"The security of information systems has not improved at a rate consistent with the growth and sophistication of the attacks being made against them. To address this problem, we must improve the underlying strategies and techniques used to create our systems. Specifically, we must build security in from the start, rather than append...
If you know how to program, you have the skills to turn data into knowledge using the tools of probability and statistics. This concise introduction shows you how to perform statistical analysis computationally, rather than mathematically, with programs written in Python.
Essential guide to learning Autodesk Inventor and Inventor LT
The new Essentials books from Sybex are beautiful, task-based, full-color Autodesk Official Training Guides that help you get up to speed on Autodesk topics quickly and easily. Inventor Essentials thoroughly covers core features and functions of...
In the crowded field of customer relationship management (CRM) systems, SugarCRM stands out—not only for its modular design, but also for the ease with which you can develop, customize, and extend your CRM applications. This concise book provides a thorough overview of the development tools and APIs available in SugarCRM 6.2,...
In 2009, Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates announced the company's leading web application platform for organizations, SharePoint, has exceeded 1 billion dollars in profits with over 100 million licenses sold. I was in the audience when he said that and couldn't help but reflect on how far SharePoint has come in less than a decade. In the...
The main objective of a first course in operating systems is to develop an
understanding of the fundamental concepts and techniques of operating systems.
Most of the students are already exposed to diverse information on operating systems
as a result of practical exposure to operating systems and literature on the
Internet; such...
In the early days of pattern recognition and statistical data analysis life was
rather simple: datasets were relatively small, collected from well-designed experiments,
analyzed using a few methods that had good theoretical background.
Explosive growth of the use of computers led to the creation of huge amounts of
data of all kinds,...
Information networking has emerged as a multidisciplinary diversified area of research over
the past few decades. From traditional wired telephony to cellular voice telephony and from
wired access to wireless access to the Internet, information networks have profoundly
impacted our lifestyle. At the time of writing, over 3 billion...
An open source content management system (CMS) like WordPress can be a
great resource for anyone who would like to create a blog. It used to be that, to put
content online, you had to manually assemble all the files and develop a fair
amount of technical expertise; but a CMS can automate and significantly simplify
many parts of the...
In today's digital world, images and videos are everywhere, and with the advent of powerful
and affordable computing devices, it has never been easier to create sophisticated imaging
applications. Plentiful software tools and libraries manipulating images and videos are
offered, but for anyone who wishes to develop his/her own...
Although professionals have always acknowledged the value of networking,
today’s economic climate makes developing a solid network even more critical.
LinkedIn, the leading social networking site for professionals, is the ideal tool for
maximizing the potential of an online network. LinkedIn currently has more than
65 million...
With knowledge representation we face more or less the same problem as Augustine
(354–430) when thinking about time: if nobody asks what it is, it seems
clear enough, but being asked it proves to be very difficult to provide an answer.
At the beginning of our research we thought that a solution for the problem
of...
