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Instructor's notes for the Lab Manual to accompany the Alternate Version of Starting Out with C++, 2nd edition
Authors: Judy Walters, Dean DeFino, Michael Bardzell
Venue:  (2001)

These notes provides hints and strategies designed to help teachers use the pre-lab activities, lab assignments, and post-lab activities to reinforce the Alternate Version of Starting Out with C++, Second Edition by Tony Gaddis.
Second Text Retrieval Conference (TRE C-2) Proceedings
Authors: D. K. Harman
Venue:  (1995)

:Held Aug. 31-Sep. 2, 1993. The conference was co-sponsored by the National Inst. of Standards & Technology (NIST) & the Advanced Research Projects Agency (ARPA) & was attended by 150 people involved in the 31 participating groups. Evaluates new technologies in text retrieval, such as: natural language text retrieval, query vectors, knowledge-based searching, MatchPlus, probabilistic equations, Okapi, Clarit-TREC-2 system, semantic indexing, & more. Numerous graphs, tables & charts.
Trapped in the Net: The Unanticipated Consequences of Computerization
Authors: Gene I. Rochlin
Venue:  (1998)

:Voice mail. E-mail. Bar codes. Desktops. Laptops. Networks. The Web. In this exciting book, Gene Rochlin takes a closer look at how these familiar and pervasive productions of computerization have become embedded in all our lives, forcing us to narrow the scope of our choices, our modes of control, and our experiences with the real world. Drawing on fascinating narratives from fields that range from military command, air traffic control, and international fund transfers to library cataloging and supermarket checkouts, Rochlin shows that we are rapidly making irreversible and at times harmful changes in our business, social, and personal lives to comply with the formalities and restrictions of information systems.The threat is not the direct one once framed by the idea of insane robots or runaway mainframes usurping human functions for their own purposes, but the gradual loss of control over hardware, software, and function through networks of interconnection and dependence. What Rochlin calls the computer trap has four parts: the lure, the snare, the costs, and the long-term consequences. The lure is obvious: the promise of ever more powerful and adaptable tools with simpler and more human-centered interfaces. The snare is what usually ensues. Once heavily invested in the use of computers to perform central tasks, organizations and individuals alike are committed to new capacities and potentials, whether they eventually find them rewarding or not. The varied costs include a dependency on the manufacturers of hardware and software and a seemingly pathological scramble to keep up with an incredible rate of sometimes unnecessary technological change. Finally, a lack of redundancy and an incredible speed of response make human intervention or control difficult at best when (and not if) something goes wrong. As Rochlin points out, this is particularly true for those systems whose interconnections and mechanisms are so deeply concealed in the computers that no human being fully understands them.
Race for Bandwidth: Your Guide to the Key Technology behind Fast Internet Connection, 1st edition
Authors: Cary Lu
Venue:  (1997)

:Bandwidth-how much information you can move from one place to another and how fast you can move it-is the lifeblood of digital communications. The Race For Bandwidth: Understanding Data Transmission introduces the key technologies behind fast Internet connectivity, wireless communications, video conferencing, and interactive television-building a framework for understanding and making the bandwidth decisions that affect your organization's networking future. Experience Level: Intermediate/Advanced 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 3.1/Windows 95 for Beginners
Authors: Philippa Wingate
Venue:  (1997)

:These books make understanding computer easy. Covers basic concepts, as well as more advanced applications and the latest exciting technology.Combined volume contains Windows "RM" 95 Beginners, Windows "RM" 3.1 for Beginners and Projects for Windows "RM" for Beginners.
Strategic Marketing for the Digital Age, 1st edition
Authors: Bill Bishop
Venue:  (1998)

:Strategic Marketing for the Digital Age shows you how to build a digital marketing strategy, develop a plan, and execute it profitably. Bill Bishop gives you a practical, step-by-step model for developing an effective marketing program using digital and online technology. He takes you beyond mere "Internet" marketing and shows you how to expand your marketing power by using all of the digital tools available. 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
Influence of compiler optimizations on system power
Authors: Mahmut Kandemir, N. Vijaykrishnan, Mary Jane Irwin, Wu Ye
Venue: IEEE Transactions on Very Large Scale Integration (VLSI) Systems (2001)

Optimizing for energy constraints is of critical importance due to the proliferation of battery-operated embedded devices. Thus, it is important to explore both hardware and software solutions for optimizing energy. The focus of high-level compiler optimizations has traditionally been on improving performance. In this paper, we present an experimental evaluation of several state-of-the-art high-level compiler optimizations on energy consumption, considering both the processor core (datapath) and memory system. This is in contrast to many of the previous works that have considered them in isolation.
Infominer: mining surprising periodic patterns
Authors: Jiong Yang, Wei Wang, Philip S. Yu
Venue: Proceedings of the seventh ACM SIGKDD international conference on Knowledge discovery and data mining (2001)

In this paper, we focus on mining surprising periodic patterns in a sequence of events. In many applications, e.g., computational biology, an infrequent pattern is still considered very significant if its actual occurrence frequency exceeds the prior expectation by a large margin. The traditional metric, such as support, is not necessarily the ideal model to measure this kind of surprising patterns because it treats all patterns equally in the sense that every occurrence carries the same weight towards the assessment of the significance of a pattern regardless of the probability of occurrence. A more suitable measurement, information, is introduced to naturally value the degree of surprise of each occurrence of a pattern as a continuous and monotonically decreasing function of its probability of occurrence. This would allow patterns with vastly different occurrence probabilities to be handled seamlessly. As the accumulated degree of surprise of all repetitions of a pattern, the concept of information gain is proposed to measure the overall degree of surprise of the pattern within a data sequence. The bounded information gain property is identified to tackle the predicament caused by the violation of the downward closure property by the information gain measure and in turn provides an efficient solution to this problem. Empirical tests demonstrate the efficiency and the usefulness of the proposed model.
MCSD Visual Basic 6 Exam Prep with Cdrom
Authors: Michael Ekedahl
Venue:  (1999)

:Provides knowledge that directly applies to the Microsoft certification exam for Visual Basic 6, which is a core requirement for the new MCSD VB6 track. Covers all the curriculum objectives of the Visual Basic 6 Desktop exam, which measures the ability to design, build, and implement business solutions. The perfect complement to MCSD Visual Basic 6 Desktop Exam Cram; together, they provide a complete interactive learning system. Includes an introduction to ActiveX programming and Internet controls. Serves as a comprehensive Exam Prep Study Guide for the new MCSD examDesigning and Implementing Desktop Applications with Microsoft Visual Basic 6 (exam 70-176.) Covers critical topics in-depth so that readers have the foundation information upon which the exam is based. Contains more than just an exam study guide: discusses debugging exercises and practical hands-on programming tips and techniques throughout for solving common problems encountered in the real world. A specially-commissioned exam simulation program, featuring two practice tests; questions are formatted like those encountered on the actual exam, allowing readers to measure their skills and build confidence. Unlike competing products, the exam questions are based on the content of the book, enhancing the learning experience by reinforcing concepts and their applications.
Visual Basic 5 for Windows for Dummies, 1st edition
Authors: Wallace Wang
Venue:  (1997)

:Visual Basic 5 For Windows For Dummies shows you how to use Microsoft's powerful Visual Basic programming language. Whether you're a seasoned veteran or an absolute novice, this book will guide you on how to design a attractive user interface, write BASIC commands, and distribute your programs for others to use. This easy-to-use reference will help you figure out how to use Visual Basic right away -- without any intimidating jargon. Inside, find helpful advice on how to Design your first Visual Basic program quickly and easily Create programs for Windows 95 or Windows NT Save and retrieve information stored in database files, such as Microsoft Access Master the active Code Compiler to create programs that run faster than before Uncover the best Web sites and online services to find out even more about Visual Basic Understand how to use object-oriented programming for Visual Basic Discover the way the experts write programs Incorporate ActiveX controls to create powerful programs Design attractive user interfaces to make your programs easy for others to use 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
Gaining insights into support vector machine pattern classifiers using projection-based tour methods
Authors: Doina Caragea, Dianne Cook, Vasant G. Honavar
Venue: Proceedings of the seventh ACM SIGKDD international conference on Knowledge discovery and data mining (2001)

This paper discusses visual methods that can be used to understand and interpret the results of classification using support vector machines (SVM) on data with continuous real-valued variables. SVM induction algorithms build pattern classifiers by identifying a maximal margin separating hyperplane from training examples in high dimensional pattern spaces or spaces induced by suitable nonlinear kernel transformations over pattern spaces. SVM have been demonstrated to be quite effective in a number of practical pattern classification tasks. Since the separating hyperplane is defined in terms of more than two variables it is necessary to use visual techniques that can navigate the viewer through high-dimensional spaces. We demonstrate the use of projection-based tour methods to gain useful insights into SVM classifiers with linear kernels on 8-dimensional data.
Optimizing software process control
Authors: Jacob Sukhodolsky
Venue: ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes (2001)

An important problem in software project management is taking control decisions when a schedule slip occurs. Usually such decisions are based only on the manager's experience and intuition. They are often prohibitively costly and still do not guarantee the project's success. This article presents a method for finding the optimal control actions the manager should take to meet a project's deadline in a situation when a schedule slip occurs. The method is based on using a discrete optimization technique, such as dynamic programming. Validation of the method's effectiveness is also included.
NFL 2k1
Authors: Keith M. Kolmos
Venue:  (2000)

:The exciting new sequel from Sega, NFL 2K1, will be the freshest and most exciting football game ever! You'll need NFL 2K1: Prima's Official Strategy Guide to make it big. Find a complete offensive and defensive playbook for each team, tips on creating your own plays, and strategies for beating the AI, your buddies, and online crowds. Our guide helps you make your team the best in the league with:Details on Season Mode, plus updated rosters for the 2000-2001 seasonMultiplayer tips to help you beat your friends down the block and across the country2000-2001 season schedules, plus 1999-2000 season wrap-up statsTons of offensive and defensive tactics for every situationComplete team playbooks, covering every formation and play
Implementation of the Domain Name System
Authors: Paul Mockapetris, Kevin Dunlap
Venue: Proceedings of the 2nd workshop on Making distributed systems work (1986)

The Domain Name System, DNS, is a distributed database and associated protocols that provides naming and data retrieval services for the DARPA Internet. The name space is hierarchical and extensible, and was designed to be partitioned along organizational boundaries rather than by network or other constraint. The database includes host and mail information at present, but is extensible as well.The system incorporates much prior art, but is unique in its combination of an indefinitely extensible and partitionable name space, large and heterogeneous community of users, hosts, and networks, use of both datagram and connection services, and reliance on caching to provide acceptable performance.
Looking into Intranets and the Internet: Advice for Managers
Authors: Anita Rosen
Venue:  (1997)

:This first-of-a-kind guide shows both technologists and managers everything they need to know to explore if an Internet/Intranet site is right for their company; understand all the costs involved and explain them clearly to higher-ups; and design and create the actual system, and then market it successfully. 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
Brainchildren: Essays on Designing Minds
Authors: Daniel Clement Dennett
Venue:  (1998)

:Minds are complex artifacts, partly biological and partly social, and only a unified, multidisciplinary approach will yield a realistic theory of how minds came into existence and how they work. One of the foremost thinkers in this multidisciplinary field is Daniel Dennett. This book brings together his essays on philosophy of mind, artificial intelligence, and cognitive ethology that appeared in relatively inaccessible journals from 1984 to 1996.
AutoCAD 14 Bible with Cdrom, 1st edition
Authors: Ellen Finkelstein
Venue:  (1997)

:With the release of the latest version, AutoCAD maintains its place as the most powerful computer-aided drawing software available for PCs today. Of course, to take advantage of all that power, you need a comprehensive guide that's as easy to understand as it is to use -- AutoCAD 14 Bible. In AutoCAD 14 Bible, AutoCAD pro Ellen Finkelstein not only covers every important feature of the program but also provides practical, real-world advice useful for everyone from beginner to expert. Turn to AutoCAD 14 Bible for just the right combination of tutorial and reference on topics such as How to install and customize your AutoCAD software How to draw in two dimensions, including working with layers and taking advantage of zooming, panning, dimensioning, plotting, and printing functions How to work with data, whether in the form of blocks, attributes, or external references, and transform it into meaningful drawings How to draw in three dimensions, from hiding and shading to rendering techniques How to organize and manage complex drawings -- and even how to use AutoCAD with the World Wide Web How to make use of the AutoLISP programming language to automate AutoCAD functions and extend the program's functionality Plus, AutoCAD 14 Bible comes complete with a bonus CD-ROM containing over 160 sample drawings and support files, over 40 freeware and shareware programs and block libraries, and a complete guide to third-party software to round out your AutoCAD application.
Microsoft Excel 2000-Illustrated Second Course, 1st edition
Authors: Tara O'Keefe
Venue:  (1999)

:Part of the Illustrated Series, this text offers a quick, visual way to build Microsoft Excel 2000 skills. Designed for a second, more advanced course on Microsoft Excel 2000, this text covers advanced features such as macros and Visual Basic programming. World Wide Web exercises in each unit take advantage of Excel's new Web integration capabilities.
Palm Organizers: Visual QuickStart Guide, 2nd edition
Authors: Jeff Carlson
Venue:  (2000)

:The Palm Organizers: Visual QuickStart Guide is a concise reference to handheld Palm-OS based organizers. It delivers the basics of working with the devices, and the best techniques for integrating them into users' lives to improve efficiency, organization, and mobile data management. It not only explains how to use the date book, for example, it illustrates how date book strategies can be used to improve one's overall time-management skills.
Parallel algorithms for the orthogonal multiprocessor
Authors: Khaled M. F. Elsayed
Venue: Proceedings of the 30th annual Southeast regional conference (1992)

The orthogonal multiprocessor is a partially shared memory architecture. The architecture exhibits attractive characteristics specially with regards to the simplicity of the interconnection network. This architecture proves to be a powerful platform for a large class of scientific problems. A large set of algorithms have been mapped into this architecture including matrix multiplication, fast Fourier transform, sorting, and partial differential equations.The major contribution of this paper is the mapping of two popular algorithms into the orthogonal multiprocessor architecture. The first algorithm is the Jacobi method for evaluating eigenvalues of a symmetric matrix. The second algorithm is image component labeling based on image shrinking operation. Also a discussion of areas of further study for the orthogonal multiprocessor is included.
Earthworm Jim 3D
Authors: Craig Wessel
Venue:  (1998)

:Earthworm Jim 3D will introduce the unique antics of Jim to a new generation of gamers, who can take him snowboarding on a pig or zoom around on his pocket rocket. BradyGames strategy guide will contain a detailed walkthrough of the game.Secret Codes. A look back at Earthworm Jim Earthworm Jim, Earthworm Jim 2, Comic Books and Collectibles.Detailed Boss strategies. 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
Managing trust in a peer-2-peer information system
Authors: Karl Aberer, Zoran Despotovic
Venue: Proceedings of the tenth international conference on Information and knowledge management (2001)

Managing trust is a problem of particular importance in peer-to-peer environments where one frequently encounters unknown agents. Existing methods for trust management, that are based on reputation, focus on the semantic properties of the trust model. They do not scale as they either rely on a central database or require to maintain global knowledge at each agent to provide data on earlier interactions. In this paper we present an approach that addresses the problem of reputation-based trust management at both the data management and the semantic level. We employ at both levels scalable data structures and algorithms that require no central control and allow to assess trust by computing an agents reputation from its former interactions with other agents. Thus the meethod can be implemented in a peer-to-peer environment and scales well for very large numbers of participants. We expect that scalable methods for trust management are an important factor, if fully decentralized peer-to-peer systems should become the platform for more serious applications than simple file exchange.
Internetworking with NetWare TCP/IP
Authors: Karanjit S. Siyan
Venue:  (1996)

:Internetworking with NetWare TCP/IP enables you to effectively implement and manage TCP/IP on your network while avoiding the difficulties and problems associated with NetWare TCP/IP. This book provides you with a thorough background on TCP/IP technology and a complete understanding of the NetWare services that operate in the TCP/IP environment.
The Interactive Book: A Guide to the Interactive Revolution
Authors: Celia Pearce
Venue:  (1997)

:The interactive book: a guide to the interactive revolution is a dynamic, nonlinear exploration of the social, cultural, and psychological impact of interactive media. Going beyond the high-tech hype, the interactive book is about people, not technology. It encompasses history, theory, practice, and anecdotes on a range of topics from the esoteric to the essential. Its pages are filled with interesting characters, discoveries and inventions, insight and practical guidance, as told from the point of view of a pioneer who has devoted her life to empowering people to create their own experience through interactive media. The interactive book is for everyone - from the novice just getting online to the veteran interactive producer; from the computer literate to the technophobic; for students of interactivity to their professors; from the knowledgeable to the curious. The interactive book is for anyone concerned about the role of media in our lives.
A combinatorial approach to Golomb forests
Authors: Mordecai J. Golin
Venue: Theoretical Computer Science (2001)

Optimal binary prefix-free codes for infinite sources with geometrically distributed frequencies, e.g., P = {pi(1 - p)}i=0; 0p1, were first (implicitly) suggested by Golomb over 30 years ago in the context of run-length encodings. Ten years later Gallager and Van Voorhis exhibited such optimal codes for all values of p. These codes were derived by using the Hu2man encoding algorithm to build optimal codes for finite sources and then showing that the finite codes converge in a very specific sense to the infinite one. In this note, we present a new combinatorial approach to solve the same problem, one that does not use the Hu2man algorithm, but instead treats a coding tree as an infinite sequence of integers and derives properties of the sequence. One consequence of this new approach is a complete characterization of all of the optimal codes; in particular, it shows that for all p; 0p1; except for an easily describable countable set, there is a unique optimal code, but for each p in this countable set there are an uncountable number of optimal codes. Another consequence is a derivation of infinite codes for geometric sources when the encoding alphabet is no longer restricted to be the binary one. A final consequence is the extension of the results to optimal forests instead of being restricted to optimal trees.