ppxscal/embedding_network huggingface dataset:
Computer Fun Christmas
Authors: Lisa Trumbauer
Venue:  (1999)

:This fun, creative series helps kids explore a variety of school-related subjects and skills while becoming comfortable with many functions of the computer. Each book starts with a crash course in computer know-how and then follows up with fun projects that focus on a specific curriculum area or holiday with information and activities that relate to classwork. Other titles in the series include Computer Fun Math, Computer Fun Reading, Computer Fun Science, and Computer Fun Geography.
Nonsmooth Constrained Optimization and Multidirectional Mean Value Inequalities
Authors: Didier Aussel, Jean-Noël Corvellec, Marc Lassonde
Venue: SIAM Journal on Optimization (1999)

We establish a general Fermat rule for the problem of minimizing a lower semicontinuous function on a convex subset of a Banach space. Our basic tool is a constrained variational principle derived from the "smooth" variational principle of Borwein and Preiss. Specializing the Fermat rule to the case when the convex set is a "drop," we obtain a multidirectional Rolle-type inequality from which, in turn, we deduce a multidirectional mean value inequality, in the line of Clarke and Ledyaev. We follow the abstract approach of our previous paper [Trans. Amer. Math. Soc., 347 (1995), pp. 4147--4161], thus covering all standard situations met in applications, while stressing the links between the results and the few key properties that are needed.
Access 2000 Essentials Advanced, 1st edition
Authors: Robert Ferrett, John M. Preston, Sally M. Preston
Venue:  (1999)

:The Essentials series is conceived as a learning system that combines graphics, instructions, experience, reinforcement, and problem solving. It consists of modular lessons that are built around a series of numbered, step-by-step procedures that are clear, concise, and easy to review. Explanatory material is interwoven before each lesson and between the steps. For anyone interested in learning Microsoft Office 2000.
E-Commerce: Law Business and Tax Planning, 1st edition
Authors: Julian JB Hickey, Robin Mathew, Christopher Rose
Venue:  (1999)

:This text examines in detail the tax issues raised by electronic commerce. It provides a guide from the UK perspective to the business and tax law frameworks applicable to information technology and e-commerce. Practical examples illustrate the points considered.
Paradox 4.5 Made Easy, 2nd edition
Authors: Edward C. Jones, Cary Jensen, Loy Anderson
Venue:  (1993)

:Get a fast start with newest release of Paradox for DOS using this example-packed guide. The fastest way to get started with Borland's new DOS version of their award-winning relational database is to read Paradox 4.5 Made Easy. With these simple, clear instructions, you'll be producing the reports you need by the end of the first few chapters.
Visual Basic 6 Developer's Handbook
Authors: Evangelos Petroutsos, Kevin Hough
Venue:  (1998)

:Written by leading VB developers whose enterprise-level applications are used by COMPAQ, Exxon, Texas Instruments, and NASA, this book offers high-end coverage of the advanced topics you have to master in order to take your work and career to the next level. Master advanced VB techniques and put them to work immediately. The authors provide scores of practical examples to illustrate effective, elegant solutions to big-time, real-world challenges.
HTML: Introduction to Concepts and Techniques
Authors: Gary B. Shelly, Thomas J. Cashman
Venue:  (1998)

:Part of the highly successful Shelly Cashman series, this text offers a clear, step-by-step, screen-by-screen approach to learning the basics of HTML.
Adaptive Image Segmentation by Combining Photometric Invariant Region and Edge Information
Authors: Theo Gevers
Venue: IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence (2002)

An adaptive image segmentation scheme is proposed employing the Delaunay triangulation for image splitting. The tessellation grid of the Delaunay triangulation is adapted to the semantics of the image data by combining region and edge information. To achieve robustness against imaging conditions (e.g., shading, shadows, illumination, and highlights), photometric invariant similarity measures, and edge computation is proposed. Experimental results on synthetic and real images show that the segmentation method is robust to edge orientation, partially weak object boundaries, and noisy, but homogeneous regions. Furthermore, the method is robust to a large degree to varying imaging conditions.
Managing Multimedia; Project Management for Interactive Media with CD-ROM, 2nd edition
Authors: Elaine England, Andy Finney
Venue:  (1999)

:Managing Multimedia: includes management guidelines for each stage of the multimedia project life cycle from initiation to completion; defines the project manager's responsibilities at each stage of the project life cycle. These checklists build into an overall job description or role model; pinpoints all the recognized problem areas and offers practical solutions based on the Authors' own extensive experience; and provides task-related exercises to help you build a customized set of multimedia management guidelines to fit your own project requirements.
Times of Technoculture: From Information Society to Virtual Life
Authors: Kevin Robins, Frank Webster
Venue:  (1999)

:Times of the Technoculture, explores the issues surrounding technological change, from the politics of information to questions of culture and identity in cyberspace. The late twentieth century has seen a rapid succession of technological innovations, from the silicon chip to virtual reality and the Internet. Each development has been accompanied by intense public debate, in which anxieties about change and upheaval combine with excitement at the new possibilities for democracy, education and recreation in the 'information society'. But how much faith should we place in technology's ability to improve our lives? In this book, Robins and Webster question whether the new information and communications technologies, such as the Internet, justify the utopian rhetoric with which they are promoted, suggesting, in fact, that they often work to reproduce conservative social practices under a new guise. They also provide a genealogy of new technologies, from the Industrial Revolution and 'the coming of the machine' to the development of mass production in the early twentieth century and today's global network society. Times of the Technoculture shows how the military has influenced the development of the information society, how commercial imperatives have determined its course, and how government has sought to guide its direction.
Money from Thin Air: The Story of Craig Mccaw, the Visionary Who Invented the Cell Phone Industry, and His Next Billion-Dollar Idea, 1st edition
Authors: O. Casey Corr
Venue:  (2000)

:From Jay Gould to John D. Rockefeller to Bill Gates, the titans who change the world have set themselves apart by seizing the high ground before anyone else even knew it existed. Gutsy, shrewd, and ruthless, they were, above all, visionaries who saw whole new industries where others saw only chaos. Today, another visionary is seizing control of the vast new world of telecommunications, an elusive entrepreneur named Craig McCaw. Money from Thin Air is the story of how he created a new industry literally from thin air, and how he will do it again. Journalist O. Casey Corr vividly portrays here for the first time how McCaw created a cellular communications empire from the disarray of his father's failed cable business and went on to sell it to AT&T in 1993 for a stunning $12.6 billion. And he shows how McCaw is now creating another new industry that could dwarf the accomplishments of Gates and Rockefeller put together, an "Internet in the Sky" that will provide high-speed data access to any point in the world. Most of all, Corr captures the heart of a new kind of executive -- mercurial, brilliant, extremely flexible, always entreprenurial -- who is changing the way business works forever. Odd, mysterious, yet public-spirited, McCaw is a technological visionary who sees profit where others see thin air. His amazing, ongoing story is required reading for anyone wanting to understand what it takes to build an industry from scratch -- twice. 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
Fast Finite Volume Simulation of 3D Electromagnetic Problems with Highly Discontinuous Coefficients
Authors: E. Haber, U. M. Ascher
Venue: SIAM Journal on Scientific Computing (2000)

We consider solving three-dimensional electromagnetic problems in parameter regimes where the quasi-static approximation applies and the permeability, permittivity, and conductivity may vary significantly. The difficulties encountered include handling solution discontinuities across interfaces and accelerating convergence of traditional iterative methods for the solution of the linear systems of algebraic equations that arise when discretizing Maxwell's equations in the frequency domain.The present article extends methods we proposed earlier for constant permeability [E. Haber, U. Ascher, D. Aruliah, and D. Oldenburg, J. Comput. Phys., 163 (2000), pp. 150--171; D. Aruliah, U. Ascher, E. Haber, and D. Oldenburg, Math. Models Methods Appl. Sci., to appear.] to handle also problems in which the permeability is variable and may contain significant jump discontinuities. In order to address the problem of slow convergence we reformulate Maxwell's equations in terms of potentials, applying a Helmholtz decomposition to either the electric field or the magnetic field. The null space of the curl operators can then be annihilated by adding a stabilizing term, using a gauge condition, and thus obtaining a strongly elliptic differential operator. A staggered grid finite volume discretization is subsequently applied to the reformulated PDE system. This scheme works well for sources of various types, even in the presence of strong material discontinuities in both conductivity and permeability. The resulting discrete system is amenable to fast convergence of ILU-preconditioned Krylov methods.We test our method using several numerical examples and demonstrate its robust efficiency. We also compare it to the classical Yee method using similar iterative techniques for the resulting algebraic system, and we show that our method is significantly faster, especially for electric sources.
Information Dynamics: Foundations and Applications
Authors: Gustavo Deco, Bernd Schhurmann
Venue:  (2000)

:The goal of the book is to provide a detailed and unified study of the flow of information in a quantitative manner, utilizing methods and techniques from information theory, time series analysis, nonlinear dynamics, and neural networks. The authors use analysis of test-bed simulations, empirical data, and real-world applications to give concrete perspectives and reinforcement for the key conceptual ideas and methods. The formulation provides a unique and consistent conceptual framework for the problem of discovering knowledge behind empirical data." "The book is an essential text/reference on the latest concepts and methods for studying quantitative modeling of nonlinear dynamical system behavior. Postgraduates, professionals, and researchers in science, engineering, computer science, and neural computing will find the book a useful and authoritative resource for the subject.
The Token-Ring Management Guide
Authors: Martin A. W. Nemzow
Venue:  (1993)

:Token ring has become the protocol of choice in high-speed,high-volume networking. This guide offers a complete look at establishing a token-ring network in light of today's technological developments,corporate needs,and management concerns. The book covers such practical issues as safety factors,installation procedures,hardware and software choices,and debugging and testing. It then moves on to detail valuable troubleshooting techniques,and network security and monitoring methods. Featured topics include: available software applications developed specifically for token ring,FDDI and twisted-pair cabling,installation guidelines,how to cope with security and maintenance issues,and much more.
3d Studio IPAS Plug-in Reference/Book and CD-ROM
Authors: Tim Forcade
Venue:  (1995)

:With over 200 IPAS applications available, this visual reference makes it easy for users to understand each IPAS function and how to use it in professional drawings and animation.Includes a full-color image array or series of arrays to demonstrate use and provide a point of departure for fine-tuning effectsCD-ROM includes demo versions of commercial plug-in applications, parameter files for all the effects, and custom IPAS applications
Information and Secrecy: Vannevar Bush, Ultra, and the Other Memex
Authors: Colin Burke
Venue:  (1993)

:Written for the general reader, Burke's volume provides the first view of the relationships among America's librarians, cryptanalysts and educators as they created information science, computerized codebreaking, and the modern research university. Using hundreds of primary and secret documents and more than twenty illustrations to trace the careers of Vannevar Bush of MIT and the navy's codebreaking agency, OP-20-G, Burke shows how the lack of coherent American science and intelligence policies led to the tangled lives of two proto-computers that were the world's first electronic data-processing machines. The histories of Bush's Memex-like microfilm Rapid Selector for the American Documentalists and his Comparator for those who created the nation's Ultra Bombe and RAM machines began in the early 1930s and suffered through a generation of struggles with intransigent technologies, policy conflicts with the British over the control of signals-intelligence and the unwillingness of America to develop information and intelligence technologies until the Cold War turned to science and the library to fulfill defense needs. Now, as the United States is on the verge of investing billions of dollars in information highways while reducing its intelligence capabilities, the tragedy of Bush's machines warns against information scientists putting technology ahead of logic and of the dangers of the nation returning to isolationism. Indexed and with extensive endnotes which serve the bibliographic function.Author Biography: Colin Burke (Ph.D., Washington University) is an historian and educator who has written on American social history, the history of higher education, quantitative methodsand the history of computers. He has received awards from, among others, the SSRC and the Spencer Foundation. He was the senior Fulbright scholar in Poland during the fall of Communism and has acted as a consultant to government agencies.
Sams Teach Yourself Linux Programming in 21 Days with CDROM, 1st edition
Authors: Erik de Castro Lopo, Bradley L. Jones
Venue:  (1999)

:Sams Teach Yourself Linux Programming in 21 Days is a tutorial book, organized into a series of easy-to-follow, 1 Day lessons. The book assumes an understanding of C, the core language of Linux throughout the lessons. Learn about X Windows and various programming environments, making a library, shell scripts, curses, writing a network program, clients and servers, Awk and Perl, rebuilding the Linux operating system, and GNU Public License and distributing your software. Learn to program the Linux operating system and solve real-world Linux programming problems in just 21 Days Makes the transition to Linux programming as easy as possible with many example programs provided Quickly learn about the various programming environments available, and apply your knowledge to the real world
Teach Yourself Microsoft Office 2000, 1st edition
Authors: Brian Underdahl, Swasy, Charles Siege
Venue:  (1999)

:A fast, easy, and economical tutorial that shows readers how to get the most out of the world's most popular productivity suite through a task-oriented approach. Readers learn the best ways to use Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Access, Outlook, and the hot new speech-recognition technology by working through real-world step-by-steps.
A Stabilized Superfast Solver for Nonsymmetric Toeplitz Systems
Authors: Marc Van Barel, Georg Heinig, Peter Kravanja
Venue: SIAM Journal on Matrix Analysis and Applications (2001)

We present a stabilized superfast solver for nonsymmetric Toeplitz systems Tx=b. An explicit formula for T-1 is expressed in such a way that the matrix-vector product T^-1b can be calculated via FFTs and Hadamard products. This inversion formula involves certain polynomials that can be computed by solving two linearized rational interpolation problems on the unit circle. The heart of our Toeplitz solver is a superfast algorithm to solve these interpolation problems. To stabilize the algorithm, i.e., to improve the accuracy, several techniques are used: pivoting, iterative improvement, downdating, and giving "difficult" interpolation points an adequate treatment. We have implemented our algorithm in Fortran 90. Numerical examples illustrate the effectiveness of our approach.
Sap R/3 on the Internet
Authors: Mario Perez, Thomas Hantusch, Peter Zencke
Venue:  (1999)

:Connecting the SAP R/3 System to the Internet sets new standards for communications between enterprises, business partners and customers. The extensive integration of SAP's R/3 technology and the R/3 Internet solution guarantees that standard business requirements for transaction security, scalability and performance on the Internet are met. The multiple practical programming examples provided throughout the book will enable you to implement your own Internet projects using the SAP Internet solution to best effect.
Plain English Answers to 101 Computer Questions
Authors: Gina Smith, Leo Laporte
Venue:  (1995)

:No one answers more computer questions from first-time buyers than Gina Smith and Leo Laporte. Now you can get all those answers in one place, in an entertaining format that will make you laugh while you learn. Over the past decade Gina and Leo have talked with thousands of computer users on TV, radio, and in the newspaper. They're famous around the world for making computers easy to understand. In this book, they answer the questions people ask most often with simple, jargon-free language.
Colour Imaging: Vision and Technology, 1st edition
Authors: L. W. MacDonald, Ronnier Luo
Venue:  (1999)

:Meeting the increasing demand for multimedia imaging, this book clearly explains how to improve the quality of presentation. Areas covered include colour imaging and multimedia user interface. Some of the key enabling technologies presented are digital colour imaging, and the reproduction of realistic colour images.
Model Checking of Safety Properties
Authors: Orna Kupferman, Moshe Y. Vardi
Venue: Formal Methods in System Design (2001)

Of special interest in formal verification are safety properties, which assert that the system always stays within some allowed region. Proof rules for the verification of safety properties have been developed in the proof-based approach to verification, making verification of safety properties simpler than verification of general properties. In this paper we consider model checking of safety properties. A computation that violates a general linear property reaches a bad cycle, which witnesses the violation of the property. Accordingly, current methods and tools for model checking of linear properties are based on a search for bad cycles. A symbolic implementation of such a search involves the calculation of a nested fixed-point expression over the system's state space, and is often infeasible. Every computation that violates a safety property has a finite prefix along which the property is violated. We use this fact in order to base model checking of safety properties on a search for finite bad prefixes. Such a search can be performed using a simple forward or backward symbolic reachability check. A naive methodology that is based on such a search involves a construction of an automaton (or a tableau) that is doubly exponential in the property. We present an analysis of safety properties that enables us to prevent the doubly-exponential blow up and to use the same automaton used for model checking of general properties, replacing the search for bad cycles by a search for bad prefixes.
The Mortar Finite Element Method for 3D Maxwell Equations: First Results
Authors: F. Ben Belgacem, A. Buffa, Y. Maday
Venue: SIAM Journal on Numerical Analysis (2001)

In the framework of domain decomposition methods, we extend the main ideas of the mortar element method to the numerical solution of Maxwell's equations (in wave form) by H( curl)-conforming finite elements. The method we propose turns out to be a new nonconforming, nonoverlapping domain decomposition method where nonmatching grids are allowed at the interfaces between subdomains. A model problem is considered, the convergence of the discrete approximation is analyzed, and an error estimate is provided. The method is proven to be slightly suboptimal with a loss of a factor $\scriptstyle\sqrt{|{\rm ln} h|}$ with respect to the degree of polynomials. In order to achieve this convergence result we nevertheless need extra-regularity assumptions on the solution of the continuous problem.
An integer ambiguity resolution algorithm for real-time GPS attitude determination
Authors: SungPil Yoon, John B. Lundberg
Venue: Applied Mathematics and Computation (2002)

The problem of integer ambiguity resolution must be solved to fully exploit the information contained in the GPS carrier phase measurements for real-time attitude determination. A new algorithm for integer ambiguity resolution that uses single-difference smoothed pseudorange measurements is proposed that has several advantages over the conventional algorithms such as the search methods and the motion-based algorithms. These advantages include minimal computational effort at each epoch and an analytically derived equation which calculates the expected time to ambiguity resolution. The validity and the performance of the new algorithm are investigated through simulations although processing real data will be necessary to verify the usability of the proposed algorithm in real situations.
SAP R/3 Management: An Insider's Unbiased Appraisal of SAP R/3
Authors: Knut Hildebrand
Venue:  (1999)

:Covers the decision-relevant aspects of implementing SAP R/3. Covers in detail strategic planning, methods and tools, linking to the Internet and Intranet, and challenges encountered when implementing SAP R/3 into a company. Contains information on business application components and how they work with SAP R/3, including financial accounting and controlling, sales and distribution, logistics/material management, and human resources. Currently no competition at this price point that covers the new releases of SAP R/3. Covers the newest release of SAP, versions 4 and 4.5. Contains case studies provided by hands-on SAP R/3 consultants. Written to the level of CEO, CFO, and IT executives, unlike the competition that writes to beginners and programmers.
SQL 2000 Database Design Exam Cram
Authors: Richard Alan McMahon, Sean Chase
Venue:  (2001)

:The MCSE SQL 2000 Database Design Exam Cram is the ideal study aid for IT professionals aiming at the "Designing and Implementing Databases with Microsoft SQL Server 2000 Enterprise Edition" exam (70-229). Essential exam objectives like Logical Data Modeling, Database Objects, Data Integrity, XML, and Tuning and Optimizing Data Access are thoroughly covered. Readers can also complete their total exam preparation with insightful test taking strategies, helpful hints and tips, and realistic case studies and practice questions.