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Homeschool Your Child for Free: More Than 1,200 Smart, Effective, and Practical Resources for Home Education on the Internet and Beyond, 4th edition
Authors: LauraMaery Gold
Venue:  (2000)

:Are you considering homeschooling your child, but don't know where to go for the best educational resources? The Internet is an open door to the biggest library/laboratory the world has ever seenand it's all at your fingertips for free! This never-ending source of information, adventure, and educational experiences for the entire family is now compiled in a complete curriculum for any age in Homeschool Your Child for Free.This invaluable guide to all the best in free educational materialfrom reading-readiness activities for preschoolers to science projects for teenscategorizes, reviews, and rates more than 1,200 of the most useful educational resources on the Internet and beyond. You'll discover:Legal guidelines and compliance requirements for home educatorsComplete curriculum plans for a comprehensive education, for preschool through high schoolOnline lesson plans arranged by subject, from American history to zoologyTeaching tips and motivators from successful homeschoolersAnd much, much more!"Wow! Everything I have been trying to organizeall in one book! This is going to be part of my resource library for the support group I lead. Thanks, ladies."Kimberly Eckles, HIS Support Group Leader, Home InstructorsI'm impressed! There are more sites and links than I knew existed. A great resource for homeschoolers."Maureen McCaffrey, publisher Homeschooling Today
Impact of statistical multiplexing on voice quality in cellular networks
Authors: Thomas Enderes, Swee Chern Khoo, Clare A. Somerville, Kostas Samaras
Venue: Mobile Networks and Applications (2002)

This paper examines the quality of transmission of voice over cellular, packet-switched networks. The medium access mechanism in the uplink is simulated under various statistical multiplexing scenarios in order to assess the effect of front-end clipping on voice quality. Moreover, the simulation is implemented in a real-time demonstration platform utilized to acquire subjective indicators of voice quality by performing Mean Opinion Score (MOS) tests. Results from the MOS tests are reported, and an analysis of the obtained speech samples is presented. Finally, the results are summarized and potential further directions for the simulation tool and the speech models are discussed.
Taking the Leap into New Media
Authors: Stephanie A. Redman
Venue:  (1999)

:Multimedia and the Web figure as the new Holy Grail for graphic designers, but most don't know how or where to start. In 15 fascinating case studies, top designers talk about how they 'took the leap' and landed on both feet, sharing proven strategies for quickly learning new media, developing networks for collaboration and more. Graphic designers can use this information to reinvent their own business and take advantage of new opportunities in digital communication design. 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
Programming the Boundary Element Method
Authors: Gernot Beer
Venue:  (2000)

:Providing an easy introduction to the boundary element method, this book is ideal for any reader wishing to work in this field or use this method for the solution of engineering problems. From the beginning, the emphasis is on the implementation of the method into computer programs which can be used to solve real problems. The book covers two- and three-dimensional linear and non-linear analysis in potential flow (heat flow and seepage) and static elasticity. Several computer programs are listed in the book and may be downloaded free of charge via the Internet
Residential Broadband, 2nd edition
Authors: George Abe
Venue:  (1999)

:This comprehensive, accessible resource organizes and puts in context the complexities and variables that characterize full-scale deployment of residential broadband networks. This book provides valuable information and perspective for anyone with an interest in implementing, guiding, and predicting the future of residential broadband technologies: product developers, engineers, network designers, business people, lawyers, regulators, investors, and industry analysts.
Sams Teach Yourself PERL in 24 Hours: Starter Kit, 1st edition
Authors: Clinton Pierce
Venue:  (1999)

:Even if you're new to Perl, Sams Teach Yourself Perl in 24 Hours teaches you everything you need to know to begin producing useful CGI programs quickly. This book provides you with a solid foundation in the basics of the Perl language, so you can easily move on to more advanced books and techniques. Special attention is paid to those features that trouble new users. Building on that knowledge, you will begin to interact with your file system, operating system, and network environment. Then move on to creating useful CGI programs, such as data collection, shopping cart, server push, and e-mail forms. 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
Using Word 6 for Windows
Authors: Nancy Stevenson
Venue:  (1995)

:Developed for the casual user, this book is an easy-to-use guide that teaches the fundamentals of Word and how to become productive quickly. Readers will learn how to enter and edit text, format text, manage files, spell check documents, print, and more.Focuses on "just what you need to know"Presents the most efficient and intuitive way to accomplish tasksDesigned for comfort, ease-of-use, and ready access
Numerical Tokamak Turbulence calculations on the CRAY T3E
Authors: V. E. Lynch, J-N. Leboeuf, B. A. Carreras, J. D. Alvarez, L. Garcia
Venue: Proceedings of the 1997 ACM/IEEE conference on Supercomputing (CDROM) (1997)

Full cross section calculations of ion-temperature-gradient-driven turbulence with Landau closure are being carried out as part of the Numerical Tokamak Turbulence Project, one of the U. S. Department of Energy's Phase II Grand Challenges. To include the full cross section of a magnetic fusion device like the tokamak requires more memory and CPU time than is available on the National Energy Research Scientific Computing Center's (NERSC's) shared-memory vector machines such as the CRAY C90 and J90. Calculations of cylindrical multihelicity ion-temperature-gradient-driven turbulence were completed on NERSC's 160-processor distributed-memory CRAY T3E parallel computer with 256 Mbytes of memory per processor. This augurs well for yet more memory and CPU intensive calculations on the next-generation T3E at NERSC. This paper presents results on benchmarks with the current T3E at NERSC. Physics results pertaining to plasma confinement at the core of tokamaks subject to ion-temperature-gradient-driven-turbulence are also highlighted. Results at this resolution covering this extent of physical time were previously unattainable. Work is in progress to increase the resolution, improve the performance of the parallel code, and include toroidal geometry in these calculations in anticipation of the imminent arrival of a fully configured, 512-processor, T3E-900 model.
Advanced Visual C++ 4
Authors: Steven Holzner
Venue:  (1996)

:Advanced Visual C++ 4 goes right to the heart of Windows. Readers will learn to expand dialogue boxes on the fly, create multi-threaded, multi-tasking programs, communicate between threads and processes, and how to optimize threading within a program. They'll learn to use DLLs effectively--even to extend MFC itself by exporting a C++ class from a DLL.
Sams Teach Yourself Word 97 in 10 Minutes, 1st edition
Authors: Peter Aitken
Venue:  (1998)

:Sams Teach Yourself Word 97 in 10 Minutes is a tutorial-based book, organized into a series of easy-to-follow, 10-minute lessons. These well-targeted lessons teach you in 10 minutes what some books take several hours or days to teach.How to copy, delete, and move text quickly and easilyCreate eye-catching documentsChange fonts and add bullets
UNIX System V Release for Programmer's Guide System Service
Authors: CORPORATE UNIX System Laboratories Staff
Venue:  (1992)

:A guide to developing an application package under UNIX System V, this book describes how to use the UNIX system services provided by the kernel, such as file and record locking, the process scheduler, and symbolic links. It also covers the use of library routines in software development in general and the use of standard tools to package application software for easy installation on a running system. Other topics include interprocess communication, memory management, packaging application software, modifying the system interface, and data validation tools.
Nintendo 64 Power Pocket Guide: Unauthorized
Authors: Nick Roberts
Venue:  (1996)

:This guide covers the hottest games for the revolutionary N64! Killer codes, cheats, and more for games like, Mario Kart 64, Mortal Kombat Trilogy, Shadows of the Empire, Super Mario 64, Pilot Wings 64, and more!
Fresh Ideas in Letterhead and Business Card Design 4, 4th edition
Authors: Gail Deibler Finke
Venue:  (1999)

:Letterheads and business cards are staple projects for graphic designers, who are continually searching for fresh ideas. This book presents 116 examples of the freshest from studios around the country and the world--designs that communicate a strong business identity in creative and cost-efficient ways. The work is presented in four sections, focusing on clever uses of image, type, small budgets, and special production techniques. Each project includes firsthand insight on design concept and production specs. About the Author: Gail Deibler Finke, a Cincinnati-based freelance writer, specializes in graphic design topics. Her books include Fresh Ideas in Letterhead and Business Card Design 2 and Fresh Ideas for Designing with Black, White and Gray.
Business data management for business-to-business electronic commerce
Authors: Christoph Quix, Mareike Schoop, Manfred Jeusfeld
Venue: ACM SIGMOD Record (2002)

Business-to-business electronic commerce (B2B EC) opens up new possibilities of trade. For example, new business partners from around the globe can be found, their offers can be compared, even complex negotiations can be conducted electronically, and a contract can be drawn up and fulfilled via an electronic marketplace. However, a sophisticated data management is required to provide such factilities. In this paper, the results of a multi-national project on creating a business-to-business electronic marketplace for small and medium-sized enterprises are presented. Tools for information discovery, protocol-based negotiations, and monitored contract enactment are provided and based on a business data repository. The repository integrates heterogeneous business data with business communication. Specific problems such as multi-linguality, data ownership, and traceability of contracts and related negotiations are addressed and it will be shown that the present approach provides efficient business data management for B2B EC.
Cost-augmented narrowing-driven specialization
Authors: Germán Vidal
Venue: Proceedings of the 2002 ACM SIGPLAN workshop on Partial evaluation and semantics-based program manipulation (2002)

The aim of many program transformers is to improve efficiency while preserving program meaning. Correctness issues have been dealt with extensively. However, very little attention has been paid to formally establish the improvements achieved by these transformers. In this work, we introduce the scheme of a narrowing-driven partial evaluator enhanced with abstract costs. They are "abstract" in the sense that they measure the number of basic operations performed during a computation rather than actual execution times. Thus, we have available a setting in which one can discuss the effects of the program transformer in a precise framework and, moreover, to quantify these effects. Our scheme may serve as a basis to develop speedup analyses and cost-guided transformers. An implementation of the cost-augmented specializer has been undertaken, which demonstrates the practicality of our approach.
Pretenuring for Java
Authors: Stephen M. Blackburn, Sharad Singhai, Matthew Hertz, Kathryn S. McKinely, J. Eliot B. Moss
Venue: Proceedings of the 16th ACM SIGPLAN conference on Object-oriented programming, systems, languages, and applications (2001)

Pretenuring can reduce copying costs in garbage collectors by allocating long-lived objects into regions that the garbage collector with rarely, if ever, collect. We extend previous work on pretenuring as follows. (1) We produce pretenuring advice that is neutral with respect to the garbage collector algorithm and configuration. We thus can and do combine advice from different applications. We find that predictions using object lifetimes at each allocation site in Java prgroams are accurate, which simplifies the pretenuring implementation. (2) We gather and apply advice to applications and the Jalape&ntilde;o JVM, a compiler and run-time system for Java written in Java. Our results demonstrate that building combined advice into Jalape&ntilde;o from different application executions improves performance regardless of the application Jalape&ntilde;o is compiling and executing. This build-time advice thus gives user applications some benefits of pretenuring without any application profiling. No previous work pretenures in the run-time system. (3) We find that application-only advice also improves performance, but that the combination of build-time and application-specific advice is almost always noticeably better. (4) Our same advice improves the performance of generational and Older First colleciton, illustrating that it is collector neutral.
Beowulf cluster computing with Linux
Venue:  (2001)

Beowulf clusters, which exploit mass-market PC hardware and software in conjunction with cost-effective commercial network technology, are becoming the platform for many scientific, engineering, and commercial applications. With growing popularity has come growing complexity. Addressing that complexity, Beowulf Cluster Computing with Linux and Beowulf Cluster Computing Windows provide system users and administrators with the tools they need to run the most advanced Beowulf clusters. The book is appearing in both Linux and Windows versions in order to reach the entire PC cluster community, which is divided into two distinct camps according to the node operating system.
Bioinformatics: the machine learning approach, 2nd edition
Authors: Pierre Baldi, Søren Brunak
Venue:  (2001)

In this book Pierre Baldi and S&oslash;ren Brunak present the key machine learning approaches and apply them to the computational problems encountered in the analysis of biological data. The book is aimed both at biologists and biochemists who need to understand new data-driven algorithms and at those with a primary background in physics, mathematics, statistics, or computer science who need to know more about applications in molecular biology.
Performability of an Algorithm for Connection Admission Control
Authors: John F. Meyer
Venue: IEEE Transactions on Computers (2001)

Connection admission control (CAC) in broadband, ATM-based telecommunication networks is a problem of recognized importance. Its solution calls for real-time algorithms that can accurately decide whether a connection request may be granted without compromising specified quality of service (QoS) requirements. We consider an algorithm for this purpose that accommodates variable bit rate (VBR) connections and is based on effective bandwidth computations. Arriving VBR traffic streams are assumed to be leaky-bucket regulated and are represented by worst-case, periodic, on-off, fluid sources that are randomly phased. Moreover, certain traffic classes may benefit from statistical multiplexing (S-VBR), while others may not (NS-VBR). We then evaluate the ability of such a CAC algorithm to perform in the presence of fluctuating channel capacity, where the performability variable $Y_T$ is the fraction of some specified busy period $T$ during which the quality of service requirement is violated. A general base model that supports $Y_T$ is then formulated and instances of the resulting performability model are constructed and solved using UltraSAN. In particular, the evaluation experiments reveal some interesting differences in how QoS degrades with respect to the control of S-VBR vs. NS-VBR traffic.
Your First Computer
Authors: Alan Simpson
Venue:  (1992)

:Alan Simpson's all-time favorite guide for computer novices. Find out what computers are, how they work, and what they can do for you. Written in clear, nontechnical language, this book is a must for every computer library. 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
Wireless Computing Primer
Authors: Veronica Williams
Venue:  (1995)

:Wireless computing, which has become an indispensable technology for hundreds of forward-looking operations, is finally coming of age and reaching into a wider corporate audience. In this guide, consultant Williams traces the development of this fast-growing technology and describes the steps an organization must take to sort through the hardware and software options. 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
Information Security Architecture: An Integrated Approach to Security in the Organization
Authors: Jan Killmeyer Tudor
Venue:  (2000)

:Tudor details the five key components of ISA (organization/infrastructure, policy and procedure, security baseline of system components, security awareness and training, and compliance), and outlines the steps necessary to establish an integrated and effective security program.Giving you all the information you need to make security a key part of your system architecture, Information Security Architecture is an essential resource for all CIOs, MIS directors, data processing managers, and EDP audit professionals who want to guard their data and systems without breaking their banks.The text is accompanied by a CD containing forms and worksheets to assist in developing and implementing a plan, a searchable electronic edition of the book.
Information Technology in Business: Principles, Practices, and Opportunities, 1st edition
Authors: James A. Senn
Venue:  (2000)

:This second edition focuses on the way Information Technology is transforming the way people do business and how IT impacts their personal lives. The book's emphasis is on the way information technology is used and applied for problem-solving, the new and emerging technologies as they are being implemented in real organizations, applications to personal and professional practice, and the challenges and opportunities of IT in international business situations. For people interested in computers, computer literacy, information systems, or information technology.
Hot text: Web writing that works
Venue:  (2002)

Attention, Web writers! This book will show you how to craft prose that grabs your guests' attention, changes their attitudes, and convinces them to act. You'll learn how to make your style fast, tight, and scannable. You'll cook up links that people love to click, menus that mean something, and pages of text that search engines rank high. You'll learn how to write great Web help, FAQs, responses to customers, marketing copy, press releases, news articles, e-mail newsletters, Webzine raves, or your own Web resume. Case studies show real-life examples you can follow. No matter what you write on the Web, you'll see how to personalize, build communities, and burst out of the conventional with your own honest style.
Object Technology: The New Approach to Application Development
Authors: Jerry Cashin
Venue:  (1996)

:This book is literally Object Technology for the uninitiated software developer. It breaks down this complex subject into simple, easy-to-comprehend topics. 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
Internet after Hours, 2nd edition
Authors: Andy Eddy
Venue:  (1996)

:This reference book is a user-friendly "road map" that will direct readers to the exciting and entertaining information they want from games and movie guides to hobby and other special interest information on the Internet.
NetScape 2 for MacIntosh (Visual QuickStart Guide), 1st edition
Authors: Elizabeth Castro
Venue:  (1996)

:More than 75% of all people browsing the World Wide Web use Netscape, in part because of the program's many powerful features. Netscape 2.0, the browser's just-released major upgrade, offers even more features--all of which are fully explained in this new Visual QuickStart Guide. This book helps readers go from installing the software to using its advanced capabilities.
Computing the betti numbers of arrangements
Authors: Saugata Basu
Venue: Proceedings of the thiry-fourth annual ACM symposium on Theory of computing (2002)

(MATH) In this paper, we consider the problem of computing the Betti numbers of an arrangement of $n$ compact semi-algebraic sets, $S_1,\ldots,S_n \subset \R^k$, where each $S_i$ is described using a constant number of polynomials with degrees bounded by a constant. Such arrangements are ubiquitous in computational geometry. We give an algorithm for computing $\ell$-th Betti number, $\beta_\ell(\cup_i S_i), 0 \leq \ell \leq k-1$, using $O(n^{\ell+2})$ algebraic operations. Additionally, one has to perform linear algebra on matrices of size bounded by $O(n^{\ell+1})$. All previous algorithms for computing the Betti numbers of arrangements, triangulated the arrangement giving rise to a complex of size $O(n^{2^k})$ in the worst case. To our knowledge this is the first algorithm for computing $\beta_\ell(\cup_i S_i)$ that does not rely on such a global triangulation, and has a graded complexity which depends on $\ell$.
Parallel inverse QR decomposition
Authors: Hongyu Xu, Winser E. Alexander
Venue: Proceedings of the 30th annual Southeast regional conference (1992)

This paper describes an algorithm and an associated architecture for the parallel implementation of the least squares problem using the inverse QR decomposition. We developed the architecture as a part of our research on the parallel implementation of multidimensional signal processing algorithms. In this paper, we show that this architecture can also be used to provide a high performance implementation of the least squares problem.