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Power Journalism: Computer-Assisted Reporting
Authors: Lisa C. Miller
Venue:  (1997)

:Providing both practical and theoretical information for student journalists who need to know how and why, POWER JOURNALISM demystifies online research by outlining and explaining computer-assisted reporting techniques. In clear, easy-to-understand explanations of the latest research technologies, this text details how and why journalists use specific resources, and provides actual computer commands for using each resource, as well as written examples by journalists who utilized the discussed technology. Resources discussed include: newsgroups; bulletin board systems; commercial databases; commercial services such as Compuserve, FTP, Gopher, the World Wide Web, CD-ROM databases, spreadsheet and database management programs; and information on nine-track tape and floppy disks. 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
Inside AutoCAD LT for Windows
Authors: Dennis Hill
Venue:  (1994)

:This book introduces new users to CAD concepts, and teaches the commands, methods, and techniques needed to produce effective CAD drawings with AutoCAD LT.Shows how to navigate in the CAD workspace, store and retrieve drawings, exercise the geometric power of CAD, and use basic editing toolsUtilizes well-illustrated tutorials with examples from a variety of design and drafting applicationsDisk contains all the drawing files used in the book
OrCAD PSpice for Windows Volume 2: Devices, Circuits, and Operational Amplifiers, 3rd edition
Authors: Roy W. Goody
Venue:  (2000)

:Assuming a working knowledge of basic PSpice techniques, this book explores simulation studies with more advanced topics such as operational amplifiers, digital, and filter design. It shows users how to use the program to draw circuits directly on the screen, analyze the circuit in seconds using PSpice, and display the results using sophisticated techniques that go far beyond those possible with conventional instruments. Chapter topics include analog/digital conversionsresolution; random-access memorydata acquisition system; and printed circuit boardlayouts. For instruction in DC/AC and devices, operational amplifiers, digital, analog, and filter design. 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
Modular specification and verification of object-oriented programs
Authors: Peter Müller
Venue:  (2002)

This book presents new techniques for the formal specification and verification of object-oriented software. Since modularity is of critical importance for reuse and component-based programming, special emphasis is given to the completeness of the presented specification techniques to allow module verification based on the specification of the imported modules. A formal framework developed for a Java subset illustrates these new techniques.
The Maple V Primer: Release 4, 1st edition
Authors: Frank Garvan
Venue:  (1996)

:Learn how to use the modern techniques offered by Maple V, apowerful and popular computer algebra system. The Maple V Primer: Release 4 covers all the basic topics a reader needs to know to use Maple V in its major revision encompassed in Release 4 to do algebra and calculus, solve equations, graph 2- and 3-dimensional plots, perform simple programming tasks, and prepare mathematical documents. Every common command and function is supported by a specific example, so you won't waste time struggling with the syntax. Graphs, plots, and other Maple output are provided along with the syntax, so the user knows what to expect when she or he uses a particular command. And all the examples come with a short discussion, answering questions you might have about applying the example to your own work. This is a painless - even fun - way to learn how to use Maple V.
Speech and gesture multimodal control of a whole Earth 3D visualization environment
Authors: David M. Krum, Olugbenga Omoteso, William Ribarsky, Thad Starner, Larry F. Hodges
Venue: Proceedings of the symposium on Data Visualisation 2002 (2002)

A growing body of research shows several advantages to multimodal interfaces including increased expressiveness, flexibility, and user freedom. This paper investigates the design of such an interface that integrates speech and hand gestures. The interface has the additional property of operating relative to the user and can be used while the user is in motion or standing at a distance from the computer display. The paper then describes an implementation of the multimodal interface for a whole Earth 3D visualization which presents navigation interface challenges due to the large magnitude of scale and extended spaces that are available. The characteristics of the multimodal interface are examined, such as speed, recognizability of gestures, ease and accuracy of use, and learnability under likely conditions of use. This implementation shows that such a multimodal interface can be effective in a real environment and sets some parameters for the design and use of such interfaces.
The implementation of prometheus: a case study
Authors: Muna Sakya, Brad Beecher
Venue: Proceedings of the 29th annual ACM SIGUCCS conference on User services (2001)

In this paper, we describe the implementation of Prometheus, an online course delivery tool at The University of Texas at Austin. When George Washington University (GWU) created Prometheus for the thousands of courses they now have online, they wanted to create a tool that did more than just put course content on the web. GWU wanted to use a product that was flexible and scalable for future enhancements. The University of Texas at Austin's (UT Austin) College of Engineering licensed Prometheus in the fall of 2000 and continues to use it to enhance the way a typical course is delivered to students. Faculty at GWU and UT Austin's College of Engineering find Prometheus indispensable in putting their courses online, managing their workload, and reaching the diverse needs of their students.Engineering faculty at UT Austin needed a courseware management tool that was flexible and easy to use. Supported by the College of Engineering, the Faculty Innovation Center (FIC) specializes in instructional innovation and online distance learning. The FIC provides several services to the faculty, including instructional design, live and on-demand video streaming of classes, developing custom web applications, creating rich multimedia content such as 3D animation, and graphics design. The FIC selected Prometheus as the courseware tool because of its simplicity, flexibility, administrative extensibility, and scalability. Prometheus has enhanced teaching as well as learning. Prometheus has also helped support faculty initiatives to bridge the gap between technology and education.This paper will provide an overview of how the College of Engineering reviewed and selected Prometheus, the implementation process, faculty training and support, and other ongoing issues. In addition to the College's perspective, a Prometheus staff member will provide insight on how they met the implementation and support needs of the College.
Programming Microcontrollers in C with Cdrom, 2nd edition
Authors: Ted Van Sickle
Venue:  (2000)

:Microcontrollers are used in automobiles, machine control systems, home appliances-in almost any application where there is some internal intelligence system. This practical tutorial reviews the essentials of C programming for microcontrollers and examines in detail the issues faced when writing C code. Geared toward embedded system designers, the book teaches how to write high-level C programming code, maximize performance, and use some of the popular microcontrollers in real-world applications. Included is a CD-ROM for Windows containing all C code used in the book, compilers for popular microcontrollers, and a fully searchable electronic version of the book. Includes CD-ROM. 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
Point, Click and Learn Visual Basic 4
Authors: Marco Mason
Venue:  (1995)

:The complete learning system for first-time Visual Basic programmers, this book provides both a user-tested tutorial and special software to help readers easily build their own programs. Readers will be able to type their programs, compile them, and debug them without ever having to leave their living rooms. 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
Case study: visualizing ocean currents with color and dithering
Authors: Patricia Crossno, Edward Angel, David Munich
Venue: Proceedings of the IEEE 2001 symposium on parallel and large-data visualization and graphics (2001)

This case study presents several related approaches to visualizing flow information from large vector volumes generated by ocean circulation modeling. Flow vectors are mapped to colored pixels to enable global views of dense three-dimensional vector fields. Each of the approaches starts by classifying vector direction into a small number of colors. One approach then uses scaled linear interpolation to blend between adjacent directional colors. Two other approaches use half-toning and dithering methods to rapidly display flow information. By using opponent colors for our directional encoding, we can blend colors, either through linear interpolation or the user's visual system, into intermediate colors without expressly calculating them by a conversion to polar coordinates.
Your Home Office: Total Plan on Your Computer: Total Planning for Telecommuter
Authors: Patrice-Anne Rutledge
Venue:  (1995)

:Written for the more than 41 million Americans now working from their homes, this guide is written for those employees who have just started their telecommuting careers or those who are exploring the option with their employers. The CD-ROM includes demonstrations of commercial programs, trial offers for online services, and much more.
Buffer insertion with adaptive blockage avoidance
Authors: Jiang Hu, Charles J. Alpert, Stephen T. Quay, Gopal Gandham
Venue: Proceedings of the 2002 international symposium on Physical design (2002)

Buffer insertion is a fundamental technology for VLSI interconnect optimization. Several existing buffer insertion algorithms have evolved from van Ginneken's classic algorithm. In this work, we extend van Ginneken's algorithm to handle blockages in the layout. Given a Steiner tree containing a Steiner point that overlaps a blockage, a local adjustment is made to the tree topology that enables additional buffer insertion candidates to be considered. This adjustment is adaptive to the demand on buffer insertion and is incurred only when it facilitates the maximal slack solution. This approach can be combined with any performance-driven Steiner tree construction. The overall time complexity has linear dependence on the number of blockages and quadratic dependence on the number of potential buffer locations. Experiments on several large nets confirm that high-quality solutions can be obtained through this technique with little CPU cost.
Complexity theory
Authors: Lane A. Hemaspaandra
Venue: ACM SIGACT News (2001)

We present high-level technical summaries of five recent results on the computational complexity of the shortest lattice vector problem.
Automatic data and computation decomposition on distributed memory parallel computers
Authors: Peizong Lee, Zvi Meir Kedem
Venue: ACM Transactions on Programming Languages and Systems (TOPLAS) (2002)

To exploit parallelism on shared memory parallel computers (SMPCs), it is natural to focus on decomposing the computation (mainly by distributing the iterations of the nested Do-Loops). In contrast, on distributed memory parallel computers (DMPCs), the decomposition of computation and the distribution of data must both be handled---in order to balance the computation load and to minimize the migration of data. We propose and validate experimentally a method for handling computations and data synergistically to minimize the overall execution time on DMPCs. The method is based on a number of novel techniques, also presented in this article. The core idea is to rank the "importance" of data arrays in a program and specify some of the dominant. The intuition is that the dominant arrays are the ones whose migration would be the most expensive. Using the correspondence between iteration space mapping vectors and distributed dimensions of the dominant data array in each nested Do-loop, allows us to design algorithms for determining data and computation decompositions at the same time. Based on data distribution, computation decomposition for each nested Do-loop is determined based on either the "owner computes" rule or the "owner stores" rule with respect to the dominant data array. If all temporal dependence relations across iteration partitions are regular, we use tiling to allow pipelining and the overlapping of computation and communication. However, in order to use tiling on DMPCs, we needed to extend the existing techniques for determining tiling vectors and tile sizes, as they were originally suited for SMPCs only. The overall method is illustrated on programs for the 2D heat equation, for the Gaussian elimination with pivoting, and for the 2D fast Fourier transform on a linear processor array and on a 2D processor grid.
The computational complexity of the local postage stamp problem
Authors: Jeffrey Shallit
Venue: ACM SIGACT News (2002)

The well-studied local postage stamp problem (LPSP) is the following: given a positive integer k, a set of positive integers 1 = a1 < a2 < &hellip; < ak and an integer h &ge; 1, what is the smallest positive integer which cannot be represented as a linear combination &Sigma;1&le;i&le;kx1ai where &Sigma;1&le;i&le;kx1 &le; h and each xi is a non-negative integer? In this note we prove that LPSP is NP-hard under Turing reductions, but can be solved in polynomial time if k is fixed.
Auditing Information Systems
Authors: Mario Piattini
Venue:  (2000)

Society's growing dependence on information technology for survival has elevated the importance of controlling and evaluating information systems. A sound plan for auditing information systems and the technology that supports them is a necessity for organizations to improve the information systems (IS) benefits and allow the organization to manage the risks associated with technology.Auditing Information Systems gives a global vision of auditing and control, exposing the major techniques and methods. It provides guidelines for auditing the crucial areas of information technology - databases, security, maintenance, quality and communications. 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
Woody Leonhard Teaches Microsoft Office 2000
Authors: Woody Leonhard
Venue:  (1999)

:Woody Leonhard knows Office well enough to cut through the Microsoft marketing hype. He knows that real Office users don't need to use Office binders, an arcane new feature that no one needs. Woody approaches Office from the standpoint of how to get work done. You'll find coverage of topics in Woody Leonhard Teaches Microsoft Office 2000 that Microsoft doesn't really want readers to know about. Learn how to best organize your documents in the My Documents folder to find them easier the next time, how to protect yourself from the more than 2000 macro viruses that can infect Office documents, and how to choose the right application and document type for your new documents.
Using AMI Pro, 2nd edition
Authors: Jim Meade
Venue:  (1994)

:A complete tutorial and reference to this popular word processing program designed to get beginning and intermediate users up and running with Ami Pro. Advanced users can refine their skills and benefit from the reference material included in this Special Edition.Comprehensive coverage of nearly every Ami Pro command and featureWritten by a team of expertsCovers how to enter, edit, and format text; design layouts; and add graphics to professional publications
The Ifilm Digital Video Filmmaker's Handbook: Pre-Production. Lighting, Digital Video, Editing and More
Authors: Maxie D. Collier
Venue:  (2000)

:Collier's book covers the creative and technical aspects of digital shooting and provides detailed, practical information on DV filmmaking geared toward first-time filmmakers and film professionals.
Teach Yourself Visually Flash 5
Authors: Sherry Willard Kinkoph
Venue:  (2000)

:Teach Yourself Visually"Thank you for making it clear. Keep up the good work." &mdash;Kirk Santoro (Burbank, CA)"Your series is the most precise, visually appealing and compelling to peruse. Kudos!" &mdash;Margaret Rose Chmilar (Edmonton, Alberta, Canada)Are you a visual learner? Do you prefer instructions that show you how to do something-and skip the long-winded explanations? If so, then this book is for you. Open it up and you'll find clear, step-by-step screen shots that show you how to tackle scores of Flash(tm) 5 tasks, from working with imported graphics to mastering animation techniques, creating interactive buttons, adding sounds and publishing on the Web."Teach Yourself" sidebars offer practical tips and tricksFull-color screen shots demonstrate each taskSuccinct explanations walk you through step-by-stepTwo-page lessons break big topics into bite-sized modulesAuthor Biography: About the Author Sherry Willard Kinkoph has written over 40 books over the past 8 years covering a variety of computer topics ranging from software to hardware, from Microsoft Office programs to the Internet. Sherry's on-going quest is to help users of all levels master the ever-changing computer technologies. No matter how many times they  the software gaints and hardware conglomerates  throw out a new version or upgrade, Sherry vows to be there to make sense of it all and help computer users get the most out of their machines.
Computerized Accounting with QuickBooks 5.0, 1st edition
Authors: Janet Horne
Venue:  (1997)

:KET BENEFIT: This book is a comprehensive instructional and learning resource that has been designed to respond to the growing business trend towards the adoption of Windows applications and the computerization of accounting systems. Designed to provide a basic knowledge of how computerized accounting systems function and how actual accounting software is used in businesses. Based on Quickbooks 5.0, it includes 6 fully integrated accounting modules: General Ledger, Accounts Payable, Accounts Receivable, Payroll, Inventory, and Project.
Microsoft Office 2000: Basics, 1st edition
Authors: Connie Morrison
Venue:  (2000)

:As part of our new BASICS series, this text is ideal for a lower-level course on the new Microsoft Office 2000 integrated software. Though introductory in nature, the text comprehensively covers the most popular features of word processing, spreadsheets, databases, and much more!
Building Object Applications That Work: Your Step-by-Step Handbook for Developing Robust Systems with Object Technology
Authors: Scott W. Ambler
Venue:  (1997)

:This book is a must-have resource for designers, programmers and testers of today's OO applications. It reviews the entire process of building object applications from analyzing the project, to designing a user-friendly interface, to testing your approaches to make sure your applications work properly.
Secure virtual enclaves: Supporting coalition use of distributed application technologies
Venue: ACM Transactions on Information and System Security (TISSEC) (2001)

The Secure Virtual Enclaves (SVE) collaboration infrastructure allows multiple organizations to share their distributed application objects, while respecting organizational autonomy over local resources. The infrastructure is transparent to applications, which may be accessed via a web server, or may be based on Java or Microsoft's DCOM. The SVE infrastructure is implemented in middleware, with no modifications to COTS operating systems or network protocols. The system enables dynamic updates to security policies to support changes in both coalition membership and participants' perception of risks. While the prototype demonstrates fine-grained access control for secure collaborative computing, we have identified significant issues that remain to be addressed, particularly in the area of policy development, before such collaboration will be convenient. The SVE infrastructure offers a platform and conceptual basis for further exploration of these issues and experimentation with new solutions.
A model for role administration using organization structure
Authors: Sejong Oh, Ravi Sandhu
Venue: Proceedings of the seventh ACM symposium on Access control models and technologies (2002)

Role-based access control (RBAC) is recognized as an excellent model for access control in an enterprise environment. In large enterprises, effective RBAC administration is a major issue. ARBAC97 is a well-known solution for decentralized RBAC administration. ARBAC97 authorizes administrative roles by means of role ranges' and prerequisite conditions'. Although attractive and elegant in their own right, we will see that these mechanisms have significant shortcomings.We propose an improved role administration model named ARBAC02 to overcome the weaknesses of ARBAC97. ARBAC02 adopts the organization unit for new user and permission pools independent of role or role hierarchy. It uses a refined prerequisite condition. In addition, we present a bottom-up approach to permission-role administration in contrast to the top-down approach of ARBAC97.
Shamans, Software, and Spleens: Law and the Construction of the Information Society
Authors: James Boyle
Venue:  (1996)

:Who owns your genetic information? Might it be the doctors who, in the course of removing your spleen, decode a few cells and turn them into a patented product? In 1990 the Supreme Court of California said yes, marking another milestone on the information superhighway. This extraordinary case is one of the many that James Boyle takes up in Shamans, Software, and Spleens, a timely look at the infinitely tricky problems posed by the information society. Discussing topics ranging from blackmail and insider trading to artificial intelligence (with good-humored stops in microeconomics, intellectual property, and cultural studies along the way), he has produced a penetrating social theory of the information age. Now more than ever, information is power, and questions about who owns it, who controls it, and who gets to use it carry powerful implications. Boyle finds that our ideas about intellectual property rights rest on the notion of the Romantic author - a notion that Boyle maintains is not only outmoded, but actually counterproductive, restricting debate, slowing innovation, and widening the gap between rich and poor nations. What emerges from this lively discussion is a compelling argument for relaxing the initial protection of authors' works and expanding the concept of the fair use of information.
Asynchronous Transfer Mode Networks: Performance Issues
Authors: Raif O. Onvural
Venue:  (1993)

:This updated version of the bestselling first edition is a one-source reference to ATM architecture, it provides a comprehensive review of current and emerging ATM standards, including P-NNI. Unlike traditional standards, this book is easy to follow and serves as a readily accessible reference for system designers, researchers, marketing staff and graduate students of high-speed networking.