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Into the Image: Culture and Politics in the Field of Vision
Authors: Kevin Robins
Venue:  (1996)

:Into the Image is concerned with the significance of screen and image in contemporary society, and with the nature of our imaginary and psychic investments in visual culture. It considers modern image technologies as means to monitor and survey the world, whilst at the same time maintaining distance and detachment from it. In the coverage of contemporary war, we see most clearly how the world is screened and yet its reality screened out. Into the Image also reflects on the contemporary desire to create an alternative world by means of new image technologies. It asks what is behind the fantasies of migrating into an alternative, virtual reality. Critical of the dominant technoculture, this book seeks to develop an alternative approach to visual culture based in the realities of the contemporary social order. In its exploration of culture and politics in the field of vision, Into the Image acknowledges the continuing significance of the 'old' technologies of photography, cinema and television alongside that of the new digital developments. The crucial issues, it argues, concern the relation of image and screen culture to experience in the modern world.
Office 97 One Step at a Time (with Cdrom), 1st edition
Authors: Nancy Stevenson
Venue:  (1997)

:If you want to boost productivity by consolidating essential applications in an office suite, then Microsoft Office 97 -- the most popular suite of software products on the market -- is the logical choice, and Office 97 One Step at a Time is the guide to help get you started. Microsoft Office 97 integrates Microsoft Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and Schedule+ into your Windows desktop. You can also add contacts and tasks, make appointments, send messages, open existing documents, and create new documents. Office 97 One Step at a Time comes with exclusive On Demand Interactive Learning software that will actually talk you through 23 step-by-step lessons. The free CD-ROM also features live tutorials, movie-style demos, and interactive simulations. Office 97 One Step at a Time will explain how to Select objects from lists, tables, and worksheets Use the Letter Wizard and Table AutoFormat Use the Print dialog box settings Create an envelope mail merge Work within PowerPoints presentation choices Manage schedules, contacts, and e-mail Office 97 One Step at a Time has a comprehensive glossary and appendixes detailing Office 97 installation, hard drive space considerations, answers to bonus questions, and instructions for using the On Demand software.
Video mosaics
Authors: Allison W. Klein, Tyler Grant, Adam Finkelstein, Michael F. Cohen
Venue: Proceedings of the 2nd international symposium on Non-photorealistic animation and rendering (2002)

We present a method for creating a video mosaic, a two-dimensional arrangement of small source videos (tiles) that suggests a larger, unified target video. We develop a distance measure to assess the match between source and target based on average color and also three-dimensional wavelet decomposition signatures in the YIQ color space. We also introduce a dynamic programming algorithm that automatically chooses the smaller tiling sub-sequences from a large collection of candidate source video sequences to best match the target video. After the selection process, the color in the tiling videos is automatically adjusted to better suggest the target video. Finally, our method also supports the use of different tiling shapes to create an additional level of visual interest.
Comparing power consumption of an SMT and a CMP DSP for mobile phone workloads
Authors: Stefanos Kaxiras, Girija Narlikar, Alan D. Berenbaum, Zhigang Hu
Venue: Proceedings of the 2001 international conference on Compilers, architecture, and synthesis for embedded systems (2001)

In the DSP world, many media workloads have to perform a specific amount of work in a specific period of time. This observation led us to examine Simultaneous Multithreading (SMT) and Chip Multiprocessing (CMP) for a VLIW DSP architecture (specifically the Star*Core SC140), in conjunction with Frequency/Voltage scaling to decrease dynamic power consumption in next-generation wireless handsets. We study the resulting performance and power characteristics of the two approaches using simulation, compiled code, and realistic workloads that respect real-time constraints. We find that a multithreaded DSP can utilize the available functional units much more efficiently, performing as well as a non-multithreaded DSP but with substantial power savings. Power consumption can also be lowered by using a chip-multiprocessor (CMP) operating at low frequency. We compare the power consumption of an SMT DSP with a CMP DSP under different architectural assumptions; we find that the SMT DSP uses up to 40% less power than the CMP DSP in our target environment.
Query-sensitive similarity measures for the calculation of interdocument relationships
Authors: Anastasios Tombros, C. J. van Rijsbergen
Venue: Proceedings of the tenth international conference on Information and knowledge management (2001)

The application of document clustering to information retrieval has been motivated by the potential effectiveness gains postulated by the Cluster Hypothesis. The hypothesis states that relevant documents tend to be highly similar to each other, and therefore tend to appear in the same clusters. In this paper we propose that, for any given query, pairs of relevant documents will exhibit an inherent similarity which is dictated by the query itself. Our research describes an attempt to devise means by which this similarity can be detected. We propose the use of query-sensitive similarity measures that bias interdocument relationships towards pairs of documents that jointly possess attributes that are expressed in a query. We experimentally tested query-sensitive measures against conventional ones that do not take the context of the query into account. We calculated interdocument relationships for varying numbers of top-ranked documents for five document collections. Our results show a consistent and significant increase in the number of relevant documents that become nearest neighbours of any given relevant document when query-sensitive measures are used. These results suggest that the effectiveness of a cluster-based IR system has the potential to increase through the use of query-sensitive similarity measures.
Pre-emptive shadows: eliminating the blinding light from projectors
Authors: Desney S. Tan, Randy Pausch
Venue: CHI '02 extended abstracts on Human factors in computing systems (2002)

Users interacting with front-projected displays often work between the projector and the display surface. This causes undesirable projection on the user as well as temporary blindness from looking into the bright light of the projector. In this paper, we present pre-emptive shadows, a technique that uses a camera-projector system to detect and turn off pixels that would otherwise be needlessly cast upon users' bodies, especially their faces. We present measurements that show that system reduces the brightness of the blinding light by about a factor of 5.
Building big, reliable web sites, (part 1)
Authors: Win Treese
Venue: netWorker (2002)

In the early days of the Web, most users were not terribly concerned with performance or reliability. Sometimes Web sites were slow, sometimes they did not respond, but that was to be expected. Besides, many users had slow connections to the network, so they hardly noticed if the server was slow. A popular server might be overloaded for a while, but then it would recover.
Mod 3 arithmetic on triangulated Riemann surfaces
Authors: E. G. Belaga
Venue: Theoretical Computer Science (2001)

Let T be a triangulation of a Riemann surface, orientable or non-orientable and of an arbitrary genus. Suppose, a labeling of the vertices of T by three labels &Thgr;, +1, and -1 is fixed. The present paper deals with the following problem: 2nd the number of labelings of the faces of T by two labels +1 and - 1, in such a way that the sum of the labels of the faces around any vertex is equal modulo 3 to the given label of the vertex. If T is a planar triangulation and all labels of vertices are zeros, then the problem of existence of such a labeling of faces is equivalent, according to P.J. Heawood, to the four-colour problem for planar triangulations, and the corresponding counting problem is equivalent to that of counting the number of all proper four-colourings of T.
Computer Software Applications in Chemistry, 2nd edition
Authors: Peter C. Jurs
Venue:  (1996)

:This unique presentation of computer software applications in chemistry goes beyond hardware interfacing and computer lab use. The book is organized by topic: general aspects of computers, solution of equations by numerical means, abstract (nonnumerical) chemical-structure information handling and molecular mechanics, and graphical displays of data and molecular structures. Each topic is supplemented frequently by FORTRAN programs which illustrate the ways in which computer software is applicable to the chemical field.
WordPerfect 6 for DOS Visual Pocket Guide, 1st edition
Authors: CORPORATE Ruth Staff Maran
Venue:  (1994)

:It's not enough to be told how to do things like format paragraphs and print documents -- to get the most out of a program like WordPerfect you need to be shown. With WordPerfect 6.1 For Windows Visual Pocket Guide, you get to see exactly what to click, where to drag and drop, and where and what to type. Best of all, WordPerfect 6.1 For Windows Visual Pocket Guide is compact enough to take with you on the road. Featuring the informative, full-color illustrations of renowned maranGraphics, WordPerfect 6.1 For Windows Visual Pocket Guide affords the ideal means to perform all the important word processing functions. 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
Kirby 64 Official Strategy Guide: The Crystal Shards
Authors: Gradygames
Venue:  (2000)

:BradyGames-Kirby 64: The Crystal Shards Official Strategy Guide Features. Detailed Boss-Fighting Tactics. Beat them all, including the Dark Star final boss! Expert strategy leads you through every level and every stage. Every Crystal Shard is revealed in simple, easy-to-follow steps. Complete multiplayer mini-game coverage, defeat your friends and set a new record! 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
This Is Your Brain on the Internet
Authors: Michael Sunday
Venue:  (1995)

:In this humorous collection, we promise to pick on Net surfers, programmers, and Windows users alike.
Paint Shop Pro 6 Power!
Authors: Lori J. Davis
Venue:  (1999)

:Paint Shop Pro (PSP), the world's most popular graphics package, is ideal for creating images for Web sites, presentations, logos, and editing photos. A detailed guide to teaching readers practical knowledge about PSP, this book covers basic topics such as layers, animation, filters, photo editing, optimization, and image conversion.
An ECN probe-based connection acceptance control
Authors: Tom Kelly
Venue: ACM SIGCOMM Computer Communication Review (2001)

Connection acceptance control is a mechanism which can be used to moderate the load placed on a network by turning away connection requests during times of overload. Traditionally these mechanisms have been implemented by setting up state within a network using signalling protocols, such as the IETF's Resource Reservation Protocol. There have been recent proposals for admission control based on end-systems probing the network to infer network load. These distributed algorithms often have less router state and hence scale more easily. This paper discusses an ECN (Explicit Congestion Notification) probe-based admission control protocol that is fast, scalable and robust. The protocol's performance is then studied through simulation. It is concluded that probe-based admission control is viable in both partitioned and integrated networks, but more research is needed to understand the implications for network policy control.
Programming Visual Basic .NET
Venue:  (2002)

Published just in time for the first release of Visual Studio .NET, Programming Visual Basic .NET is a programmer's complete guide to Visual Basic .NET. Starting with a sample application and a high-level map, the book jumps right into showing how the parts of .NET fit with Visual Basic .NET. Topics include the common language runtime, Windows Forms, ASP.NET, Web Forms, Web Services, and ADO.NET.
Trust without touch: jumpstarting long-distance trust with initial social activities
Authors: Jun Zheng, Elizabeth Veinott, Nathan Bos, Judith S. Olson, Gary M. Olson
Venue: Proceedings of the SIGCHI conference on Human factors in computing systems: Changing our world, changing ourselves (2002)

Computer-mediated communication (CMC) is thought to be inadequate when one needs to establish trust. If, however, people meet before using CMC, they trust each other, trust being established through touch. Here we show that if participants do not meet beforehand but rather engage in various getting-acquainted activities over a network, trust is much higher than if they do nothing beforehand, nearly as good as a prior meeting. Using text-chat to get acquainted is nearly as good as meeting, and even just seeing a picture is better than nothing
The New Information Revolution: A Reference Handbook
Authors: Martin K. Gay
Venue:  (1996)

:The personal computer age had been upon us just a few years when a new development changed everything: the Internet. Now people around the world could use their computers to link up with one another as well as with libraries, businesses, and schools - virtually any individual or place that had a computer. The new information revolution had begun, and, along with it, a host of social issues from cyberporn to educational access. This comprehensive, up-to-date volume provides readers with an in-depth discussion of the origin and development of this revolution, from the telegraph to JAVA, and all of the social issues accompanying the new technologies. It provides a detailed introduction; a chronology; biographical sketches of key figures; charts, graphs, documents, and quotations; a directory of organizations; extensive lists of print and nonprint resources, including World Wide Web sites; a glossary; and an index. Readers of all kinds - including students, academics, and general readers, from computer illiterates to "netizens" - will find this handbook an essential resource for research and informational reading.
Eliciting user preferences using image-based experience sampling and reflection
Authors: Stephen Intille, Charles Kukla, Xiaoyi Ma
Venue: CHI '02 extended abstracts on Human factors in computing systems (2002)

Determining requirements for any design project involves identifying and ranking user needs and preferences. User needs are typically elicited via personal or focus group interviews, site visits, and photographic and video analysis. Often, however, users know more than they say in a single or even several interviews [1]. We propose a methodology for assisting a user who is interested in learning about his or her own preferences using a process we call image-based experience sampling and reflection. We describe the methodology using a storyboard example from the domain of architectural redesign of home environments.
Managing Information and Knowledge in the Public Sector, 1st edition
Authors: Eileen M. Milner
Venue:  (2000)

:In this book Eileen Milner introduces the reader to the concepts of information and knowledge and explores a variety of tools and techniques which may be usefully adopted in actively managing and developing these resources. Wherever possible, real-life public sector cases and examples are used to illustrate good practice, as well as some of the pitfalls of poor application. 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
Transforming documentation from the XML doctypes used for the apache website to DITA
Authors: Donald M. Leslie
Venue: Proceedings of the 19th annual international conference on Computer documentation (2001)

A primary factor behind the enormous interest in XML is the support it provides for transforming documents to meet the needs of information-processing applications as well as human readers working with HTML, print, and other presentation media. This case study reviews the issues we confronted, the tools we implemented, and the procedures we adopted to transform a documentation set from one XML document type to another, and from XML to HTML and Adobe PDF.The documentation set for Xalan, the Apache XSL transformer based largely on code donated by Lotus/IBM, is written in XML, using document types shared by the projects on the Apache XML website. To present Xalan reference releases to IBM project groups, the Cambridge Advanced Technology Group has set up build procedures to transform the Xalan XML documentation to DITA, an extensible XML information typing architecture currently under development in IBM. After verifying that the DITA output conforms to its declared document type, the build publishes the DITA documentation set as HTML and as PDF.
The Value of Decision Analysis at Eastman Kodak Company, 1990-1999
Authors: Robert T. Clemen, Robert C. Kwit
Venue: Interfaces (2001)

Because of the one-time nature of typical decision-analysis projects, organizations often have difficulty identifying and documenting their value. Based on Eastman Kodak Company's records for 1990 to 1999, we estimated that decision analysis contributed around a billion dollars to the organization over this time. The data also reflect the many roles decision analysis can play. Aside from its monetary benefits, it promotes careful thinking about strategies and alternatives, improved understanding and appreciation of risk, and use of systematic decision-making principles.
Corporate Intranets: building communities with data
Authors: Heather E. McNay
Venue: Proceedings of IEEE professional communication society international professional communication conference and Proceedings of the 18th annual ACM international conference on Computer documentation: technology & teamwork (2000)

We have seen phenomenal growth in corporate Intranets in just the past few years and they have fundamentally changed the way we do business. There are two main benefits of a corporate Intranet. One is to provide a central location for all corporate information and the other is to build a sense of community to a dispersed work force. Most Intranets start as a tool for distributing company policies and benefits information. If this base site is done correctly the next phase of growth is more like an explosion.The user base of these Intranets is also evolving. Today's corporations consist of a wider variety of employees than ever before. A typical business division will include office-based employees in various locations, telecommuting home-based employees, contract employees, and consultants. This type of business environment can lead to a lack of communication and lack of company loyalty. Therefore, to communicate with these workers, encourage them to share knowledge, and build a sense of community, many corporations are carefully crafting Intranets that are useful, yet inviting, tools.
Flash ActionScript f/x & Design
Authors: Bill Sanders
Venue:  (2000)

:ActionScript for Flash( 5 is a quantum leap from previous versions of this scripting language for Flash. Using ActionScript the Flash 5 developer can add interactive functionality like never before, and this book explains and shows (with plenty of projects and examples) how to get the most out of Flash 5 using AcitonScript. The book covers all major concepts in ActionScript for Flash 5 including the actions (statements), operators (which have changed significantly from previous versions), functions (including user-funcitons), properties, and the many new objects and their methods. Ten chapters lead the reader through all the elements of the new ActionScript, and an Example Glossary provides a quick lookup with an example script for all of the many actions, operators, functions, and properties. The book's CD-ROM includes the source files (FLA) and the SWF files so that the reader can both examine the coding for all the projects and run them. Flash 5 trial software is included as well so that the rea
Reliable Data Communications, 1st edition
Authors: John J. Metzner
Venue:  (1997)

:While many books cover coding and information theory, digital modulation, noise and data networks, there has been no text or reference that addresses the issue of reliable and efficient data communication in all these aspects. This book uniquely fills this important gap. With the rapid growth in data communications, particularly wireless data communication, problems of errors and lost transmissions need to be solved without excessive waste of system capacity. In this book, Metzner shows the various techniques for attaining reliable and efficient data communication over noisy channels and all types of data networks.
Complete Idiot's Guide to PCs
Authors: Joe Kraynak
Venue:  (1994)

:The Complete Idiot's Guide to PCs gives you the hands-on training you need to become productive with your new PCs. This book leads you from the very first stage (purchasing, setting up, and turning on a PC), through day-to-day operations (using Windows and applications; creating, formatting, and printing documents; browsing the Web; and sending and receiving email), and finishes up with tips for optimizing, configuring, and troubleshooting a PC. A simple scan of the outline reveals that The Complete Idiot's Guide to PCs is no standard PC reference book. From the very first pages and throughout the book, you perform the tasks required to learn and master your PC, and become more productive with software applications.
Stability of load balancing algorithms in dynamic adversarial systems
Authors: Elliot Anshelevich, David Kempe, Jon Kleinberg
Venue: Proceedings of the thiry-fourth annual ACM symposium on Theory of computing (2002)

In the dynamic load balancing problem, we seek to keep the job load roughly evenly distributed among the processors of a given network. The arrival and departure of jobs is modeled by an adversary restricted in its power. Muthukrishnan and Rajaraman (1998) gave a clean characterization of a restriction on the adversary that can be considered the natural analogue of a cut condition. They proved that a simple local balancing algorithm proposed by Aiello et. al. (1993) is stable against such an adversary if the insertion rate is restricted to a (1&mdash;&egr;) fraction of the cut size. They left as an open question whether the algorithm is stable at rate 1.In this paper, we resolve this question positively, by proving stability of the local algorithm at rate 1. Our proof techniques are very different from the ones used by Muthukrishnan and Rajaraman, and yield a simpler proof and tighter bounds on the difference in loads.In addition, we introduce a multi-commodity version of this load balancing model, and show how to extend the result to the case of balancing two different kinds of loads at once (obtaining as a corollary a new proof of the 2-commodity Max-Flow Min-Cut Theorem). We also show how to apply the proof techniques to the problem of routing packets in adversarial systems. Awerbuch et. al. (2001) showed that the same load balancing algorithm is stable against an adversary inserting packets at rate 1 with a single destination, in dynamically changing networks. Our techniques give a much simpler proof for a different model of adversarially changing networks.