• Publisher: Prentice Hall
• Number Of Pages: 768
• Publication Date: 1998-04-03
• Sales Rank: 311222
• ISBN / ASIN: 0201331535
• EAN: 9780201331530
• Binding: Paperback
• Manufacturer: Prentice Hall
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• Publisher: New Riders Press
• Number Of Pages: 528
• Publication Date: 2003-01-14
• Sales Rank: 50619
• ISBN / ASIN: 0735713243
• EAN: 0752064713241

There's a time bomb on the web: user patience. It starts ticking each time someone opens one of your pages. You only have a few seconds to get compelling content onto the screen. Fail, and you can kiss your customers and profits goodbye.

You can't count on fast connections either. Most of your customers are still sucking content through a 56K straw. You have to serve up greased lightning or they'll bail. That's why you picked up this book. In it you'll learn how to cut file sizes in half. You'll trim (X)HTML, CSS, graphics, JavaScript, multimedia, and bandwidth costs. Real-world examples illustrate techniques with before and after code and percentage savings. After reading this book, you'll know how to make your pages literally "pop" onto the screen.

• Publisher: Newnes
• Number Of Pages: 272
• Publication Date: 2005-07-28
• Sales Rank: 348889
• ISBN / ASIN: 0750677805
• EAN: 9780750677806
• Book Description:
  

  This it the first technical reference book available on the PSoC, and it offers the most comprehensive combination of technical data, example code, and descriptive prose youll find anywhere.
  
  Embedded design expert Robert Ashby will guide you through the entire PSoC world, providing thorough coverage of device feature, design, programming and development of the software-reconfigurable PSoC. He shares his best tips, tricks, and techniques that will help you to utilize the flexible and inexpensive PSoC to its greatest potential, with a minimum of heartaches and late nights.
  
  With its emphasis on designing for adaptability - a feature of the utmost importance in todays fast-paced and cost-pressured design cycles - this book will bring you up to speed quickly on everything PSoC, from memory management to interconnects. You will add brains and capable signal conditioning to a design with one chip, giving you extreme flexibility for a relatively low price. Specific application examples highlighting the PSoCs unique capabilities are included throughout the text, with the supporting sample source code. This valuable code is also provided on the companion CD-ROM so you can easily adapt it to your own designs.
  
  * The first independent technical reference available on the PSoC, a product line experiencing explosive growth in the embedded design world
  
  * Application examples, sample code, and design tips and techniques will get readers get up-to-speed quickly
  
  * Companion CD-ROM includes all example code from book, so that engineers can easily adapt it to their own designs

• Publisher: Joseph Henry Press
• Number Of Pages: 238
• Publication Date: 2004-04
• Sales Rank: 690427
• ISBN / ASIN: 0309089875
• EAN: 9780309089876
• Binding: Hardcover
• Manufacturer: Joseph Henry Press
• Studio: Joseph Henry Press
• Book Description:
  

  Robots, androids, and bionic people pervade popular culture, from classics like Frankenstein and R.U.R. to modern tales such as The Six Million Dollar Man, The Terminator, and A.I. Our fascination is obvious - and the technology is quickly moving from books and films to real life.

  In a lab at MIT, scientists and technicians have created an artificial being named COG. To watch COG interact with the environment - to recognize that this machine has actual body language - is to experience a hair-raising, gut-level reaction. Because just as we connect to artificial people in fiction, the merest hint of human-like action or appearance invariably engages us.

  Digital People examines the ways in which technology is inexorably driving us to a new and different level of humanity. As scientists draw on nanotechnology, molecular biology, artificial intelligence, and materials science, they are learning how to create beings that move, think, and look like people. Others are routinely using sophisticated surgical techniques to implant computer chips and drug-dispensing devices into our bodies, designing fully functional man-made body parts, and linking human brains with computers to make people healthier, smarter, and stronger.

  In short, we are going beyond what was once only science fiction to create bionic people with fully integrated artificial components - and it will not be long before we reach the ultimate goal of constructing a completely synthetic human-like being.

  It seems quintessentially human to look beyond our natural limitations. Science has long been the lens through which we squint to discern our future. Although we are rightfully fearful about manipulating the boundaries between animate and inanimate, the benefits are too great to ignore. This thoughtful and provocative book shows us just where technology is taking us, in directions both wonderful and terrible, to ponder what it means to be human.

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• Publisher: LearningExpress
• Number Of Pages: 226
• Publication Date: 2002-01-16
• Sales Rank: 1240528
• ISBN / ASIN: 1576854027
• EAN: 9781576854020
• Binding: Paperback
• Manufacturer: LearningExpress
• Studio: LearningExpress
• Book Description:
  

  Providing the skills students need to conquer any school writing assignment, Better Writing Right Now is a complete walk-through of each step of the writing process. Including everything from timed essay exams to research papers, this book provides tips and formats students can use for writing resumes, cover letters, general business letters, memos, e-mails, reports for work, and more. These basics writing skills provide the confidence and practical ability necessary to succeed in any situation that requires writing.

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• Publisher: Audio Literature
• Number Of Pages:
• Publication Date: 1997-01
• Sales Rank: 755229
• ISBN / ASIN: 0787107093
• EAN: 9780787107093
• Binding: Audio Cassette
• Manufacturer: Audio Literature
• Studio: Audio Literature

• Publisher: The MIT Press
• Number Of Pages: 320
• Publication Date: 2006-12-01
• Sales Rank: 146612
• ISBN / ASIN: 0262083574
• EAN: 9780262083577
• Binding: Hardcover
• Manufacturer: The MIT Press
• Book Description:
  Knowledge in digital form offers unprecedented access to information through the Internet but at the same time is subject to ever-greater restrictions through intellectual property legislation, overpatenting, licensing, overpricing, and lack of preservation. Looking at knowledge as a commons--as a shared resource--allows us to understand both its limitless possibilities and what threatens it. In Understanding Knowledge as a Commons, experts from a range of disciplines discuss the knowledge commons in the digital era--how to conceptualize it, protect it, and build it.
  
  Contributors consider the concept of the commons historically and offer an analytical framework for understanding knowledge as a shared social-ecological system. They look at ways to guard against enclosure of the knowledge commons, considering, among other topics, the role of research libraries, the advantages of making scholarly material available outside the academy, and the problem of disappearing Web pages. They discuss the role of intellectual property in a new knowledge commons, the open access movement (including possible funding models for scholarly publications), the development of associational commons, the application of a free/open source framework to scientific knowledge, and the effect on scholarly communication of collaborative communities within academia, and offer a case study of EconPort, an open access, open source digital library for students and researchers in microeconomics. The essays clarify critical issues that arise within these new types of commons--and offer guideposts for future theory and practice.
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• Publisher: Syngress Publishing
• Number Of Pages: 448
• Publication Date: 2007-02-26
• Sales Rank: 840805
• ISBN / ASIN: 1597491330
• EAN: 9781597491334
• Binding: Paperback
• Manufacturer: Syngress Publishing
• Studio: Syngress Publishing
• Book Description:
  

  Written by a former NYPD cyber cop, this is the only book available that discusses the hard questions cyber crime investigators are asking.
  
  The book begins with the chapter What is Cyber Crime? This introductory chapter describes the most common challenges faced by cyber investigators today. The following chapters discuss the methodologies behind cyber investigations; and frequently encountered pitfalls. Issues relating to cyber crime definitions, the electronic crime scene, computer forensics, and preparing and presenting a cyber crime investigation in court will be examined. Not only will these topics be generally be discussed and explained for the novice, but the hard questions the questions that have the power to divide this community will also be examined in a comprehensive and thoughtful manner.
  
  This book will serve as a foundational text for the cyber crime community to begin to move past current difficulties into its next evolution.
  
  * This book has been written by a retired NYPD cyber cop, who has worked many high-profile computer crime cases
  
  * Discusses the complex relationship between the public and private sector with regards to cyber crime
  
  * Provides essential information for IT security professionals and first responders on maintaining chain of evidence

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• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Number Of Pages: 288
• Publication Date: 1986-01
• Sales Rank: 518677
• ISBN / ASIN: 0194311872
• EAN: 9780194311878
• Binding: Paperback
• Manufacturer: Oxford University Press
• Studio: Oxford University Press
• Book Description:
  

  An alphabetical guide to the most common problems of grammar and vocabulary.

• Publisher: The MIT Press
• Number Of Pages: 224
• Publication Date: 2007-01-01
• Sales Rank: 319851
• ISBN / ASIN: 0262090422
• EAN: 9780262090421
• Binding: Hardcover
• Manufacturer: The MIT Press
• Studio: The MIT Press
• Book Description:
  

  The evolution of the concept of mind in cognitive science over the past 25 years creates new ways to think about the interaction of people and computers. New ideas about embodiment, metaphor as a fundamental cognitive process, and conceptual integration--a blending of older concepts that gives rise to new, emergent properties--have become increasingly important in software engineering (SE) and human-computer interaction (HCI). If once computing was based on algorithms, mathematical theories, and formal notations, now the use of stories, metaphors, and blends can contribute to well-informed, sensitive software design. In Designing with Blends, Manuel Imaz and David Benyon show how these new metaphors and concepts of mind allow us to discover new aspects of HCI-SE.
  
  After 60 years, digital technology has come of age, but software design has not kept pace with technological sophistication; people struggle to understand and use their computers, cameras, phones, and other devices. Imaz and Benyon argue that the dominance of digital media in our lives demands changes in HCI-SE based on advances in cognitive science. The idea of embodied cognition, they contend, can change the way we approach design by emphasizing the figurative nature of interaction. Imaz and Benyon offer both theoretical grounding and practical examples that illustrate the advantages of applying cognitive concepts to software design. A new view of cognition, they argue, will develop a cognitive literacy in software and interaction design that helps designers understand the opportunities of digital technology and provides people with a more satisfying interactive experience.

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