly recognize one another as they join and leave a wireless network, but users often experience difficulty identifying a desired device from a continuously changing list of devices surrounding them. This paper describes our custom implementation of a stylus and tags that enable users to rapidly identify devices in dynamic environments. Our system utilizes a natural pointing gesture to identify a device, and subsequently transfer data over a wireless network.
Building Applications with Microsoft Outlook 2000 Technical Reference, 1st edition
Authors: Randy Byrne
Venue:  (1999)

:Attention groupware solution builders at all levels--this guide shows readers how to harness the full potential of Microsoft Outlook 2000 to produce results-oriented groupware solutions. The companion CD-ROM contains all the source code and files used in the book to fuel rapid productivity.
Simulation optimization: multi-response simulation optimization using stochastic genetic search within a goal programming framework
Authors: Felipe F. Baesler, José A. Sepúlveda
Venue: Proceedings of the 32nd conference on Winter simulation (2000)

This study presents a new approach to solve multi-response simulation optimization problems. This approach integrates a simulation model with a genetic algorithm heuristic and a goal programming model. The genetic algorithm technique offers a very flexible and reliable tool able to search for a solution within a global context. This method was modified to perform the search considering the mean and the variance of the responses. In this way, the search is performed stochastically, and not deterministically like most of the approaches reported in the literature. The goal programming model integrated with the genetic algorithm and the stochastic search present a new approach able to lead a search towards a multi-objective solution.
10 Minute Guide to Novell GroupWise 5, 2nd edition
Authors: Scott Kunau
Venue:  (1996)

:The 10 Minute Guide to Novell GroupWise 5 offers simple, practical help for busy people who need fast results. Through goal-oriented, 10-minute lessons, you'll learn all the essential tasks for handling e-mail, scheduling appointments, and more. 10 minutes is all you need to learn how to receive e-mail and send responses, sort and delete messages in your In Box, set up and use the Calendar, schedule appointments, use GroupWise 5 when you travel, and customize GroupWise to work the way you do.
Pascal, an Introduction to the Art and Science of Programming, 4th edition
Authors: Walter J. Savitch
Venue:  (1994)

:With expanded coverage of abstract data types (ADTs) and time analysis techniques, the Fourth Edition of Walter Savitch's "Pascal" continues to set the standard for a modern, comprehensive introduction to programming and computer science. This hallmark book builds critical structured problem-solving techniques through a proven algorithm development approach. Over 40 case studies support this method, including a number of new case studies in this edition that focus on ADT implementations.