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Strict polynomial-time in simulation and extraction
Authors: Boaz Barak, Yehuda Lindell
Venue: Proceedings of the thiry-fourth annual ACM symposium on Theory of computing (2002)

The notion of efficient computation is usually identified in cryptography and complexity with probabilistic polynomial time. However, until recently, in order to obtain constant-round zero-knowledge proofs and proofs of knowledge (for NP), one had to allow simulators and knowledge-extractors to run in time which is only polynomial on the average (i.e., expected polynomial time). Whether or not allowing expected polynomial-time is necessary for obtaining constant-round zero-knowledge proofs and proofs of knowledge, has been posed as an important open question. This question is interesting not only for its theoretical ramifications, but also because expected polynomial time simulation is not closed under composition. Therefore, in some cases security is not maintained when a protocol that utilizes expected polynomial time simulation (or extraction) is used as a part of a larger protocol.A partial answer to the question of the necessity (or non-necessity) of expected polynomial-time was provided recently by Barak, who gave the first constant-round zero-knowledge argument with a strict (in contrast to expected) polynomial-time simulator. His was also the first protocol that is not black-box zero-knowledge. That is, the simulator in his protocol utilizes the description of the code of the verifier in an essential way.In this paper, we completely resolve the question of expected polynomial-time in zero-knowledge arguments and arguments of knowledge. First, we show that there exist constant-round zero-knowledge arguments of knowledge with strict polynomial-time extractors. As in the simulator of Barak's zero-knowledge protocol, the extractor for our proof of knowledge is not black-box and uses the code of the prover in an essential way.On the negative side, we show that non-black-box techniques are essential to both strict polynomial-time simulation and extraction. That is, we show that no constant-round zero-knowledge argument (or proof) can have a strict polynomial-time black-box simulator. Similarly, we show that no constant-round zero-knowledge argument (or proof) of knowledge can have a strict polynomial-time black-box knowledge extractor. Thus, for constant-round black-box zero-knowledge arguments (resp., arguments of knowledge), it is imperative that the simulator (resp., extractor) be allowed to run in expected polynomial-time.
Balance NAVE: a virtual reality facility for research and rehabilitation of balance disorders
Authors: Jeffrey Jacobson, Mark S. Redfern, Joseph M. Furman, Susan L. Whitney, Patrick J. Sparto, Jeffrey B. Wilson, Larry F. Hodges
Venue: Proceedings of the ACM symposium on Virtual reality software and technology (2001)

We are currently developing an immersive virtual environment display for research into the rehabilitation of balance disorders, called the Balance NAVE (BNAVE). Using this system, the therapist can create varying degrees of sensory conflict and congruence in persons with balance disorders. With the capability of changing visual scenes based on the needs of the therapist, the BNAVE is a promising tool for rehabilitation. The system uses four PC's, three stereoscopic projectors, and three rear-projected screens, which surround the patient's entire horizontal field of view. The BNAVE can accommodate many types of sensors and actuators for a wide range of experiments.
Creating a Local Area Network in the School Library Media Center
Authors: Becky R. Mather
Venue:  (1997)

:Let an award-winning school library media specialist who has implemented a local area network (LAN) in her media center help you plan this important addition to your media center while avoiding the pitfalls. This hands-on practical guide contains all the information the network novice needs to plan, fund, create, and maintain a LAN in the media center. Based on the experience of the school library media specialist who received the 1994 Follett/AASL "Microcomputer in the Media Center Award" for creating a local area network in the high school media center, this guide describes the procedures for planning, designing, funding, installing, organizing, training, evaluating, and maintaining a LAN in a library media center setting. Step-by-step nontechnical instructions and advice for creating an information network are presented in an understandable format. How to expand into a school-district wide area network (WAN) and gain access to the Internet are also discussed. 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
IRQ, DMA and I/O: Resolving and Preventing PC System Conflicts, 2e, 2nd edition
Authors: Jim Aspinwall
Venue:  (1997)

:Are you baffled by cryptic error messages that sometimes appear on your PC? Frustrated by constant crashes and loss of time? Tearing your hair out trying to install and run the latest Windows software? Dont panic. All you need to resolve these and other common PC problems is contained within your system and this handy book. IRQs (interrupt requests), DMA (direct memory access), and I/O (input/output) error messages can be frustrating, but with this book/disk package youll resolve the system conflicts that cause them. The book equips you with the resources necessary to understand and properly manage your PC before, during, and after installing operating environments and systems. This revised edition includes sections on the most common problem areas, and shows you how to prevent such problems from occurring. Youll find new coverage on the latest in high-speed Pentium technology, new data bus technology, Plug and Play, and the Windows Registry. IRQ, DMA & I/O: Resolving and Preventing PC System Conflicts, 2nd Edition provides everything you need to avoid and resolve the problems that continue to plague all PC users. The companion disk contains PC-Doctor, a diagnostic program that provides system information, and the Rosenthal utilities for conflict detection. Successfully install the latest operating systems Understand and utilize the Windows Registry and new data bus features Learn to update previous editions of software without upsetting your machine Determine the current status of your system Take advantage of the new BIOS and Plug and Play features Establish and maintain aproper, stable system
Competitive Advantage through Information Technology, 1st edition
Authors: Jack D. Callon
Venue:  (1995)

:This MBA-level text can be used in an Management Information Systems,or Corporate Information Systems,or Executive Information Systems course. This project-based text focuses on using information technology (IT) for a competitive advantage and has a global emphasis. Students will analyze real companies and develop competitive strategies. Students will analyze original and published case studies throughout the text. The text builds to a major project where students will design an information technology strategy for a real business.
Support vector machine pairwise classifiers with error reduction for image classification
Authors: King-Shy Goh, Edward Chang, Kwang-Ting Cheng
Venue: Proceedings of the 2001 ACM workshops on Multimedia: multimedia information retrieval (2001)

In this paper we study how Support Vector Machines (SVMs) can be applied to image classification. To enhance classification accuracy, we normalize SVM pairwise classification results. From empirical study on a fifteen-category diversified image set, we show that combining pairwise SVMs and error reduction is an effective approach from image classification. This study is a critical step for our on-going effort on the development of a comprehensive approach, closely adapted to SVMs, to image classification.
AutoCAD: A Visual Approach: 3d Basics - R13, 1st edition
Authors: S. Foster
Venue:  (1995)

:Designed for professionals seeking an understanding of basic 3D AutoCAD Release 13 command concepts, this highly visual guide provides users with clear, detailed instructions for executing Release 13 DOS and Windows commands--all in a compact and spiralbound format that's easy to use and takes up a minimum amount of space at the workstation. 250 illus. 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
Macworld MAC and Power MAC Secrets, with Disks, 3rd Ed., 3rd edition
Authors: David Pogue
Venue:  (1996)

:This international bestseller provides a definitive reference for those who want to become Power Mac users. Covering all the latest Power Macs and including insider tips for Powerbook users, this updated 3rd edition offers a state-of-the-art look at the latest hardware, software, multimedia, modems, networks, and more.
QuarkXPress, 1st edition
Authors: Christopher Lumgair
Venue:  (1999)

:Combining his skills as a software trainer with his experience as a graphic designer, Christopher Lumgair introduces the essentials of the world's most popular desktop publishing software. With clear, step-by-step directions, he shows how to create professional-looking documents with a minimum of effort using QuarkXPress.
Regulatory and Advanced Regulatory Control: System Development, 1st edition
Authors: Harold L. Wade
Venue:  (1993)

:This book teaches the practice of process control for the wet process industries. It stresses the study of real, imperfect processes rather than system theory and gives guidance on how engineers can best apply their own experience, intuition, and knowledge of the particular process. The text summarizes the general characteristics of processes and control loops and discusses feedback control and its nuances. The latter part of the book addresses advanced control techniques. The reader will learn the bottom-line benefits of these advanced strategies. Examples from the commercial world are given. Suitable for beginning or experienced process control engineers. 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
Multimedia Handbook
Authors: Tony E. Cawkell
Venue:  (1997)

: The Multimedia Handbook provides a comprehensive guide to the wide range of uses of multimedia. The first part of the book introduces the technology for the non-specialist. Part Two covers multimedia applications and markets. Tony Cawkell details the huge array of authoring software which is now available, as well as the distribution of multimedia data by telephone, cable, satellite or radio communications. There is an extensive bibliography, a glossary of technical terms and acronyms and a full index.
VRML data sharing in the spin-3D CVE
Authors: Stéphane Louis Dit Picard, Samuel Degrande, Christophe Gransart, Christophe Chaillou
Venue: Proceedings of the seventh international conference on 3D Web technology (2002)

In this paper, we present the design and implementation of a VRML97 multi-user layer introduced in SPIN-3D, our Distributed Collaborative Virtual Environment. The main consideration of our multi-user extension is the ease of design of multi-user objects from single-user standard VRML97 objects. Any standard VRML97 browser must at least display the single-user content without taking account of the multi-user description. Whereas other approaches use a VRML node insertion mechanism, such as in Living Worlds, our approach uses a substitution mechanism. And beneath our multi-user extension, we use the Common Object Request Broker Architecture to provide a network communication layer for supporting the virtual meetings.
Computer Telephony Integration, Second Edition
Authors: Rob Walters
Venue:  (1999)

:This revised edition is a complete update to the expertly authored, classic bestseller which offers a comprehensive, well-informed analysis of where computer telephony integration (CTI) came from and where it is going. It provides you with clear, in-depth coverage of all of CTI, including technology, standards, applications, system engineering, industry structure, the market, and future developments. The book features expanded coverage of CTI and a wealth of new information on media processing, automation, and messaging. It also encompasses network merging, particularly voice over the Internet protocol, as well as TAPI, TSAPI, and JTAPI. Plus, new case studies show where and how computer telephone integration is used. You get a detailed overview, including: the history of CTI and its rapid evolution during the 1990's, the underlying technologies of the CTI world, the ways telephony and computing can be linked, the abundance of integration applications, and all aspects of convergence  at the desktop, server, and network levels. This book is of immense value when you need to: >Determine where CTI can be used for maximum benefit in your business >Gain an overall understanding of CTI technology to save costs and improve customer service  for example, operate the call center via integration >Identify which call-handling strategy  automation, integration, or messaging  is most suitable for a particular business application >Determine the appropriateness of the available standards >Resolve problems associated with implementing integrated systems The book is an important manual fortelecommunications managers and consultants, MIS managers, system integrators, application programmers, value-added resellers, and marketing managers who need to understand and appreciate the problems and rewards of integrating telephony with computers both now and in the future. It is also an excellent textbook for university students studying CTI. 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
Computer Privacy Handbook: A Practical Guide to E-Mail Encryption, Data Protection, and PGP Privacy Software, 1st edition
Authors: AndrGe Bacard
Venue:  (1995)

:The Computer Privacy Handbook gives you the practical tools to reassert your privacy. You'll find out who is selling your secrets, how computers help snoops, the dangers of a cash-free society, how the U.S. government wants to monitor all telecommunications, why e-mail can be terribly unsafe, the advantages of anonymous remailers, how to protect yourself with encryption and digital signatures, and how to safeguard your Social Security number. Also included is a complete, user-friendly manual for PGP (Pretty Good Privacy), a top-rate software program that protects your personal and business data files and e-mail from snoops! PGP is the de facto world standard for e-mail privacy.
REXX in the TSO Environment
Authors: Gabriel F. Gargiulo
Venue:  (1993)

:Learning REXX opens the door to mastering TSO and CMS and makes using DB2 and SQL/DS much easier. This revision contains important new additions including how to set up for rapid execution, using REXX in QMF and with the TSO/ISPF Dialogue Manager, more detailed information on using ISPF edit macros and a complete reference guide describing REXX verbs, functions and reserved variables.
Storage management and caching in PAST, a large-scale, persistent peer-to-peer storage utility
Authors: Antony Rowstron, Peter Druschel
Venue: ACM SIGOPS Operating Systems Review (2001)

This paper presents and evaluates the storage management and caching in PAST, a large-scale peer-to-peer persistent storage utility. PAST is based on a self-organizing, Internet-based overlay network of storage nodes that cooperatively route file queries, store multiple replicas of files, and cache additional copies of popular files.In the PAST system, storage nodes and files are each assigned uniformly distributed identifiers, and replicas of a file are stored at nodes whose identifier matches most closely the file's identifier. This statistical assignment of files to storage nodes approximately balances the number of files stored on each node. However, non-uniform storage node capacities and file sizes require more explicit storage load balancing to permit graceful behavior under high global storage utilization; likewise, non-uniform popularity of files requires caching to minimize fetch distance and to balance the query load.We present and evaluate PAST, with an emphasis on its storage management and caching system. Extensive trace-driven experiments show that the system minimizes fetch distance, that it balances the query load for popular files, and that it displays graceful degradation of performance as the global storage utilization increases beyond 95%.
The Librarian's Community Network Handbook
Authors: Stephen T. Bajjaly
Venue:  (1999)

:The Community Networking Handbook surveys the complete process of community networking: planning, developing partnerships, funding, marketing, content, public access, and evaluation. Under the guidance of author Stephen Bajjaly, founder and project director of South Carolina's MidNet, you will learn how the community network works, and how you can play your part. 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
Windows 95 for Dummies Quick Reference, 3rd edition
Authors: Greg Harvey
Venue:  (1997)

:Windows 95 For Dummies Quick Reference, 3rd Edition, is for beginners and more advanced users alike who want a concise, easy-to-use reference for those confusing Windows 95 features and commands. Keep this book by your computer to get all the answers you need about Windows 95 options and procedures -- fast! Find what you need quickly with our ...For Dummies&reg; Quick References! The design features tasks and commands in alphabetical order, clear-cut, step-by-step instructions, and easy-to-follow advice. "Get in and get out" quickly and find the information you really need without reading lots of extra material! Look for IDG Books Worldwide's Windows&reg; 95 For Dummies&reg;, 2nd Edition, the fun and easy way to get started with this powerful operating system!
Photoshop 6 For Windows Bible
Authors: Deke McClelland
Venue:  (2000)

:Photoshop 6 for Windows Bible is a totally revised update to the classic bestseller, providing everything a Windows user needs to know to learn and become an expert with the latest release of Adobe Photoshop 6. Author and premier Photoshop guru Deke McClelland once again delivers the most comprehensive, informative, and entertaining coverage of Photoshop you'll find anywhere- complete with all the insider secrets and tips you need for state-of-the-art graphic design. The book includes a CD-ROM packed with utilities, plug-ins, sample images, an artist gallery, video interviews, and more.
Easy Lotus Notes Release 4.0
Authors: Elaine J. Marmel
Venue:  (1996)

:Save time and effort - discover the fastest, easiest way to get up to speed with Lotus Notes Release 4.0. Easy Lotus Notes Release 4.0 shows you all the essentials in full color, so collecting, sharing, and organizing information is easier than ever. This fully illustrated, step-by-step guide uses a proven approach to learning the basics. Just follow the simple directions, watch the tasks unfold on sample screen pictures, and then do it yourself! Step-by-step lessons show you how to use the Notes Mail database to send and receive e-mail, create your own database, access information from your home or on the road, contribute to discussion group databases, and customize Notes to work the way you do.
Introduction to PhotoShop: A Hands-on Introduction, 1st edition
Authors: Suzanne Sayegh Thomas
Venue:  (1997)

:This step-by-step introduction to Photoshop 4.0 guides the reader through each keystroke in the creation and manipulation of digital images for application to print, multimedia, video and the Internet. With an emphasis on developing skills, this guide to Photoshop provides detailed explanations of the many facets of image manipulation. Every menu item and feature is covered with clear explanations and presented for easy-reference. The reader will find this an invaluable resource as they learn, and become more experienced in using Photoshop 4.0.
Shape from Periodic Texture Using the Eigenvectors of Local Affine Distortion
Authors: Eraldo Ribeiro, Edwin R. Hancock
Venue: IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence (2001)

This paper shows how the local slant and tilt angles of regularly textured curved surfaces can be estimated directly, without the need for iterative numerical optimization. We work in the frequency domain and measure texture distortion using the affine distortion of the pattern of spectral peaks. The key theoretical contribution is to show that the directions of the eigenvectors of the affine distortion matrices can be used to estimate local slant and tilt angles of tangent planes to curved surfaces. In particular, the leading eigenvector points in the tilt direction. Although not as geometrically transparent, the direction of the second eigenvector can be used to estimate the slant direction. The required affine distortion matrices are computed using the correspondences between spectral peaks, established on the basis of their energy ordering. We apply the method to a variety of real-world and synthetic imagery.
Introduction to AutoCAD Release 13, 1st edition
Authors: Alfred J. Yarwood
Venue:  (1996)

:AutoCAD is the most widely used computer-aided design (CAD) software in the world and Windows the leading graphical user interface. The latest version of AutoCAD, Relaese 13, runs under Windows in 32-bit mode, and is faster than all previous releases. It includes many spell checker; the ability to use TrueType fonts; many more dimensioning variables and styles of dimensioning; the presentation of the Command Line in a text window; a complete set of icon-driven toolbars; and the removal of the need for the Advanced Modelling Extension through the inclusion of the three-dimensional solid drawing commands within the native AutoCAD data. An Introduction to AutoCAD Release 13 is an introductory text written primarily for engineering students and those beginning to use the software for the construction of technical drawings. It covers all the basic features of the package assuming no previous knowledge, and familiarizes the reader with the software's abilities through a course of work in both two- and three-dimensional drawing. The large number of exercises and questions then allow the reader to practise the techniques presented. The text is illustrated throughout with screen dumps and example AutoCAD drawings, together with a set of colour plates which demonstrate clearly the use and full capabilities of the package. This essential book provides unrivalled coverage of Release 13 suitable for students undertaking BTEC and City and Guilds engineering courses where CAD is taught. Those in industry who wish to learn how to produce drawings using AutoCAD Release 13 will welcome the friendly text and excellent use of diagrams.