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An efficient register optimization algorithm for high-level synthesis from hierarchical behavioral specifications
Authors: Ranga Vemuri, Srinivas Katkoori, Meenakshi Kaul, Jay Roy
Venue: ACM Transactions on Design Automation of Electronic Systems (TODAES) (2002)

We address the problem of register optimization that arises during high-level synthesis from modular hierarchical behavioral specifications. Register optimization is the process of grouping carriers such that each group can be safely allocated to a hardware register. Global register optimization by inline expansion involves flattening the module hierarchy and using a heuristic register optimization procedure on the flattened description. Although inline expansion yields a near-optimal number of registers, it is very time consuming due to the large number of carrier compatibility relationships that must be considered. We present an efficient register optimization algorithm that achieves nearly the same effect of inline expansion without actually inline expanding. The distinguishing feature of the proposed algorithm is that it employs a hierarchical optimization phase which effectively exploits the properties of the module call graph and information gathered during local carrier lifecycle analysis of each module. Experimental results on a number of benchmarks show that the proposed algorithm produces nearly the same number of registers as inline expansion based global optimization and is faster by a factor of 7.0.
Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet out of Idaho, 1st edition
Authors: Jon Katz
Venue:  (2000)

:Jesse and Eric were roommates in the tiny town of Caldwell, Idaho, nineteen-year-old working class kids eking out a living with their seven-dollar-an-hour jobs selling and fixing computers. College was never in the cards. Their families had been torn apart by divorce and hard times, separation and illness. They had almost no social lives, and little to look forward to. They spent every spare cent on their computers, and every spare moment on-line. Jesse and Eric were proud geeks-- suspicious or disdainful of authority figures, proud of their status as outsiders, fervent in their belief in the positive power of technology. They'd been outsiders as long as they could remember, living far from the mainstream of school or town life. Nobody spoke for them, they were on nobody's social or political agenda. Geeks is the story of how Jesse and Eric--and others like them--used technology to try and change their lives and alter their destiny. They rode the Internet out of Idaho to Chicago, a city they had ever set foot in, seeking the American Dream, a better life. Geeks describes this brave and difficult journey, as two self-described social misfits use the resources of the Internet to try to construct a new future for themselves, escape the boundaries of their dead-end lives, and find a community they could belong to.Geeks explores a growing subculture about which many of us know little, a world with its own language, traditions, and taboos. In telling the stories of Jesse, Eric, and others like them, Geeks is a story about the very human face of technology. Geek: A member of the new cultural elite, a pop culture-loving, techno-centered Community of Social Discontents.Most geeks rose above a suffocatingly unimaginative educational system, where they were surrounded by obnoxious social values and hostile peers, to build the freest and most inventive culture on the planet: the Internet and World Wide Web. Now running the systems that run the world. Tendency toward braininess and individuality, traits that often trigger resentment, isolation, or exclusion. Identifiable by a singular obsessiveness about the things they love, both work and play, and a well-honed sense of bitter, even savage, outsider humor. Universally suspicious of authority. In this era, the geek Ascension, a positive, even envied term. Definitions involving chicken heads no longer apply. --Jon Katz
Creatng Web Pages with HTML: An Introduction, 1st edition
Authors: Patrick Carey
Venue:  (1998)

:Part of the New Perspectives series, this text offers a case-based, problem-solving approach for learning how to create and design web pages using HTML.
Evolution and Optimum Seeking: The Sixth Generation
Authors: Hans-Paul Paul Schwefel
Venue:  (1993)

:With the publication of this book, Hans-Paul Schwefel has responded to rapidly growing interest in Evolutionary Computation, a field that originated, in part, with his pioneering work in the early 1970s. Evolution and Optimum Seeking offers a systematic overview of both new and classical approaches to computer-aided optimum system design methods, including the new class of Evolutionary Algorithms and other "Parallel Problem Solving from Nature" (PPSN) methods. It presents numerical optimization methods and algorithms to computer calculations which will be particularly useful for massively parallel computers. It is the only book in the field that offers in-depth comparisons between classical direct optimization methods and the newer methods. Dr. Schwefel's method consists essentially of the adaptation of simple evolutionary rules to a computer procedure in the search for optimal parameters within a simulation model of a technical device. In addition to its historical and practical value, Evolution and Optimum Seeking will stimulate further research into PPSN and interdisciplinary thinking about multi-agent self-organization in natural and artificial environments. These developments have been accelerated by fortunate changes in the computational environment, especially with respect to new architectures. MIMD (Multiple Instructions Multiple Data) machines with many processors working in parallel on one task seem to lend themselves to inherently parallel problem solving concepts like Evolution Strategies. The most comprehensive work of its kind, Evolution and Optimum Seeking offers a state-of-the-art perspective on the field for researchers in computer-aided design, planning, control, systems analysis, computational intelligence, and artificial life. Its range and depth make it a virtual handbook for practitioners: epistemological introduction to the concepts and strategies of optimum seeking; taxonomy of optimization tasks and solution principles (material found n
Organization of International Business: Studies in the Economics of Trust
Authors: Mark C. Casson
Venue:  (1995)

:Mark Casson pioneered the use of transaction cost theory to explain the boundaries of the multinational firm. In The Organization of International Business, he extends the internalization theory of the firm to encompass, on the one hand, inter-firm networking and, on the other, the internal organization and managerial structure of the firm. The key innovation is the distinction between information cost - the cost of gathering information on the assumption that it is true - and transaction cost - the cost of ensuring that the information actually is true. This innovation facilitates a synthesis of transaction cost analysis and organizational behaviour. It also provides new insights into the dynamics of internationalization, and the role of learning in the growth of the firm. 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
Sams Teach Yourself Microsoft PowerPoint 2000 in 24 Hours, 1st edition
Authors: Alexandria Haddad
Venue:  (1999)

:In just 24 sessions of one hour or less, you will be up and running with PowerPoint 2000. Using a straightforward, step-by-step approach, each lesson builds upon the previous one, allowing you to learn the essentials of PowerPoint 2000 from the ground up. Using this book and PowerPoint 2000, you will be able to create outstanding presentations, slide shows, and Web-ready pages.
Alison Balter's Access 97 Development, with CD-ROM (Mastering), 2nd edition
Authors: Alison Balter
Venue:  (1997)

:Access 97 is one of the premier databases in use today. Alison Balter's Mastering Access 97 Development, Second Edition shows you how to tap into the power of this application using features such as replication, Component Object Model, Win32 API, ActiveX Controls, wizards, add-ons, and builders. With Alison's proven, solution-oriented style you'll soon be developing and programming powerful Access 97 applications. Put the full potential of Access 97 to work for you with Alison Balter's Mastering Access 97 Development, Second Edition.
Increasing transaction processing efficiency by automating an asynchronous processor
Authors: Rick Gross, Suzanne Ryanstrati, John Ims
Venue: CHI '02 extended abstracts on Human factors in computing systems (2002)

Moving simple yet highly repetitive manual tasks to an asynchronous automated validation process increased data processing productivity. Contextual analysis of manual processing actions revealed opportunities for timesaving.
Managing Information Technology in Secondary Schools
Authors: Roger Crawford
Venue:  (1997)

:The book aims to inform governors and senior managers of issues arising in managing and using IT in secondary schools, offering guidance in forming an IT policy and in managing the associated resources. It also helps class teachers be more aware of the impact of ITthroughout the school, and looks at some common problems, including equal opportunities and health and safety issues.
The Complete Guide to Data Storage Technologies: For Network-Centric Computing
Authors: Frank Dailey
Venue:  (1997)

:This new 242-page report from CTR examines the latest trends in data storage technology. The report explores critical issues such as the expanding role of networking, the Internet, and intranets and the impact these technologies will have on businesses. Advanced networking technologies, such as the Internet and intranets, enable the sharing of enormous amounts of information within and between organizations. The effective management and storage of this information is critical to the success of the enterprise. CTR's new report, The Complete Guide to Data Storage Technologies for Network-centric Computing, provides information on the latest trends in the data storage industry. The report addresses critical issues such as network-centric computing, the Internet, and intranets, as well as the impact these technologies will have on the data storage market. Key storage vendors, network computers (NCs), and security techniques are also discussed. With the exception of the microprocessor and software, no other technology has contributed as much to computing as data storage. CTR's report explores the evolution of data storage and the role of databases, data warehousing, data marts, and data mining. Future trends in the data storage market are also examined. The Complete Guide to Data Storage Technologies for Network-centric Computing is an invaluable resource for information systems (IS) professionals who are responsible for managing the data storage for their organization. The report will help with the following: Selecting and implementing appropriate data storage technologies Understanding the impact of network-centric computing on the enterprise Improving the return on investment (ROI) on data in the database Determining the role of data warehouses, data marts, and data mining Developing effective security strategies to protect valuable data Analyzing the increased data storage requirements of the Internet, intranets, and extranets The ACM Portal is published by the Association for Computing Machinery. Copyright © 2010 ACM, Inc. Terms of Usage Privacy Policy Code of Ethics Contact Us Useful downloads: Adobe Acrobat QuickTime Windows Media Player Real Player
The NetScape Intranet Solution: Deploying the Full Service Intranet
Authors: Shanen J. Boettcher
Venue:  (1997)

:A complete blueprint for planning and developing a full-service intranet![This book shows you how to plan your intranet to maximize current and future business advantages, and to deploy it with minimum disruption to everyday business processes. Drawing upon his experiences implementing intranets at more than 25 Fortune 1,000 companies, Shanen Boettcher arms you with clear and detailed explanations at all essential intranet technologies, guidelines for choosing the best hardware and software for your needs, proven techniques for matching intranet technology to user needs, a framework and a set of strategies for intranet deployment, and case studies illustrating best practices at leading companies.[Offering guidelines, how-to strategies, and a wealth of insider tips, this book is every network manager's survival guide. 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
Electronic Whistle-Stops: The Impact of the Internet on American Politics, 1st edition
Authors: Gary W. Selnow
Venue:  (1998)

:Fifty years ago, the political whistle-stop tour was thus named because trains blew their whistles twice when making unscheduled stops in backwater towns. Like its distant cousin, the electronic whistle-stop brings the candidate's message directly to the people, but with one outstanding difference: the new whistle-stop offers politicians an accuracy, efficiency, and success at voter persuasion unimaginable to earlier whistle-stoppers such as Harry Truman. Selnow illustrates how the Internet and earlier electronic technologies have been used politically and what the side-effects, intended and otherwise, have been.
The new structure of an operating system: the Apertos approach
Authors: Yasuhiko Yokote, Mario Tokoro
Venue: Proceedings of the 5th workshop on ACM SIGOPS European workshop: Models and paradigms for distributed systems structuring (1992)

This paper proposes the new structure for an operating system in an open and mobile computing environment. The structure is characterized by object/metaobject separation, metahierarchy, and object migration. We then present the practical implementation of the Apertos operating system based on the proposed structure, where reflectors are introduced for metaobject programming and MetaCore for providing the common primitives. We also present some measurement results of the Apertos operating system.
Personalizing information gathering for mobile database clients
Authors: Susan Weissman Lauzac, Panos K. Chrysanthis
Venue: Proceedings of the 2002 ACM symposium on Applied computing (2002)

Mobile agents are ideal for mobile computing environments because of their ability to support asynchronous communication and flexible query processing since tasks can be delegated to mobile agents when a mobile client is disconnected. This paper explores the use of mobile agents in personalizing information gathering for mobile database clients. Personalized data take the form of materialized views and personalization is provided in the form of view maintenance options. These options, expressed using an extended SQL Create View command, offer a finer grain of control and balance between data availability and currency, the amount of wireless communication and the cost of maintaining consistency. The paper defines recomputational consistency and introduces new levels of materialized view consistency to better characterize the mobile client view currency customizations.
Collector's Guide to Buying, Selling, and Trading on the Internet
Authors: Nancy L. Hix
Venue:  (1999)

:This desktop reference grade, the first of its kind, is sure to become the essential tool for collectors and dealers on the World Wide Web. The Ty Inc. Beanie Babies web site page counter shows nearly two billion hits since its inception in 1996. And hundreds of other collectible lines are putting out web pages for their collectors to use now. The Beanie Baby phenomenon has proven the importance of the Internet for buying, selling, and trading collectibles. An introduction to cybercollecting, this handy guide addresses the plight of collectors venturing onto the Internet for the first time or those experiencing apprehension trading on the Internet with people they don't know. Experienced HTML instructor, technical writer, and Internet celebrity Nancy L. Hix bases much of her information on her experience running a high-profile web site that assists people involved in "bad trades", and her personal experience developing and using Internet collectible trading sites. User-friendly formatting instructions and templates are provided so collectors can present on-line auctions and bulletin board ads effectively. Never before has the collectible world seen such a drastic change and new venue for buying, selling, and trading. The Internet is the new frontier and if you don't want to be left behind, get this ultimate handbook for veteran web surfers and nervous novices.
The current status of technology in education: lightspeed ahead with mild turbulence
Authors: Michael F. Kalinowski
Venue: Information Technology in Childhood Education Annual (2001)

The article summarizes five trends in technology for children aged 12 and younger, identifies four current issues, and three unresolved needs related to technology and children; provides six selected hardware and 30 software recommendations, and offers several resources: journals and magazines, educational technology websites, software publishers, and hardware companies. During 2000, the greatest innovations were in infrastructure that will enable children to connect more quickly, interact more flexibly, respond more intuitively, and use computers more creatively. As innovations proceed, dramatic improvements in software for children, and continued discussion about what is relevant or appropriate is likely to be witnessed.
Efficient Multicast on Irregular Switch-Based Cut-Through Networks with Up-Down Routing
Authors: Ram Kesavan, Dhabaleswar K. Panda
Venue: IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems (2001)

The irregular switch-based network of workstations is fast becoming a cost-effective platform for high performance computing. This paper presents efficient multicasting with reduced link contention on irregular switch-based cut-through interconnection using the popular up*/down* (UD) routing and unicast message passing. First, it is proven that, for an arbitrary irregular network with UD routing, it is not possible to create an ordered list of nodes to implement an arbitrary multicast in a link contention-free manner with a minimal number of communication steps. Next, three different multicast algorithms are proposed with their respective node orderings to reduce link contention: switch-based ordering (SO), switch-based hierarchical ordering (SHO), and chain concatenation ordering (CCO). A variation of the binomial tree-based communication pattern, with unicast message passing, is used on the above orderings to implement multicast. Then, the problem of node contention is described in the case when multiple multicasts occur concurrently in a system. Using source-based information, the CCO algorithm is modified to propose a source-partitioned chain concatenation ordering (SPCCO) algorithm. It is also shown how the SPCCO algorithm reduces the effect of node contention at the cost of link contention. Using detailed simulation experiments, the proposed multicast algorithms are compared with each other as well as with the naive random ordering (RO) algorithm for a range of system sizes, switch sizes, message lengths, input buffer sizes, degrees of connectivity, destination set sizes, and communication start-up times. For the case of single multicast, the CCO algorithm is shown to be the best to implement multicast with reduced link contention and minimum latency. For the case of multiple multicasts, the SPCCO algorithm is shown to be the best when the start-up overhead dominates the propagation overhead and the CCO algorithm is shown to be the best otherwise. The results also highlight the importance of reducing link contention when designing efficient multicast, even for systems with large input buffers in the switches. Thus, these results demonstrate significant potential to be applied to current and future generation NOW systems with irregular interconnection.
Geographical Information Systems, 2nd edition
Authors: David J. Grimshaw
Venue:  (1999)

:Integrating theory and practice, it takes a look at GIS from the dual perspective of information systems and the applications of GIS in business. Considers the development of GIS from specialist geographical systems to business information systems supporting organizational needs. Also examines the contributions that GIS can make to decision making in business at various levels. Introduces the reader to specific problems and issues concerning spatial data. International case studies are used from such corporations as Arby's, IKEA, Levi Strauss and Conrail.
Internet Adventures 2.0, 2nd edition
Authors: Cynthia B. Leshin
Venue:  (1997)

:This guide was especially created for educators- to show them how easy it is to travel the Internet. Unlike other Internet "how-to" books, this guide directs you to the vast storehouses of educational resources and how to gain instant access to them - subject oriented resources, reference resources, and global collaborative projects. Readers will bring new excitement into their classes. They'll participate in global collaborative projects such as NASA's Live from Mars or the JASON project. Expand intellectual horizons by using three thematic units-Rain Forest, Ancient Civilizations, and Oceans. Novice Net drivers will cruise the information superhighway with confidence, learning every step quickly and easily in just days- even in a few hours- they'll be at home with: e-mail, mailing lists (listservs), Gopher, FTP (file transfer protocol), Usenet, newsgroups, World Wide Web, Telnet. They'll also learn how to use the two premiere browsers, Netscape Navigator and Microsoft Internet Explorer. Elementary and secondary school educators and administrators. A Longwood Professional Book
Implementation of an electronic report viewing application for multi-cultural users
Authors: Diane Norton
Venue: CHI '02 extended abstracts on Human factors in computing systems (2002)

It is necessary to customise computer interfaces for South African users from different cultural groups who work on the same comuter system in a corporate environment? This question is addressed by a combination of a literature review and testing the ideas in a case study in South African financial institution.Both Components of the sutdy suggest that customized user interfaces may not be necessary for users of the same computer based systems in South African businesses.
Fatal Defect: Chasing Killer Computer Bugs, 1st edition
Authors: Ivars Peterson
Venue:  (1995)

:More than ever, our society depends on the reliable - if not always correct - functioning of computers. Computers amplify not only our genius but our flaws, sometimes to intolerable extremes. Author Ivars Peterson traces the lurching history of software development and describes how misconceptions and mistakes have become an inextricable part of computer programs and systems. He creates fascinating and colorful profiles of the people who hunt down these elusive computer bugs and struggle to make an inherently fallible system less treacherous. He also offers dozens of detailed examples of how computer failures occur - some amusing, some annoying, others terrifying, even fatal. Each computer failure is a reminder that we all pay a price for sloppy thinking in software development, for making the rush to market a more important consideration than safety and reliability. No software can ever be guaranteed 100 percent bug-free, but if we analyze our past mistakes and rethink our approach to computers, we can defuse some ticking time bombs and create a more trustworthy next generation of computers.