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The Complete Idiot's Guide to the Internet, 5th edition
Authors: Peter Kent
Venue:  (1998)

:Information in an instant - that's what the Internet gives you. And with this book, you'll learn how to tap the full power of the Internet and put it to work for you. With this off the cuff, casual tutorial you'll learn how to connect to the Web, surf it with various Web browsers, and send and retrieve e-mail. This book also covers the fun, crazy side of the Net! You'll learn how to join newsgroups, participate in live chat rooms, bypass long distance phone bills by using the Internet to dial your friends, build your own Web page and much, much more!
Novell's Internet Plumbing Handbook, 1st edition
Authors: Peter Rybaczyk
Venue:  (1998)

:Are clogged network pipes rerouting your companys Internet traffic and encumbering connectivity? With Novells Internet Plumbing Handbook, help is on the way as Internetworking specialist Peter Rybaczyk restores clear network communication. Novells Internet Plumbing Handbook is the encyclopedic guide to the Internets infrastructure and architecture. Rybaczyk uses detailed illustrations, tables, and maps of Internet backbones to explain esoteric subjects, such as deploying access routers and optimizing router-to-router communications. With concise terminology and a wry wit, Rybaczyk explains TCP/IP routing protocols, cyber pipes and connectors, wireless media, and tag-switching concepts. Plus, Novells Internet Plumbing Handbook covers routing support on UNIX&reg;, NetWare&reg;, and Windows NT&reg; networks.
Digital Photography: A No-Nonsense, Jargon-Free Guide for Beginners
Authors: Steve Bavister
Venue:  (2000)

:Home computers are becoming darkrooms, as millions discover digital imagery. Hundreds of practical tips and simple techniques accompany over 300 digital images to inspire your imagination. Follow the instructions on simple digital enhancement and sophisticated-looking image manipulation. Master the basics of using a scanner to transfer photos onto your PC, then make still images from your video, camcorder, or layer disks. Dramatically improve your photos! See how to: Eliminate redeye, improve sharpness, create depth. Delete scratches and dust. Change formats. Add brightness and contrast. Correct color, repair damaged prints. Introduce artistic and humorous effects. Combine images. Create postcards, posters, and calendars. Use digitals on emails, Web pages, and digital slide shows. It's a whole new virtual, visual world! 6 1/4 X 10 1/2. 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
Interface Culture: How New Technology Transforms the Way We Create and Communicate
Authors: Steven Johnson
Venue:  (1999)

:Steven Johnson bridges the gap that yawns between technology and the arts. Drawing on his own expertise in the humanities and on the Web, he not only demonstrates how interfaces - those buttons, graphics, and words on the screen through which we control information - influence our daily lives, but also tracks their roots back to Victorian novels, early cinema, and even medieval urban planning. The result is a lush cultural and historical tableau in which today's interfaces take their rightful place in the lineage of artistic innovation. With Interface Culture, Johnson brilliantly charts the vital role interface design plays in modern society. Just as the great novels of Melville, Dickens, and Zola explained a rapidly industrializing society to itself, he argues, Web sites, Microsoft Bob, flying toasters, and the landscapes of video games tell the digital society how to imagine itself and how to get around in cyberspace's unfamiliar realm. The role once played by novelists is now fulfilled by the interface designer, who has bridged the gap between technology and everyday life by providing a conceptual framework for the vast amounts of information and computation that surround us. Johnson boldly explores the past - a terrain hardly any tech thinker has dared enter and one that throws dazzling light on the modern interface's roots. From the great cathedrals of the Middle Ages to the rise of perspective drawing in the Renaissance, from Enlightenment satire to the golden age of television, Interface Culture uses a wealth of venerable "interface innovation" to place newfangled creations like Windows 95 and the Web in a rich historical context. Interface Culture also looks at the future - from what PC screens will look like in ten years to how new interfaces will alter the style of our conversation, prose, and thoughts. With a distinctively accessible style, Interface Culture brings new intellectual depth to the vital discussion of how technology has transformed socie
Systems Programming for Windows 95: C C++ Programmer's Guide to Vxds, I O Devices and Operating System Extensions, 1st edition
Authors: Walter Oney
Venue:  (1996)

:Here's what you'll find in this definitive guide: An overview of the varieties of Microsoft's system architecture and the available interfaces for systems programming; the how and why of combining various low-level system calls to accomplish high-level results; an emphasis on low-level solutions that use C and C++ to address the challenges in Windows 95; a complete discussion of systems-level programming, covering such important topics as virtual device drivers, I/O device programming, and operating system extensions; and an in-depth explanation of Plug and Play, serial port drivers, I/O Supervisor programming, and the Installable File System Manager.
Windows NT Advanced Server: LAN Manager for NT, 1st edition
Authors: Kenneth L. Spencer
Venue:  (1995)

:NT Server: Management and Control offers a practical approach to using the powerful NT Server operating system. Readers have access to a plethora of tips and tricks that will help to simplify various management tasks. Several of these tasks may also be accomplished with the help of step by step lists displayed throughout the book. NT Server: Management and Control covers installing NT Server, configuring and installing various client environments, providing security tips and techniques for an NT Server network, using Network Monitor (from Systems Management Server) to help analyze your network's performance, and working with the 3.51 version of NT Server.
The effect of data model, system and task characteristics on user query performance: an empirical study
Authors: Hock Chan, Keng Siau, Kwok-Kee Wei
Venue: ACM SIGMIS Database (1997)

With the proliferation of end-user computing and empowerment of end users in the organizations, the user-database interface is increasingly being recognized as an important research area. A user-database interface consists of two key components: the data model and the query language. Database management system designers can manipulate these two components to produce an effective database interface to maximize user task performance. However, in order to do this, the designers first need to know the effect of the two components on end users and the interaction effect of the two components. Despite the acknowledgment of user-database interface as a cornerstone in database utilization, there is still a paucity of research in this area.In this paper, we report on an empirical study that investigates the effect of entity-relationship versus relational models, and textual versus visual query languages for user-database interfaces. A good understanding of how the data models and query languages affect the user performance will enable the database developer to choose and design interfaces that can provide effective and efficient support for end users.
Life on the Screen: Identity in the Age of the Internet
Authors: Sherry Turkle
Venue:  (1997)

:A Question of Identity Life on the Screen is a fascinating and wide-ranging investigation of the impact of computers and networking on society, peoples' perceptions of themselves, and the individual's relationship to machines. Sherry Turkle, a Professor of the Sociology of Science at MIT and a licensed psychologist, uses Internet MUDs (multi-user domains, or in older gaming parlance multi-user dungeons) as a launching pad for explorations of software design, user interfaces, simulation, artificial intelligence, artificial life, agents, "bots," virtual reality, and "the on-line way of life." Turkle's discussion of postmodernism is particularly enlightening. She shows how postmodern concepts in art, architecture, and ethics are related to concrete topics much closer to home, for example AI research (Minsky's "Society of Mind") and even MUDs (exemplified by students with X-window terminals who are doing homework in one window and simultaneously playing out several different roles in the same MUD in other windows). Those of you who have (like me) been turned off by the shallow, pretentious, meaningless paintings and sculptures that litter our museums of modern art may have a different perspective after hearing what Turkle has to say. This is a psychoanalytical book, not a technical one. However, software developers and engineers will find it highly accessible because of the depth of the author's technical understanding and credibility. Unlike most other authors in this genre, Turkle does not constantly jar the technically-literate reader with blatant errors or bogus assertions about how things work. Although I personally don't have time or patience for MUDs,view most of AI as snake-oil, and abhor postmodern architecture, I thought the time spent reading this book was an extremely good investment.
CSCW Requirements and Evaluation
Authors: Peter J. Thomas
Venue:  (1996)

:Research in Computer Supported Cooperative Work (CSCW) has been progressing in academia for some time, feeding directly into the development of commercially-available groupware systems. At first limited to email and shared databases running on local area networks, recent advances in groupware technology have led to the development of sophisticated applications aimed specifically at the commercial user, ranging from workflow management systems to video conferencing. Now, as the availability of affordable systems is growing, so is the need for users and organisations to determine their requirements for future systems, and to evaluate how well available systems meet their needs. CSCW Requirements and Evaluation covers these and other important issues, providing both practical and academic perspectives on requirements and evaluation. It describes a variety of methods and approaches, based on specific case studies, and includes contributions from leading authorities in the field. Overall this volume provides invaluable reading for researchers and practitioners involved in CSCW, groupware development, information systems design, user-interface design, and organisational research.
SSADM 4+ for Rapid Systems Development
Authors: David Hargrave
Venue:  (1995)

:This work presents a cut-down version of SSADM, "Rapid SSADM". It is specifically designed to meets the needs of current development environments, and is ideal for use in developing small systems for relational databases within a limited timescale. Many of these systems use 4GL techniques and involve prototyping. The first section of the book discusses the environment for Rapid SSADM, looking at the impact of project management techniques and CASE tools. The next section contains a detailed account of Rapid SSADM, and suggests alternative techniques for entity life histories and relational data analysis. The third section considers the impact of rapid applications development, evolutionary development, graphic user interfaces and object orientation. 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
Extending the technology acceptance model: the influence of perceived user resources
Authors: Kieran Mathieson, Eileen Peacock, Wynne W. Chin
Venue: ACM SIGMIS Database (2001)

There has been considerable research on the factors that predict whether individuals will accept and voluntarily use information systems. The technology acceptance model (TAM) has a base in psychological research, is parsimonious, explains usage behavior quite well, and can be operationalized with valid and reliable instruments. A limitation of TAM is that it assumes usage is volitional, that is, there are no barriers that would prevent an individual from using an IS if he or she chose to do so. This research extends TAM by adding perceived user resources to the model, with careful attention to placing the construct in TAM's existing nomological structure. In contrast to measures of self-efficacy and perceived behavioral control that concentrate on how well individuals perceive they can execute specific courses of action, this paper examines perceptions of adequate resources that can facilitate or inhibit such behaviors. The inclusion of both a formative and reflective set of measures provides the opportunity for the researcher and manager to decide whether to evaluate only the overall perceptions of adequate resources or also the specific underlying causes. The extended model incorporating these measures was then tested in the field. The results confirmed that perceived user resources is a valuable addition to the model.
Visual Basic Programmer's Guide to Web Development with Other
Authors: William Martiner
Venue:  (1997)

:The latest version of the popular progamming tool allows programmers to bring Visual Basic to the Web.[With the new release of Microsoft Web development tools, including Visual Basic 5.0, programmers can leverage their existing skills as they bring the advantages of Visual Basic to their Web sites. This book is a guide for experienced Visual Basic programmers, who are both new and experienced with the Internet, to developing Web applications with Microsoft's new suite of tools. Web Site provides actively maintained software demos and sourcecode contained in the book.
DMERG
Authors: Don Midgett
Venue: Proceedings of the 14th annual Southeast regional conference (1976)

DMERG was designed as a tool to assist students and professors in Business and Economics at the University of Mississippi in considering the financial consequences of alternative corporate merger proposals. 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
Parasite Eve: Official Strategy Guide
Authors: David Cassady
Venue:  (1998)

:Elements of science fiction, horror, exploration, action, and adventure are combined with film-quality storytelling and visuals in Parasite Eve. BradyGAMES offers maps for every mission, detailed walkthroughs, and special chapters on how to combine weapons and armor to create powerful items. 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
Macs for Dummies, 2nd edition
Authors: David Pogue
Venue:  (1993)

:The Bestselling Mac Book 4 Years Running! "More and more people to Pogue, who has made a cottage industry out of soothing people's fears in the uncharted waters of cyberspace." -- The Washington Post Macs For Dummies, the bestselling Mac book for over four years, is the essential reference for anyone who wants to find out how to get the most out of their Mac. Now, Macs For Dummies introduces you to its completely revised and updated 4th edition so you can get started right away! Bestselling author David Pogue guides novices through multitudes of Mac models and takes the fear out of this silicon gadget. With humor, patience, and almost no hi-tech terminology, David Pogue makes your computer seem logical, friendly, and a blast to use! Join the 1.2 million readers in 15 countries who have embraced Macs For Dummies as their ultimate guide! Inside, Find Out How to... Turn on your computer -- and figure out what to do next Uncover word processing basics like printing, faxing, and how to avoid losing your documents Discover everything worth knowing about Power Macs, Performas, and PowerBooks Pinpoint what you need and what you can throw away on your computer Surf the Internet and access tons of exciting, useful information with ease Uncover neat little shortcuts, hidden pictures, and time-savers Discover do-it-yourself Mac maintenance techniques Get expert insight on printers, modems, and software that can save you money
Windows 2000 Professional Advanced Configuration and Implementation
Authors: Morten Strunge Nielsen
Venue:  (2000)

:Windows 2000 Professional Advanced Configuration and Implementation provides IT professionals and power users in-depth information on the features and functions found in Microsoft Windows 2000 Professional, along with valuable information regarding installation, management, security, and troubleshooting Windows 2000 in a corporate setting. 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
A foreign language test construction system
Authors: Joel S. Craig
Venue: Proceedings of the 20th annual Southeast regional conference (1982)

The Foreign Language Test Construction System aids the foreign language instructor in preparing examinations. The system interprets a test outline created by the instructor and produces one of several possible examinations. Any particular outline generates a variety of syntactically equivalent examinations allowing the instructor to administer multiple versions of the same test. The concept of creating a test outline reduces the amount of memory or disk space needed to store a test.The menu-driven system allows an instructor not familiar with computers to create examinations with minimal effort. The instructor simply follows the directions on the computer monitor and types the questions into the computer according to a previously specified format. The system stores a list of possible verbs and several classifications of nouns (countries, names, seasons). The system chooses words from this list according to the outline created by the instructor producing an almost limitless variety of equivalent examinations. 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
Java Training Guide, 1st edition
Authors: Steve Heller
Venue:  (1997)

:This volume teaches the basics of Java while also pointing out problems and complications with the language that readers may encounter along the way. The CD-ROM features over 120 minutes of interactive training movies--perfect for those who can learn independently or for those whose position involves training others to master the Java programming language.
Postmodern Currents: Art and Artists in the Age of Electronic Media, 2nd edition
Authors: Margot Lovejoy
Venue:  (1996)

:Postmodern Currents: Art and Artists in the Age of Electronic Media explores in detail the growing impact of video and computer technologies, and of the Internet, on aesthetic experience and examines the emerging role of the artist as social communicator. It recounts the involvement of such artists as Jenny Holzer, Nam June Paik, Bill Viola, Gary Hill, and Laurie Anderson, among others, with electronic media and discusses the important economic, social, and aesthetic issues these new technologies imply.
A programming contest driving system
Authors: Randy Jay Hendry
Venue: Proceedings of the 20th annual Southeast regional conference (1982)

This paper describes a system used to manage a programming contest. It has been used at East Tennessee State University for the past two years to determine the college's representatives to the ACM regional contest. The primary objective of the system is centralized automatic control. Its features provide ease of use and preservation of anonymity for the contestants in addition to security, logging, and scoring for the judges. 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
Macromedia Director Lingo Workshop for Windows
Authors: John T. Thompson
Venue:  (1996)

:Build a solid understanding of the rules of the Lingo language. Create animated buttons and navigational aids. Write your own simulations and games using Lingo's object-oriented features. Put your movies on the Internet with Shockwave. Make Macromedia Director work for you in education, business, entertainment, and other venues. Develop movies that work on Windows 95, Windows NT, Windows 3.1, Macintosh, and Power Macintosh. 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
Digital Image Processing: Concepts, Algorithms, and Scientific Applications, 2nd edition
Authors: Bernd Jahne
Venue:  (1993)

:Now in its fourth edition, this well-established and heavily illustrated book provides natural scientists with ready access to the state-of-the-art of digital image processing and shows them how to use it to gather and analyze data in their research. The book includes a CD-ROM containing numerous color illustrations and a test version of image processing software. 222 illus. 574 pp. Pub: 12/97.
AOL Keywords, 3rd edition
Authors: Jennifer Watson
Venue:  (1998)

:Navigate with ease and save time on America Online by learning their best-kept secret: keywords. Jennifer Watson is the keywords keeper at America Online, and in this updated book she shares her insiders knowledge with you. So just what are keywords? Keywords allow members to go quickly and directly to a forum or service online without wasting valuable time navigating. There are currently over 7,000 keywords, many of which were unknown or unpublished -- until now. AOL Keywords, 2nd Edition is your directory to the thousands of areas on America Online -- all organized and cross-referenced by keyword. Included are two completely updated keyword lists (thats over 7,000 keywords in each list, indexed and cross-referenced for you). The main list is sorted alphabetically, and the other is organized by category using AOLs new channel structure. In addition, over 100 of the latest and greatest keywords are rated and reviewed for you by AOLs community leaders. AOL Keywords, 2nd Edition is the ultimate reference for those who wish to get the most out of America Online and really go places. Over 7,000 keywords, indexed and cross-referenced New and hot keywords -- all rated and reviewed How to use keywords and other navigation techniques Fast lookup through a variety of keyword lists Special keyword lists just for kids, parents, lovers, and more Tips and tricks to help you get the most out of America Online A glossary of America Online lingo for keyword lovers Keyboard shortcuts for fast, efficient use How to access the most up-to-date keyword lists on AmericaOnline
Easy Word for Windows, 2nd edition
Authors: Shelley O'Hara
Venue:  (1993)

:The revolutionary full-color guide that teaches beginning or intimidated users how to use the latest version of Word for Windows.Covers the most commonly used features without overwhelming readers with lots of detailsShows readers how to enter and edit text, work with files, print documents, merge files, and much moreFull-color format makes text inviting and easy to understand