We saw our first iPad in a theater in Hollywood, California, in the
summer of 1968. It appeared in the movie 2001: A Space Odyssey,
and the iPad (called a Newspad in the Arthur C. Clarke novel on
which the movie is based) made its debut when astronaut Dave
Bowman used it to view the news while having a horrific-looking
meal...
Netscape Navigator 4.0! Internet Explorer 4.0! HTML 3.2! JavaScript! Style sheets! Layers! HTML is changing so fast it's almost impossible to keep up with developments. How do you know what's real, and how do you use it? This book brings it all together for you. HTML: The Definitive Guide is the most comprehensive book...
When the World Wide Web was first invented by Tim Berners-Lee, simply having
a means to create hypertext links to other documents (including ones on remote
computers), and to combine text and images using basic formatting, were
revolutionary concepts that we take for granted today.
As organizations continue to operate in an increasingly competitive and global marketplace,
workers in all business areas including accounting, finance, human resources, marketing,
operations management, and production must be well prepared to make significant contributions
required for success. Regardless of your future role, you...
This book results from a meeting that took place in Cercedilla, Madrid, Spain in
March 2002. The meeting was about new ideas that could lead us to better use
of the solar spectrum with the ultimate goal of achieving superior photovoltaic
devices and, consequently, a reduction in their price. The meeting, despite being
short,...
It’s often difficult to predict which areas of a field will become rejuvenated and grow rapidly or spin off to fit with another to form something new. The field of electro-optics is also unpredictable, but currently it has numerous forces acting on it. First is the development of new optical sources such as ultrafast lasers and fiber...
The design of reliable industrial and commercial power systems is of considerable interest to
many people. Prior to 1962, a qualitative viewpoint was taken when attempting to achieve
this objective. The need for a quantitative approach was first recognized in the early 1960s
when a small group of pioneers led by W. H. Dickinson...
The Safety-critical Systems Symposium (SSS), held each February for seventeen
consecutive years, offers a full-day tutorial followed by two days of presentations
of papers. This book of Proceedings contains all the papers presented at SSS’09.
The first paper accompanies the tutorial, which addresses one of the...
SEEING THE UNSEEN. GEOPHYSICS AND LANDSCAPE ARCHAEOLOGY is a collection of papers presented at the advanced XV International Summer School in Archaeology ‘Geophysics for Landscape Archaeology’ (Grosseto, Italy, 10-18 July 2006). Bringing together the experience of some of the world’s greatest experts in the field of...
Approximately 15 years have passed since the first edition of this book, which was
well received by both graduate schools and industry. While the basic principles of
physics and mathematics have not changed, today’s technology has provided us with
huge opportunities to improve the circuit design for linear and nonlinear...
A step-by-step guide to the tasks involved in security administration
If you aspire to a career in security administration, one of your greatest challenges will be gaining hands-on experience. This book takes you through the most common security admin tasks step by step, showing you the way around many of the roadblocks you...
The objectives of the second edition have been maintained and updated to 2005 in the current volume where users will find that one third of the references, now totaling more than 1300, are new to this edition. At the same time most of the in-depth Further Reading suggestions are new to this volume, and production data of some 30 tables...
