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Highly parallel and energy-efficient exhaustive minimum distance search engine using hybrid digital/analog circuit techniques
Authors: Chang Ki Kwon, Kwyro Lee
Venue: IEEE Transactions on Very Large Scale Integration (VLSI) Systems (2001)

A minimum distance search engine (MDSE) is presented as a hardware accelerator for various exhaustive pattern-matching systems. This chip executes highly parallel computations of L1 -norms between an input query and stored multiple reference records, and searches for the minimum distance among them in a highly parallel fashion. Our architectural-level estimation shows that this MDSE can reduce energy dissipation by orders of magnitude as the number of records increases, compared with the conventional systems. We have designed a prototype 4-bit 8-word MDSE composed of merged memory logic (MML) and digital/analog-mixed winner-take-all circuit (DAM-WTAC) by using hybrid digital/analog circuit techniques. It was fabricated with a 0.6-&mgr;m single-poly triple-metal CMOS technology. Experimental results show that our chip works properly at 3 V/10 MHz and has approximately four times larger throughput as well as four times higher energy efficiency, compared with the existing 8-bit microcontrollers.
More secrets of consulting: the consultant's tool kit
Authors: Gerald M. Weinberg
Venue:  (2002)

Widely acclaimed as a consultant's consultant, Gerald M. Weinberg builds on his perennial best-seller The Secrets of Consulting with all-new laws, rules, and principles. You'll learn how to fight burnout, stay curious, understand your clients, negotiate effectively, and much, much more. Consultants need more than technical skillsthey need self-awareness and a strong set of personal abilities. Weinberg helps computer consultants identify and strengthen each aspect of their performance using a "consultant's tool kit" of seventeen memorable symbols. He devotes a chapter to each of these symbolic tools, from The Wisdom Box to The Fish-Eye Lens to The Oxygen Mask
The Internet Phone Connection: With Cdrom, 1st edition
Authors: Cheryl Kirk
Venue:  (1996)

:Author Cheryl Kirk explains what you'll need to start placing online calls, and provides a feature-by-feature comparison of the products you can choose from. Numerous real-life scenarios clearly illustrate the basics of using an Internet phone, from installing the software, to chatting with friends and relatives, through more advanced business applications. Plus, the companion CD-ROM is loaded with over 50MB of fully functional versions of top Internet phone technology products, and demo versions of many more - so you can start making calls today! You'll find all the answers to your questions about Internet phone technology: How are people using Internet phones? Is it possible to save money using an Internet phone? What software and hardware will I need? What's the cheapest and best product? What does the future hold for Internet technology? Shortcuts, hidden features, and optimizing tips and techniques round out a guide that's so complete - you might never pick up a telephone again!
Data Warehousing for Dummies, 1st edition
Authors: Alan R. Simon
Venue:  (1997)

:Data warehousing is a valuable, proven approach to providing business users at all levels of an organization with the information they need to make high-impact decisions -- only if the right technologies, architecture, and techniques are used. Data Warehousing For Dummies is the down-to-earth, no-hype reference that covers everything you need to know about data warehousing in today's technology -- and even tomorrow's. From the different types of tools that exist to the steps you use to develop a data warehouse, this book has it all! Inside, find helpful advice on how to Choose the right architecture and approach for your data warehouse Select data warehousing technologies and products Correctly and efficiently analyze data sources and choose what should be in your data warehouse Bring external data into your data warehouse Build a winning development team for your data warehousing project Look ahead to tomorrow's data warehousing technology and what it means for your project
Inferring the environment in a text-to-scene conversion system
Authors: Richard Sproat
Venue: Proceedings of the 1st international conference on Knowledge capture (2001)

There has been a great deal of work over the past decade on inferring semantic information from text corpora. This paper is another instance of this kind of work, but is also slightly different in that we are interested not in extracting semantic information per se, but rather real-world knowledge. In particular, given a description of a particular action --- e.g. John was eating breakfast --- we want to know where John is likely to be, what time of day it is, and so forth. Humans on hearing this sentence would form a mental image that makes a lot of inferences about the environment in which this action occurs: they would probably imagine someone in their kitchen in the morning, perhaps in their dining room, seated at a table, eating a meal.We propose a method that makes use of Dunning's likelihood ratios to extract from text corpora strong associations between particular actions and locations or times when those actions occur. We also present an evaluation of the method. The context of this work is a text-to-scene conversion system called WordsEye, where in order to depict an action such as John was eating breakfast, it is desirable to make reasonable inferences about where and when that action is taking place so that the resulting picture is a reasonable match to one's mental image of the action.
Excel for Windows 95 Clear and Simple
Authors: Stephen Morris
Venue:  (1996)

:If you need to produce spreadsheets, charts, and graphs, and want to get the job done, quickly and efficiently, this book is for you. The author's self-teaching approach will give you results fast.
Knowledge extraction from reinforcement learning
Authors: Ron Sun
Venue: New learning paradigms in soft computing (2002)

This chapter is concerned with knowledge extraction from reinforcement learners. It addresses two approaches towards knowledge extraction: the extraction of explicit, symbolic rules from neural reinforcement learners, and the extraction of complete plans from such learners. The advantages of such knowledge extraction include (1) the improvement of learning (especially with the rule extraction approach), and (2) the improvement of the usability of results of learning.
Mechanism design with incomplete languages
Authors: Amir Ronen
Venue: Proceedings of the 3rd ACM conference on Electronic Commerce (2001)

A major achievement of mechanism design theory is the family of truthful mechanisms often called VCG (named after Vickrey, Clarke and Groves). Although these mechanisms have many appealing properties, their essential intractability prevents them from being applied to complex problems like combinatorial auctions. In particular, VCG mechanisms require the agents to fully describe their valuation functions to the mechanism. Such a description may require exponential size and thus be infeasible for the agents.A natural approach for this problem is to introduce an intermediate language for the description of the valuations. Such a language must be succinct to both the agents and the mechanism. Unfortunately, the resulting mechanisms are neither truthful nor do they satisfy individual rationality.This paper suggests a general method for overcoming this difficulty. Given an intermediate language and an algorithm for computing the results, we propose three different mechanisms, each more powerful than its predecessor, but also more time consuming. Under reasonable assumptions, the results of our mechanisms are at least as good as the results of the algorithm on the actual valuations. All of our mechanisms have polynomial computational time and satisfy individual rationality.
Lycos Personal Internet Guide
Authors: Michael Miller
Venue:  (1998)

:As with America Online, portal sites like Lycos are seeing increased traffic as a one-stop shop for work, entertainment and Web site hosting. Coupled with an AT&T partnership, you have a full service. The Lycos Personal Internet Guide is your handbook to utilizing this service. From having your questions answered to finding how your stocks are performing, the Lycos service provides the key and your Lycos Personal Internet Guide shows the way.You will learn how to install and configure both an ISP and browser, learn the ins and outs of the Lycos service, find and download information and software, shop, find a job, take a trip, and even start your own Web site with the Tripod service. It's all here, and easy to use with the Lycos Personal Internet Guide. 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
Network Security and Firewalls Conference 4 (1997): Proceedings
Authors: Pete Cafarchio
Venue:  (1998)

:Papers included: recommendations for securing publicly accessible devices; towards secure executable content: Java security; Zen & the art of Internet security; building a safe virtual private network; evaluating intrusion detection for the future; large scale remote intrusion detection, & more. 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
No Bugs!: Delivering Error-Free Code in C and C++
Authors: David Thielen
Venue:  (1992)

:Every week the computer industry press is filled with stories of bug-ridden software releases that threaten to ruin a software company's reputation. No Bugs! offers a revolutionary approach to solving this problem by showing programmers how to write error-free code from the start. Experienced software developer David Thielen reveals a series of tricks that you can include in a program to warn off the presence of bugs. All are designed to be quick and easy to implement so that you can shorten the amount of time needed to complete and test your programs. All coding is done in C, C++, and assembly language, and all examples are fully functional. 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
Performance of a new Bluetooth scatternet formation protocol
Authors: Ching Law, Amar K. Mehta, Kai-Yeung Siu
Venue: Proceedings of the 2nd ACM international symposium on Mobile ad hoc networking computing (2001)

A Bluetooth ad hoc network can be formed by interconnecting piconets into scatternets. The constraints and properties of Bluetooth scatternets present special challegnes in forming an ad hoc network efficiently. In this paper, we evaluate the performance of a new randomized distributed Bluetooth scatternet formation protocol. Our simulations validate the theoretical results that our scatternet formation protocol runs in O(log n) time and sends O(n) messages. The scatternets formed have the following properties: 1) any device is a member of at most two piconets, and 2) the number of piconets is close to be optimal. These properties can avoid overloading of any single device and lead to low interference between piconets. In addition, the simulations show that the scatternets formed have O(log n) diameter. As an essential part of the scatternet formation protocol, we study the problem of device discovery: establishing multiple connecitons with many masters and slaves in parallel. We investigate the collision rate and time requirement of the inquiry and page processes. Deducing from the simulation results of scatternet formation and device discovery, we can verify that the total number of packets sent is O(n) and demonstrate that the maximum number of packets sent by any single device is O(log n). At last, we give estimates of the total time requirement of the protocol and suggest further improvements
From Access to SQL Server
Authors: Russell Sinclair
Venue:  (2000)

:- Teaches how to avoid hidden problems and "gotchas" associated with migration from Access to SQL Server - Learn the differences between these two systems and how Microsoft Access interfaces with SQL Server - Covers Microsoft Access 97 and 2000 and Microsoft SQL Server 6.5 and 7 Microsoft Access has become the most popular desktop database program for software development. However, many programmers have encountered limitations with the program and are choosing to migrate their databases to SQL Server. This process is fraught with hidden problems that many developers do not expect. In this book Sinclair teaches Access developers what they need to know about SQL Server. He includes detailed information on how to work with SQL Server outside of the Access environment and how to design efficient SQL Server databases. The author also discusses the planning that should go into a database migration and decisions that need to be made along the way. Author Biography: Russell Sinclair is a Senior Programmer with Questica, Inc., a company specializing in software for the customized machinery manufacturing industry. Sinclair is a frequent contributor to Smart Access, and has extensive experience in Access and SQL Server development.
Mathematics: A Discrete Introduction
Authors: Edward R. Scheinerman
Venue:  (2000)

:This book is an introduction to mathematicsin particular, it is an introduction to discrete mathematics. There are two primary goals for this book: students will learn to reading and writing proofs, and students will learn the fundamental concepts of discrete mathematics.
Freebsd Handbook: Network Configuration
Authors: FreeBSD Documentation Project
Venue:  (2000)

:FreeBSD is an advanced BSD UNIX operating system for "PC-compatible" computers, developed and maintained by a large team of individuals. FreeBSD offers advanced networking, performance, security and compatibility features that are still missing in other operating systems, even some of the best commercial ones.FreeBSD Handbook Part III: Network Configuration is one of a series of books from iUniverse.com that provide a printed version of the BSD Handbook, an online guide that covers the installation and day to day use of FreeBSD Release 4.0. The four-part series from iUniverse.com contains the full text of the FreeBSD Handbook, and is comprised of the following four volumes. Each volume is available separately for your convenience. Part I: Getting Started Part II: System Administration Part III: Network Configuration Parts IV and V: Advanced Topics & Appendices
Professional software development with Visual C++ 6.0 & MFC
Venue:  (2002)

Learn to develop commercial-quality softare with Microsoft's Visual C++ 6.0 and MFC (Microsoft Foundation Class) through practical approaches and techniques used by professional developers. By following step-by-step, handes-on examples, programmers develop complete applications and learn how to integrate these techniques into their own software projects. All of the examples covered can be used immediately or easily modified to meet a variety of programming challenges. In addition to a thorough coverage of MFC for Visual C++ 6.0 and a survey of the new Microsoft .NET platform, the book introduces Microsoft's new Visual C++ 7.0, C# language, and the VisualStudio.NET development environment.
Developing enterprise Java applications with J2EE and UML
Venue: Addison-Wesley Object Technology Series (2001)

Developing Enterprise Java Applications with J2EE and UML examines the best ways to jointly leverage these technologies. Exploring concrete methods for completing a successful development project, the authors cover the use of UML and J2EE in detail. Using practical examples and a case study, they illustrate the pros and cons of specific design approaches, show how personal experience can affect design decisions, and demonstrate proven approaches for building better software faster.
Oracle8 Architecture, 1st edition
Authors: Bobrowskis
Venue:  (1997)

:Working directly with Oracle's Oracle8 development team, Steve Bobrowski has unwrapped the secrets of this next-generation server - and its highly advanced object-relational architecture. In this officially endorsed book, he shares his unique perspective of Oracle8's architecture and provides guidance you won't find anywhere else. What's more, every page has been technically reviewed and approved by top Oracle experts to ensure the highest quality of information. Discover revealing insider information on Oracle8 as you understand how Oracle8 fits into the world of serious data management applications, explore the software architecture of Oracle8, come to understand both the concept and the technical details you'll need to know to successfully work with Oracle8, and gain solid, intelligent advice - not speculation - from the author who was there during Oracle8's development.
Database machines
Authors: Stanley Y. W. Su, P. Bruce Berra, Paul Fisher, Hsu Chang, Stuart Schuster, George Copeland
Venue: Proceedings of the 1978 ACM SIGMOD international conference on management of data (1978)

There is much to be said on the limitations of the conventional Von Neumann processors and the available hardware organizations for database applications. Through research and development, several recent efforts have been in the investigation and development of new architectures and special prupose machines for supporting database applications. This panel aims to familiarize the attendants with 1) the motivations for works on data machines, 2) the objectives and characteristics of several categories of database machines, 3) the accomplishments made in this area of research and development, 4) the problems and current issues confronting the area, and 5) the impact of the current and future technologies on database management.
Technical Tips: Release 3 and 4, 1st edition
Authors: Michele Bousquet
Venue:  (1994)

:Turn your IBM-PC or compatible personal computer into a professional design and animation studio. With LINKS to Presentation Graphics: 3D Studio Version 3 you'll learn to use 3D Studio's full-featured 3D modeler, fast renderer, and flexible keyframe animator that imparts smooth motion to objects, cameras, and lights while supporting 3D morphing. Everything you need is in this box - from full-function 3D Studio Version 3 software to a complete suite of tutorials, workbooks, and reference manuals. You'll be producing 3D models of up to 25,000 vertices in no time. Instructions for combining files to create larger models are also included.
Paul Mcfedries' Microsoft Office 97, with CD-ROM (Unleashed)
Authors: Paul McFedries
Venue:  (1997)

:Microsoft Office 97 1998 Edition Unleashed, Professional Reference Edition will teach the user advanced topics such as the VBA language common to Excel, Access, and now Word, how to use binders, a crash course in the Active Document technology, new Internet and intranet tools, and the integration of scheduling and communications in Outlook.This book will show the reader how to turn the Office suite into a fully integrated business powerhouse and Internet and intranet publishing toolFocuses on sharing of information across applications and networks, not just using the applicationsMicrosoft is the largest suite producer in the market today, with more than 22 million users
The Message Is the Medium: Online All the Time for Everyone
Authors: Tom Koch
Venue:  (1996)

:The Message is the Medium is both a radical reevaluation and a new approach to understanding online data and information systems, - the "Information Highway." It is not another "how-to" guide, although it does contain practical and instructional data. Rather, it offers a general tutorial explaining the system-at-large from the perspective of the user, and the data he or she needs to resolve problems and crises. It thus provides a simple, powerful, and unique explanation to online resources: what they are and what they do for the individual. All chapters are illustrated. 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
Keeping coherence among web sources
Authors: F. Arcieri, G. Melideo, E. Nardelli, M. Talamo
Venue: Proceedings of the 3rd international workshop on Web information and data management (2001)

With the increasing popularity of the Web the problem of maintaining coherence of information contained in a vast collection of semantically related web pages has become a significant challenge. A fundamental issue is that an object exposed on a web page is independently and autonomously managed by the organizational unit responsible for its production and controlling the way it changes, but the same object is also needed (and visible) at web pages managed by different and independent organizational units. The aim is therefore to define a flexible but effective mechanism to automatically keep the representations of the same piece of information aligned in the various web pages.In this paper we discuss a formal model supporting this goal, which derives from practical experiences and from their formalization in the area of supporting coherence maintenance in the underlying legacy databases of cooperating organizations.
Experiences with Web squirrel: my life on the information farm
Authors: Rosemary Michelle Simpson
Venue: Proceedings of the 12th ACM conference on Hypertext and Hypermedia (2001)

Previous work has shown that spatial hypertext is a useful information management tool for dynamically changing environments where it is necessary to model emergent and volatile information structures. This paper describes several years of experience using Eastgate Systems' Web Squirrel, a spatial bookmark manager, as a member of a suite of information management tools. It works together in conjunction with word processing, database, and index generation tools to provide a rich and effective Web-based working environment. Some its contributions include: information visualization, organization, and management, the avoidance of premature linking, and creativity support.
PIC: Your Personal Introductory Course
Authors: John Morton
Venue:  (1998)

:This book guides a PIC user from their first sight of a PIC microcontroller to making the PIC work in the real world. Detailed examples show just how powerful and useful a PIC can be. Explanations are short and simple enough to let a reader get to grips with the PIC without fuss.
Automating with Step 7 in Lad: Simatic S 7-300/400 Programmable Controllers
Authors: Hans Berger
Venue:  (1999)

:This book describes elements and applications of the graphic-oriented LAD (ladder diagram) programming language for use with both SIMATIC S7-300 and SIMATIC S7-400. It is aimed at all users of SIMATIC S7 programmable controllers. First-time users will be introduced to the field of programmable logic control, whereas advanced users will learn about specific applications of SIMATIC S7 programmable controllers. 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