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PCI Bus Demystified
Authors: Doug Abbott
Venue:  (2000)

:The Peripheral Component Interconnect (PCI) Bus Specification is probably the most successful mechanism for fast communication between peripheral devices and the computer processor in history;it is present inside every modern PC. Originally intended only as a way to connect chips on desktop PC motherboards, PCI quickly acquired connectors to permit users and system integrators to add in "slot cards" to their desktop and industrial PCs. It has become a standard for accommodating multiple high-performance peripherals for graphics, full motion video, SCSI, LAN, etc. This book is a practical guide to the PCI bus, aimed at hardware and software designers who need to understand the intricacies of its workings. The book covers PCI Local Bus Specification version 2.2 and other recent developments, including the new PCI Hot-Plug Specification, changes to the PCI-to-PCI Bridge Architecture Specification, revisions to the PCI Bus Power Management Interface Specification, and the new features of the PCI BIOS Specification. Anyone who designs or tests hardware or software involving the PCI bus will find this book a valuable resource for understanding and working with this crucial technology. Book rights Lewis Lewis & Helms LLC, the publisher of this e-book, is granting readers the right to print the entire e-book once a year and to copy up to ten pages of the book each day. To print, click on the menu button in the Glassbook Reader and select the print option. To copy, highlight the text you wish to copy, then click on the menu button and choose copy. Lending/Giving We currently have two ways to lend or give a book: you can beam it to a computer if both have infrared ports, or you can send it to a computer on your network. To lend a book to someone else, go to the Library, click a book. Click the Menu button and then click Lend/Give to display the Lend/Give dialog box. Choose a loan period or click Give. To send the book over an infrared connection, click Beam. To send the book to a computer on the network, enter the computer name in the Send To box and click Send. You can either lend the book or give it away. Like a paper book, there is only ever one working copy. Once the lending period expires, you get your rights back and you can re-read the book or lend it again. Of course, if you give it away, it's gone for good (unless the recipient gives it back).Listen to your eBooksUsers have the ability to listen to the spoken text of this book. Simply click the the Read Aloud button in the Adobe eBook Reader. A control panel appears at the bottom of the display area where you can pause, continue, or stop the spoken text. Please note: This feature is only available on Windows 2000 machines. 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
Performance Evaluation of Mobile Processes via Abstract Machines
Authors: Chiara Nottegar, Corrado Priami, Pierpaolo Degano
Venue: IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering (2001)

We use a structural operational semantics which drives us in inferring quantitative measures on system evolution. The transitions of the system are labeled and we assign rates to them by only looking at these labels. The rates reflect the possibly distributed architecture on which applications run. We then map transition systems to Markov chains, and performance evaluation is carried out using standard tools. As a working example, we compare the performance of a conventional uniprocessor with a prefetch pipeline machine. We also consider two case studies from the literature involving mobile computation to show that our framework is feasible.
Help Desk Practitioner's Handbook
Authors: Barbara Czegel
Venue:  (1999)

:Your complete guide to surviving and thriving as a Help Desk practitionerHelp Desk Practitioner's HandbookThe only book to address the unique concerns of the huge and growing number of Help Desk analysts, this is your complete guide to becoming a more effective communicator and problem-solver and deriving greater satisfaction from your job. Barbara Czegel, North America's most well-known expert on Help Desk support services and training, uses dozens of fascinating scenarios and real-world examples to illustrate the right (and wrong) ways to handle virtually every situation you can encounter. She arms you with an arsenal of proven tools of the trade, including: *Eleven effective listening habits that improve your ability to solve problems *Techniques for increasing the speed and accuracy of problem resolution *Early warning systems and layered strategies for problem control *Tools for reducing calls and eliminating problems before they occur *A simple, step-by-step process for doing cost justifications *Methods for turning Help Desk interactions into marketing opportunities 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
Simply Logical Intelligent Reasoning by Example
Authors: Peter A. Flach
Venue:  (1994)

:An introduction to Prolog programming for artificial intelligence covering both basic and advanced AI material. A unique advantage to this work is the combination of AI, Prolog and Logic. Each technique is accompanied by a program implementing it. Seeks to simplify the basic concepts of logic programming. Contains exercises and authentic examples to help facilitate the understanding of difficult concepts.
Military concept development: developing tactics using low cost, accessible simulations
Authors: Iain H. McKenna, Stephen Little
Venue: Proceedings of the 32nd conference on Winter simulation (2000)

The Royal Navy's Maritime Warfare Centre (MWC) is responsible to the UK Commander-in-Chief Fleet (CinCFleet) and was formed with the purpose of developing operational tactics and procedures to optimize the capability of the Fleet's platforms, sensors and weapon systems.Evaluating tactics at sea requires a considerable amount of forward planning and ties up valuable and expensive assets. It is therefore important that the candidate tactics must be developed to a sufficient level of maturity on-shore. This is done through a combination of individual brainpower, paper studies and computer simulation. The computer simulation must be inexpensive, totally flexible, sufficiently accurate, reliable and above all easily available to, and usable by, the individual tactical desk officers.Any simulations developed need to be easily adaptable. Tactical Development is not a formally structured process; software development is not easy when there are no formal requirements. The MWC have investigated using the Spreadsheet Excel to form the basis of such simulations. This paper discusses the advantages and disadvantages of this approach, in creating simulations that can be used for developing tactics that have the necessary degree of flexibility, integrity and usability. A specific example of an application to a particular problem will be illustrated.
CD-ROM Classics: Cheats and Hints to Your Favorite Games
Authors: Rick Barba
Venue:  (1996)

:This strategy guide highlights the "best of the best" of these popular CD-ROM adventure games. Some of the hot titles included in this book are "The 7th Guest, " "The 11th Hour, " "Full Throttle, " "Myst, " "Phantasmagoria, " "Return to Zork, " and "Wing Commander III." 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 Culture of an Information Economy: Influences and Impacts in the Republic of Ireland
Authors: Eileen Moore Trauth
Venue:  (2000)

:In this book Eileen Trauth peers inside the day-to-day working lives of the people who have been bringing about Ireland's transition from a small agricultural country to a healthy information economy. It is one of the few book-length interpretive studies in the information systems field. This book links the disciplines of information systems, international management, economic development, history and public policy to tell the story behind the statistics about Ireland's economic development. The findings from this ten-year study illustrate the range of socio-cultural factors, which influence the emergence of an information sector. Ireland's story contains a message for other nations that this change to a new way of working and living is intimately connected to the cultural context within which it occurs. This book reveals the ethnographic approach that was used by taking the reader through the interpretive process as it occurred. The Appendix is devoted to additional detail about the methodology." "This book should be read by Ph.D. students and others who want to learn more about the actual application of ethnographic methods in information systems research. It should be read by students, researchers, teachers and policy makers working in several related fields including: global information systems, the information society, management in the knowledge economy, and economic development.
Creation, costs and management: the measure of full-service online learning
Authors: Brian Cameron, Mary Beam, Paul Beam
Venue: Proceedings of IEEE professional communication society international professional communication conference and Proceedings of the 18th annual ACM international conference on Computer documentation: technology & teamwork (2000)

This paper defines the tools and operation of an operational Web-delivered, XML-generated online training system. It provides its development and operations costs and outlines how the instructor group and clients participate and how we then measure learning effectiveness. Our good news is that full-service training, featuring subject matter at the university level, with instructor support, can be delivered for about $2.00 (US) per hour in a reliable and effective manner. Sophisticated new materials can be created for an additional $2.00 per user hour by re-combinations student- and instructor-generated data from previous training. We review the courses from a student perspective and then explain the authoring processes and required software.
Darwin among the Machines: The Evolution of Global Intelligence
Authors: George B. Dyson
Venue:  (1997)

:Introducing a cast of known and unknown characters, George B. Dyson traces the course of the information revolution, illuminating the lives and work of visionaries - from the time of Thomas Hobbes to the time of John von Neumann - who foresaw the development of artificial intelligence, artificial life, and artificial mind. This book derives both its title and its outlook from Samuel Butler's 1863 essay "Darwin Among the Machines." Observing the beginnings of miniaturization, self-reproduction, and telecommunication among machines, Butler predicted that nature's intelligence, only temporarily subservient to technology, would resurface to claim our creations as her own. Weaving a cohesive narrative among his brilliant predecessors, Dyson constructs a straightforward, convincing, and occasionally frightening view of the evolution of mind in the global network, on a level transcending our own. Dyson concludes that we are in the midst of an experiment that echoes the prehistory of human intelligence and the origins of life. Just as the exchange of coded molecular instructions brought life as we know it to the early earth's primordial soup, and as language and mind combined to form the culture in which we live, so, in the digital universe, are computer programs and worldwide networks combining to produce an evolutionary theater in which the distinctions between nature and technology are increasingly obscured. Nature, believes Dyson, is on the side of the machines.
Organizational adoption and assimilation of complex technological innovations: development and application of a new framework
Authors: Michael J. Gallivan
Venue: ACM SIGMIS Database (2001)

This paper explores the applicability of traditional innovation adoption and diffusion models to contingent, authority innovation processes occurring within an organizational context (Zaltman, Duncan & Holbeck, 1973); that is, when employees in organizations adopt an innovation that has been chosen by an authority figure. This paper identifies existing gaps in traditional innovation adoption models and concludes that a new framework is required --- one that incorporates the unique processes and factors related to organizational adoption and assimilation of innovations. A new hybrid theoretical framework is developed which combines insights from organizational-level research on technology implementation (Cooper & Zmud, 1990; Orlikowski, 1993) with constructs from traditional innovation adoption models (Rogers, 1983; Prescott & Conger, 1995). The resulting theory is a hybrid process/variance theory, which captures both implementation events and the factors that influence them (Shaw & Jarvenpaa, 1997). Data from a longitudinal case study of a firm that implemented client/server development are used to illustrate the framework and to develop propositions for future research.
Simplicial families of drawings
Authors: Lucas Kovar, Michael Gleicher
Venue: Proceedings of the 14th annual ACM symposium on User interface software and technology (2001)

In this paper we present a method for helping artists make artwork more accessible to casual users. We focus on the specific case of drawings, showing how a small number of drawings can be transformed into a richer object containing an entire family of similar drawings. This object is represented as a simplicial complex approximating a set of valid interpolations in configuration space. The artist does not interact directly with the simplicial complex. Instead, she guides its construction by answering a specially chosen set of yes/no questions. By combining the flexibility of a simplicial complex with direct human guidance, we are able to represent very general constraints on membership in a family. The constructed simplicial complex supports a variety of algorithms useful to an end user, including random sampling of the space of drawings, constrained interpolation between drawings, projection of another drawing into the family, and interactive exploration of the family.
Concurrent Engineering: Automation, Tools, and Techniques, 1st edition
Authors: Andrew Kusiak
Venue:  (1992)

:Concurrent Engineering: Automation, Tools, and Techniques illustrates how to design products, components or systems, across a range of industries, while taking into account such constraints as the ability to manufacture, reliability requirements, quality, cost and customer needs. In long-awaited, much-needed contrast to other books, which focus on a single aspect, such as managing the design process or product reliability, Concurrent Engineering covers all the aspects of the field. This comprehensive analysis includes in-depth treatment of how the consequences of various technical solutions are assessed in all life-cycle phases of a product; automatic idealization control for analysis performed during concurrent engineering design; an intelligent interactive CAD system which has a mechanism for real-time constraint checking in the design process; conceptual design with physical features and an aspect model integration using a metamodel; automated assembly planning, an important integrative issue in concurrent engineering; the three stages of the design process: system design, parameter design and tolerance design and the methodology for simplification of the design process. In the final chapter, the preliminary design of a light utility helicopter is presented as a case study of how concurrent design can be accomplished by applying ten general characteristics of a concurrent engineering process. Figures, photographs, charts and tables are generously provided throughout to clarify the text and an extensive bibliography is provided for extended study.
Role of It: Practical Issues for the Primary Teacher
Authors: Avril Loveless
Venue:  (1996)

:Teachers and students planning to develop Information Technology Capability across the curriculum have to consider a range of issues - from the management of resources to the contribution IT might make to the children's learning and the challenges that it presents to the teacher. This book discusses the reasons for using IT in the classroom and focuses on important roles of the teacher in understanding its purpose in the curriculum. It highlights the way in which IT can be used as a 'tool' in dealing with information; as a 'resource for learning', giving insight into the nature of tasks; and as a 'thought provoker', contributing new ways of working for learners and teachers.
Two inequalities for any right triangle
Authors: Sefket Arslanagić, Dragoljub Milosević
Venue: Octogon Mathematical Magazine (2001)

Several two new inequalities for the sides a,b, c and the altitude h(&Xgr; hc) and the anglebisectors wa and wb of the right triangle are proved. Certain algebraic, geometric and trigonometric inequalities are utilized.
Let Them Eat Data: How Computers Affect Education, Cultural Diversity, and the Prospects of Ecological Sustainability
Authors: C. A. Bowers
Venue:  (2000)

:Do computers foster cultural diversity? Ecological sustainability? In our age of high-tech euphoria we seem content to leave tough questions like these to the experts. That dangerous inclination is at the heart of this important examination of the commercial and educational trends that have left us so uncritically optimistic about global computing. Contrary to the attitudes that have been marketed and taught to us, says C. A. Bowers, the fact is that computers operate on a set of Western cultural assumptions and a market economy that drives consumption. Our indoctrination includes the view of global computing innovations as inevitable and on a par with social progress--a perspective dismayingly suggestive of the mindset that engendered the vast cultural and ecological disruptions of the industrial revolution and world colonialism. In Let Them Eat Data Bowers discusses important issues that have fallen into the gap between our perceptions and the realities of global computing, including the misuse of the theory of evolution to justify and legitimate the global spread of computers, and the ecological and cultural implications of unmoving knowledge from its local contexts as it is digitized, commodified, and packaged for global consumption. He also suggests ways that educators can help us think more critically about technology. Let Them Eat Data is essential reading if we are to begin democratizing technological decisions, conserving true cultural diversity and intergenerational forms of knowledge, and living within the limits and possibilities of the earth's natural systems. 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
How Multimedia Works
Authors: Erik Holsinger
Venue:  (1994)

:With stunning graphics and lucid text, video expert Erik Holsinger reveals the fascinating technologies and amazing techniques that are used to create special effects such as 3-D animation, morphing, and much more.
Free Stuff for Kids on the Net
Authors: Lisa Trumbauer
Venue:  (1999)

:Here are the coolest sites (101!) for no-cost shopping on the World Wide Web, chosen by a panel of 9- to 14-year-olds.
Java Web services
Venue:  (2002)

Java Web Services shows you how to use SOAP to perform remote method calls and message passing; how to use WSDL to describe the interface to a web service or understand the interface of someone else's service; and how to use UDDI to advertise (publish) and look up services in each local or global registry. Java Web Services also discusses security issues, interoperability issues, integration with other Java enterprise technologies like EJB; and JMS; the work being done on the JAXM and JAX-RPC packages, and interoperability with Microsoft's .NET services.
Crayons and Computers: Computer Art Activities for Kids Ages 4 to 8, 1st edition
Authors: Carol Sabbeth
Venue:  (1998)

:With a computer paint or drawing program, a printer, crayons, and a little imagination, kids can explore the world of color and the endless design possibilities of a computer by crafting multimedia art. This four-color activity book combines the tools of today with an old favorite--the crayon.
Color graphics at Florida State University
Authors: Eric W. Chamberlain
Venue: Proceedings of the 18th annual Southeast regional conference (1980)

Color graphics work has been on going at Florida State since mid-1977. This paper outlines work accomplished by the author in this area since the early report given by E.P. Miles at the 1978 ACM Southeast Conference (1).
Microsoft Word 97 for Windows 95: Tutorial and Applications, 1st edition
Authors: Connie Morrison
Venue:  (1997)

:This tutorial on Microsoft Word 97 is filled with hands-on activities. It covers the beginning through intermediate features of this application. Immediately after new concepts are introduced, users are given activities so that the concepts may be applied.
Know your enemy: revealing the security tools, tactics, and motives of the blackhat community
Venue:  (2001)

The primary weapon of the Honeynet Project is the Honeynet, a unique solution designed to capture and study the blackhat's every move. In this book you will learn in detail not only what the Honeynet Project has discovered about adversaries, but also how Honeynets are used to gather critical information. Aimed at both security professionals and those with a nontechnical background, this book teaches the technical skills needed to study a blackhat attack and learn from it. The CD includes examples of network traces, code, system binaries, and logs used intruders from the blackhat community, collected and used by the Honeynet Project.
Dynamic HTML Reference and Software Development Kit
Authors: Microsoft Corporation
Venue:  (1999)

:Bring next-generation functionality to the Web-faster and easier than ever-with the enhanced Dynamic HTML (DHTML) capabilities in Microsoft Internet Explorer 5. This official reference provides definitive, A-to-Z documentation for the objects, properties, events, methods, and collections for the DHTML Object Model. You also get the MSDN Web Workshop-featuring essential tools, online resources, and vivid code examples-on CD-ROM, placing the power of DHTML within easy reach of your browser.Achieve dynamic new effects on the Web with these developer-ready resources-direct from Microsoft:Developer-focused discussion of important new capabilities in Internet Explorer 5-including data transfer and mouse capture-that help you create dynamic user interface functionality with simpler code, less production timeOfficial object model references for HTML, CSS, and CSS Positioning, plus the Default Behaviors Reference for Internet Explorer 5Comprehensive coverage of the Document Object Model (DOM)the standard programming interface for XML and HTMLComplete reference for developing HTML Components (HTC) and HTML Applications (HTA) for Internet Explorer 5At-a-glance information on compatibility with previous versions of Internet Explorer and platform support for each object model memberExtensive code examples in the text that you can also view online and in action on the CD-ROMs