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The Autocadet's Guide to Visual LISP, 1st edition
Authors: Bill Kramer
Venue:  (2001)

:Customize AutoCAD to include productivity enhancements like new commands, combinations of existing commands, or list processing scripts for the storage and manipulation of data. This tutorial offers a full complement of AutoLISP programming skills. Beginning with an introduction to the language, the programming environment, and the Visual LISP editor, succeeding chapters address data manipulation, user input and output options, programming dialog boxes, modifying AutoCAD drawing database objects, and using advanced features of the Visual LISP programming tool kit. Demonstration projects can also serve as core applications for your own use.Author Biography: Bill is a computer scientist who has been involved in CAD/CAM applications since the late 1970s working with main frame to microcomputer systems. Considered to be an authority on AutoCAD customization, Bill has won several awards for his tutorial presentations at the annual Autodesk Universities. Bill has been the president of his own Dublin, Ohio-based design firm, AUTO-CODE MECHANICAL, since 1986, and he is the programming industry group chair for the AutoCAd Users Group (AUGI). He is one of the most widely read writers about the subject of AutoCAD programming with regular columns in the leading industry magazines CADENCE and Cadalyst.
Sam's Teach Yourself MAC OS 8.5 in 24 Hours, 1st edition
Authors: Rita Lewis, Lisa Lee
Venue:  (1998)

:GET STARTED NOW with the BEST MAC OS EVER! In just 24 sessions of one hour or less, you will be up and running with Mac OS 8.5. Using a straightforward, step-by-step approach, each lesson builds upon the previous one, allowing you to learn the essentials of Mac OS 8.5 from the ground up. Easily find your answer to: Using the updated Installer and the new Finder (including the highly-touted Sherlock internet search feature.); Effectively browsing the World Wide Web and setting up Personal Web Serving; Customizing the appearance of your desktop; Using Quicktime and Digital Audio (MIDI); Sharing data with others and networking; Working with AppleScript; Troubleshooting your Mac. Use the updated Installer to install Mac OS 8.5 additions, such as Personal Web Sharing, Apple(R) Personal Locator, and Apple Remote Access Learn how to use Mac OS 8.5's Open Transport and Data Detection components to enhance your Web browsing experience
Cca Citrix Metaframe XP 1.0 Admn Study Guide
Authors: Brad Price, John Price
Venue:  (2002)

:Here's the book you need to prepare for exam 220, Citrix MetaFrame XP 1.0 for Windows Administration. This study guide provides: In-depth coverage of every exam objective Practical information on administering MetaFrame XP 1.0 for Windows Hundreds of challenging review questions, in the book and on the CD Leading-edge exam preparation software, including a testing engine, and electronic flashcards Authoritative coverage of all exam objectives, including: Installing and configuring MetaFrame XP 1.0 for Windows Using the Citrix Management Console Configuring applications for use in a MetaFrame environment Assessing load management and security requirements Installing the Citrix ICA client software Customizing Program Neighborhood Interface Identifying NFuse features and components Replicating print drivers and importing print servers Monitoring and troubleshooting MetaFrame XP servers Featured on the CD The enclosed CD is packed with vital preparation tools and materials, beginning with the Sybex EdgeTest testing engine for the MetaFrame XP 1.0 for Windows Administration exam. Loaded with hundreds of practice questions, it lets you test yourself chapter by chapter or according to objective areas. You'll also find electronic flashcards for your PC and Palm handhelds, two bonus exams, and a fully searchable electronic version of the book. About the Authors: Brad Price is a Citrix Certified Instructor Administrator and Microsoft Certified Trainer. He works as a Technical Education Consultant, specializing in Windows 2000, Exchange, and Citrix Administration. John Price is also a CitrixCertified Administrator and Microsoft Certified Trainer. He works as a trainer and a Network Engineer Consultant, specializing in Citrix enterprise implementations.
Digital Woes: Why We Should Not Depend on Software
Authors: Lauren Ruth Wiener
Venue:  (1994)

:The book you are now holding presents, in clear and sometimes entertaining language, a basic background useful for understanding software. It explains why we should be cautious about introducing software into systems, and suggests criteria we might use to evaluate proposals to do so.
Nonlinear Filters for Image Processing, 1st edition
Authors: Edward R. Dougherty, Jaakko Astola
Venue:  (1999)

:This text covers key mathematical principles and algorithms for nonlinear filters used in image processing. Readers will gain an in-depth understanding of the underlying mathematical and filter design methodologies needed to construct and utilize nonlinear filters in a variety of applications.
Digital developments in higher education: theory and practice
Venue:  (2001)

Emerging digital technologies provide both opportunities and challenges for academics, students, administrators and others involved in higher education. The Internet breaks down geographical barriers, allowing people to access vast quantities of information and convey messages to others all over the world. High-speed digital networks give rise to the prospect of a convergence between 'traditional' and 'flexible' approaches to learning. It is now possible for students to enroll in courses offered by institutions or organisations on the other side of the world without ever setting foot on a university campus. New 'virtual' universities, some unashamedly profit-driven and with little commitment to traditional scholarly values, have sprung up across the globe. The introduction of electronic media in higher education has altered, in both subtle and obvious ways, the relationship between students and their teachers. These innovations have prompted considerable debate, the range and nature of which is reflected in the contributions to this outstanding new book. Experts from around the world who are deeply involved in these evolving educational processes distill here their experience, in a volume designed to provide direct insights for all who are facing up to the new challenges posed for teaching and research.
Incorporating Human-Computer Interaction into the undergraduate computer science curriculum
Authors: Sarah Douglas, Marilyn Tremaine, Laura Leventhal, Craig E. Wills, Bill Manaris
Venue: Proceedings of the 33rd SIGCSE technical symposium on Computer science education (2002)

This special session presents issues, approaches and experiences related to incorporating Human-Computer Interaction (HCI) into the undergraduate CS curriculum. Since the publication of the ACM SIGCHI Curricula for Human-Computer Interaction in 1992 [1], CS educators have tried various implementations of these guidelines. These implementations have been mainly offered as elective courses or modules within other courses, partly because the CS mainstream has been slow to recognize the importance of user interface design and HCI issues in software development.Today at least 50% of the code written for software applications is specific to the user interface. Average end-user expertise is continually dropping due to the proliferation of inexpensive computers available to the general public. Accordingly, user interface effectiveness has become increasingly important in software development, as the user interface has the power to "make or break" a software product. Through its emphasis on user-centered design, task analysis, and usability evaluation among other topics, an HCI course addresses more than 1/3 of the guidelines and imperatives of the ACM Code of Ethics [2]. This includes issues related to professional review, evaluations of computer systems, social responsibility and quality of life, and non-discrimination and dignity of end-users.CS educators have begun realizing the importance of incorporating HCI into the educational experience of students. Approximately 40% of the CAC-accredited degree programs include an HCI course at the upper level; however, this course is offered mostly as an elective (37% of degree programs) as opposed to a required course (3% of degree programs) [3]. Also, HCI is included as a core knowledge area in Computing Curricula 2001 [4, 5, 6]; unfortunately, only six hours have been devoted to it, as opposed to, say, 36 hours for architecture.
Bomberman World
Authors: Simon Hill, Jem Roberts, Warren Lapworth
Venue:  (1998)

:Bomberman World: PrimaÆs Official Strategy Guide offers tips for escaping treacherous traps and secrets for solving the toughest puzzles! There are over 20 power- ups and special vehicles revealed along with a complete items list. Learn multiplayer tactics that will make you da bomb! Get the hot info on 7 new characters to play along with Bomberman in VS Mode!
Three dimensional UML using force directed layout
Authors: Tim Dwyer
Venue: Proceedings of the 2001 Asia-Pacific symposium on Information visualisation - Volume 9 (2001)

There is evidence to suggest that three dimensional representations of connected graphs have a number of advantages in conveying information to users over their two-dimensional counterparts. In this paper we explore the use of a Force Directed Algorithm to layout three dimensional UML Class diagrams representing the architecture of object oriented software systems. We describe a simple evaluation and usability study conducted on the proposed system and present our findings which indicate some unexpected benefits to a user's perception the visualised architectural structure.
Efficient Parallel Algorithms for Solvent Accessible Surface Area of Proteins
Authors: Natsuhiki Futamura, Srinivas Aluru, Desh Ranjan, Bhanu Hariharan
Venue: IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems (2002)

We present faster sequential and parallel algorithms for computing the solvent accessible surface area (ASA) of protein molecules. The ASA is computed by finding the exposed surface areas of the spheres obtained by increasing the van der Waals radii of the atoms with the van der Waals radius of the solvent. Using domain specific knowledge, we show that the number of sphere intersections is only O(n), where n is the number of atoms in the protein molecule. For computing sphere intersections, we present hash-based algorithms that run in O(n) expected sequential time and O\left({n\over p}\right) expected parallel time and sort-based algorithms that run in worst-case O\left(n\log n\right) sequential time and O\left({n\log n\over p}\right) parallel time. These are significant improvements over previously known algorithms which take O\left(n^2\right) time sequentially and O\left(\frac{n^2}{p}\right) time in parallel. We present a Monte Carlo algorithm for computing the solvent accessible surface area. The basic idea is to generate points uniformly at random on the surface of spheres obtained by increasing the van der Waals radii of the atoms with the van der Waals radius of the solvent molecule and to test the points for accessibility. We also provide error bounds as a function of the sample size. Experimental verification of the algorithms is carried out using an IBM SP-2.
QuickBooks 6 Bible, 1st edition
Authors: Jill Gilbert
Venue:  (1998)

:A treasure trove of accounting wisdom, QuickBooks 6 Bible covers everything you need to know to organize, maintain, and track your business finances. From setting up an efficient accounting system to banking online to analyzing the profitability of different activities or projects, this invaluable one-stop resource cuts through the number-crunching jargon - and brings you a long way on the road to success.
Logic Synthesis and Verification
Authors: Soha Hassoun, Tsutomu Sasao
Venue: Kluwer International Series In Engineering And Computer Science Series; Vol. 654 (2001)

Logic Synthesis and Verification provides a state-of-the-art view of logic synthesis and verification. It consists of fifteen chapters, each focusing on a distinct aspect. Each chapter presents key developments, outlines future challenges, and lists essential references.
Sams Teach Yourself Visual Interdev 6 in 21 Days, 1st edition
Authors: Michael Van Hoozer
Venue:  (1998)

:In just 21 days, you'll have all the skills you need to get up and running efficiently with Visual InterDev 6. With this complete tutorial, you'll master the basics and then move on to the more advanced features and concepts. In the process, you will truly learn how to use Visual InterDev to design and build dynamic and interactive Web applications.
Open Webserver: an adaptive Web server using software patterns
Authors: Junichi Suzuki, Yoshikazu Yamamoto
Venue: Design patterns in communications software (2001)

THE EXPLOSIVE GROWTH of the Web requires servers to be extensible and configurable. This chapter describes our adaptive web server, OpenWebServer, which uses the Reflection architectural pattern. The server supports the dynamic adoption of functionality, such as introducing additioanl prtocols, modifying execution policies, and tuning system performance. this is achieved by specifying and coordinating metaobjects that represent various apects within the web server. We present a Java version of OpenWebServer, and describe its design using Reflection and other design patterns: Singleton, Bridge, Mediator, Observer, and Decorator. These patterns provide a better-factored design and allow the web server to evolve continually beyond static and monolithic servers.
Knowledge Management: The Essentials
Authors: AIIM International
Venue:  (1999)

:Knowledge Management (KM) has become one of the most misused terms in the IT industry and getting to the essentials of this concept has become a full-time job for some organizations. This report is built on research developed by the editor, AIIM's Resource Center and AIIM's inform magazine, plus vendors and consulting groups. Succinct, non-biased information on a crucial subject.
Freehand 8 Authorized (with CD-Rom)
Authors: Marjorie Baer
Venue:  (1998)

:Learn to use FreeHand 8 for all your creative projects, whether they're destined for print or the Web. This book is updated to cover FreeHand 8's innovative new capabilities, such as transparency controls and custom colors, tints, and gradients. Learn to apply Xtras to create dazzling special effects and lively Web animations. The companion CD-ROM contains practice exercises for all the lessons, plus trial versions of the applications that make up Macromedia's Design in Motion suite. 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
Two case studies of open source software development: Apache and Mozilla
Authors: Audris Mockus, Roy T. Fielding, James D. Herbsleb
Venue: ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology (TOSEM) (2002)

According to its proponents, open source style software development has the capacity to compete successfully, and perhaps in many cases displace, traditional commercial development methods. In order to begin investigating such claims, we examine data from two major open source projects, the Apache web server and the Mozilla browser. By using email archives of source code change history and problem reports we quantify aspects of developer participation, core team size, code ownership, productivity, defect density, and problem resolution intervals for these OSS projects. We develop several hypotheses by comparing the Apache project with several commercial projects. We then test and refine several of these hypotheses, based on an analysis of Mozilla data. We conclude with thoughts about the prospects for high-performance commercial/open source process hybrids.
PHP Pocket Reference
Authors: Rasmus Lerdorf
Venue:  (2002)

From the Book:PHP is a server-side, HTML-embedded, cross-platform scripting language--quite a mouthful. In simpler terms, PHP provides a way for you to put instructions in your HTML files to create dynamic content. These instructions are read and parsed by the web server; they never actually make it to the browser that is displaying the page. The web server replaces your PHP code with the content that the code was written to produce. PHP can be configured to run either as a server module or as a standalone CGI script. At the time of this writing, the server-module version is only production-ready for the Apache web server on Unix systems. The CGI version runs with all web servers on both Unix and Windows 95/98/NT. On the Windows platform (as of PHP Version 4), the server module is being developed to work with ISAPI, NSAPI, and WSAPI, which means the server module will eventually work with Microsoft's IIS, Netscape's Enterprise Server, and O'Reilly's WebSite. See http://www.php.net for availability details. The PHP language itself borrows concepts from other common languages, such as C and Perl. If you have some experience with one of these languages, you should feel right at home with PHP. In addition to the core language, PHP provides a wide variety of functions that support everything from array manipulation to regular expression support. Database connectivity is one popular use for PHP. PHP supports a large number of databases natively and many others are accessible through PHP's ODBC functions. Through this database connectivity, it is possible, for example, to take a company's database of products and write a web interface to it using PHP. This book provides an overview of thecore PHP language and contains summaries of all the functions available in PHP. The material covers PHP 3.0.
Computational geometry column 35
Authors: Joseph O'Rourke
Venue: ACM SIGACT News (1999)

The subquadratic algorithm of Kapoor for finding shortest paths on a polyhedron is described.
Partial results for online query processing
Authors: Vijayshankar Raman, Joseph M. Hellerstein
Venue: Proceedings of the 2002 ACM SIGMOD international conference on Management of data (2002)

Traditional query processors generate full, accurate query results, either in batch or in pipelined fashion. We argue that this strict model is too rigid for exploratory queries over diverse and distributed data sources, such as sources on the Internet. Instead, we propose a looser model of querying in which a user submits a broad initial query outline, and the system continually generates partial result tuples that may contain values for only some of the output fields. The user can watch these partial results accumulate at the user interface, and accordingly refine the query by specifying their interest in different kinds of partial results.After describing our querying model and user interface, we present a query processing architecture for this model which is implemented in the Telegraph dataflow system. Our architecture is designed to generate partial results quickly, and to adapt query execution to changing user interests. The crux of this architecture is a dataflow operator that supports two kinds of reorderings: reordering of intermediate tuples within a dataflow, and reordering of query plan operators through which tuples flow. We study reordering policies that optimize for the quality of partial results delivered over time, and experimentally demonstrate the benefits of our architecture in this context.
The Clocktower II: The Struggle within Official Survival Guide, 1st edition
Authors: J. Douglas Arnold, Mark Elies
Venue:  (1999)

:ASCII's sequel to last year's Clocktower is more complex and engrossing. This official guide for the PlayStation game focuses on Clocktower II, but also includes a complete walkthrough for the first version.
VHDL generation from SDL specifications
Authors: Jean-Marc Daveau, Gilberto Fernandes Marchioro, Carlos Alberto Valderrama, Ahmed Amine Jerraya
Venue: Readings in hardware/software co-design (2001)

The aim of this paper is to present an approach that allows the generation of VHDL from system level specifications in SDL. Our approach overcomes the main known problem encountered by previous work, which is the communication between different processes. We allow SDL communication to be translated into VHDL for synthesis. This is made possible by the use of an intermediate form that supports a powerful communication model which enables the representation in a synthesis oriented manner of most communication schemes. This intermediate form allows the refinement of the system in order to obtain the desired solution. The main refinement step, called communication synthesis, is aimed at fixing the protocol and the interface used by the different processes to communicate. The refined specification is translated into VHDL for synthesis using existing CAD tools. We illustrate the feasibility of our approach through two SDL to VHDL translation examples.
Cyberspace
Authors: David Jefferis, Davies Jefferis, Mat Irvine
Venue:  (1999)

:Surveys digital technology from the early days of computers to virtual reality and the World Wide Web, describing the uses of computer simulation in flight, battle, hazardous environments, and entertainment.
The Cybergypsies: A True Tale of Lust, War, and Betrayal on the Electronic Frontier
Authors: Indra Sinha, Andra Sinha
Venue:  (1999)

:Naked Lunch meets Confessions of an Opium Eater in the virtual world: A mesmerizing first-person account. Whatever you have heard, read, or fantasized about the Internet, the truth is stranger, funnier, more horrifying. Along the invisible pathways of the technonight wanders a strange tribe undetected by the millions of everyday net users. Some cybergypsies are geeks, technoanarchists who swap computer viruses like baseball cards. But most are seemingly ordinary people, bankers, lawyers, police officers, who at night assume strange identities and engage in weird mind-twisting games, getting their thrills from virtual sex, violence, and even cannibalism. Games leak into their real lives, often with disastrous results. The Cybergypsies is the story of "Bear," an advertising writer with a wife, children, and a rambling house in the English countryside, who's about to sacrifice everything to his addiction. Bear's real and imaginary lives fuse in a series of bizarre (and often hilarious) adventures. Phantasmagoric tragedies are woven into the dark patterns of his life, building to a personal moral crisis. As the net closes in on him, Bear makes one last desperate attempt to save his marriage. Two centuries ago, Thomas de Quincey's Confessions of an English Opium Eater exposed the fantastic world of the opium addict. The Cybergypsies does the same for the virtual world of the cyber addict. On a continuum from William Burroughs and William Gibson, Bear's odyssey takes us into an intoxicating world--alternately terrrifying and ridiculous--where reality and imagination are indistinguishable. It is at once technopuzzle, confession, and strikingly original literary debut.
Electronic Business Communications, 1st edition
Authors: Michael Chesher, R. Kaura
Venue:  (1998)

:Electronic Business Communications provides a state of the art view of electronic commerce over the Internet. It describes the emergence of new technologies and management practices which allow organizations to compete in today's marketplace. Case studies are widely utilized to illustrate the concepts and technologies discussed, and the important role of standards is a recurring theme.