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Essentials of Educational Technology
Authors: James E. Schwartz, Robert J. Beichner
Venue:  (1998)

:Nowadays, technology infiltrates every aspect of our lives. Computers are altering and often improving the ways in which we do nearly everything. And, not surprisingly, there are many effective ways to use the new technology in the classroom as well. This book describes those ways. This clear, concise book discusses the integration of computer use into the curriculum. Presenting the material as an integrated whole, the authors encourage readers to think about the enormous power and potential of technology with its ability to change the way we think and learn. The book relates the material to every major curriculum area, offering accompanying activities and ideas for readers. And this book also prepares readers to anticipate and prevent unwanted, negative effects of technology. The World Wide Web is discussed in great length as well. Teachers of computers and technology.
Jin Sato's LEGO Mindstorms: The Master's Technique
Authors: Jin Sato
Venue:  (2002)

:Building robots has been a favorite pastime for years. LEGO Mindstorms, a robotics kit that combines LEGO bricks with a software front-end, makes it easy for people to create robots at home. This book introduces the basic principles of robotics engineering. Sato brings the invention process down to earth by teaching how to think like a master builder with LEGO MINDSTORMS. Readers learn how to: Build the robotic dog, MIBO, step-by-step Assemble bricks, motors, gears, and sensors to create more balanced and stable structures Combine sensors with the RCX controller to create robots that respond to their environment Program the RCX with software like NQC, ROBOLAB, and legOS Think about building with LEGO pieces and the MINDSTORMS kit in entirely new ways Readers become LEGO masters with the help of an expert guide. The book includes parts lists, programming tips, and extensive step-by-step instructions for building MIBO.
Microprogramming for probability distribution sampling
Authors: T. G. Lewis
Venue: Proceedings of the ACM annual conference - Volume 1 (1972)

Microprogramming of special instructions for sampling of random variates from any probability distribution is a means of increasing sampling speed. The diversity of sampling techniques is narrowed to one general algorithm; conditional bit sampling. Conditional bit sampling, uses a high speed uniform random number generator based on feedback shift registers to sample one bit at a time. The probability of a bit being a one in the j-th position of a binary expanded variate is stored in a table of conditional probabilities. A comparison with the pseudorandom number yields a one or zero. The table of conditional probabilities is generated once and passed through an instruction to the microprogram which performs the sampling. One user instruction is issued for each variate returned.
E-Business: Thriving in the Electronic Marketplace
Authors: Nahid Jilovec
Venue:  (1999)

:The rules of engagement have changed. In today's digital world, interdependence is power and e-business is based on collaboration. E-business helps businesses of all sizes better support customers, suppliers, and trading partners. Emerging e-business leaders use technology effectively to leverage the power of their trading communities; they set the standards for others to follow. E-Business: Thriving in the Electronic Marketplace identifies key issues organizations face when they implement e-business projects and answers fundamental questions about entering and navigating the changing world of e-business. A concise guide to moving your business into the exciting world of collaborative e-business, the book introduces the four e-business models that drive today's economy and gives a clear summary of e-business technologies. It focuses on practical business-to-business applications, such as supply chain automation, sales force automation, customer service support, and payment processing areas with untapped potential especially for mid-sized businesses. E-Business: Thriving in the Electronic Marketplace addresses e-business project methodology, e-business resource planning, selecting e-business software, building e-business networking and infrastructure, e-business security, e-business legal concerns, and e-business business justification. 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
Domino 5 Web Programming with XML, Java, and JavaScript with CDROM
Authors: Randall A. Tamura, Randy Tamura
Venue:  (2000)

:Domino 5 Web Programming with Java and JavaScript provides the latest information about the newest technologies in the Domino Designer. Learn how to program client interfaces with the Domino Designer. Use JavaScript to enhance your Web user experience and access back-end database systems with Domino Java servlets or agents. Each of the Domino Object classes is described, making this a handy reference for Domino Java programmers. You'll learn advanced techniques such as how Notes and Domino interact with Java threads and how to create Java Server Pages by integrating the IBM WebSphere Application server with Domino. You'll learn secrets of component programming with Java Applets and JavaBeans. Each chapter ends with a set of questions that can be used to test your understanding.
Digital Image Processing, 2nd edition
Authors: Rafael C. Gonzalez, Richard E. Woods
Venue:  (1992)

:Digital Image Processing has been the leading textbook in its field for more than 20 years. As was the case with the 1977 and 1987 editions by Gonzalez and Wintz, and the 1992 edition by Gonzalez and Woods, the present edition was prepared with students and instructors in mind. The material is timely, highly readable, and illustrated with numerous examples of practical significance. All mainstream areas of image processing are covered, including a totally revised introduction and discussion of image fundamentals, image enhancement in the spatial and frequency domains, restoration, color image processing, wavelets, image compression, morphology, segmentation, and image description. Coverage concludes with a discussion of the fundamentals of object recognition. Although the book is completely self-contained, a Companion Web Site (see inside front cover) provides additional support in the form of review material, answers to selected problems, laboratory project suggestions, and a score of other features. A supplementary instructor's manual is available to instructors who have adopted the book for classroom use. New Features New chapters on wavelets, image morphology, and color image processing. More than 500 new images and over 200 new line drawings and tables. A revision and update of all chapters, including topics such as segmentation by watersheds. Numerous new examples with processed images of higher resolution. A reorganization that allows the reader to get to the material on actual image processing much sooner than before. Updated image compression standards and a new section on compressionusing wavelets. A more intuitive development of traditional topics such as image transforms and image restoration. Updated bibliography.
MCSE: NT Server 4 in the Enterprise Study Guide (3rd Edition)
Authors: Lisa Donald, James Chellis
Venue:  (1999)

:Discover the powerful enterprise networking capabilities of NT Server as you prepare for the Implementing and Supporting Microsoft NT Server 4 in the Enterprise exam -- a core requirement for the MCSE certification. This new and expanded second edition of the best-selling Microsoft Certified Professional Approved Study Guide covers every objective for the exam, from installation and configuration to administration. Hands-on examples help you learn; a sample testing program, supplied on the companion CD, provides practice for the actual exam.
Is distributed locking harder?
Authors: Paris C. Kanellakis, Christos H. Papadimitriou
Venue: Proceedings of the 1st ACM SIGACT-SIGMOD symposium on Principles of database systems (1982)

We examine the problem of determining whether a set of locked transactions, accessing a distributed database, is guaranteed to produce only serializable schedules. For a pair of transactions we prove that this concurrency control problem (which is polynomially solvable for centralized databases) is in general coNP-complete. We employ a new graph-theoretic technique and provide an efficient test for the special case of databases distributed between two sites only.
DB 2: High Performance Design and Tuning
Authors: Richard Yevich, Warwick Ford, Susan Lawson
Venue:  (2000)

:Improve the performance of any IBM DB2 database with expert Version 6.x and 7.0 tuning techniques! The only all-in-one, start-to-finish guide to maximizing DB2 performance! Top 20 DB2 Performance Myths-and what to do about them Includes exclusive, in-depth coverage of DB2 Versions 6.x and 7! Tuning for the DB2 designers, developers and administrators Design and tuning for robust e-commerce functionality Foreword by Roger Miller, IBM Lead DB2 Strategist This is the most comprehensive, practical DB2 optimization guide ever published! World-renowned DB2 consultants Richard Yevich and Susan Lawson cover all aspects of DB2 performance tuning: hardware, physical design, application coding, SQL, stored procedures, triggers, Java, and beyond. Review I/O, storage management, SMS usage, CPU tuning, memory tuning, and bufferpool design. Master every key DB2 database design optimization, including indexing, code and reference tables, and supporting the DB2 Catalog and Directory. Discover start-to-finish application development techniques proven to deliver outstanding performance, including commit strategies, application interfaces, and superior SQL coding techniques. Top 20 DB2 Performance Mythsand what to do about them! Based on hands-on experience at hundreds of DB2 installations Includes hands-on, in-depth coverage of data sharing and DB2 Version 7! For developers, designers, and DBAs From OLAP to OLTP, e-business to high availability, troubleshooting to long-term monitoring, this book covers it all. You'll be amazed at how much more performance youcan squeeze out of your DB2 systemwith DB2 High Performance Development Tuning!
A Matrix Version of the Fast Multipole Method
Authors: Xiaobai Sun, Nikos P. Pitsianis
Venue: SIAM Review (2001)

We present a matrix interpretation of the three-dimensional fast multipole method (FMM). The FMM is for efficient computation of gravitational/electrostatic potentials and fields. It has found various applications and inspired the design of many efficient algorithms. The one-dimensional FMM is well interpreted in terms of matrix computations. The three-dimensional matrix version reveals the underlying matrix structures and computational techniques used in FMM. It also provides a unified view of algorithm variants as well as existing and emerging implementations of the FMM.
Nightmare Creatures II
Authors: D. C. Bianchierri
Venue:  (2000)

:BradyGames-Nightmare Creatures II: Official Strategy Guide Features. Level walkthroughs  Guide Wallace through nine bone-chilling levels, and put a stop to the insane scheme of Dr. Adam Crowley. Lists of Weapons and Spells  Inside information on Wallace's instruments of gruesome destruction. Enemies and Boss Strategy  Crowley's demented creations, and how to defeat them. Cheat codes and 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
Assist: a self modifiable assembler for instructional purposes
Authors: J. R. Mashey, G. M. Campbell, C. Forney,  Jr.
Venue: Proceedings of the ACM annual conference - Volume 1 (1972)

ASSIST - Assembler System for Student Instruction and Systems Teaching, is a self-modifiable IN-CORE Assembler F compatible System/360 assembler-interpreter. It allows students to replace portions of the assembler using a process which is economical and provides good diagnostics. It has the capability of assembling a subroutine written in assembler language, linking the routine to itself and then executing another program utilizing the newly linked subroutine. The replaceable subroutines perform many of the basic functions required in an assembler, e.g. symbol table management, general expression evaluator, etc. The new subroutine results are compared with standard results and thus explicit diagnostics are available. Performance figures are supplied.
Microsoft Exchange Server in a Nutshell
Authors: Mitch Tulloch
Venue:  (1999)

:This resource guides experienced sys admins through implementing and configuring Microsoft Exchange Server 5.5, whether they're setting up a single Exchange server or a multi-site rollout with connectivity to foreign mail systems. The heart of the book is an alphabetical reference for the Exchange directory objects, the GUI tools, and the command-line tools.
Microsoft Publisher 97 Projects, 1st edition
Authors: Carol M. Cram, Hirsch
Venue:  (1998)

:Part of the Illustrated Projects Series, this text offers a quick, visual way to apply their Microsoft Publisher 97 skills. Covers beginning through intermediate skills.
Sams Teach Yourself Visual Basic .NET in 21 Days, 1st edition
Authors: Duncan MacKenzie, Kent Sharkey, Duncan Mackinsey
Venue:  (2001)

:Sams Teach Yourself Visual Basic.NET in 21 Days provides readers with 21 structured lessons with step-by-step guidance to real-world tasks. Each chapter also contains exercises that reinforce the lessons learned in each chapter. Tips, Notes, and Cautions provide additional advice from the authors on how to get up-to-speed and programming quickly with Visual Basic.NET.
Why Doesn't My Floppy Disk Flop: And Other Kids' Computer Questions Answered by the Compududes
Authors: Peter Cook, Scott Manning
Venue:  (1999)

:Curious about computers? . . . Ask the CompuDudes!At last, an everything-you-ever-wanted-to-know guide to computers, just for kids!Why is software called soft? Why are computer chips so small? What are kilobytes, megabytes, gigabytes, and terabytes? How do I get peanut butter out of my keyboard? This fun, informative guide provides the answers to these and dozens of other questions that kids (and their parents!) really want to know about computers. The CompuDudes radio show has been helping kids with computers since 1989. In Why Doesn't My Floppy Disk Flop? the CompuDudes reach even more kids with short, simple answers to their most-asked questions. Cartoon illustrations, screen shots, sidebars, and activities enliven the text. * A Main Selection of the Primary Teachers' Book ClubWhy Doesn't my Floppy Disk Flop? And Other Kids' Computer Questions Answered by the Compududes.For the best answers, coolest Web sites, and excellent cyber-activities, pick up Why Doesn't My Floppy Disk Flop? This lively, informative guide provides the answers to dozens of questions that you (and your parents!) really want to know. Combining their popular brand of humor with cartoon illustrations, sidebars, and tons of advice, the Compududes make all the learning seem like play. From the ins and outs of hardware and software to the best ways to take advantage of the Internet to the exciting future of computing, the answers and explanations in Why Doesn't My Floppy Disk Flop? are guaranteed to plug you in, log you on, and turn you into a computer whiz in no time!
The Zope Book
Authors: Amos Latteier, Michael Pellatier, Michel Pelletier
Venue:  (2001)

:The Zope Book is a book for web developers and website administrators on how to use Zope. Part I, Introducing Zope, gets you the reader up and running with Zope, teaches then what Zope can do, whom Zope is for, and how Zope is different from other web application servers.Part II, Creating Web Applications with Zope, takes what readers learned in Part I to the next step. They learn how to integrate the Zope fundamentals to create robust applications. Part III, Developing Advanced Web Applications with Zope, instructs readers on how to work with the advanced features of Zope.
Reload: Rethinking Women + Cyberculture
Authors: Mary Flanagan, Austin Booth
Venue:  (2002)

:Most writing on cyberculture is dominated by two almost mutually exclusive visions: the heroic image of the male outlaw hacker and the utopian myth of a gender-free cyberworld. Reload offers an alternative picture of cyberspace as a complex and contradictory place where there is oppression as well as liberation. It shows how cyberpunk's revolutionary claims conceal its ultimate conservatism on matters of class, gender, and race. The cyberfeminists writing here view cyberculture as a social experiment with an as-yet-unfulfilled potential to create new identities, relationships, and cultures. The book brings together women's cyberfiction--fiction that explores the relationship between people and virtual technologies--and feminist theoretical and critical investigations of gender and technoculture. From a variety of viewpoints, the writers consider the effects of rapid and profound technological change on culture, in particular both the revolutionary and reactionary effects of cyberculture on women's lives. They also explore the feminist implications of the cyborg, a human-machine hybrid. The writers challenge the conceptual and institutional rifts between high and low culture, which are embedded in the texts and artifacts of cyberculture.
Integrating empirical methods into computer science
Authors: David Reed, Doug Baldwin, Michael Clancy, Allen Downey, Stuart Hansen
Venue: ACM SIGCSE Bulletin (2002)

Empirical skills are playing an increasingly important role in the computing profession and our society. In addition to being problem-solvers and designers/engineers, computer scientists must also be capable experimenters in order to develop, test, and evaluate complex hardware and software systems. The widespread use of computers as tools for interdisciplinary research also demands a strong grounding in the scientific method.This panel is designed to promote discussion about innovative methods for integrating empirical skills within the traditional computer science curriculum. Each panelist will define a set of core empirical concepts and skills that they see as essential to computer scientists, with a brief rationale for each. In conjunction, they will describe classroom practices that serve to demonstrate the key concepts and/or develop skills they have identified. Sufficient time will be allocated for discussion and contributions from the audience.
Oracle8 Certified Professional DBA Certifcation Exam Guide, 1st edition
Authors: Jason S. Couchman, Oracle Corporation
Venue:  (1999)

:Certify your skills and demonstrate your expertise by earning your OCP credential with help from this Oracle-authorized exam guide. The book provides full coverage of the Oracle8 DBA Certification exams and includes coverage of Oracle8i. Fully endorsed by Oracle Corporation and developed in conjunction with Oracle's OCP program, this book and CD-ROM package is a powerful preparation tool containing more than 300 practice exam questions.
Democratic Governance and New Technology: Technologically Mediated Innovations in Political Practice in Western Europe
Authors: Ivan Horrocks, Jens Hoff, P. W. Tops
Venue:  (2000)

:Drawing on case studies from Denmark, The Netherlands and the UK, this book discusses new in formation and communication technologies. It explores their role in the restructuring of Western democratic political systems.
MATLAB for Engineers, 1st edition
Authors: Adrian B. Biran, Moshe M. Breiner
Venue:  (1997)

:Matlab is a powerful, comprehensive and easy-to-use environment for performing technical computations. It is an interactive program that helps you with numeric computation and data visualization.
A Notation and Logic for Mobile Computing
Authors: Gruia-Catalin Roman, Peter J. McCann
Venue: Formal Methods in System Design (2002)

We define a concurrent mobile system as one where independently executing components may migrate through some space during the course of the computation, and where the pattern of connectivity among the components changes as they move in and out of proximity. The definition is general enough to encompass a system of mobile hosts moving in physical space as well as a system of migrating software agents implemented on a set of possibly non-mobile hosts. In this paper, we present Mobile UNITY, a notation for expressing mobile computations and a logic for reasoning about their temporal properties. Our goal is to find a minimalist model of mobile computation that will allow us to express mobile components in a modular fashion and to reason formally about the possible behaviors of a system composed from mobile components. A simplified serial communication protocol among components which can move in space serves as an illustration for the notation.
Computing Probabilistic Bounds for Extreme Eigenvalues of Symmetric Matrices with the Lanczos Method
Authors: Jos L. M. van
Venue: SIAM Journal on Matrix Analysis and Applications (2000)

We study the Lanczos method for computing extreme eigenvalues of a symmetric or Hermitian matrix. It is not guaranteed that the extreme Ritz values are close to the extreme eigenvalues---even when the norms of the corresponding residual vectors are small. Assuming that the starting vector has been chosen randomly, we compute probabilistic bounds for the extreme eigenvalues from data available during the execution of the Lanczos process. Four different types of bounds are obtained using Lanczos, Ritz, and Chebyshev polynomials. These bounds are compared theoretically and numerically. Furthermore we show how one can determine, after each Lanczos step, a probabilistic upper bound for the number of steps still needed (without performing these steps) to obtain an approximation to the largest or smallest eigenvalue within a prescribed tolerance.