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Instituting an institute: go for it!
Authors: Michael Giordano, Laurel Warren Trufant
Venue: Proceedings of the 30th annual ACM SIGUCCS conference on User services (2002)

The University of New Hampshire set out to inaugurate a Faculty Instructional Technology Summer Institute (FITSI) addressing the pedagogical principles that support the successful integration of instructional technology into teaching and learning. After a survey of existing programs at other institutions, we developed a model grounded in the widely acclaimed research of Chickering and Gamson detailing the "Seven Principles for Good Practice in Undergraduate Education" (1987) and Chickering and Erhmann's subsequent work, "Implementing the Seven Principles: Technology as Lever" (1996), which further developed Chickering's theory by applying the seven principles to the field of instructional technology. The primary purpose of the Institute was to provide faculty with the theory, research, and hands-on experience necessary to explore and implement innovative technology-based learning solutions in their classrooms.During the development and implementation of the Institute, we identified five best practices that can help other institutions plan similar faculty development initiatives. These can be summarized in the acronym GO FOR IT!:Gain support for the program, Organize your resources, First pedagogy, then technology, Offer an incentive, Review and evaluate your efforts, Instructional Technology!This paper will expand on the design and implementation of our Institute model and analyze the effectiveness of these five best practices in the light of initial evaluation data from Institute participants.
Digital Democracy: Discourse and Decision Making in the Information Age
Authors: Barry N. Hague, Brian Loader
Venue:  (1999)

:Is direct democracy in the age of remote communication possible? Examining the impact of information and communication technologies (ICTs) and their consequences for political institutions, Digital Democracy offers a critical assessment of the concept of anemergent electronic democracy. The international contributors discuss concepts and issues such as democracy and cyberspace, local democracy, global control and interactive ICTs. Investigating the impact of technology on government, they examine the implications of televising the British House of Commons, the effects of ICTs on political parties, and issues surrounding the use of closed-circuit television. Finally, they explore the relationship between ICTs and citizenship with chapters covering democracies online as well as ways to strengthen communities in the Information Age. text for diverse courses on the social and policy implication of ICTs." --Leslie Regan Shade, Univ. of Ottawa for Canadian Journal of Communication, Vol. 24, 1999
Challenges: environmental design for pervasive computing systems
Authors: Ravi Jain, John Wullert,  II
Venue: Proceedings of the 8th annual international conference on Mobile computing and networking (2002)

We argue that pervasive computing offers not only tremendous opportunities and exciting research challenges but also possible negative environmental impacts, particularly in terms of physical waste and energy consumption. These environmental impacts will come under increasing government and consumer scrutiny, and like other disciplines (e.g. architecture, transportation), pervasive computing will have to adapt accordingly. Further, we argue that software-related issues will play an increasing role in reducing the environmental impact of computing. We thus propose that an important challenge for pervasive computing is to develop research in new architectures, design methodologies, metrics, algorithms and operating systems to minimize these impacts. We then discuss specific research issues and questions that arise in three phases of the device lifecycle: minimizing resource usage for manufacture and operation, maximizing device lifetime, and improving recyclability.
CCNA Guide to Cisco Networking Fundamentals, 1st edition
Authors: Kurt Hudson, Kelly Cannon
Venue:  (2000)

:After reading the book and completing the exercises, the user will be prepared for Cisco Exam #640-507. Upon passing this exam, an individual achieves the first level of Cisco certification, Cisco Certified Network Associate, or CCNA.
Performance-Effective and Low-Complexity Task Scheduling for Heterogeneous Computing
Authors: Haluk Topcuouglu, Salim Hariri, Min-you Wu
Venue: IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems (2002)

Efficient application scheduling is critical for achieving high performance in heterogeneous computing environments. The application scheduling problem has been shown to be NP-complete in general cases as well as in several restricted cases. Because of its key importance, this problem has been extensively studied and various algorithms have been proposed in the literature which are mainly for systems with homogeneous processors. Although there are a few algorithms in the literature for heterogeneous processors, they usually require significantly high scheduling costs and they may not deliver good quality schedules with lower costs. In this paper, we present two novel scheduling algorithms for a bounded number of heterogeneous processors with an objective to simultaneously meet high performance and fast scheduling time, which are called the Heterogeneous Earliest-Finish-Time (HEFT) algorithm and the Critical-Path-on-a-Processor (CPOP) algorithm. The HEFT algorithm selects the task with the highest upward rank value at each step and assigns the selected task to the processor, which minimizes its earliest finish time with an insertion-based approach. On the other hand, the CPOP algorithm uses the summation of upward and downward rank values for prioritizing tasks. Another difference is in the processor selection phase, which schedules the critical tasks onto the processor that minimizes the total execution time of the critical tasks. In order to provide a robust and unbiased comparison with the related work, a parametric graph generator was designed to generate weighted directed acyclic graphs with various characteristics. The comparison study, based on both randomly generated graphs and the graphs of some real applications, shows that our scheduling algorithms significantly surpass previous approaches in terms of both quality and cost of schedules, which are mainly presented with schedule length ratio, speedup, frequency of best results, and average scheduling time metrics.
Wireless sensor networks for habitat monitoring
Authors: Alan Mainwaring, David Culler, Joseph Polastre, Robert Szewczyk, John Anderson
Venue: Proceedings of the 1st ACM international workshop on Wireless sensor networks and applications (2002)

We provide an in-depth study of applying wireless sensor networks to real-world habitat monitoring. A set of system design requirements are developed that cover the hardware design of the nodes, the design of the sensor network, and the capabilities for remote data access and management. A system architecture is proposed to address these requirements for habitat monitoring in general, and an instance of the architecture for monitoring seabird nesting environment and behavior is presented. The currently deployed network consists of 32 nodes on a small island off the coast of Maine streaming useful live data onto the web. The application-driven design exercise serves to identify important areas of further work in data sampling, communications, network retasking, and health monitoring.
Social Studies in the Cyberage
Authors: Scott M. Mandel, Amy Kinsman
Venue:  (1998)

:Make the information superhighway work for you. Social Studies in the Cyberage helps you integrate the Internet and cooperative learning into the curricula. Whether you have a classroom full of computers or a personal computer at home, you can use the Internet to enhance teaching. The philosophy of Social Studies in the Cyberage is to educate, not train, teachers on how to use the Internet to complement the curricula. This resource book offers strategies for finding the information you need and recommends several useful sites to start from. To exemplify how easy it is to use the Internet to supplement the daily curriculum, there are four general curricular areas, covering K&#8211College, that walk you through locating resources, integrating the Internet, and creating Web sites or research reports. There's even a section that highlights how useful the Internet is for cooperative learning applications. To get you started, there a dozen lesson plans illustrating how many teachers are already taking advantage of the Internet. Social Studies in the Cyberage shows you how to turn the Internet into the ultimate teacher resource.
Windows 98 Black Book with Cdrom
Authors: Nathan Wallace, Keith Weiskamp
Venue:  (1998)

:Designed to accommodate the many professionals who will need a reference on implementing Microsoft's Windows 98. Contains valuable upgrade information, including caveats and warnings. Teaches the new features of Windows 98, such as OnNow, multiple monitors, DVD and Web TV support, including Program Guide information. Describes Windows 98 Internet capabilities in detail, including active desktop and Internet Explorer 4.0. Covers planning for small-scale and large-scale, network-based installation and deployment. Day and date in bookstores with Microsoft's Windows 98 software release. First book based on the final release of the Windows 98 operating system. Author has already published 15 books, with over 100,000 copies in print. Detailed information on the newest and most powerful features of Microsoft's Windows 98. Uses a hands-on approach to provide the ins and outs of configuring, administering, and networking Windows 98 computers. Includes CoffeeCup HTML Editor++98, a powerful HTML Editor that gives you Interface Customization, Forms Designer, 175+ Animated Icons, 10 VBScripts with ActiveX, WebTV Tags, and more. Offers Macromedia Director, which empowers you to create professional multimedia presentations, engaging Web pages, animations, interactive advertising, kiosks, and CD-ROM titles. Provides Macromedia DreamWeaver, a robust Web development tool that gives you the productivity of a visual Web page layout tool with the control of an HTML source editor.
Secrets of Software Success: Management Insights from 100 Software Firms around the World
Authors: Detlev J. Hoch, Sandro K. Lindner, Cyriac R. Roeding, Gert Purkert
Venue:  (1999)

:The software industry is the most powerful wealth creator in history. It's an industry of extreme success--unrivaled job creation, extraordinary growth, accelerated product cycles--but the failures can be just as spectacular. What can we learn from the winners? In Secrets of Software Success, the authors investigate the software industry's best practices in order to develop a complete picture of what it takes to build a thriving software business. Drawing on an exclusive worldwide survey of more than 100 global software companies and 450 top executives, Secrets of Software Success presents the first panoramic view of the conditions that influence results for both the product and the service sides of the software industry. In the highly readable and often provocative examples from well-known firms, the authors debunk many widely held-beliefs, and offer instead some surprisingly counterintuitive findings. Ultimately, say the authors, the secret to success lies in the details--the ability to choose from a range of key management decisions in order to balance the right set of actions at the right time to rapidly changing market conditions. With its universal lessons of competition, commitment, talent, and timing, Secrets of Software Success holds valuable answers to the questions asked by executives in every industry. Covering firms from Australia to Zimbabwe, it is the most in-depth picture to date of the conditions that surround success in the global software business.
Uniform Stability of a Finite Difference Scheme for Transport Equations in Diffusive Regimes
Authors: A. Klar, A. Unterreiter
Venue: SIAM Journal on Numerical Analysis (2002)

An asymptotic preserving numerical scheme (with respect to diffusion scalings) for a linear transport equation is investigated. The scheme is adopted from a class of schemes developed in [S. Jin, L. Pareschi, and G. Toscani, SIAM J. Numer. Anal., 38 (2000), pp. 913--936] and [A. Klar, SIAM J. Numer. Anal., 35 (1998), pp. 1073--1094]. Stability is proven uniformly in the mean free path under a CFL-type condition turning into a parabolic CFL condition in the diffusion limit.
Robo Sapiens: Evolution of a New Species
Authors: Peter Menzel
Venue:  (2000)

:Around the world, scientists and engineers are participating in a high-stakes race to build the first intelligent robot. Many robots already exist -- automobile factories are full of them. But the new generation of robots will be something else: smart machines that act ever more like living creatures. What will happen then? With our prosthetic limbs, titanium hips, and artificial eyes, we are already beginning to resemble our machines. And when we implant chips in our bodies to connect ourselves directly to computers, the likeness will become only more pronounced. Science fiction will have become science fact. Meanwhile -- and equally important -- our machines are beginning to resemble us. Robotic spiders, crabs, geckos, and dogs are already spilling from the laboratories. The next steps are to re-create Homo sapiens itself and then go beyond. Robots can already walk, talk, and dance; they can react to human facial expression and obey verbal commands. When scientists go on to create fully autonomous robots with greater intelligence than human beings, will they be our partners or our rivals? Will it be simply a robotic revolution or a true extension of evolution? Could machines and humankind meld into a single species -- Robo sapiens? In Robo sapiens, award-winning journalists Peter Menzel and Faith D'Aluisio present the next generation of intelligent robots and their makers. Accompanying brilliant photographs of more than a hundred robots are extensive interviews with robotics pioneers, anecdotal field notes with behind-the-scenes information, and easy-to-understand technical data about the machines. Robo sapiens is a field guide to our mechanical future. ABOUT THE AUTHORS Peter Menzel is a photographer known for his coverage of international feature stories on science and the environment. His award-winning photographs have been published in Life, National Geographic, Smithsonian, the New York Times Magazine, Time, Stern, GEO, and Le Figaro. Faith D'Aluisio is a former television news producer. Her documentary and new series pieces have won regional and national awards from the Headlines Foundation, United Press International, Associated Press, and the Radio-Television New Directors Association. Peter Menzel and Faith D'Aluisio are the co-creators of the books Material World: A Global Family Portrait and Women in the Material World. They are also the co-authors of Man Eating Bugs: The Art and Science of Eating Insects.
Windows Internet Security: Protecting Your Critical Data
Authors: Seth Fogie
Venue:  (2001)

:Protect your Windows system against Internet hackersright now! Protect your Windows computerNOW! Covers Windows 2000, Me, 98, 95, and Windows XP Stop sharing your files with the world Install your own personal firewallstep by step Block your employer from reading your private email Avoid worms, Trojans, viruses, and hostile Web pagesWhether you're running Windows XP, 2000, Me, 98, or 95, if you're connected to the Internet, you're at riskespecially if you're using an "always-on" cable modem or DSL connection. Now, learn exactly how to defend yourselfeven if you know nothing about Internet security! Windows Internet Security starts by reviewing the threats to your Windows PC: what hackers know about your computer and the Internet, and how they can use that knowledge to attack you. Then, step by step, you'll plan and implement today's most powerful defenses. Discover how to: Stop sharing resources you don't want to expose to the world Choose and implement the right "personal firewall" Protect your e-commerce transactions Avoid viruses, worms, Trojans, and hostile Web pages Protect your privacy and anonymity on the Web Cope with today's new wireless hacking attacks Respond and recover if you've already been hacked Make the most of Windows XP's new computer security featuresWindows Internet Security makes security comprehensible, practical-even easy! At home or at work, it's the one indispensable security book for every Windows user and administrator
Blueprint to the Digital Economy: Creating Wealth in the Era of E-Business
Authors: Don Tapscott
Venue:  (1998)

:Building on the message of Don Tapscott's highly successful book,The Digital Economy,Blueprint to the Digital Economy offers breakthrough insights and strategies designed to help today's businesses succeed in an emerging and highly competitive digital business environment. Through first-hand accounts,top executives of world-class corporations like Kodak,IBM,Microsoft,and AT&T offer provocative examples of how their businesses used networking and multimedia technologies to achieve their individual corporate objectives. Don Tapscott,bestselling author of Paradigm Shift,The Digital Economy,and Growing Up Digital is arguably today's foremost expert on the topic of information technology. Picking up where The Digital Economy left off,this groundbreaking book provides a much-needed framework for understanding the digital revolution and the impact it is making on today's businesses. Based on seminal research conducted by The Alliance for Converging Technologies,which brings together over 30 world-class organizations,Blueprint to the Digital Economy provides important insights into the emerging digital environment and how it is changing today's workplace. Together with executives from the world's leading technology,manufacturing,services,and government organizations,Tapscott and co-editors Alex Lowy and David Ticoll unveil the latest and most exciting applications of network and multimedia technologies and the impact they are already having on the way we do business. Following Tapscott's introduction,each chapter of Blueprint is authored by a member of the Alliance,all senior strategists and CEOs from today's most influential businessescompanies such as GeneralMotors,Hewlett-Packard,IBM,MCI and Nortel. Each covers a core area of the digital revolution,such as transformation of financial services or the use of networks to improve organizational agility. In doing so,each of these leaders presents a vision and strategy for growth intothe 21st century,Blueprint is sure to become a major resource for managers seeking help in responding to the tremendous changes technology is imposing on their organizations. Building on the message of Don Tapscott's Highly successful book,The Digital Economy,Blueprint to the Digital Economy offers breakthrough insights and strategies designed to help today's businesses succeed in an emerging and highly competitive digital business environment. Based on a multimillion-dollar series of research programs designed to investigate the Internet and its impact on business,the book brings together the best thinking and strategies of the world's leading technology,manufacturing,services,and government organizations. Top executives at global corporations like General Motors,IBM,MCI,and Nortel offer provocative examples of how their businesses will use emerging networking and multimedia technologies to change the competitive stakes in their respective industries. Blueprint of the Digital Economy delivers a wealth of powerful strategies to help any business transform digital promise into bottom-line reality.
Oracle8 Data Warehousing
Authors: Michael Abbey, Ian Abramson, Ben Taub
Venue:  (1998)

:A practical guide to successful data warehouse analysis,build,and roll-out. Your Expert Guide to Building and Launching Your Data Warehouse Data warehousing  large-scale data storage and analysis  is among the most important areas of enterprise computing today. Master data warehousing with the book officially authorized by Oracle Corporation,the leading provider of data warehousing solutions to Fortune 1000 companies. Written by a solid team of Oracle and data warehousing experts  Oracle8 Data Warehousing is your tactical guide to every important facet of data warehousing with Oracle8. Whether you are a database administrator,an information technology manager,or a data warehouse team member,you'll find this book loaded with valuable advice on planning,building,rolling out,and maintaining your data warehouse for optimal performance. This book will help you to: Understand the Oracle Express Server data warehousing solution. Investigate the physical components of a data warehouse including table size,expansion,disk stripping,and table partitioningBuild an effective warehousing team and gain real-world insight into the business rationale that secures essential management buy-inOptimize the Oracle8 server for decision support. Make critical technical decisions such as choosing RAID technology,running the cost-based optimizer,as well as using read-only table space and warehouse refresh mechanismsConvert a legacy database system into an Oracle datawarehouse. Gain a complete overview of data extraction,transformation,and loading into the Oracle8 repositoryLearn the basics of ROLAP,MOLAP,and OLAP From general concepts to Oracle8's specific warehousing capabilities,Oracle8 Data Warehousing is all you need.
Simulated Annealing With An Optimal Fixed Temperature
Authors: Mark Fielding
Venue: SIAM Journal on Optimization (2000)

Contrary to conventional belief, it turns out that in some problem instances of moderate size, fixed temperature simulated annealing algorithms based on a heuristic formula for determining the optimal temperature can be superior to algorithms based on cooling. Such a heuristic formula, however, often seems elusive. In practical cases considered we include instances of traveling salesman, quadratic assignment, and graph partitioning problems, where we obtain results that compare favorably to the ones known in the literature.
Cybercrime: Security and Surveillance in the Information Age
Authors: Brian Loader
Venue:  (2000)

:"Cybercrime focuses on the growing concern about the use of electronic communication for criminal activities and the appropriateness of the countermeasures that are being adopted by law enforcement agencies, security services and legislators to address such anxieties. Fuelled by sensational media headlines and news coverage which has done much to encourage the belief that technologies like the Internet are likely to lead to a lawless electronic frontier, Cybercrime provides a more considered and balanced perspective on what is an important and contested arena for debate. It will provide an understanding of the basic issues relating to cybercrime and its impact on society." "This book will be essential reading for students of criminology, public administration, politics, sociology and social policy."--BOOK JACKET.
Special Edition Using Caldera OpenLinux
Authors: Allan Smart, Erik Ratcliffe, David Bandel, Tim Bird
Venue:  (1999)

:Special Edition Using Caldera OpenLinux shows you how to install and configure the latest version of the Caldera Open Linux operating systempaying special attention to interconnectivity and day-to-day usage issues. It gives extensive coverage of the configuration and use of the myriad of network services Linux offers the consumer such as Samba, sendmail, ipmasquerading, and more. The book also covers how to install and manage applications, manage printers and provides step-by-step instructions for getting connected to the Internet.