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Effect of an external viewpoint on therapist performance in virtual reality exposure therapy
Authors: Martijn Schuemie
Venue: CHI '02 extended abstracts on Human factors in computing systems (2002)

In Virtual Reality Exposure Therapy, therapist are usually only supplied with the same viewpoint of the Virtual Enviroment (VE) as the patient. This paper investigates the effect of an external viewpoint on the performance of therapists in a VE. Results show that even though this second viewpoint increases the precision with which the therapist can align real and virtual objects, subjects navigate through the VE in a less efficient manner.
A small KIM-1 based interactive music system
Authors: D. E. Swearingen, T. G. Windeknecht
Venue: Proceedings of the 18th annual Southeast regional conference (1980)

An interactive four voice organ simulator has been developed using a KIM-1 microcomputer with a 10K byte memory expansion. The basic organ simulator for the KIM-1 is that of Hal Chamberlin of Microcomputer Technology Unlimited. An interrupt driven event sequencer has been designed that allows interactive control of many aspects of the music production including tempo, volume, scale, and timbre (waveform harmonics).
Information Warfare: Cyberterrorism--Protecting Your Personal Security in the Electronic Age, 2nd edition
Authors: Winn Schwartau
Venue:  (1996)

:As the National Information Infrastructure grows and evolves into everyman's electronic superhighway, are we opening the doors to an electronic cold war? Or are we on the edge of a brave new precipice overlooking the dawn of the information revolution? With over 125,000,000 computers inextricably tying our economy together through complex land and satellite-based communications systems, a major portion of our domestic 6 trillion dollar economy depends on their consistent and reliable operation. In a serious and inviting manner, Information Warfare: Chaos on the Electronic Superhighway examines the awesome potential for industrial and international espionage. Through sabotage, theft, data manipulation, and other means, our economy could be crippled beyond anything in recent history. Currently within the banking community it is common practice for banks to use creative accounting to hide millions of dollars lost every year through Information Warfare. In Information Warfare the "digital persona" plays the role of victim and perpetrator. The wrong hands could extract the most personal information about the "digital you," not the least of which could be medical, financial, business, legal, and criminal documentation. An individual could alter his/her own records to eradicate nefarious histories. Or an individual could alter anyone's electronic documentation for any reason. Information Warfare outlines almost every kind of informational disaster imaginable leaving the reader to think there may be no way out of the quagmire that is the new information age. However, author Winn Schwartau details current trends in Information Warfare and inspires the dialogue necessary to establish a National Information Policy, a constitution for Cyberspace and an Electronic Bill of Rights.
Providing file storage & web space for students: which path to take?
Authors: April Krukowski
Venue: Proceedings of the 29th annual ACM SIGUCCS conference on User services (2001)

Since December 1996, Northwestern University has provided students, staff, and faculty with a small amount of online space for web development. Since that time, much has changed in the web-publishing world: most notably, users have become more web-savvy, and web pages have become more complex and graphics-heavy. Is providing members of the University community with 4 MB really a benefit anymore?.Northwestern has the perfect opportunity to reevaluate its "Pubweb" service because the current hardware machine will be ending its maintenance contract. In addition to web publishing space, the University has been evaluating the need for ubiquitous network file storage for its students, faculty and staff. This seems to be a service that would be valuable in a well-wired community.However, web hosting and network storage are both commodity services easily available on the Internet. Some of these services are still freely available, but unfortunately, several of the larger vendors in these areas haven been forced to abandon the idea of free storage and adopt a subscription-based model.Northwestern has therefore been faced with a two-fold dilemma: (1) should the University continue to provide web-publishing space? and (2) should the University expand its service to include file storage space? If so, what is the most stable, cost-effective solution for a mixed-platform computing environment? Perhaps even more importantly, how critical are such services in the pursuit of becoming a well-wired university?.Although Northwestern has not yet implemented a solution, the paper will evaluate the storage options under consideration (i.e., in-house solutions including Windows 2000 Server, UNIX, and NAS, as well as outsourcing solutions), and explore the greater issue of whether network storage is a valuable service for the University community.
Exploiting contextual change in context-aware retrieval
Authors: Peter J. Brown, Gareth J. F. Jones
Venue: Proceedings of the 2002 ACM symposium on Applied computing (2002)

Information retrieval systems are usually unaware of the context in which they are being used. We believe that exploiting context information to augment existing retrieval methods can lead to increased retrieval precision. This approach is particularly important with the development of wireless mobile information appliances, such as PDAs. Many of these devices are aware of the user's physical context, and this has led to the evolution of context-aware applications. Such applications can automatically utilise the user's current context, e.g. location or ambient temperature. Context-Aware Retrieval is related to traditional Information Retrieval and Information Filtering, but is potentially more challenging due to the often continuous changes in user context. To meet these challenges we suggest a potential advantage of Context-Aware Retrieval: this is that the current context is often changing gradually and semi-predictably. In this paper we suggest new methods based on a context-diary and caching aimed at improving both the precision of relevant retrieved information and the speed/availability of retrieval. The methods can be used, in principle, on top of existing retrieval systems.
Desktop Guide to RPG/400
Authors: Julian Monypenny
Venue:  (1996)

:The 4th in our series of Desktop Guides features "just-do-it" techniques for interactive programming; effective methods for program-to-program communications; a handy set of string manipulation functions; standard, flexible error handling; real-world use of APIs; and much more. Packed with RPG tips to use and reuse in your own RPG code, plus an RPG/400 language summary guide.
Pop through mouse button interactions
Authors: Robert Zeleznik, Timothy Miller, Andrew Forsberg
Venue: Proceedings of the 14th annual ACM symposium on User interface software and technology (2001)

We present a range of novel interactions enabled by a simple modification in the design of a computer mouse. By converting each mouse button to pop through tactile push-buttons, similar to the focus/shutter-release buttons used in many cameras, users can feel, and the computer can sense, two distinct "clicks" corresponding to pressing lightly and pressing firmly to pop through. Despite the prototypical status of our hardware and software implementations, our current pop through mouse interactions are compelling and warrant further investigation. In particular, we demonstrate that pop through buttons not only yield an additional button activation state that is composable with, or even preferable to, techniques such as double-clicking, but also can endow a qualitatively novel user experience when meaningfully and consistently applied. We propose a number of software guidelines that may provide a consistent, systemic benefit; for example, light pressure may invoke default interaction (short menu), and firm pressure may supply more detail (long menu).
DeBabelizer for Windows and Macintosh: Visual QuickStart Guide
Authors: Nolan Hester
Venue:  (1999)

:DeBabelizer takes a mess of graphics file formats and allows you to make sense of them. It is the most popular graphics utility for file conversion, batch processing of graphics files, and more, yet it can be tricky to learn. That's where the DeBabelizer for Windows and Macintosh: Visual QuickStart Guide comes in. Beginners start off by learning their way around the DeBabelizer interface, and move on to working with the image processing tools, palettes, scripting, and batch automation. More sophisticated users will find special tips, tricks, and tools related to animation, film making, and Web design. Experienced designers will rely on the coverage of the powerful SuperPalette and will use the book repeatedly as a reference. With the DeBabelizer for Windows and Macintosh:Visual QuickStart Guide, users quickly learn to master this powerful tool and find they have more time to design and create. DeBabelizer is the most popular image conversion program on the market A must-have tool for Web designers and desktop publishers An excellent reference guide for more experienced designers and Webmasters.
Director 6 for MacIntosh (Visual QuickStart Guide)
Authors: Andre Persidsky
Venue:  (1997)

:Macromedia Director is the premiere authoring software in the multimedia industry, allowing users to merge and orchestrate text, graphics, animation, video, sound effects, and music into business presentations, entertainment and education CD-ROMs, interactive information kiosks, and other full-featured interactive software. "Director 6: Visual QuickStart Guide" covers all the new features of Director 6 and is available in both Macintosh and Windows versions.
Cryptography and E-Commerce
Authors: Jon C. Graff
Venue:  (2000)

:A clear and easy guide on how to use cryptography to secure e-commerce transactions To be on the cutting edge of e-commerce, you need to understand how to best utilize cryptography to offer secure services for your customers over the Internet. But if you reach for most of the available books on the subject, you'll find that they are far too technical for most business needs. If you need a quick and lucid managerial summary to help you develop effective e-commerce strategies, this is the book for you. Geared to nontechnical managers who would like to explore the underlying concepts of modern cryptography, this book features an easily accessible, logical explanation of how cryptography works to solve real-world e-commerce problems, a tutorial on the underlying mathematics, and two case studies of PKI cryptographic architectures, showing how Kerberos and PKC can be wedded to protect a company's intranet and how a full-blown working PKI provides security to a company's Internet communications.
Adobe Indesign 1.5: Introduction to Electronic Mechanicals, 1st edition
Authors: CORPORATE Against the Clock,  Inc. Staff
Venue:  (2000)

: Cross-platform compatibilityMacintosh and Windows versions covered in one book Accompanying CD includes all graphic files needed for practice exercises Learning objectives provided at the beginning of each chapter Icons in sidebars help identify key portions of the materials
Mac OS 9: Visual QuickStart Guide
Authors: Maria Langer
Venue:  (1999)

:Mac OS 9: Visual QuickStart Guide provides step-by-step instruction in how to use AppleÕs Mac OS 9, taking an easy, visual approach. Beginners, and professionals moving up to the newest version of the operating system, can quickly learn to use the features and capabilities of Mac OS 9. Detailed explanation of how to install, set up and configure, and use the OS are covered, along with detailed instruction on how to getting going on the Internet, using the Mac OSÕs Internet utilities. Also included is a chapter on the iBook, AppleÕs popular consumer laptop.
Women & technology: how Wellesley College recruits, trains and retains student staff
Authors: Marjorie Rowell
Venue: Proceedings of the 29th annual ACM SIGUCCS conference on User services (2001)

Many campuses have reported having a difficult time filling all of their vacant IS student positions each semester. Students have become a vital component of all IS departments on campuses and are necessary for the delivery of services to the full community. Recruiting qualified and competent students is a challenge higher education must address every couple of months as semesters change.While attending regional and national meetings, this author frequently asks attendees discussing the problem of student hiring, "How many of your students are women?" The response to this question prompted the writing of this paper. One manager reported that all of his employees were male, another said that though he has a few women, the male students treated them with little respect and assumed the "girls" could not deal with the mysteries of technology.Wellesley College employees over 160 female students and considers them essential to the daily operation of the Information Services Department. They can not only be found in all of the public labs, dorms and at the Help Desk, but also in repair and installation of equipment. They are incredibly bright and capable but more importantly we have found that they thrive on the challenge of troubleshooting problems while interacting and communicating with distraught staff and students. The key to attracting large numbers of applicants turned out to be training.
Understanding metonymies in discourse
Venue: Artificial Intelligence (2002)

We propose a new computational model for the resolution of metonymies, a particular type of figurative language. Typically, metonymies are considered as a violation of semantic constraints (e.g., those expressed by selectional restrictions) that require some repair mechanism (e.g., type coercion) for proper interpretation. We reject this view, arguing that it misses out on the interpretation of a considerable number of utterances. Instead, we treat literal and figurative language on a par, by computing both kinds of interpretation independently from each other as long as their semantic representation structures are consistent with the underlying knowledge representation structures of the domain of discourse. The following general heuristic principles apply for making reasonable selections from the emerging readings. We argue that the embedding of utterances in a coherent discourse context is as important for recognizing and interpreting metonymic utterances as intrasentential semantic constraints. Therefore, in our approach, (metonymic or literal) interpretations that establish referential cohesion are preferred over ones that do not. In addition, metonymic interpretations that conform to a metonymy schema are preferred over metonymic ones that do not, and metonymic interpretations that are in conformance with knowledge-based aptness conditions are preferred over metonymic ones that are not. We lend further credit to our model by discussing empirical data from an evaluation study which highlights the importance of the discourse embedding of metonymy interpretation for both anaphora and metonymy resolution.
Microsoft Visual J++ 6.0 Reference Library: Reference Library, 1st edition
Authors: CORPORATE Microsoft Corporation Staff
Venue:  (1998)

:The Microsoft Visual J++ 6.0 Reference Library contains A-Z listings for the Microsoft Windows Foundation Classes (WFC) for Java. The state-of-the-art WFC library unifies the Win32API and Web development with a single programming model across the client and the server. Visual J++ 6.0 provides built-in access to WFC - so developers can harness the productivity of the Java language with the power of the Windows platform. Beginning to intermediate-level Java and Visual J++ programmers alike can use this valuable two-part reference to develop more powerful applications for Windows and the Web. 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
Sams Teach Yourself CGI in 24 Hours, 1st edition
Authors: Rafe Colburn
Venue:  (2000)

:Sams Teach Yourself CGI in 24 Hours teaches you the next step beyond simple HTML Web pages. This new edition covers implementing CGI with both C and Perl, and it discusses CGI's relative strengths and weaknesses in comparison with other Web programming technologies like JavaScript, Java, and PHP. The book takes you from the basics of CGIlearning, for example, how to implement and customize existing CGI programs that have been written by othersto the point where you can use CGI to create your own programs from scratch. The book also provides numerous real-life examples of CGI scripts, such as database search tools, survey forms, interactive games, order forms, guest books, and more.
Product quality framework: a vehicle for focusing on product quality goals
Authors: Krishnan Rangarajan, N. Swaminathan, Vishu Hegde, Jacob Jacob
Venue: ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes (2001)

Quality focus is generally on process quality, the avoidance and elimination of defects. This is the most relevant for manufacturing processes. In engineering design, there is as much emphasis also on product quality aspects, such as availability, performance, usability, maintainability etc. Current systems and software engineering practice generally puts the burden of optimizing these attributes solely on the knowledge, intuition and ability of architects and designers.The product quality framework provides a systematic approach that includes techniques for specifying, optimizing, analyzing and measuring these attributes. The framework also puts explicit emphasis on tradeoffs between attributes, providing a direct relationship between design and customer concerns. This paper describes the framework and its use as a vehicle for the engineering of high availability systems.
Computers: Tools for an Information Age, 5th edition
Authors: Harriet L. Capron
Venue:  (1998)

:The new edition of this bestselling computer concepts book focuses on the explosive growth of the Internet. Many topics have been updated or added, including web page design, ethics, Office 97, and push technology. Includes Capron's Pocket Internet, a resource manual with fun and interesting websites organized by category.
The application of the comparable corpora in Chinese-English cross-lingual information retrieval
Authors: Du Lin, Zhang Yibo, Sun Le, Sun Yufang
Venue: Journal of Computer Science and Technology (2001)

This paper proposes a novel Chinese-English Cross-Lingual Information Retrieval (CECLIR) model PME, in which bilingual dictionary and comparable corpora are used to translate the query terms. The proximity and mutual information of the term-pairs in the Chinese and English comparable corpora are employed not only to resolve the translation ambiguities but also to perform the query expansion so as to deal with the out-of-vocabulary issues in the CECLIR. The evaluation results show that the query precision of PME algorithm is about 84.4% of the monolingual information retrieval.
Microsoft Money 99 for Dummies
Authors: Peter Weverka
Venue:  (1998)

:Handle all your personal finances from the comfort of your own home or small office. From paying bills to managing your bank accounts to tracking all your assets, loans, and mortgages, you'll find everything you need to get your money's worth in Microsoft Money 99 For Dummies.
Microsoft Windows 2000 Security Handbook
Authors: Jeff Schmidt
Venue:  (2000)

:Windows 2000 Security Handbook covers NTFS fault tolerance, Kerberos authentication, Windows 2000 intruder detection and writing secure applications for Windows 2000. 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
Introduction
Authors: Gaurav S. Sukhatme, Maja J. Matarik
Venue: Communications of the ACM (2002)

Expect robots to function on their own with people and each other under whichever environmental conditions they happen to find themselves.
Computer assistance for model definition
Authors: Henk de Swaan Arons, Eelco van Asperen
Venue: Proceedings of the 32nd conference on Winter simulation (2000)

Modeling requires considerable knowledge of the various stages of the simulation process. The modeler needs to know a great deal of the system to be modeled (domain specific knowledge), the ins and outs of the modeling process itself (the degree of detail of the model) and how to implement the model in a simulation language. Each of these stages would benefit from some kind of knowledgeable support. In this article a decision-making process is described that supports the modeler to build a model step by step. As a vehicle the Arena simulation environment has been used. The support is based on information provided by the modeler and is essentially data-driven. It suggests which modules could be used best, which parameters need to be determined and helps to formulate route information. This research aims for an implementation of this support using a knowledge-based system.
Joe Celko's SQL for Smarties: Advanced SQL Programming, 1st edition
Authors: Joe Celko
Venue:  (1995)

:Get the most from your database applications through clever SQL programming Joe Celko shares his most useful tips and tricks for advanced SQL programming to help the working programmer gain performance and work around system deficiencies. Addressing real problems that people building real applications face, Joe provides new and creative solutions. A noted consultant, lecturer, and columnist for DBMS and Database Programming & Design magazines, Joe uses entertaining anecdotes and "war stories" to provide real-world insight into SQL programming and warn about potential problems. Become an expert programmer This is the first advanced SQL book available that provides a comprehensive presentation of the techniques necessary to help you progress from a casual user of SQL to an expert programmer. Joe uses an informal, conversational writing style to explain why a particular trick works, so the working programmer can apply it directly to his or her own programming needs. Relying primarily on the SQL-89 features that are now supported by commercial RDBMSs, he also includes an extensive discussion of SQL-92, with information on how it's being implemented in current and future database products. The tips and techniques presented here are not product specific, so they allow programmers to maximize any system's performance.