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Enchanted Looms: Conscious Networks in Brains and Computers
Authors: Rodney Cotterill
Venue:  (2000)

:The title of this book was inspired by a passage in Charles Sherrington's Man on his Nature. When that famous physiologist died in 1952, the prospects for a scientific explanation of consciousness seemed remote. Enchanted Looms shows how the situation has changed dramatically, and provides what is probably the most wide-ranging account of the phenomenon ever written. Rodney Cotterill bridges the gap between the bottom-up approach to understanding consciousness, anchored in the brain's biochemistry, anatomy and physiology, and the top-down strategy, which concerns itself with behaviour and the nervous system's interaction with the environment. The author argues that an explanation of consciousness is now at hand, and extends the discussion to include intelligence and creativity. This beautifully written and illustrated book will be valued for its easy access to one of science's last great challenges. It will change forever our view of consciousness, and our concept of the human being.
Asp.Net: The Complete Reference
Authors: Matthew MacDonald
Venue:  (2002)

:Get the comprehensive low-down on all seven built-in . NET Framework namespacesplus plenty of other useful information for developers,including relevant topics like security,Web services,database development,application deployment,and more. The Most Comprehensive ASP. NET Resource AvailableGet up to speed on ASP. NETa core Web development platform in the new Microsoft . NET Frameworkwith this definitive resource. You'll learn how the . NET Framework really works,master the Visual Studio . NET development environment,and learn best practices for developing powerful ASP. NET applications. Systematically covering both basic and more advanced topics,this comprehensive guide will help you take advantage of ASP. NET's pre-built functionality and show you how to program the event-driven form model,access XML Web services,work with relational databases,and much more. You'll also find helpful security information for safeguarding your site and providing subscription services. Thorough and organized,this one-stop reference will show you everything you need to expertly work with ASP. NET. Learn the fundamentals of the . NET Framework Explore the basics of object-oriented programming as well as Visual Basic . NET and C# syntax Interact with a Web page's user interface through its object layer Employ ASP. NET's built-in data-binding features and advanced data controls Design robust Web services and access them from multiple platforms Create your own reusable components and Web controls for ASP. NET applications Get at-a-glance reference information for every ASP. NETWeb control and configuration setting Boost performance of any Web application through caching Discover productivity tricks for mastering Visual Studio . NET and its integrated debugger
Nurses' Guide to the Internet, 2nd edition
Authors: Leslie H. Nicoll
Venue:  (1998)

:Here's the first handbook targeted specifically to nurses and other health professionals to help you connect to and navigate through today's best online nursing resources! This essential guide shows you what's there, how to access it, and how to use it. Enhance your knowledge through the step-by-step instructions that make it easy for you to quickly find and use the specific and current nursing resources and literature you need. Connect with your colleagues and develop your own online presence so you can network with other nurses in your specialty. Discover home pages, gopher sites, and bulletin boards that put information age technology to work for you.
Ultra-Long-Haul WDM transmission systems
Authors: Y. R. Zhou, A. Lord, S. R. Sikora
Venue: BT Technology Journal (2002)

This paper discusses the key transmission issues and design considerations for ultra-long-haul WDM systems. The key enabling technologies for the current generation of ultra-long-haul WDM transmission are described. Noise analysis and transmission modelling results are presented, and an overview of the developing transmission technology is also given.
An Infeasible-Interior-Point Method for Linear Complementarity Problems
Authors: Evangelia M. Simantiraki, David F. Shanno
Venue: SIAM Journal on Optimization (1997)

In this work we present an infeasible-interior-point algorithm which is based on a method for the general nonlinear programming problem to solve linear complementarity problems. For this algorithm, we prove global convergence from any strictly positive starting point, under minor assumptions. Numerical results are reported which demonstrate very good computational performance on large-scale linear complementarity problems.
SimCity 2000 Strategies and Secrets
Authors: Daniel A. Tauber, Brenda Kienan
Venue:  (1994)

:Here's a new, special edition of the renowned guide to SimCity 2000. Upgraded to include the new Windows version of the game, this book is also indispensable to all PC and Mac gamesters. Filled with the latest insider tips, tricks, and resources, it even covers creating your own scenarios and trading cities and tips via the Internet. You'll find everything you need (including secrets not found in other books) to run the city of your dreams.
Eigrp for IP: Basic Operation and Configuration
Authors: Alvaro Retana, Don Slice, Russ White
Venue:  (2000)

From the Book:PREFACE: Cisco Systems designed EIGRP (Enhanced Interior Gateway Routing Protocol) to support the Internet Protocol (IP), Novell's IPX, and Apple's AppleTalk protocols. EIGRP is used in networks of all sizes, including many large corporate networks, across the world. Routers direct trafficuser data in the form of packetsthrough the network toward its destination. Routing protocols provide the road signs for the routers to use to decide where to forward the traffic to next on the path to the destination. EIGRP is designed to provide routing knowledge within a single domainor between routers controlled and maintained by the same group of people. A domain is usually understood as containing all the routers owned and operated by a single administration, such as a company or a department. Although EIGRP can provide routing information for various protocols, we have limited the scope of this book to just IP. The primary reason for this decision is to maintain focus and clarity. Most of the theory and the design principles you learn here can be applied to networks using EIGRP to route protocols other than IP. This book has been designed to provide a quick but complete description of EIGRP and its use. Throughout our experience, working firsthand on the design and troubleshooting of EIGRP networks, we have found that the protocol is typically not well understood or documented. Although EIGRP is very easy to configure, the lack of educational resources explaining how EIGRP functions has led to nonoptimized networks and has caused issues to chronically pop up in many of them. Our intent is topartiallyfill the documentation gap with this guide while also providing design and troubleshooting guidelines to the most common scenarios and problems. The intended audience includes people with some networking experience and at least a basic understanding of routing protocols. Chapter 1 begins with EIGRP theory, explaining the basic concepts, terminology, and mechanisms EIGRP uses to provide routing information. Chapter 2 takes a brief look at the most important configuration options with EIGRP. Chapter 3 considers network design principles within the framework of EIGRP's capabilities and includes tips on basic network architecture and specific studies on situations you may find in an EIGRP network. Finally, Chapter 4 provides information on troubleshooting various conditions you may find within a network running EIGRP. Problems ranging from errors building neighbor relationships to troubleshooting Stuck in Active (SIA) routes are covered in this chapter. In this book, key terms appear in boldface type the first time they are used. These terms are defined in the glossary at the end of the book, following Chapter 4.
A Class of Globally Convergent Optimization Methods Based on Conservative Convex Separable Approximations
Authors: Krister Svanberg
Venue: SIAM Journal on Optimization (2002)

This paper deals with a certain class of optimization methods, based on conservative convex separable approximations (CCSA), for solving inequality-constrained nonlinear programming problems. Each generated iteration point is a feasible solution with lower objective value than the previous one, and it is proved that the sequence of iteration points converges toward the set of Karush--Kuhn--Tucker points. A major advantage of CCSA methods is that they can be applied to problems with a very large number of variables (say 104--105) even if the Hessian matrices of the objective and constraint functions are dense.
XML Web Documents from Scratch
Authors: Jesse Liberty, Mike Kraley
Venue:  (2000)

:Jesse Liberty's XML Web Documents from Scratch is a road map to managing and publishing documents using XML and XSL. Concepts and techniques are taught and reinforced as readers create "BiblioTech," a Web-based book reader that displays the text of a book, provides a collapsible outline, and text search capabilities.
Structured Computer Organization, 4th edition
Authors: Andrew S. Tanenbaum, James R. Goodman
Venue:  (1998)

:This book takes a modern structured, layered approach to understanding computer systems. It's highly accessible - and it's been thoroughly updated to reflect today's most critical new technologies, including Pentium II and UltraSPARC microprocessors, Windows NT and Java Virtual Machines.Tanenbaum and Goodman present a computer as a series of layers, each one built upon the ones below it, and understandable as a separate entity. The book includes detailed coverage at the digital logic and micro-architecture levels, instruction set level, and operating system machine level, and contains a completely rewritten and updated chapter on parallel computer architecture. This new edition includes a wealth of new material about modern I/O devices, a detailed discussion of the Java Virtual Machine (including a microprogrammed implementation of a subset of a JVM), extensive coverage of multiprocessing, and much more.For all computer professionals and engineers who need an overview or introduction to computer architecture.
Design of knowledge-based systems with the ontology-domain-system approach
Authors: Xin Wang, Christine W. Chan, Howard J. Hamilton
Venue: Proceedings of the 14th international conference on Software engineering and knowledge engineering (2002)

An ontology is a comprehensive knowledge model that enables a developer to practice a "higher" level of reuse, namely knowledge reuse. To achieve knowledge reuse instead of software reuse, we propose forging a closer mapping between the knowledge and software models in the development process. In this paper, we first present UML as an ontology modeling language and then describe the Ontology-Domain-System approach to deriving a system model from a UML-based ontology model.
Exploring IBM Eserver Xseries and PCs: An Instant Insider's Guide to Intel-Based Servers and Systems, 12th edition
Authors: Jim Hoskins, Bill Wilson
Venue:  (2002)

:Introducing the brands of Intel-based IBM computers, this guide shows how to integrate these systems into business for greater efficiency, productivity, and overall business management. Written for nontechnical users, the most current xSeries information is included. Differences and uses for the assorted computers are detailed, as are the latest peripherals, software options, and networking issues. Guidelines for choosing operating systems to fit business needs are also discussed.Jim Hoskins is the author of 10 computer books, including Exploring IBM Technology, Products & Services. He lives in Gulf Breeze, Florida. Bill Wilson is an IBM manager responsible for IBMs PC offerings in the marketplace. He lives in Raleigh, North Carolina.
Sequential composition of protocols without simultaneous termination
Authors: Yehuda Lindell, Anna Lysyanskaya, Tal Rabin
Venue: Proceedings of the twenty-first annual symposium on Principles of distributed computing (2002)

The question of the composition of protocols is an important and heavily researched one. In this paper we consider the problem of sequential composition of synchronous protocols that do not have simultaneous termination; i.e., the parties do not necessarily conclude a protocol execution in the same round. A problem arises becauses such protocols must begin in synchrony; therefore a second execution cannot follow from the first in a straightforward manner. An important example of a protocol with this property is that of randomized Byzantine Agreement with an expected constant number of rounds (such as the one due to Feldman and Micali). We note that expected constant-round Byzantine Agreement cannot have simultaneous termination and thus this (problematic) property is inherent.Given that the termination of the parties is not simultaneous, a natural question to consider is how to synchronize the parties so that such protocols can be sequentially composed. Furthermore, such a composition should preserve the original running-time of the protocol, i.e. running the protocol ℓ times sequentially should take in the order of ℓ times the running-time of the protocol. In this paper, we present a method for sequentially composing any protocol in which the players do not terminate in the same round, while preserving the original round complexity. An important application of this result is the sequential composition of parallel Byzantine Agreement. Such a composition can be used by parties connected in a point-to-point network to run protocols designed for the broadcast model, while maintaining the original round complexity.
ICQ FYI: Instant Communications Online
Authors: Ted Coombs, Roderico DeLeon
Venue:  (2000)

:ICQ, a program written by the same people who created AOLs Instant Messenger, is a way to instantly connect with friends and business colleagues while online. Now on the desktops of tens of millions of people around the world, ICQ offers community-based network communications including chat, instant messaging, e-mail, voice communications and more. Originally a simple chat and messaging program, ICQ has grown into a complex digital assistant application. Written in an easy-to-read question and answer format, the book ICQ FYI is an excellent resource for those wanting to get the most out of ICQ as a personal and professional communication tool. It guides first-time users through the setup process, getting them started quickly. The book then teaches users of all skill levels how to easily and safely use ICQ as their primary communication tool. Written by authors who have been passionate about ICQ from the day it was released, ICQ FYI shares that passion and excitement with the reader, taking them from the simple instant messaging features through the many, sometimes complex, features that make it an essential business tool. About the Authors:Ted Coombs is the author of Setting Up an Internet Site for Dummies, Active X Sourcebook and more. He is the Digital Business columnist for Byte Magazine and a contributing editor for Microsoft Internet Developer Magazine, and is also the creator and founding editor of Sys-Cons Java Developer Journal. Roderico DeLeon graduated from Universidad Anahuac in Mexico City with a bachelors degree in Business Management. He has worked in developing e-commerce applications on the Internet since his graduation. He has been an ICQ user from its inception, and says the program has changed his life.
XML and Web Services Unleashed
Authors: Ron Schmelzer, Travis VanDersypen
Venue:  (2002)

:The complete and up-to-date XML Reference book on topics that matter. Top authors from each "HOT" and emerging XML area drill deep to bring you competency and confidence within the areas of XML that are normally outside of your everyday world. Code samples, examples and context make the XML developer comfortable and confident in launching into new areas of XML Authorship comes from Java, Microsoft and Open Source backgrounds to provide all sides of the story. The Extensible Markup Language is changing the way that information is being stored and exchanged. It is also changing the very way that we think about data. XML Unleashed! allows the reader to unlock this new power and get well on the way towards developing XML applications and systems that enable their most important business processes, or the simplest visions for data representation and exchangeThis book covers all the necessary topics from the basics of Document Type Definitions (DTDs) to the more advanced topics in XML database integration and the semantic web. This book is designed to be the only XML book that the reader will ever need on their shelf. Ron Schmelzer, as the lead author, ties all the XML chapters and topics together for us just as he does with his organization "ZapThink". Founder and senior analyst of ZapThink, Ron Schmelzer is a well-known expert in the field of XML and XML-based standards and initiatives. Ron has been featured and written for periodicals, and has spoken at numerous industry conferences including XML One, Comdex, and Internet World on the topic of XML.
Testing Homogeneous Spreadsheet Grids with the "What You See Is What You Test" Methodology
Authors: Margaret Burnett, Andrei Sheretov, Bing Ren, Gregg Rothermel
Venue: IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering (2002)

Although there has been recent research into ways to design environments that enable end users to create their own programs, little attention has been given to helping these end users systematically test their programs. To help address this need in spreadsheet systems¿the most widely used type of end-user programming language¿we previously introduced a visual approach to systematically testing individual cells in spreadsheet systems. However, the previous approach did not scale well in the presence of largely homogeneous grids, which introduce problems somewhat analogous to the array-testing problems of imperative programs. In this paper, we present two approaches to spreadsheet testing that explicitly support such grids. We present the algorithms, time complexities, and performance data comparing the two approaches. This is part of our continuing work to bring to end users at least some of the benefits of formalized notions of testing without requiring knowledge of testing beyond a naive level.
PNG: The Definitive Guide
Authors: Greg Roelofs
Venue:  (1999)

:PNG (Portable Network Graphics) is the next-generation graphics file format for the Web. Designed as an open-source format to replace GIF (which uses a proprietary compression scheme, for which software makers must pay a licensing fee), PNG is better, smaller, more extensible, and FREE. Already supported by major software like Macromedia Fireworks, Adobe Photoshop, and Microsoft Office 98, as well as Netscape Navigator and Microsoft Internet Explorer, PNG is the next big thing in computer graphics. Similar to the GIF and TIFF formats, but far better, PNG will soon become the preferred file format for color-critical web images and high-quality graphics interchange. Even for noncritical images, PNG will likely replace GIF as the standard web format. PNG supports lossless compression, variable transparency information, and a range of color depths. PNG also provides direct support for gamma correction, the cross-platform control of image "brightness," and transparency. PNG: The Definitive Guide addresses the needs of graphic designers who want to get the most out of the format and programmers who want to add full PNG-support to their own applications. Specifically, Roelofs covers implementing PNG with the libpng C library. The book includes explanations of important improvements with PNG, such as gamma correction and the standard color spaces for precise reproduction of image colors on a wide range of systems. PNG: The Definitive Guide is the first book devoted exclusively to teaching and documenting the important new format, PNG. It is an indispensable compendium for Web content developers and is chock full of examples, sample code, and practical hands-on advice.
Programming Microsoft Outlook and Microsoft Exchange: Build Collaborative Business Solutions with MS Outlook 98-2000
Authors: Thomas Rizzo
Venue:  (1999)

:Build and run core business services across the enterprise using Microsoft's powerful massaging and collaboration tools -Outlook 98, Outlook 2000, and Exchange Server 5.5. This book offers detailed guidance - plus a full cache of code and other resources on CD - to help you build open, extensible solutions for tracking, messaging, workflow, knowledge management, and real-time collaboration.
Wireless Communications Design Handbook: Aspects of Noise, Interference, and Environmental Concerns, 1st edition
Authors: Reinaldo Perez
Venue:  (1998)

:Most books in wireless communications address technical subjects which are relevant to ground mobile systems. Volume 2: Terrestrial and Mobile Interference of the Wireless Communications Design Handbook addresses a topic frequently overlooked in ground mobile wireless system design: interference problems at the hardware level. This book employes a hardware-oriented approach, which is the most approach for addressing interference and noise problems in ground mobile wireless systems. The book is a practical reference for engineers who are particularly interested in practical case studies covering how to avoid undesired interference and noise problems in their designs. It covers some of the most common interference models usually addressed, and it describes material related to transmitter and receiver hardware design and how interference control plays a significant role in equipment performance. Each of the three Wireless Communications Design Handbook volumes addresses theory and immediate applications. Design issues are also considered in detail for the protection of wireless ground systems against interference. 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
Special Edition Using Visual C++.Net
Authors: Kate Gregory
Venue:  (2002)

: Special Edition Using Visual C++.NET is a comprehensive resource to help readers leverage the exciting new features of Visual C++.NET as well as port their existing skills to the new .NET development environment. The book shows how both Win32 and .NET applications work, not only instructing the reader in the use of Microsoft's Visual C++ wizards, but also showing what the wizards create. A variety of programming tasks from simple dialog boxes to database and Internet programming are included. Because of the new .NET platform developers in any of 17 languages (including Visual C++) will use the same class libraries to construct high-performance applications. SE Using Visual C++.NET will not only cover the new version of the software but also how to get maximum programming results from combining several languages into one project. Related technologies such as XML and XSLT are also covered, along with integrating Visual C++ code with Visual Basic and C# code.
Computer architecture challenges in the next ten years
Authors: Winfried W Wilcke
Venue: Australian Computer Science Communications (2002)

Over the last 50 years, there has been rapid progress in some areas of computer technology - like the golden years of VLSI in the 80's or the emergence of the web in the 90's. Other areas, which at some time seemed promising, such as neural networks, have stalled. The talk will extrapolate from these historical trends and attempt to forecast which branches of computer systems architecture and technology will blossom during the first decade of the 21th century. It will conclude with the description of a research system 'Icecube' being developed in IBM Research which attempts to capture some of these expected trends.