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Off NetScape Beg Guide to the Inter, 20th edition
Authors: Shelley O'Hara
Venue:  (1998)

:"Geared toward a nontechnical user unfamiliar with the Internet." "Written in clear, easy-to-understand language, Official Netscape Beginner's Guide to the Internet, Second Edition offers how-to advice and practical information for accessing the best of the Net from news to finances, employment opportunities, entertainment, shopping, and much more." "All concepts are explained and all related terms are defined." "The chapters are short, with explanations of the easiest and best ways to accomplish each task. Each chapter begins with a list of the most frequently asked questions." "Essential guide to: how the Internet works, including choosing an Internet provider, email, and file transfer; how to master Netscape Navigator 4; troubleshooting tips and shortcuts; and popular sites on the Net." "Provides updated version of the popular first edition, including more coverage of opportunities on the Net, new Net tools, and the Net environment." "Covers all the basics of getting started on the Internet, with a focus on users rather than software." "Features tips and traps, step-by-step instructions, and a wealth of illustrations." "Shelley O'Hara (Indianapolis, IN), a freelance writer, has written more than 60 books. She is author of the first edition of Official Netscape Beginner's Guide to the Internet and coauthor of Official Earthlink Beginner's Guide to the Internet. She has written nine bestsellers in the Easy series. In addition, O'Hara is a trainer for the Division of Continuing Education Studies at Indiana University-Purdue University at Indianapolis."
MCSE Windows 95 for Dummies with CD-ROM
Authors: Dummies Technology Press
Venue:  (1999)

:Pick a card, any card, and put your Windows 95 knowledge to the test with MCSE Windows 95 For Dummies Flash Cards, the mobile solution for busy certification candidates who need to study anywhere, anytime. Practice the proven Dummies Way as you flip through this deck of 250 traditional, 3-1/2-x- 5-1/2-inch flash cards, all written by Microsoft-certified experts. Sort the cards by exam objective and focus on any particular area of your Windows 95 certification exam (Exam 70-064), or load an electronic version of the entire flash card set onto your PalmPilot or Windows CE handheld device and quiz yourself at home, at the office, or on the go. Pop the CD-ROM into any audio CD player and get up to 60 minutes of questions and answers as you drive to work, flex your muscles at the gym, or bask in the sun and dream of the big bucks that come with Microsoft certification. The companion CD-ROM also includes a demo version of our exclusive, interactive test engine and our popular QuickLearn game, as well as links to popular certification-related sites across the Internet. Reader level: Intermediate-Advanced
Simulation from non-standard distributions using envelope methods
Authors: Michael J. Evans, Tim B. Swartz
Venue: Proceedings of the 32nd conference on Winter simulation (2000)

This paper considers the development of envelope methods as a tool for simulation. Envelope methods are based on the construction of simple envelopes to functions. The proposed envelopes are general, require little input from the user and are based on the concavity structure of the function or some transformation of the function. The construction of these envelopes facilitates variate generation using the adaptive rejection algorithm.
Microsoft TCP/IP for Windows 2000
Authors: Keith Powell
Venue:  (2000)

:TCP/IP, or Transmission Control Protocol/Internet Protocol, is the suite of communications protocols used to connect hosts on the Internet. Minimizing technical jargon, Microsoft TCP/IP for Windows 2000 takes the beginning Windows 2000 TCP/IP administrator to the intermediate level. This book also contains a TCP/IP Architecture blueprint to guide you in creating your own TCP/IP-based network architecture for a small to mid-sized organization. If you are starting off with little knowledge of TCP/IP, this book can help you become a productive TCP/IP administrator for a Windows 2000 networking environment.
Complete Idiot's Guide to Online Shopping, 2nd edition
Authors: Preston Gralla
Venue:  (1999)

:The Complete Idiot's Guide to Online Shopping, Second Edition, provides an easy-to-use source of answers for both computer-related and online-commerce-related questions. This book is for anyone wanting to research or make a retail purchase online. This revised edition has updated listings, as well as new information on the popular auctioning scene, covering topics such as insurance, fraud crackdown, new online auction services and more. Topics include How to Check out a Site before Buying, Where to Find Malls, Auctions, and Specialty Sites, Using a Credit Card and Digital Cash, How to Recognize and Avoid Scams and what to do if you didn't, Robots, Agents, Searches, and much more.
Practical IDL programming: creating effective data analysis and visualization applications
Venue:  (2001)

In Practical IDL Programming, Liam E. Gumley provides a solid foundation in the fundamentals of procedural programming in IDL. He presents concise information on how to develop IDL programmers that are well structured, reliable, and efficient. The example programs in the book demonstrate key concepts and provide functionality that can be applied immediately. In addition, the book offers readers practical tips and advice on IDL programming, which they would otherwise discover only after years of experience. While only modest prior programming experience is assumed, readers with experience in any procedural language will quickly translate their skills to IDL, learning the best programming practices for this new environment. Scientists, engineers, and students in educational, government, and commercial research and development environments will all appreciate the author's guidance in helping them effectively analyze and visualize data.
Limits to list decodability of linear codes
Authors: Venkatesan Guruswami
Venue: Proceedings of the thiry-fourth annual ACM symposium on Theory of computing (2002)

We consider the problem of the best possible relation between the list decodability of a binary linear code and its minimum distance. We prove, under a widely-believed number-theoretic conjecture, that the classical "Johnson bound" gives, in general, the best possible relation between the list decoding radius of a code and its minimum distance. The analogous result is known to hold by a folklore random coding argument for the case of non-linear codes, but the linear case is more subtle and has remained open.We prove our result by exhibiting an infinite family of binary linear codes of "large" minimum distance with a super-polynomial number (in blocklength) of codewords all within a Hamming ball of radius close to the Johnson bound. Even the existence of codes with a super-polynomial number of codewords in a ball of radius bounded away from the minimum distance (let alone radius close to the Johnson bound) was open prior to our work. We also unconditionally prove the "tightness" of the Johnson bound for decoding with list size that is an arbitrarily large constant.
Mobile telephony in a connected life
Authors: Leysia Palen
Venue: Communications of the ACM (2002)

Mobile phones help manage and grant instant access to users' dispersed social networks but risk violating the age-old social conventions of face-to-face relationships.
A differential equation for placement analysis
Venue: IEEE Transactions on Very Large Scale Integration (VLSI) Systems (2001)

A first-order differential equation for placement analysis is derived by considering the competing processes that generate and terminate wires crossing a circuit partition. The solution of this equation provides an estimate for the number of wires needed by a circuit partition for external communication and corresponds to the information normally associated with Rent's rule. The rate model is shown to account not only for the simple power-law form of Rent's rule for small partition sizes but also for deviations from power-law behavior observed for larger partition sizes. The accuracy of the model is validated by comparing solutions of the differential equation with experimental data extracted from a variety of netlists. The netlists, ranging from 10 000 to 68 000 cells, were optimized using a commercial placement tool. The accurate modeling of terminal-cell data results in a more robust predictive model for the distribution of wire lengths. This improved model accurately captures the change in the distribution of wires as the level of circuit placement optimization ranges from random to highly optimized placement. In addition, the new model provides an explanation for the experimentally observed inflection point and local maximum in the wire length distribution of some netlists.
Nonprocedural query processing for databases with access paths
Authors: N. D. Griffeth
Venue: Proceedings of the 1978 ACM SIGMOD international conference on management of data (1978)

The use of "rules of inference" in database systems with access paths--e.g., CODASYL and IMS databases--is proposed to allow nonprocedural querying of the database systems. The kinds of access paths for which these rules of inference are required are isolated. It is shown that the rules of inference required for a CODASYL or an IMS database depend on the configurations of the edges in a diagram of the database.
Microsoft Word 97 for Windows 95: Quicktorial
Authors: Patricia Murphy
Venue:  (1997)

:This visually stimulating, hands-on book covers the most commonly used features of the software package from beginning to advanced. Taking a step-by-step approach the book quickly gets the reader up and running with a minimum of time and effort. With numerous illustrations and lots of hands-on activities this book makes mastery of the program easy and fun.
Scalable data management using user-based caching and prefetching in distributed virtual environments
Authors: Sungju Park, Dongman Lee, Mingyu Lim, Chansu Yu
Venue: Proceedings of the ACM symposium on Virtual reality software and technology (2001)

For supporting real-time interaction in distributed virtual environments (DVEs), it is common to replicate virtual world data at clients from the server. For efficient replication, two schemes are used together in general - prioritized transfer of objects and a caching and prefetching technique. Existing caching and prefetching approaches for DVEs exploit spatial relationship based on distances between a user and objects. However, spatial relationship fails to determine which types of objects are more important to an individual user, not reflecting user's interests. We propose a scalable data management scheme using user-based caching and prefetching exploiting the object's access priority generated from spatial distance and individual user's interest in objects in DVEs. We also further improve the cache hit rate by incorporating user's navigation behavior into the spatial relationship between a user and the objects in the cache. By combining the interest score and popularity score of an object with the spatial relationship, we improve the performance of caching and prefetching since the interaction locality between the user and objects are reflected in addition to spatial locality. The simulation results show that the proposed scheme outperforms the hit rate of existing caching and prefetching by 10% on average when the cache size is set to basic cache size, the size of expected number of objects included in the user's viewing range.
Upgrading and Repairing MACs
Authors: Lisa Lee
Venue:  (1995)

:This is the Macintosh user's complete up-to-date guide to making the right purchase and keeping it running. This comprehensive reference also includes detailed information on System software (up through 7.5.2); purchasing and troubleshooting; printing and communications upgrades; viruses; and more.Part of the reputable Don Crabb Macintosh LibraryExplains what hardware and software upgrades readers really needShows readers how to troubleshoot and repair hardware and software
The Jewish Guide to the Internet
Authors: Diane Romm
Venue:  (1996)

:This guide is the only comprehensive volume of Jewish sources on the Internet, with descriptions given of over 500 Internet sites. Subject areas include antisemitism, art, books, genealogy, the Holocaust, Israel, museums and women. The book contains an easy-to-use A-Z index and a list of over 375 Internet host sites in Israel. 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
Interactive content for presentations in virtual reality
Authors: A. L. Fuhrmann, Jan Prikryl, Robert F. Tobler, Werner Purgathofer
Venue: Proceedings of the ACM symposium on Virtual reality software and technology (2001)

In this paper, we develop concepts for presenting interactive content in form of a slideshow in a virtual environment, similar to conventional desktop presentation software. We demonstrate how traditional content like text and images can be integrated into 3D models and embedded applications to form a seamless presentation combining the advantages of traditional presentation methods with 3D interaction techniques and different 3D output devices. We demonstrate how different combinations of output devices can be used for presenter and audience, and discuss their various advantages.
The U.S. Military Online: A Directory for Internet Access to the Department of Defense, 1st edition
Authors: William M. Arkin
Venue:  (1997)

:The first directory of its kind, The U.S. Military Online contains pointers to well over 2,000 official military Internet sites and resources at the Pentagon and at more than 200 installations throughout the world. Revised to include a new chapter on doing business with the Department of Defense and over 300 new Web sites, this unique guidebook enables you to: download Pentagon press conferences, speeches, testimony, statistics, and fact sheets; follow developments in international hot spots; find resources for tracking the defense budget and the Defense Department's research, development, test, evaluations, and contracting activities; track U.S. military units around the world and locate military personnel; read and save military magazines and journals, official manuals, and regulations; connect with military research sites dealing with weapons, cyberwar, modeling and simulation, intelligence, telecommunications, space, and future warfare; access Pentagon think tanks, schools and war colleges, libraries, military history resources, and museums; learn about weapons, from small arms to next-generation systems; and eavesdrop on, and participate in, warfighting studies and exercises. 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
Lotus Notes 5.0 Quick Source Guide
Authors: CORPORATE Quick Source Staff
Venue:  (1999)

:This 6 page, tri-fold full-color guide is an invaluable resource for anyone who uses Lotus Notes! It provides step by step instructions on how to customize the welcome page, open a database, create new folders, create mailing lists, send and receive mail, schedule meetings and appointments, assign tasks, use the replicator to copy information, and much more. An excellent instructional tool for a user new to Notes, it also serves as a handy reference tool for the more experienced userAuthor Biography: Quick Source is a national supplier of training materials to corporations throughout the United States. 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
Macworld Illustrator 5.0/5.5 Bible
Authors: Ted Alspach
Venue:  (1994)

:A complete guide to the newest version of Adobe Illustrator, this book provides hands-on information on beginning to more advanced Illustrator functions so that readers can learn to create professional-looking illustrations. The book features a 16-page full-color insert with illustrations offering real-world examples. CD-ROM includes filters, artwork, and real time examples.
Network Design: Principles and Applications, 1st edition
Authors: Gilbert Held
Venue:  (2000)

: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
Quick Course in Microsoft PowerPoint 2000
Authors: CORPORATE Inc. Online Press
Venue:  (2000)

:PowerPoint 2000 was created to be the easiest tool to create presentations and to present to audiences in face-to-face meetings, in meetings conducted in remote locations, or on the Web. PowerPoint 2000 combines new ease-of-use features that speed users through presentation development, the ability to create Web-based presentations, and the ability to easily present to remote audiences. PowerPoint allows presenters to use the familiar presentation tools they already know to present and collaborate over the Web. The key focus for PowerPoint 2000 covers four main areas: Enable Web-centered information sharing. PowerPoint 2000 enables businesses to create and share presentations on the Web. Users can now work entirely in HTML file format or continue to use the same binary format as PowerPoint 97. Facilitate real-time collaboration. PowerPoint 2000 integrates two Microsoft technologies, the NetShow server and NetMeeting conferencing software, to enable users to collaborate over the network in real time. Take ease of use to the next level. New features such as Tri-Pane View, Tables, AutoFit Text, and AutoFormat As You Type enable users to get more work done with noticeably less effort. Support international users. PowerPoint 2000 provides one single code base for all worldwide users, making it as easy to use multiple language versions of PowerPoint as it is to use one. For example, proofing tools and other language-dependent functions work as well when the user is creating documents in more than one language as they do in a monolingual document. Hot New Features: Tri-Pane View. PowerPoint 2000 combines slides, outlines, and notes into one view. This makes it easy to perform many actions, including adding new slides, editing text, entering notes while creating a presentation, and navigating while editing. AutoFit Text. In Microsoft PowerPoint 2000, text is automatically resized to fit into a place holder so that it doesn't "fall off" the slide. AutoFit changes the line spacing, then the font size-and then both-to make the text fit, so users don't have to make such changes manually. Laptop Integration. PowerPoint 2000 disables Windows screensavers and the laptop's low-power screen mode during presentations, preventing unexpected interruptions. Native Tables. PowerPoint 2000 can create tables without using Word or Excel in place. PowerPoint tables are composed of OfficeArt shapes and behave like tables in Word, making them easy to edit and consistent with styles and themes. Graphic and AutoNumber Bullets. Any graphic can be used as a bullet in PowerPoint 2000, and numbered bullets will automatically adjust their order in a logical sequence. 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
Helping students build knowledge: what computers should do
Authors: Xavier Bornas, Jordi Llabrés
Venue: Information Technology in Childhood Education Annual (2001)

In this work, whether the educational role of the teacher, from a Vigotskyan point of view, can also be taken on by a computer is examined. Software including math and reading activities with three different scaffolding levels were developed and used over a period of 10 weeks (effective time was 15 hours) with third-grade low achievers. Both the achievement and the strategies employed were assessed. Results indicate that, whereas there are no significant differences as far as achievement is concerned, there was quite a clear relationship between the scaffolding level and strategy learning: the higher the scaffolding level, the more advanced the strategies used by the children. These results point towards the need for scaffolding to be meta-cognitive.
Word 97 for Law Firms, 1st edition
Authors: CORPORATE Payne Consulting Group,  Inc.
Venue:  (1997)

:The legal community is migrating en masse to its new word processor of choice, Microsoft Word 97. This is the only book on the market today that addresses the specific concerns of law firms and the legal community using Word 97. It covers the use of Word 97 in a legal environment and is dedicated to addressing the needs of law firms in creating, editing, and sharing legal documents created in Word. It is written by a computer consulting firm, and the lead author, Donna Payne, is a Microsoft Certified Trainer and three-time recipient of the Microsoft Most Valuable Professional award. 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