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 Encyclopedia of Internet Technologies and ApplicationsBefore the invention of the World Wide Web, computer communications were mainly associated with the data transmission and reception among computers. The invention of the Web by Tim Berners-Lee in 1989, led to a deep change of this paradigm, imposing the share of information over the data transmission. After the invention of the Web, Internet refers... | | Encyclopedia of World Cultures: Middle America and the CaribbeanOver 153 million people live in the Middle American and Caribbean culture areas, which are divided primarily between the Middle American mainland cultures and the Caribbean cultures of the West Indian islands and Bermuda.
Middle America is the region south of the United States and north of South America. It includes Mexico and Central... | | Berkshire Encyclopedia of Human-Computer Interaction (2 Volume Set)In hardly more than half a century, computers have become integral parts of everyday life, at home, work, and play. Today, computers affect almost every aspect of modern life, in areas as diverse as car design, filmmaking, disability services, and sex education.Human-computer interaction (HCI) is a vital new field that examines the ways in which... |
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| | Encyclopedia of World Cultures Vol 9 : AfricaThe peoples of Africa may be classified according to several criteria, probably the oldest of which is race. Africa is occupied by members of the Negroid race, the most numerous; then by members of the Caucasoid race, mainly in northern and southern Africa; the Mongoloid race (in Madagascar); and by the so-called Bushmanoid and Pygmoid races or... | | Encyclopedia of World Cultures: South AsiaContemplation of the huge numbers of people now living in South Asia prompts me to point out that this volume deals with about 20 percent of the world's population (which stood at almost 5 billion in 1986, the year in which the population of South Asia passed the 1 billion mark). The rough geographic limits encompassing this mass of people and... |
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