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SQL Server 2000: A Beginner's Guide (Book/CD-ROM), 2 edition
Authors: Dusan Petrovic
Venue:  (2000)

Build and manage SQL Server 2000 databases easily. Work with Transact-SQL and data definition language, and handle simple and complex queries. You'll also learn to use SQL extensions and stored procedures, views, triggers, and transactions.Table of contents SQL Server: Basic Concepts. Database Systems and SQL Server. SQL Server Enterprise Manager and Query Analyzer. Transact-SQL Language. SQL Components. Data Definition Language. Simple Queries. Complex Queries. Modification of a Table's Contents. SQL Extensions and Stored Procedures. Views. Indices and Query Optimization. Systems Catalog. SQL Server. Triggers. Transactions. SQL Server System Environment. SQL Server Administration. Overview of System Administration. Planning and Completing the Installation of SQL Server. Managing Database and Database Files. Managing Security. Backup and Recovery. Data Transfer. Automating System Administration Tasks. Troubleshooting SQL Server. Performance Tuning. Data Replication. Microsoft Decision Support Services. Data Warehousing--An Introduction. Client Components for MS Decision Support Services. Server Components in Microsoft Decisions Support Services. A: SQL Server Keywords. B: Answers.
An investigation of novice programmer errors in IBM 370 (OS) assembly language
Authors: Joan M. Chabert, T. F. Higginbotham
Venue: Proceedings of the 14th annual Southeast regional conference (1976)

Novice Assembly Language programmer errors were "trapped" and tabulated according to type and frequency by programming assignment. In addition, the number of runs per programming assignment were investigated.Recommendations were made to facilitate the reduction of numbers of errors by novice IBM 370 (OS) Assembly Language Programmers.
Computer Education for Teachers, 1st edition
Authors: Vicki F. Sharp
Venue:  (1992)

:Designed to meet the needs of the computer novice,this book is written for undergraduate and graduate students who want an up-to-date,readable,practical,concise introduction to computers. It assumes no prior experience with computers. It offers classroom activities and projects,clear illustrations,a recommended annotated software listing,a summary of current computer research,and an extensive bibliography. The chapters are written so that the reader can pursue them in any order. The new edition features a completely revised chapter 14 on programming,including HTML,an expanded and updated multimedia chapter (10),more emphasis on Special Education software and hardware,over 150 new illustrations,and a new annotated list of software (Appendix A). A new chapter 12 on the World Wide Web,includes sites,a site evaluation instrument,Web page creation,Netiquette,and Web Utlitiies. New discussions include such current topics as Quick Time VR,virtual reality,morphing,warping,videoconferencing,advanced technology labs and classroom ergonomics,and distance learning.
Official NetScape Guide to Online Investments, 11th edition
Authors: Russell B. Shaw
Venue:  (1996)

:Just as there's more to investing than understanding the stock market, there's more to this book than a list of fund sites. You'll also find related resources: consultants, tax advice, debt counseling, and more. Everything you need to make the Internet a full financial partner! Includes an overview of the Net & Navigator - an introduction to basic Internet services, getting around, using e-mail, searching, and downloading; reviews of top sites for investors - in-depth reviews of stock and bond quote services, analysts, brokerage houses, and mutual fund reports and analysis; a full listing of financial services - detailed descriptions of online sources for loans, appraisals, low-interest credit cards, venture capital, entrepreneurship, insurance, tax counseling, and more; and a look beyond the Web - a look at special interest newsgroups, Gopher resources, relevant financial and business news services, and commercial online services.
Mechanical Desktop 2.0: Applying Designer and Assembly Modules, 2nd edition
Authors: Daniel T. Banach
Venue:  (1998)

:Learn how to generate 3-D parametric models, produce 2-D views and assemble parts while focusing on Mechanical Desktop's designer and assembly modules with this innovative applied-learning approach. Whether you are a new user or experienced with Mechanical Desktop, you'll find this book easy to follow, informative, and practical. Each chapter introduces a topic and then takes you through a step-by-step example of its use, followed by practical exercises to complete on your own, learning valuable concepts along the way. These exercises are based upon real world problems to show you how to utilize Mechanical Desktop in professional applications. A CD-ROM is included with drawing files and fully-functional Mechanical Desktop plug-in software designed to increase your productivity.
AutoCAD AME: Solid Modeling for Mechanical Design, 1st edition
Authors: Ted Saufley
Venue:  (1994)

:AutoCAD AME-Solid Modeling for Mechanical Design is a text and workbook combination that provides complete, step-by-step instruction in mastering AutoCAD AME commands and solid modeling techniques. Typical applications of AutoCAD AME are presented with basic design concepts. The topics are covered in an easy-to-understand sequence, and progress in a way that allows learners to become comfortable with the commands as their knowledge builds from one chapter to the next.
The Cuckoo's Egg: Tracking a Spy through the Maze of Computer Espionage
Authors: Clifford Stoll
Venue:  (2000)

:Cliff Stoll was an astronomer turned systems manager at Lawrence Berkeley Lab when a 75-cent accounting error alerted him to the presence of an unauthorized user on his system. The hacker's code name was "Hunter"a mystery invader hiding inside a twisting electronic labyrinth, breaking into U.S. computer systems and stealing sensitive military and security information. Stoll began a one-man hunt of his own, spying on the spyand plunged into an incredible international probe that finally gained the attention of top U.S. counterintelligence agents. The Cookoo's Egg is his wild and suspenseful true storya year of deception, broken codes, satellites, missile bases, and the ultimate sting operationand how one ingenious American trapped a spy ring paid in cash and cocaine, and reporting to the KGB.
A faster distributed arithmetic architecture for FPGAs
Authors: Radhika S. Grover, Weijia Shang, Qiang Li
Venue: Proceedings of the 2002 ACM/SIGDA tenth international symposium on Field-programmable gate arrays (2002)

Distributed Arithmetic (DA) is an important technique to implement digital signal processing (DSP) functions in FPGAs. However, traditional lookup table (LUT) based DA architectures contain one or more carry propagation chains in the critical path that dictates the fastest time at which an entire design can run. In this paper, we describe a novel technique that can reduce or eliminate the carry-propagate chain from the critical path in LUT based DA architectures on FPGAs. In the proposed scheme, the individual bits of a word do not have to be processed as a unit. Instead, the current iteration can start as soon as the least significant bit (LSB) of the previous iteration is available, without waiting for the entire word from the previous iteration to be fully computed. This technique has great potential in speeding up DSP applications based on DA. Designs are described for serial and parallel DALUT and accumulator structures in which an n-bit carry chain, where n is the word length, is broken into smaller r-bit chains, 1*nnr < n . A cost-performance analysis of the designs is presented. The analysis shows that the designs proposed in this paper have a lower cost-performance ratio (indicating better performance) than traditional DA designs. We also show that the 8-bit (r = 8) designs offer a good compromise between cost and performance. The implementation is on a Xilinx chip XC4028XL-3-BG256 using Xilinx Foundation tools v 3.1i. The results show that the proposed designs can achieve speedup by a factor of at least 1.5 over traditional DA designs in some cases.
Alben Design by Lauralee Alben
Authors: Elizabeth Dykstra-Erickson
Venue: interactions (2002)

Although I had never met Lauralee Alben, I had known of her and her work with AlbenFaris for some time, and I have always admired her spirit and her passion for design. I read a posting of hers to an AIGA [American Institute of Graphic Arts] discussion group and asked Lauralee if she would mind being interviewed for interactions. She agreed, and I'm very happy to pass on to you what's new with Lauralee, a great design talent and an eloquent speaker for the power of thoughtful and contextually sensitive design.
Three challenges for IS
Authors: Paul Gray
Venue: ACM SIGMIS Database (2000)

The purpose of this article is to discuss three challenges that face the IS academic community. Specifically, these challenges are:&bull; Keeping up&bull; Remote learning&bull; Electronic publishingThese three challenges were selected because they are little discussed in our field, yet they are interrelated and they affect most of the readers of DATA BASE. Of course, they are not the only challenges the IS field faces. However, others such as, for example, electronic commerce are well discussed elsewhere.In this article, we first examine each of the three challenges and discuss how they affect the IS academic profession and IS practice. We then discuss what IS professionals can do to meet them and what they will gain as a field by resolving them.
A logical theory of nonmonotonic inference and belief change
Authors: Alexander Bochman
Venue:  (2001)

This monograph provides logical foundations and a uniform description for nonmonotonic reasoning and belief change. The approach to these subjects is based on a powerful notion of an epistemic state that subsumes existing models for both nonmonotonic inference and belief change. Many results and constructions in the book are completely new and have not appeared in earlier literature.The book is primarily intended for experts in artificial intelligence and knowledge representation who are interested in tools for describing common sense reasoning tasks, as well as in the representation capabilities of such tools. Due to an extensive use of a logical machinery, the book is also of interest to general logicians.
C
Venue:  (2002)

In this book, not only will you find a detailed explanation of the language elements and syntax of C, but you will also get a feel for the procedural modular and object-oriented programming features which are typical of C. Each chapter includes numerous examples and exercises to make the subject clear and comprehensible. Get up to speed with the C programming language with Addison-Wesley Nitty Gritty C.
Techniques for optimizing model execution II: a systematic approach to linguistic fuzzy modeling based on input-output data
Authors: Hossein Salehfar, Nagy Bengiamin, Jun Huang
Venue: Proceedings of the 32nd conference on Winter simulation (2000)

A new systematic algorithm to build adaptive linguistic fuzzy models directly from input-output data is presented in this paper. Based on clustering and projection in the input and output spaces, significant inputs are selected, the number of clusters is determined, rules are generated automatically, and a linguistic fuzzy model is constructed. Then, using a simplified fuzzy reasoning mechanism, the Back-Propagation (BP) and Least Mean Squared (LMS) algorithms are implemented to tune the parameters of the membership functions. Compared to other algorithms, the new algorithm is both computationally and conceptually simple. The new algorithm is called the Linguistic Fuzzy Inference (LFI) model.
LMNKui: overlaying computer controls on a piano controller keyboard
Authors: Farhan Mohamed, Sidney Fels
Venue: CHI '02 extended abstracts on Human factors in computing systems (2002)

We introduce the Look Ma No Keyboard user interface, an ergonomic and intuitive method for controlling music sequencing software from a piano controller by adding a momentary foot switch. After describing the current practices and the design of our system, we discuss the results of user testing, comparing the conventional input device with ours.
Windows Graphics and PrePress, 1st edition
Authors: Steve W. Rimmer
Venue:  (1994)

:Producing graphics electronically in a form that can be easily printed is one of the toughest problems facing graphics professionals. Windows Graphics and Prepress shows you how to get commercial-quality graphics from the new generation of Windows graphic production software, including CorelDRAW and Corel PhotoPAINT. Steve Rimmer takes a practical, hands-on approach to producing sophisticated, professional images on the PC. He covers the details of color separation, page imposition, typography, the differences between working on screen and on paper, how printing technologies affect the final output, and when and how to use a service bureau.
Fast context-free grammar parsing requires fast boolean matrix multiplication
Authors: Lillian Lee
Venue: Journal of the ACM (JACM) (2002)

In 1975, Valiant showed that Boolean matrix multiplication can be used for parsing context-free grammars (CFGs), yielding the asympotically fastest (although not practical) CFG parsing algorithm known. We prove a dual result: any CFG parser with time complexity O(gn3-&isin;), where g is the size of the grammar and n is the length of the input string, can be efficiently converted into an algorithm to multiply m &times; m Boolean matrices in time O(m3-&isin;/3). Given that practical, substantially subcubic Boolean matrix multiplication algorithms have been quite difficult to find, we thus explain why there has been little progress in developing practical, substantially subcubic general CFG parsers. In proving this result, we also develop a formalization of the notion of parsing.
Novell's Guide to Integrating NetWare and TCP IP, 1st edition
Authors: Drew Heywood
Venue:  (1996)

:Novell's Netware serves as the backbone of countless local and wide area networks, TCP/IP as the backbone of the global Internet. Combine the two and the result is a powerful boost in the reach and productivity of an organization. Now, with Novell's Guide to Integrating NetWare and TCP/IP, you'll get the inside track on everything from the seven-layer OSI Reference and four-layer TCP/IP Models to the installation of TCP/IP on NetWare 3 and 4 servers. With Novell expert Drew Heywood as your guide, you'll understand how to use routing and tunneling to achieve maximum performance, as well as how NetWare/IP can simplify your TCP/IP network. Plus, on the book's bonus CD-ROM, you'll find free copies of NetWare Client 32 for Windows 95 and NetWare/IP 2.2.
Using dynamic atomic actions to build fault tolerant systems
Authors: Michel Banâtre, Philippe Joubert, Christine Morin, Gilles Muller, Bruno Rochat
Venue: Proceedings of the 5th workshop on ACM SIGOPS European workshop: Models and paradigms for distributed systems structuring (1992)

The purpose of this note is to propose a model for building fault tolerant systems. We present an approach based on the object paradigm. To ensure system consistency in the event of failure we provide two basic mechamisms, the persistent state of an object and the recovery unit. Methods are called within recovery units. To define global checkpoints, we build dynamic distributed atomic actions from dependencies between recovery units. One implementation of this model is then briefly presented.
Contradictions and critical issues during system evolution
Authors: Mark-Alexander Sujan, Antonio Rizzo, Alberto Pasquini
Venue: Proceedings of the 2002 ACM symposium on Applied computing (2002)

In this paper the issue of system evolution is addressed. Activity Theory and the concept of exapansive cycles are reviewed as theories to explain systemic evolution. Contradictions often manifest themselves in deviating human behaviour or in modifications to external artefacts, i.e., they result in a form of systemic behaviour which has often been treated as undesirable. It is shown that contradictions within activity systems are both catalysts and opportunities for system change. In the context of safety-related systems this is put at the centre of investigation in the form of critical issues. An example from an industrial case study is reported, where this approach was applied, and where with this approach affective and communicational problems were identified.
Doodling our way to better authentication
Authors: Joseph Goldberg, Jennifer Hagman, Vibha Sazawal
Venue: CHI '02 extended abstracts on Human factors in computing systems (2002)

Password security often fails in practice because users select predictable passwords. We conducted a study to explore the use of hand-drawn doodle password ("passdoodle"). Our findings show that users could recall all visual elements of the doodle as well as they could recall alphanumeric passwords, but most could not perfectly redraw their selected doodles. Users perceive passdoodles as easier to remember than alphanumeric passwords; however, they prefer whichever authentication method they perceive to be more secure.
RPG Game Collection
Authors: Coral Amende
Venue:  (1996)

:This one strategy guide is all any die-hard fan of computer role-playing games will ever need. Over 20 games are reviewed with their secrets revealed. These codes, cheats and maps are real hints for game players with strategies and hints revealed no place else. 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
Data Smog: Surviving the Information Glut
Authors: David Shenk
Venue:  (1997)

:We are awash in information: faxes, e-mail, news, infotainment, and advertising overwhelm us even as CEOs and politicians herald the dawn of a glorious and profitable Information Age. Media scholar and cyber-pundit David Shank deftly dismantles all the hype and exposes the unsettling impact of information overload, or data smog, on our individual well-being (emotional and physical) and on our society at large. This myth-shattering manifesto also outlines a welter of practical strategies for minimizing data smog's polluting effects - from curtailing junkmail and telephone sales pitches to instituting all-out "data fasts."
The Complete Website Upgrade and Maintenance Guide with CD-ROM
Authors: Lisa Schmeiser
Venue:  (1998)

:The Most Comprehensive Book About Enhancing and Maintaining Your Existing Website The Complete Website Upgrade and Maintenance Guide is destined to be the industryÆs ultimate website reference, and is a must-have for everyone involved with the development of websites. This book is the most complete and authoritative resource available, ready to help you turn an existing site into a long-lasting, sophisticated, dynamic, and effective tool. ItÆs the single resource where Webmasters, project managers, and producers can learn about topics ranging from planning a dynamic foundation and building a powerful backend, to choosing the right technologies and adding leading-edge capabilities. Four website case studies complete with code, scripts, and server analyses, are presented to give you the real-world insight you need to make your most pressing design, server, and programming decisions. You will also find several useful references such as an HTML tags appendix, a JavaScript glossary, a Unix cheatsheet, a style sheet attribute list, a browser comparison checklist, and a UI checklist. Hot Tips and Insider Advice from a Leading Website Authority HereÆs just a sample of the topics covered: Employing intelligent design Maximizing HTML and DHTML Ensuring usability, accessibility, and quality Moving from static to dynamic website production Exploring XML Applying a DOM to your site Choosing the right multimedia technologies Accomodating advertising Building and fine tuning a powerful backend Exploring intranet and extranet development And much more! Featured on the CD The companion, cross-platform CD is loaded with demos of popular tools such as Adobe After Effects, Allaire HomeSite, and the Apache server, sample code for Web servers, HTML editing, and graphics, code for the four case studies, and much more.
Building Organizational Intelligence: A Knowledge Management Primer, 1st edition
Authors: Jay Liebowitz
Venue:  (2000)

:"Sharing knowledge is power." If ever there were a field to whichthis applies, it is the knowledge management industry. And in today's highly-competitive, fast-paced business world, corporations, businesses and organizations in both the public and private sectors are constantly searching for new cutting-edge methods and techniques for creating, storing, capturing, managing, organizing, distributing, combining, and retrieving knowledge. But the task of accomplishing such functions is not as simple as it sounds. Jay Liebowitz's Building Organizational Intelligence: A Knowledge Management Primer gives executives, managers, systems analysts, and other knowledge-management professionals the competitive edge they need in achieving that task. In a concise and easy-to-read format, the book describes the concepts, techniques, methodologies, and tools associated with those functions, and includes mini-case studies and vignettes of how industry is developing and applying these functions towards building organizational intelligence What's more, the book is packaged with a limited functionality version of "WisdomBuilder," the first in a family of knowledge-management tools that provide a fully integrated solution to the information management and analysis dilemma. Able to run under Windows 95, 98 and NT, "WisdomBuilder" solves the information overload problem by reducing the time and cost of extracting information and other research knowledge from disorganized repositories of heterogeneous data
Right Makes Might: Freedom and Power in the Information Age
Authors: David C. Gompert
Venue:  (1998)

:The emergence of China begs a fresh look at power in world affairs  more precisely, at how the spread of freedom & the integration of the global economy, due to the information revolution, are affecting the nature, concentration, & purpose of power. Chapters: freedom, power, & the rise of China; globalization & power politics; knowledge & freedom; knowledge & national power; powers as partners; & coda on U.S. policy. Concludes that the U.S. need not fear a cold war with China. Chinas own priorities  economic growth & stability  propel it toward legitimacy that can only come through reform, & toward the dominant technology. 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