Excel is a complex program. Mastering the use of formulas and functions lets you use Excel to compute useful day-to-day information, such as calculating the true cost of credit card purchases or comparing 15-year and 30-year mortgage costs. This fun and friendly...

The modern field of nonvolatile digital information storage is a bit more than a half-century old. During its history, the field has seen a small handful of technologies (magnetic tape, magnetic hard disk, magnetic flexible disk, consumer-derived optical disk) take root as ‘mainstream’. These technologies have persisted in the...

This is Volume 83 of the Advances in Computers, subtitled Security on the Web. This series, continuously published since 1960, is the oldest series covering the development of the computer industry. With the impact that the World Wide Web has on every facet of our lives today, this volume focuses on the security aspect of computing....

You already know that Java 2 Enterprise Edition 1.4 makes your enterprise services more cost-effective, more adaptable,...

Mastering Bitcoin is essential reading for everyone interested in learning about bitcoin basics, the technical operation of bitcoin, or if you're building the next great bitcoin killer app or business. From using a bitcoin wallet to buy a cup of coffee, to running a bitcoin marketplace with hundreds of thousands of transactions, or...