ppxscal/embedding_network huggingface dataset:
Measuring system normality
Authors: Mark Burgess, Hårek Haugerud, Sigmund Straumsnes, Trond Reitan
Venue: ACM Transactions on Computer Systems (TOCS) (2002)

A comparative analysis of transaction time-series is made, for light to moderately loaded hosts, motivated by the problem of anomaly detection in computers. Criteria for measuring the statistical state of hosts are examined. Applying a scaling transformation to the measured data, it is found that the distribution of fluctuations about the mean is closely approximated by a steady-state, maximum-entropy distribution, modulated by a periodic variation. The shape of the distribution, under these conditions, depends on the dimensionless ratio of the daily/weekly periodicity and the correlation length of the data. These values are persistent or even invariant. We investigate the limits of these conclusions, and how they might be applied in anomaly detection.
Digital Mosaics: The Aesthetics of Cyberspace
Authors: Steven R. Holtzman
Venue:  (1998)

:Through the work of artists and designers on the cutting edge of technology, Digital Mosaics explores the possibilities of digital expression: gravity-defying sculptures that can exist only in cyberspace, a newspaper that communicates at a glance the relationships among various news stories, an interactive opera in which members of the audience become part of the performance. Holtzman also shows us how computer pioneers are now able to produce works of astonishing complexity and intelligence, dynamic worlds full of creatures that grow and evolve, music that perpetuates itself, and beautiful fractal images that rival nature's masterpieces. Holtzman examines the unique qualities of these on-line experiences. Digital art is infinitely reproducible (there is no "original"), and yet is ephemeral. The digital experience is interactive, not passive, and this will change the way we look at and experience digital worlds. The traditional boundary between the audience and the artist will become only more blurred. And while the digital world links individuals to a global community, it is also a place in which individual expression will flourish as never before. The computer, says Holtzman, does not replace books, painting, photography, film, or theater. It is a new medium that will give rise to entirely new forms of creative expression.
Vbscript SourceBook
Authors: Mary Jane Mara
Venue:  (1997)

:No matter what your level of programming expertise, with the VBScript Sourcebook you'll quickly master Microsoft's powerful new Web page scripting extension language. You'll learn to use VBScript with advanced HTML and Dynamic HTML; create self-validating forms, interactive games, and local databases using DHTML data binding; and enliven your Web pages with state-of-the-art multimedia using embedded objects.
Writer Adaptation for Online Handwriting Recognition
Authors: Scott D. Connell, Anil K. Jain
Venue: IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence (2002)

Writer-adaptation is the process of converting a writer-independent handwriting recognition system, which models the characteristics of a large group of writers, into a writer-dependent system, which is tuned for a particular writer. This adaptation has the potential of greatly increasing recognition accuracies, provided adequate models can be constructed for a particular writer. The limited amount of data a writer is willing to provide during the training phase constrains the complexity of these models. We show how the appropriate use of writer-independent models is important for the adaptation process. Our approach to writer-adaptation makes use of writer-independent writing style models (called lexemes), to identify the styles present in a particular writer's training data. These models are then updated using the writer's data. Lexemes that are present in the writer's data, but for which an inadequate number of training examples is available, are replaced with the writer-independent models. We demonstrate the feasibility of this approach on both isolated handwritten character recognition and unconstrained word recognition tasks. Our results show an average reduction in error rate of 16.3 percent for lowercase characters as compared against representing each of the writer's character classes with a single model. In addition, an average error rate reduction of 9.2 percent is shown on handwritten words using only a small amount of data for adaptation.
The Complete Idiot's Guide to Windows XP
Authors: Paul McFedries
Venue:  (2001)

: Become a Windows XPert in no time! You're no idiot, of course. You're computer literate, but it seems you need a Ph.D. in Geek Speak to read most books on Windows XP. Don't worry! You don't have to learn another language to understand The Complete Idiot's Guide ® to Windows XP. This is not a book for those who think the pocket protector is the height of fashion. Written for anyone who may be the proud yet bewildered new user of Windows XP, this Complete Idiot's Guide give you: @BULLET1=Advise to help you master the basics of navigating Windows XP. @BULLET2=Information on all the new Windows XP features, including the new interface and the latest versions of Internet Explorer and Outlook Express. @BULLET3=Ways to put Windows Media Player 8, the new digital media features, and other cool applications to work for you. @BULLET4=Excellent instruction on how to set up and maintain a network using Windows XP.
Hard examples for bounded depth frege
Authors: Eli Ben-Sasson
Venue: Proceedings of the thiry-fourth annual ACM symposium on Theory of computing (2002)

We prove exponential lower bounds on the size of a bounded depth Frege proof of a Tseitin graph-based contradiction, whenever the underlying graph is an expander. This is the first example of a contradiction, naturally formalized as a 3-CNF, that has no short bounded depth Frege proofs. Previously, lower bounds of this type were known only for the pigeonhole principle [18, 17], and for Tseitin contradictions based on complete graphs [19].Our proof is a novel reduction of a Tseitin formula of an expander graph to the pigeonhole principle, in a manner resembling that done by Fu and Urquhart [19] for complete graphs.In the proof we introduce a general method for removing extension variables without significantly increasing the proof size, which may be interesting in its own right.
Softdesk Architecture 2 Certified Courseware
Authors: Softdesk Technical Resource
Venue:  (1996)

:This book teaches you the advanced skills necessary for designing buildings and producing construction documents with the Softdesk Building Design and Engineering software modules. The first eight chapters lead the user through the advanced design capabilities of Auto-Architect, including wall styles, door and window libraries, and 3D design of stairs, roofs, and ceiling grids. The last three chapters present advanced techniques for generating drawings from 3D models and for using the Softdesk Details module to create details and manage detail libraries. This book was designed for classroom training or as a self-study guide to prepare for the Softdesk Level II Certification Exam. 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
Opportunities for Information and Communication Technology in the Primary School
Authors: Helen Smith
Venue:  (1999)

:Information and Communication (ICT) Technology is now part of almost every aspect of the primary school curriculum. This book is for primary school teachers of all subjects and shows how they can enhance their teaching opportunities with ICT - whether or not they are familiar with ICT. There are chapters on all main curriculum subjects, on Information and Communication Technology itself as a subject and on how to ease school Information Technology equipment into the new millennium. 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
Compiler Support for Scalable and Efficient Memory Systems
Authors: Rajeev Barua, Walter Lee, Saman Amarasinghe, Anant Agarawal
Venue: IEEE Transactions on Computers (2001)

Technological trends require that future scalable microprocessors be decentralized. Applying these trends toward memory systems shows that the size of the cache accessible in a single cycle will decrease in a future generation of chips. Thus, a bank-exposed memory system comprised of small, decentralized cache banks must eventually replace that of a monolithic cache. This paper considers how to effectively use such a memory system for sequential programs. This paper presents Maps, the software technology central to bank-exposed architectures, which are architectures with bank-exposed memory systems. Maps solves the problem of bank disambiguation¿that of determining at compile-time which bank a memory reference is accessing. Bank disambiguation is important because it enables the compile-time optimization for data locality, where data can be placed close to the computation that requires it. Two methods for bank disambiguation are presented: equivalence-class unification and modulo unrolling. Experimental results are presented using a compiler for the MIT Raw machine, a bank-exposed architecture that relies on the compiler to 1) manage its memory and 2) orchestrate its instruction level parallelism and communication. Results on Raw using sequential codes demonstrate that using bank disambiguation improves performance by a factor of 3 to 5 over using ILP alone.
Web Graphics Bible with CD, 1st edition
Authors: Ron Wodaski
Venue:  (1997)

:Graphics can make or break a Web site. If the images are beautiful but slow-loading, you'll make enemies. If they're ugly yet fast-loading, you may not make enemies, but you won't make friends either. Fortunately, with Web Graphics Bible, you can ensure that all your graphic images will add value to your pages without adding to download time. In this comprehensive reference and tutorial in one, Web and multimedia pro Ron Wodaski reveals not only high-tech tips and tricks that make for efficient graphics, but also proven design principles to ensure that the look of your site is ideally suited to its content and purpose. Turn to Web Graphics Bible for complete information on how to: Use HTML tags to embed graphic images in your Web pages and control placement, size, and text flow Take advantage of freely available images and clip art Get beyond HTML's typographic limitations with bitmapped text Use popular image-editing software and amp up performance with special graphics hardware Know when to save images as GIFs and when to save them as JPEGs Reduce bit-depth to make image file sizes smaller without making images look bad Make graphics seem to load faster by using interlaced GIFs and progressive JPEGs Create client-side and server-side image maps and transform graphics into useful, appealing navigation elements Add animation to your Web pages in one of the easiest ways possible (for you and for visitors to your site): use animated GIFs Plus, Web Graphics Bible features a 16-page, full-color insert illustrating the effects you canachieve. The book also comes complete with a bonus CD-ROM containing over 500 megabytes of Windows shareware, trial versions, and demos, including: Image-editing applications such as Painter, Expression, and Paint Shop Pro Special effects programs and plug-ins such as Detailer, Kai's Power Tools, Bryce 2, Auto F/X, and trueSpace Essential utilities for compressing images and uploading them to your Web server Tutorials, Web tours, palettes, sample graphics, and design tips
PowerDB-IR: information retrieval on top of a database cluster
Authors: Torsten Grabs, Klemens Böhm, Hans-Jörg Schek
Venue: Proceedings of the tenth international conference on Information and knowledge management (2001)

Our current concern is a scalable infrastructure for information retrieval (IR) with up-to-date retrieval results in the presence of frequent, continuous updates. Timely processing of updates is important with novel application domains, e.g., e-commerce. We want to use off-the-self hardware and software as much as possible. These issues are challenging, given the additional requirement that the resulting system must scale well. We have built PowerDB-IR, a system that has the characteristics sought. This paper describes its design, implementation, and evaluation. PowerDB-IR is a coordination layer for a database cluster. The rationale behind a database cluster is to 'scale-out', i.e., to add further cluster nodes, whenever necessary for better performance. We build on IR-to-database mappings and service decomposition to support high-level parallelism. We follow a three-tier architecture with the database cluster as the bottom layer for storage management. The middle tier provides IR-specific processing and update services. PowerDB-IR has the following features: It allows to insert and retrieve documents concurrently, and it ensures freshness with almost no overhead. Alternative physical data organization schemes provide adequate performance for different workloads. Query processing techniques for the different data organizations efficiently integrate the ranked retrieval results from the cluster nodes. We have run extensive experiments with our prototype using commercial database systems and middleware software products. The main result is that PowerDB-IR shows surprisingly ideal scalability and low response times.
Interacting with the big screen: pointers to ponder
Authors: Duncan Cavens, Florian Vogt, Sidney Fels, Michael Meitner
Venue: CHI '02 extended abstracts on Human factors in computing systems (2002)

In large screen projection environments, inexpensive wireless input devices can not match the performance of standard desktop interactive devices. We added buttons and a radio transmitter to a standard laser pointer to match the functionality of a standard mouse. User testing revealed that the device performed as well as a standard mouse and significantly better than standard presentation input devices. Devices that used visible laser light performed significantly better than those with invisible near-infrared lasers.
Perceptions of proximity in video conferencing
Authors: David Grayson, Anne Anderson
Venue: CHI '02 extended abstracts on Human factors in computing systems (2002)

Proximity is used as a non-verbal signal in face-to-face interaction. It is unknown whether similar information may exist during desktop video conferencing and if so what factors may regulate it. An experiment was conducted to compare the relative impact of image size and the scope of the image on users' impressions of proximity. The results demonstrate that participants felt that changing the focal length (zoom) of the camera could make the remote person appear closer or further away. Participants appeared to use the image size of the remote person per se to determine their apparent proximity, rather than the proportion of the image taken by their face.
On the advantage over a random assignment
Authors: Johan Håstad, S. Venkatesh
Venue: Proceedings of the thiry-fourth annual ACM symposium on Theory of computing (2002)

We initiate the study of a new measure of approximation. This measure compares the performance of an approximation algorithm to the random assignment algorithm. Since the random assignment algorithm is known to give essentially the best possible polynomial time approximation algorithm for many optimization problems, this is a useful measure.In this paper, we focus on this measure for the optimization problems, Max-Lin-2, in which we need to maximize the number of satisfied linear equations in a system of linear equations modulo 2, and Max-$k$-Lin-2, a special case of the above problem in which each equation has at most $k$ variables. The main techniques we use, in our approximation algorithms and inapproximability results for this measure, are from Fourier analysis and derandomization.
Windows 95 Training Guide, 1st edition
Authors: James L. Turley
Venue:  (1997)

:Whether for self-study or an in-house training program, these Book-and-CD-ROM packages are all that's needed to get up and running fast with a minimal investment. Each book is designed to be used as a quick reference, a tool to learn more details, or whenever a computer is inaccessible. Each accompanying CD-ROM is a 120-minute interactive movie segmented into 1-2 minute sessions: either watch the CD in its entirety or search the menu system to go to specific topics. While viewing, you can even go fast forward and reverse. The CD-ROMs run on Windows 3.1, Windows 95, or Windows NT, and are custom-developed by LearnKey, Inc., a leading national training organization. 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
Linux in Poland
Authors: John Biggs
Venue: Linux Journal (2001)

A look at a Warsaw Linux Users' Group.
Absolute Beginners Guide to Multimedia, 1st edition
Authors: Ron Wodaski
Venue:  (1994)

:Written by a leading multimedia columnist and author of the bestselling Multimedia Madness!, this guide assumes no previous knowledge of either computers or multimedia. With its broad appeal, pleasing four-color format, hand-holding approach, and CD-ROM packed with useful and entertaining software, the book is the ideal introduction to the world of multimedia.
Rise of the Network Society, 1st edition
Authors: Manuel Castells
Venue:  (1996)

:This ambitious book is an account of the economic and social dynamics of the new age of information. Based on research in the USA, Asia, Latin America, and Europe, it aims to formulate a systematic theory of the information society which takes account of the fundamental effects of information technology on the contemporary world. The global economy is now characterized by the almost instantaneous flow and exchange of information, capital and cultural communication. These flows order and condition both consumption and production. The networks themselves reflect and create distinctive cultures. Both they and the traffic they carry are largely outside national regulation. Our dependence on the new modes of informational flow gives enormous power to those in a position to control them to control us. The main political arena is now the media, and the media are not politically answerable. Manuel Castells describes the accelerating pace of innovation and application. He examines the processes of globalization that have marginalized and now threaten to make redundant whole countries and peoples excluded from informational networks. He investigates the culture, institutions and organizations of the network enterprise and the concomitant transformation of work and employment. He points out that in the advanced economies production is now concentrated on an educated section of the population aged between 25 and 40: many economies can do without a third or more of their people. He suggests that the effect of this accelerating trend may be less mass unemployment than the extreme flexibilization of work and individualization of labor, and, in consequence, a highly segmented socialstructure. The author concludes by examining the effects and implications of technological change on mass media culture ("the culture of real virtuality"), on urban life, global politics, and the nature of time and history. Written by one of the worlds leading social thinkers and researchers The Rise of the Network Society is the first of three linked investigations of contemporary global, economic, political and social change. It is a work of outstanding penetration, originality, and importance.
Mechanical Desktop: Parametric Solid and Assembly Modeling, 1st edition
Authors: Stephen K. Howell
Venue:  (1998)

:This is one of the first books to explicitly relates the use of MECHANICAL DESKTOP«'S parametric solid and assembly modeling features to the mechanical design process used by engineering and industry professionals. Written by Steven Howell, a widely recognized authority in the field of CAD-based parametric modeling, this book presents parametric modeling and constraints in the context of real-world design applications and is ideal for self-paced, interactive training. The book begins with a simple 2D example illustrating parametric dimensioning and constraints. Succeeding chapters present advanced 3D construction and MECHANICAL DESKTOP«'S automatic drafting features. 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 Electronic Republic: Reshaping Democracy in the Information Age
Authors: Lawrence K. Grossman
Venue:  (1995)

:Can our system adapt to the new form of democracy forming via the electronic age? Will the new communication age usher in a nation governed not by professional politicians but by citizens themselves? Grossman answers these questions and many others clearly and provocatively as he brings the features of our rapidly changing political environment into focus.
Super Sports for Kids on the Net
Authors: Lisa Trumbauer
Venue:  (1999)

:Here are the coolest sports sites (101!) on the World Wide Web, chosen by a panel of 9- to 14-year-olds.
Atlas for Computing Mathematical Functions: An Illustrated Guide for Practitioners with Programs in C and Mathematica with Cdrom, 1st edition
Authors: William J. Thompson
Venue:  (1997)

:This book is a comprehensive guide to understanding the mathematical functions used to solve research problems. Illustrations, diagrams, and computer programs are utilized in addition to the usual text formulas in order to make the comprehension of the material easier. The book comes with a CD-ROM disk which contains programs for Mathematica and C.
Microsoft Money 99 At A Glance
Authors: Stephen L. Nelson
Venue:  (1998)

:CPA and consultant Stephen L. Nelson, a bestselling author of computer finance books, provides easy-to-understand instructions for using Microsoft Money 99 to develop a budget, manage credit, work with investments, and access one's bank account information online.
Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition, 44th edition
Authors: Stuart A. Boyer
Venue:  (1993)

:Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition (SCADA) technology has evolved over the past 30 years as a method of monitoring and controlling large processes. Stuart Boyer has revised his well-received self-study guide, bringing it up to date on recent developments of SCADA technology, while introducing students to SCADA basics. Boyer's guide offers overviews of SCADA's component technologies, as well as details necessary to understand the big picture. SCADA processes cover areas that may be measured in the thousands of square miles, and have dimensions that may be hundreds, occasionally thousands, of miles long. Now a mature technology, SCADA includes, but is not limited to, software packages that can be incorporated in a larger system. After completing its 14 self-study units, readers should be conversant with SCADA nomenclature and architecture, understand the basic technology of the system's building blocks, understand its limitations, understand how it can benefit particular operations, and have a basis for selecting appropriate SCADA technologies for their operational requirements.