In late 2001, Bill Gates was having dinner with a group of journalists on the night before Microsoft’s launch of the Windows XP operating system. At that time, the dotcom crash was just unfolding, and during dinner, Bill Gates said (correctly) that the dotcom bubble was a distraction and caused a lot of money to be wasted on...

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The Shelly Cashman Series® offers the fi nest textbooks in computer education. We are proud of the fact that our previous HTML books have been so well received. With each new edition of our HTML books, we have made signifi cant improvements based on the comments made by instructors and students. The HTML, XHTML, and CSS, Sixth...

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Grid Computing was a vision of using and sharing computers and data in the early 1990s. The integration, coordination, and sharing of computer resources which are geographically disperse among different physical domains and organizations became an every day reality. This emerging infrastructure aims to provide a mechanism for sharing...

Although speech is the most natural form of communication between humans, most people find using speech to communicate with machines anything but natural. Drawing from psychology, human-computer interaction, linguistics, and communication theory, Practical Speech User Interface Design provides a comprehensive yet concise...

Open Source software efforts are organized in a variety of different ways. Some of them are driven primarily by a single commercial organization. Others, like Linux, are a result of a diverse contribution of many individuals and organizations and are often led by a "benevolent dictator". The Sakai community fits neither of these...

Welcome to Twitter, the Social Networking site that was called “utterly devoid of any sort of merit” by New Zealand Herald’s Canvas Magazine, (June 6, 2009) in the same week it appeared on the cover of TIME Magazine as “a powerful form of communication” and “the future of American innovation.”...

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Online auctions are an increasingly important marketplace, as the new mechanisms and formats underlying these auctions have enabled the capturing and recording of large amounts of bidding data that are used to make...

Knowledge management (KM) has developed as a field from its roots in data and...

As a result of the multi-faceted...