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Catastrophe Modeling: A New Approach to Managing Risk (Huebner International Series on Risk, Insurance and Economic Security)

Springer, 2004

This book had its genesis in June 1996 when the Wharton Risk
Management and Decision Processes Center (Wharton Risk Center) co-hosted
a conference on “Information Technology and Its Impact on Catastrophic
Risks”. It was one of the events that year celebrating the Anniversary of
the first computer (ENIAC) at the...

Peer-to-Peer : Harnessing the Power of Disruptive Technologies

O'Reilly, 2001

The term "peer-to-peer" has come to be applied to networks that expect end users to contribute their own files, computing time, or other resources to some shared project. Even more interesting than the systems' technical underpinnings are their socially disruptive potential: in various ways they return content, choice, and...

Windows XP Pocket Reference

O'Reilly, 2002

Windows XP Pocket Reference is a handy book for power users and system administrators who need a solid reference with quick answers, but not a lot of explanation. This book is a powerful tool that quickly covers XP's applications and tools, tasks and settings, and commands.

This pocket reference is...

Hunting Security Bugs

Microsoft Press, 2006

Your essential reference to software security testing—from the experts.

Learn how to think like an attacker—and identify potential security issues in your software. In this essential guide, security testing experts offer practical, hands-on guidance and code samples to help you find, classify, and assess security bugs before...

JavaScript Application Cookbook

O'Reilly, 1999

Seasoned Java coders will find the JavaScript Application Cookbook compiled just for them. Written in the same vein as the old-style programmer "toolbox" titles, this book sheds the usual tutorial presentation and simply introduces a series of JavaScript applications you can use on your own sites.

The cookbook begins with...

Zen and the Art of Information Security

Syngress Publishing, 2007

While security is generally perceived to be a complicated and expensive process, Zen and the Art of Information Security makes security understandable to the average person in a completely non-technical, concise, and entertaining format. Through the use of analogies and just plain common sense, readers see through the hype and become comfortable...

MySpace Unraveled: What it is and how to use it safely

Peachpit Press, 2006

Do you know what your children are up to on MySpace? MySpace Unraveled: What it is and how to use it safely discusses the booming MySpace social-networking phenomenon and shows you exactly what you need know about MySpace and how to create a safe online experience for your kids. Written by Larry Magid and Anne Collier of Family Tech...

Enterprise AJAX: Strategies for Building High Performance Web Applications

Prentice Hall, 2007

If you are like many of the talented developers we meet, you’re interested in AJAX and how you can use it to improve your web applications. You may have even done some preliminary research online, checked out Ajaxian.com, or read a beginner’s book to AJAX development. If not, then you’re like an even larger group of talented...

Embedded, Everywhere: A Research Agenda for Networked Systems of Embedded Computers

National Academy Press, 2001

Continued advances in information technologies are enabling a growing number of physical devices to be imbued with computingand communications capabilities. Aircraft, cars, household appliances, cellular telephones, and health monitoring devices all contain microprocessors that are being linked with other information processing devices. Such...

Introduction to Artificial Neural Systems

West Publishing Company, 1992

The recent resurgence of interest in neural networks has its roots in the recognition that the brain performs computations in a different manner than do conventional digital computers. Computers are extremely fast and precise at executing sequences of instructions that have been formulated for them. A human information processing system is composed...

Programming INDIGO

Microsoft Press, 2005

Microsoft Code Name “Indigo” is an advanced infrastructure and programming model for creating connected applications. It's like nothing that has come before. That's a bold statement, so allow me to put it in perspective for you.

I wrote my first communication program over 20 years ago and...

Easy Electromyography

Oxford University Press, 2000

The seed for this book was planted by a second-year resident in Neurology, Vicente (ÑÐÐ¬EnzoÑÐÐ) Trapani, who desired a handbook in electromyography (EMG) that emphasized both muscle localization and clinical pearls. A gifted artist, Trapani envisioned a text that would provide high-quality illustrations of skeletal...

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