Tools of data comparison and analysis are critical in the field of archaeology, and the integration of technological advancements such as geographic information systems, intelligent systems, and virtual reality reconstructions with the teaching of archaeology is crucial to the effective utilization of resources in the field.

E-Learning Methodologies and Computer Applications in Archaeology presents innovative instructional approaches for archaeological e-learning based on networked technologies, providing researchers, scholars, and professionals a comprehensive global perspective on the resources, development, application, and implications of information communication technology in multimedia-based educational products and services in archaeology.

About the Author

Dionysios Politis is a lecturer of the multimedia lab, in the Department of Informatics, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki. He has earned his BS in physics (1987), MSc in radio engineering and electronics (1990), and PhD in computer science (1998) from the same university. He is a holder of a Graduate Diploma in Computing Studies (1991) from RMIT University as a scholar of the Australian government. He has served as coordinator of the EU funded multinational project SEEArchWeb South Eastern Europe Archaeology Web (2004-2006). He has been a collaborator of the Centre of International and European Economic Law (1992-2002) and has participated in various computer law projects, mainly focusing on the preaccession route of southeastern Europe countries to EU integration. His research interests focus on multimedia reconstructions and visualizations, mainly with an e-learning orientation. He has edited, published or presented more than 50 books, chapters in books, journals, magazines, newspapers, radio-television emissions and international conferences.

Digital Media Tools is a clearly focused introduction to acquiring skills in the use of major software tools to create multimedia. It will help you in the practical preparation of illustrations and still images, video animation and sound as well as multimedia authoring for the Web. With the benefit of these experts coaching you, as you turn your hand to the exercises and get plenty of practice, you will acquire a mastery of the
tools. You will learn what they do best and what their limitations are.

Movies on the CD-ROM provide step-by-step demonstrations of application functions and the accompanyintg website has supplementary chapters covering some other popular tools such as Fireworks and GoLive

Table of Contents:

Introduction
Common Features
Bitmapped Images: Photoshop
Web Graphics: ImageReady
Animation with Interactivity: Flash
Vector Graphics: Illustrator
Web Sites: Dreamweaver
Video and Audio: Premiere
Colour; Typography; Bezier Curves
Optimizing Images for the WWW
Projects

Visit Nigel and Jenny Chapman's exciting new experimental Flash website

This book comprehensively surveys the results of research investigation and technologies used to secure, verify, recognize, track, and authenticate objects and information from theft, counterfeiting, and manipulation by unauthorized persons and agencies. This book will draw on the diverse expertise in optical sciences and engineering, digital image processing, imaging systems, information processing, computer based information systems, sensors, detectors, and biometrics to report innovative technologies applied to information security issues.

Optical and Digital Techniques for Information Security is the first book in a series focusing on Advanced Sciences and Technologies for Security Applications. 

The Advanced Sciences and Technologies for Security Applications series focuses on research monographs in the areas of:

-Recognition and identification (including optical imaging, biometrics, authentication, verification, and smart surveillance systems)

-Biological and chemical threat detection (including biosensors, aerosols, materials detection and forensics)

-Secure information systems (including encryption, and optical and photonic systems)

Most workplaces rely on local area networks (LANs) to connect their computers and the right LAN is increasingly important in promoting effective communication both within the organisation and with the world at large.

Local Area Network Management, Design and Security is a practical and thorough introduction to managing and designing a LAN. It explains the underlying technology and gives a theoretical foundation for the vast technical field of LAN management and design. Practical examples are based on the most common systems (hardware and software) on the market today. This book also gives an overview of such current trends as intranets and provides useful examples to help you develop your own.

Features of the book include:
* A practical introduction to the world's most popular network operating systems - Windows 2000, Novell NetWare and Linux.

* A look at the organisational/ business issues related to LANs and in particular the impact of intranets.

* Coverage of data communication in networks, including OSI, TCP/IP and LAN standards.

* A discussion of network operating systems (NOS).

* A description of design features of LAN infrastructure, hardware and wireless LANs.

* Security issues with LAN management, including users, backup systems and standards for network administration (SNMP, RMON)
An ideal book for system administrators with responsibility for a LAN or students studying network technology.

About the Author

Arne B. Mikalsen and Per Borgesen work as associate professors at the Faculty of Informatics and E-learning, Sør-Trøndelag University College, where they teach courses in LAN management, network theories and data communication.

An easy-to-understand, step-by-step guide to installing, configuring, and using Red Hat Linux. Red Hat Linux is the most popular choice among Linux users in the U.S., with about 80% of the U.S. Linux market. Includes complete coverage of the new features of the upgrade to Red Hat, due out in Fall 2002. Assumes no prior knowledge of Linux and is an easy-to-understand, step-by-step tutorial for new Linux users. Linux is an open-source, UNIX-like operating system that has become a viable desktop system for many users, especially those involved with system and network administration. Red Hat Linux has remained a leading choice of Linux distributions for years, owning more than 80% of the U.S. Linux market. Sams Teach Yourself Red Hat Linux in 24 Hours covers all the most important topics for the reader who wants to get Red Hat Linux up and running and to become productive with the operating system as quickly as possible. The book covers topics such as installing, setting up, and negotiating the new desktop environment. Judith Samson is a writer and the principal of the Linux consulting company SamsonSource. She regularly contributes to TechRepublic and other publications, as well as the GNOME Documentation project. Jason Byars is a graduate student in computer engineering at Purdue University and has been involved with Linux for more than four years. Dallas Releford is the CEO of American Electronic Publishing and has worked as a writer, technical editor, reviewer, and consultant in the technology publishing field.

Linux is an open-source, Unix-like operating system that has become a viable desktop system for many users, especially those involved with system and network administration.

Red Hat Linux has remained a leading choice of Linux distributions for years, owning more than 80 percent of the U.S. Linux market.

Sams Teach Yourself Red Hat Linux in 24 Hours covers all the most important topics for the reader who wants to get Red Hat Linux up-and-running and to become productive with the operating system as quickly as possible. The book covers topics such as installing, setting up, and negotiating the new desktop environment.

About the Author

Aron Hsiao is a computing entrepreneur and freelance network consultant with a background in Unix-like operating systems stretching back to the mid 80's. He has spent time both as an independent contractor and as a proprietor, working in computer hardware and software retail, real-time software development, network deployment, Internet development, and Internet marketing. He is author of Sams Teach Yourself Linux Security Basics in 24 Hours and The Concise Guide to Xfree86 for Linux.

An updated and revised edition of Data Broadcasting: The Technology and the Business, c1999. Features new sections on wireless communications, and explains how data broadcasting can solve traffic problems on the Internet. For executives and developers in the telecommunications, software, hardware and media industries. Softcover.

Data broadcasting will produce global changes to the way media is created, distributed and used, both professionally and privately. Now fully updated this revised edition continues to be a truly groundbreaking volume presenting an exhaustive overview of the specific data broadcasting and bordering technologies concerned.

• Features new sections on wireless communications
• Explains how data broadcasting can solve traffic problems on the internet
• Discusses the technical implications of data broadcasting over different network infrastructures
• Examines the process of developing and launching multimedia channels in a data broadcasting environment

Data Broadcasting equips executives and developers in the telecommunications, software, hardware and media industries with an invaluable analysis of the main commercial, editorial and technical opportunities that data broadcasting can provide.

This is the first book on space-time coding for wireless communications, one of the most promising techniques for ensuring bandwidth efficiency. The text describes theoretical principles as well as engineering applications; discusses key criteria in the design of practical space-time codes; and covers single-carrier and multi-carrier transmission for both single- and multi-user communications.

The state of the art in space-time code design

This cutting-edge text presents the state of the art in space-time (ST) coded multi-antenna systems operating over broadband wireless mobile channels, including an analysis of the most recent research findings. Specifically, the authors focus on the algorithms and performance analysis of ST coded systems at the physical layer.

This text is a complement to previously published works covering ST coded multi-antenna systems and offers several unique features and benefits:

• Systematic coverage of one of the most promising techniques that will support the next generation of broadband multimedia services
• Unified and comprehensive exposition on the design of ST codes, which places all the latest research in context
• Thorough designs of ST codes for the gamut of frequency-selective, time-selective, and doubly-selective MIMO channels that are encountered with broadband wireless mobile links, in addition to ST codes for flat fading MIMO channels
• Recent advances in complex field coded transmissions, sphere decoding algorithms, closed-loop ST coded systems, operation in the presence of colored interference, and multi-user, multi-antenna systems
• Development and analysis of novel algorithms and techniques that have arisen from recent research

Numerical and simulated examples are given for most of the algorithms presented in the text to help readers better visualize and understand how they work. In addition, the authors provide background information on wireless communications basics, diversity techniques, and capacity of MIMO channels, giving readers the necessary foundation to grasp all the key concepts and techniques presentedin the text.

This text will not only bring engineers, network designers, and graduate students in wireless communications up to date with the latest findings, it will also provide them with the latest applications.

About the Author

GEORGIOS B. GIANNAKIS, PhD, is ADC Endowed Chair Professor in Wireless Telecommunications with the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Minnesota. He is a Fellow of the IEEE, a (co-)recipient of six IEEE best paper awards (including the IEEE Communication Society's 2004 Guglielmo Marconi Prize Paper), and a recipient of the IEEE Signal Processing Society's Technical Achievement Award. His interests and expertise span the areas of wireless communications, wireless networks, sensor networks, and statistical signal processing.

ZHIQIANG LIU, PhD, is Assistant Professor with the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Iowa. His research interests include space-time coding and processing, wireless communications theory, synchronization, channel estimation, and sensor networks.

XIAOLI MA, PhD, is Assistant Professor with the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the Georgia Institute of Technology. Her research interests include signal processing for communications and networking, signal estimation algorithms, wireless communications theory, and sensor networks.

SHENGLI ZHOU, PhD, is Assistant Professor with the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Connecticut. His research interests include wireless communications and signal processing, underwater acoustic communications and networking, and wireless positioning and synchronization.

Managing the Email Office is for all people who feel email is taking over their lives. It provides practical help and guidance on how to manage both their own volume of email as well as their organization's. It will enable you to develop winning ways with email and to re-claim some of those valuable resources which email consumes.

The authors offer solutions to managing email that will help you save time and use email to communicate effectively and send the right message, right first time. These solutions are based on personal preferred patterns of work and management styles. The authors show you how to use email to support you and your team, to become more productive and reduce stress. Case histories are included throughout, to help you understand and apply the contents to you own and your organisation's situation.

This book addresses:
* how time management and personal effectiveness can be improved through better use of email.
* how to develop and implement an email best practice policy for the organization.
* how email can be used constructively to support customer relationship management and knowledge management

Tackles the issues of email best practice from a management perspective

Includes case histories which provide frameworks from which users can locate themselves and how they operate

Provides help for both individuals and groups of users such as teams and business divisions

Text provides practical help and guidance on how to manage your own volume of email as well as your organization's. Shows how to develop methods of handling email to reclaim some of those valuable resources which email consumes. For individuals trying to manage their own email and those having responsibility for their team or organization.

About the Author
Dr Monica Seeley is an expert in helping senior executives unlock the personal and corporate benefits of information technology (IT). Using her innovative 'Executive Lifestyle IT Fitness' process she has successfully mentored and coached numerous board level executives from a wide range of organizations in both the public and private sector. She has developed an email inbox audit methodology to help individuals and their organization improve their use of email for communications and knowledge management. Dr Seeley's research focuses on how executive use IT to enhance their work-life balance and performance both as individuals and collectively as members of the top management team. Dr Seeley founded Mesmo Consultancy in 1989 to enable senior executives and their organizations to derive personal and business benefits from their IT investments. Prior to that Dr Seeley held senior positions with NatWest, British Gas and several international software houses. From 1990 to 1997 she was an Associate of PA Consulting. Her first book 'Using the PC to Boost Executive Performance' has been translated into Spanish and she has a number of regular columns including Dr Seeley's Surgery in 'Director' magazine, and Board Room Briefing in 'Computer Weekly' magazine.

This book takes an object-oriented approach to introduce Visual Basic .NET. The author begins by covering object-oriented analysis, design, and modeling using UML. He then moves into a detailed discussion of objects and clasess, after which, readers begin develoing their own short programs. Advanced topics such as data structures, components, and distributed/Internet programming are also covered. Programmers interested in learning the Visual Basic .NET programming language.

Object-Oriented Programming in Visual Basic .NET

Visual Basic .Net (VB .NET) has been a radical departure from previous versions of Visual Basic. The language is now fully object-oriented, and can be used either to write programs, or to create components that fit within the .NET architecture. If you are learning to program, VB .NET will give you a previously unheard-of mix of power, flexibility and ease of use.

The book approaches the language from an object-oriented (OO) perspective, demonstrating that Visual Basic can now be used to develop real industrial-strength OO systems and software components. It starts by covering OO analysis, design and modelling using UML, and then moves on to a full discussion of OO concepts. Advanced topics such as data structures, database applications and software design patterns are also covered. Throughout, students are shown how to develop short programs in order to illustrate the fundamentals of algorithm design and structured programming.

Features

• Object-oriented programming is placed fully in the context of the software development life cycle

• Includes a chapter on database development, covering database design principles, data access techniques and presenting data to the user-interface

 

• The book is accompanied by a website at www.booksites.net/mcmonnies containing code for all programs in the book, additional program examples and information on using VB to program database applications. Instructor¿s materials include slides, tutorial sheets, lab sheets and assessment materials, all with solutions.

Alistair McMonnies is currently a lecturer in the Computing and Information Systems department at the University of Paisley. He teaches software development using Visual Basic and C++ and is a Microsoft Certified Professional.