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Direct From Dell: Strategies That Revolutionized an Industry (2 Cassettes)
Authors: Michael Dell, Catherine Fredman
Venue:  (1999)

:By the visionary who founded Dell Computer Corporation--one of the most profitable and innovative companies in the world--Direct from Dell recounts the amazing story of Dell and the pioneer strategies that resulted in the company's phenomenal success. At age 13, Michael Dell was a kid with a knack for taking apart the motherboard of his Apple II computer and a penchant to run a business. Today, only 20 years later, after becoming the youngest CEO in history to head a Fortune 500 company, he leads one of the most profitable and innovative companies in the world. Direct from Dell tells the story of Dell Computer's successful rise, beginning with Michael Dell's vision for creating a low-cost, direct-sales model and chronicling the development of key competitive advantages that are the envy of Dell's competition: unrivaled speed to market; an unwavering dedication to customer service; a fierce commitment to producing consistently high-quality, low-priced, custom-made machines; and a shrewd exploitation of the Internet--strategies that have driven sales to an astronomical $13 billion, up from just $159 million 10 years ago. Told by the man who revolutionized an industry, Direct from Dell is not just for CEOs or those working in the high-tech industry. It is an inspiring business story that epitomizes the American Dream--and provides a blueprint for doing business in the 21st century. Dell stock--up more than 29,000% since 1990 and more than 200% in the last 12 months--has been the single biggest gainer among the S&P 500 this decade. Michael Dell has been dubbed "the Jack Welch of a new generation" and compared to Henry Ford and Sam Walton for his "God-is in-the-details" vision. Articles on Dell and Dell Computer appear regularly and widely in the business and mainstream press, including Fortune, the Wall Street Journal, the New York Times, BusinessWeek and USA Today. Dell travels the world to keynote conferences and participates in leadership forums with the likes of Peter Drucker, Andy Grove, and Jack Welch. At 19, Michael Dell began selling computers from his dorm room. Much to his parents' dismay, he left college and, by the day he would have graduated, was selling $70 million worth of computers a year. Today, he is chairman and CEO of Dell, the world's largest direct computer company. Catherine Fredman collaborated with Andrew Grove, chairman of Intel, on his bestselling book, Only the Paranoid Survive. Praise for Dell Computer and Michael Dell: "The thing that sets Dell apart is its ability to do exactly what the competition tends to believe cannot be done." -- BusinessWeek "Dell has made a habit of spotting trends when they were still mere suggestions." -- Time "[Michael Dell] is going to be a powerhouse in the computer industry after Lou Gerstener's successor's successor retires." -- Fortune "Dell's story is the stuff high-tech legends are made of." -- Forbes
Selected Papers in Network and System Administration, 1st edition
Authors: Eric Anderson, Mark Burgess, Alva Couch
Venue:  (2001)

:The emergence of Network and System Administration, during the latter quarter century, as a discipline of science and engineering, has culminated in a number of paradigms for managing networks of collaborating machines. These include automatic regulation, policy based management, computer immunology, quality control procedures and even the psychology of the user-system interaction. Techniques based on scripting, declarative languages, empirical measurements, and theoretical models, spanning psychology to game theory have been developed. In this volume, key contributions to the discipline are presented through the words of the authors who contributed them. The forum for this thread of ideas has been the Usenix Association's LISA conferences, originally the "Large System Administration" conference. These conferences have played, and continue to play, a unique role in cementing a relationship between researchers and working network and system administrators. Computer scientists, engineers, system administrators and students will each find something of permanent value here. No matter what developments the future brings, these words represent important conceptual foundations of the field. These papers are reprinted here for the first time in a convenient form, along with a commentary reflecting on their significance within the discipline as a whole.
Implementing AS/400 Security, 4th edition
Authors: Carol Woodbury, Wayne Madden
Venue:  (2000)

:In today's networked world, security is crucial. As e-business sweeps the enterprise, effectively protecting data can mean the difference between secure businesses that can build and maintain trustworthy relationships with customers and business partners and those with vulnerable systems that are subject to catastrophes, both natural or malicious. Implementing AS/400 Security, Fourth Edition, explains how to evaluate the risks to your information assets and the threats to your system; covers new V4R5 security features; discusses designing and implementing AS/400 security step by step; provides new and expanded coverage of network, communications, and Internet security; helps you evaluate security requirements for the objects on your system and build role authorization models; explains how to audit objects, authorities, system values, and events to make sure your security remains effective; and includes an expanded and updated security implementation example. For years, AS/400 professionals have depended on earlier editions of this book to learn and implement essential security concepts. Whether you're just starting out or have been charged with updating AS/400 security to support your enterprise as it expanded its use of the Internet, this book is a must-have resource.
Python Programming on WIN32, 1st edition
Authors: Mark Hammond
Venue:  (2000)

:Python is growing in popularity; based on download statistics, there are now over 450,000 people using Python, and more than 150,000 people using Python on Windows. Use of the language has been growing at about 40% per year since 1995, and there is every reason to believe that growth will continue. Despite Python's increasing popularity on Windows, Python Programming on Win32 is the first book to demonstrate how to use it as a serious Windows development and administration tool. Unlike scripting on Unix, Windows scripting involves integrating a number of components, such as COM or the various mail and database APIs, with the Win32 programming interface. While experienced Windows C++ programmers can find their way through the various objects, most people need some guidance, and this book is it. It addresses all the basic technologies for common integration tasks on Windows, explaining both the Windows issues and the Python code you need to glue things together. Topics include: The Python language and the PythonWin extensions Building a GUI with COM Adding a Macro language Distributing the application Client-side COM for output and data access Integration with mail and other internet protocols Manging users and drives Managing processes and services This is a vital and unique book. Python Programming on Win32 is an excellent presentation of Windows application development and a solid illustration of how to use Python in the Windows environment.
Graphic systems performance evaluation
Authors: Robert A. Cislo
Venue: Proceedings of the ACM annual conference - Volume 1 (1972)

The development of a performance evaluation technique, using simulation, for interactive graphics systems is described. The first step is the development of a simulation model for a single terminal graphic system. The model is a functional representation of the system. The functions modelled were identified by considering the activities occurring during a typical interaction. The model was used to simulate the operation of several different hardware configurations and the results of some of these simulations are presented. The simulation model developed for a multiterminal system is a more realistic representation of the logical organization and operation of an actual system. The four system components represented are hardware, users, system software, and application program loads. The events occurring in the system were identified by considering the sequence of processing activities characteristic of an interaction or batch job. The events and components are appropriately related to reflect the situation in an actual system wherein the system software is the interface between the hardware and the application program and the user interacts with the system through the hardware.
The Role of Consumer Education in Protecting Privacy
Authors: fran Maier, Paula Bruening, Jim Harper, Mel Petersen, Sarah Andrews
Venue: Proceedings of the 12th annual conference on Computers, freedom and privacy (2002)

Privacy and Consumer Education -- There seems to be universal agreement that consumers need to have a better understanding of data privacy and commercial business practices to enable them to make smart choices. However, there is also general agreement that relatively little progress has been made. Who is to blame for the lack of consumer privacy information? How can things improve in the future?
COMVIS: A Communication Framework for Computer Vision
Authors: Alex Cozzi, Florentin Wörgötter
Venue: International Journal of Computer Vision (2001)

We describe a general approach to integrate the information produced by different visual modules with the goal of generating a quantitative 3D reconstruction of the observed scene and to estimate the reconstruction errors.The integration is achieved in two steps. Firstly, several different visual modules analyze the scene in terms of a common data representation: planar patches are used by different visual modules to communicate and represent the 3D structure of the scene. We show how it is possible to use this simple data structure to share and integrate information from different visual modalities, and how it can support the necessities of the great majority of different visual modules known in literature. Secondly, we devise a communication scheme able to merge and improve the description of the scene in terms of planar patches. The applications of state-of-the-art algorithms allows to fuse information affected by an unknown grade of correlation and still guarantee conservative error estimates.Tests on real and synthetic scene show that our system produces a consistent and marked improvement over the results of single visual modules, with error reduction up to a factor of ten and with typical reduction of a factor 2&ndash;4.
Global Electronic Commerce: Theory and Cases, 1st edition
Authors: J. Christopher West, Theodore H. Clarke
Venue:  (1999)

:Over the past two decades, businesses in virtually every sector of the world economy have benefited from the technologies of electronic commerce--the automation of commercial transactions using computer and communications technologies. Electronic commerce has spurred far-reaching changes in business, on multiple fronts, using many technologies. This book provides a deep, practical understanding of these technologies and their use in e-commerce. Unlike other books on e-commerce, it does not concentrate solely on the Internet. Instead, it suggests that the Internet is only a bridge technology--attractive because of its low cost and global reach, but unattractive because of its slow speed and poor user interface. Each of the twelve chapters contains an overview of a current theory or practice followed by one or more business case studies. A combination of academic theory and case studies provides a comprehensive picture of how businesspeople use computers to revolutionize the selling and delivery of their products and services.
Sams Teach Yourself CorelDRAW 8 in 24 Hours, 1st edition
Authors: Dave Karlins, Paul Mikulecky
Venue:  (1998)

:Sams' Teach Yourself CorelDRAW 8 in 24 Hours is your key to unlocking the power of CorelDRAW 8. In 24 easy-to-follow lessons, you will learn how to get up to speed with CorelDRAW 8 and its new features, how to create great-looking imagery, and how to output your images for the world to see. In a friendly, step-by-step manner, Sams' Teach Yourself CorelDRAW 8 will teach you to be a better designer. Learn the basics of the new CorelDRAW interface for creating professional-caliber graphics and stunning images for your own Web pages. Master the most important features of this completely revised version while focusing on the CorelDRAW illustration component, with additional lessons covering fundamentals of Corel Photo-Paint and CorelDREAM 3D.
Industrial Applications of Fuzzy Technology
Authors: Kaoru Hirota
Venue:  (1994)

:The importance of information processing, which is said to come naturally to human beings but difficult for computers, is at last becoming recognized by society in general.
CIL programming: under the hood of .NET
Authors: Jason Bock
Venue:  (2002)

In CIL Programming: Under the Hood of .NET, Jason Bock covers the essentials of programming the CIL. First, Bock discusses the basics of what .NET assemblies are and how manifests fit into the picture. He then shows how to create assemblies in .NET-including the ilasm directives and CIL opcodes, and how these are used to define assemblies, classes, field, methods, and method definitions. Bock also covers how C# and VB .NET and other non-MS languages emit CIL and how they differ. Finally, he reveals how developers can create dynamic assemblies at runtime via the Emitter classes. After reading CIL Programming: Under the Hood of .NET, developers will have a better understanding of the CIL and how to program directly into it. A must-have on every .NET developer's desk.
Mathematical Methods for Curves and Surfaces: Oslo 2000
Authors: Tom Lyche, Larry L. Schumaker
Venue:  (2001)

:"This volume contains a selection of papers that were presented at the Oslo Conference on Mathematical Methods for Curves and Surfaces in July 2000. It contains several invited surveys written by leading experts in the field, along with contributed research papers on the most current developments in the theory and application of curves and surfaces." "This book will be of great interest to mathematicians, engineers, and computer scientists working in the fields of approximation theory, computer-aided geometric design (CAGD), computer graphics, numerical analysis, CAD/CAM, and application areas."--BOOK JACKET.
Visual Reference Basics for Microsoft Excel 97
Authors: Karl Schwartz, K. Scwartz
Venue:  (1999)

:Written for Microsoft's latest spreadsheet application component of Office 97, this book's new features include an Office Assistant, Web toolbar, and graphic filters. It presents 100 features that every user must understand to perform the basic functions of Excel 97. Each function is presented graphically. Unique hardcover spiral allows the title to be displayed on the spine.
Using HTML 4, XML, and Java 1.2
Authors: Eric Ladd, Jim O'Donnell
Venue:  (1998)

:Que's Platinum Edition Using HTML 4, XML, and Java 1.2 is the most complete tutorial and reference for experienced Webmasters who want to create Web sites using the latest technologies.. "This guide delivers all the time-saving tips and expert advice you need to enhance your Web programming skills and expand your knowledge of HTML, XML, and Java. With insight, real-world examples, and a practical, hands-on approach, you'll move quickly to the more advanced issues and concepts. You'll master the HTML-related technologies and features, as well as build a solid understanding of high-end topics.
Windows NT Server 4.0 Administrator's Desk Reference, 1st edition
Authors: John Enck
Venue:  (1997)

:This four-volume, boxed set provides unmatched levels of information, expert advice, tutorials, and field-proven notes on topics that concern NT system administrators and NT consultants.Includes four separate volumes, including Enterprise Installation & Support, Advanced Customization and Registry Reference, Internet Services Configuration, and the fourth volume is a complete index to all three volumesProvides a completely non-biased view of implementing and supporting Microsoft s network operating system telling users which NT Server features work and which ones don tExtensive coverage of the eight new administrative wizards, the network monitor, the system policy editor, the new DNS server application, and much more
Icq 2000 for Dummies, 1st edition
Authors: Peter Weverka, Michael Taylor
Venue:  (2000)

:Your guide to messaging, chats, and cool new ICQ services!Get the scoop on ICQ e-mail, phone services, and Web hostingStay in touch, make new friends, and take ICQ to the max! ICQ ("I Seek You") is the place to go for instant messaging and chats. But did you know that ICQ also offers free phone service and Web hosting? Or gives you tools to stay organized and search the Web? From basics to advanced features, this friendly guide shows you how to make the most of your ICQ experience.Discover how to: Get more out of messaging and chats Personalize ICQ Use ICQ e-mail, phone services, and Web hosting Find people who share your interests Protect your privacyThe Dummies Way Explanations in plain English "Get in, get out" information Icons and other navigational aids Tear-out cheat sheet Top ten lists A dash of humor and funGet smart! www.dummies.com Register to win cool prizes Browse exclusive articles and excerpts Get a free Dummies Daily e-mail newsletter Chat with authors and preview other books Talk to us, ask questions, get answersAuthor Biography: Peter Weverka's many books include ICQ 2000: The Official Guide. Michael Taylor is a software engineer who worked on the ICQ instant messaging engine.
Artificial Life IV: Proceedings of the Fourth International Workshop on the Synthesis and Simlulation of Living Systmes
Authors: Rodney Allen Brooks
Venue:  (1994)

:July 6-8, 1994 · the Massachusetts Institute of Technology The field of artificial life has recently emerged through the interaction of research in biology, physics, parallel computing, artificial intelligence, and complex adaptive systems. The goal is to understand, through synthetic experiments, the organizational principles underlying the dynamics (usually the nonlinear dynamics) of living systems. This book brings together contributions to the Fourth Artificial Life Workshop, held at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in the summer of 1994. Topics include: Self-organization and emergent functionality. Definitions of life. Origin of life. Self-reproduction. Computer viruses. Synthesis of "the living state." Evolution and population genetics. Coevolution and ecological dynamics. Growth, development, and differentiation. Organization and behavior of social and colonial organisms. Animal behavior. Global and local ecosystems and their intersections. Autonomous agents (mobile robots and software agents). Collective intelligence ("swarm" intelligence). Theoretical biology. Philosophical issues in A-life (from ontology to ethics). Formalisms and tools for A-life research. Guidelines and safeguards for the practice of A-life. A Bradford Book
Exploring Microsoft Office Professional 2000: Proficient Certification, 1st edition
Authors: Robert T. Grauer
Venue:  (1999)

:All books in this series offer consistent presentationcommon design, pedagogy, and writing style. Concepts as well as key-strokes are stressed. Hands-on exercises in every lesson provide just the right amount of practice time. MOUS Certification throughout the expert level for all individual applications and Office 2000. Three levels of chapter-ending exercises, multiple choice, practice, and case studies. For anyone interested in becoming more proficient in Microsoft Office 2000.
Monotony of surprise and large-scale quest for unusual words
Authors: Alberto Apostolico, Mary Ellen Bock, Stefano Lonardi
Venue: Proceedings of the sixth annual international conference on Computational biology (2002)

The problem of characterizing and detecting recurrent sequence patterns such as substrings or motifs and related associations or rules is variously pursued in order to compress data, unveil structure, infer succinct descriptions, extract and classify features, etc. In Molecular Biology, exceptionally frequent or rare words in bio-sequences have been implicated in various facets of biological function and structure. The discovery, particularly on a massive scale, of such patterns poses interesting methodological and algorithmic problems, and often exposes scenarios in which tables and synopses grow faster and bigger than the raw sequences they are meant to encapsulate. In previous study, the ability to succinctly compute, store, and display unusual substrings has been linked to a subtle interplay between the combinatorics of the subwords of a word and local monotonicities of some scores used to measure the departure from expectation. In this paper, we carry out an extensive analysis of such monotonicities for a broader variety of scores. This supports the construction of data structures and algorithms capable of performing global detection of unusual substrings in time and space linear in the subject sequences, under various probabilistic models.
Applied Survival Analysis: Regression Modeling of Time to Event Data, 1st edition
Authors: David W. Hosmer, Stanley Lemeshow
Venue:  (1999)

:Applied Survival Analysis is a comprehensive introduction to regression modeling for time to event data used in epidemiological, biostatistical, and other health-related research. Unlike other texts on the subject, it focuses almost exclusively on practical applications rather than mathematical theory and offers clear, accessible presentations of modern modeling techniques supplemented with real-world examples and case studies. While the authors emphasize the proportional hazards model, descriptive methods and parametric models are also considered in some detail. Applied Survival Analysis is an ideal introduction for graduate students in biostatistics and epidemiology, as well as researchers in health-related fields.
Nonnegative Volume Matching by Cubic C1 Splines on Clough--Tocher Splits
Authors: Jochen W. Schmidt, Marion Bastian, Bernd Mulansky
Venue: SIAM Journal on Numerical Analysis (2001)

We describe a numerical method to construct volume matching C1 splines satisfying the frequently occurring requirement of nonnegativity. The approximated histogram is assumed to be defined on a partition of a polygonal domain into polygonal subdomains. Our idea consists of applying cubic C1 splines on Clough--Tocher refinements of a triangulation that is compatible with the given partition. The proposed algorithm always works successfully for nonnegative histograms.