Computing isn't simply about hardware or software, or calculation or applications. Computing, writes Paul Rosenbloom, is an exciting and diverse, yet remarkably coherent, scientific enterprise that is highly multidisciplinary yet maintains a unique core of its own. In On Computing, Rosenbloom proposes that computing is a great...

Mannino’s Database Design, Application Development, and Administration provides the information you need to learn relational databases. The book teaches students how to apply relational databases in solving basic and advanced database problems and cases. The fundamental database technologies of each processing environment are...

Drawing on the authors’ hands-on experience in developing, billing and delivering Multimedia Messaging Services (MMS), this innovative book addresses how MMS will affect existing network and...

The decade of the 80's saw the dramatic expansion of high performance computer graphics into domains previously able only to irt with the technology. Among the most dramatic has been the incorporation of real-time interactive manipulation and display for human gures. Though actively pur- sued by several research groups, the...

Computer security was once thought to be the exclusive province of somber men in dark suits and nerdy, whey-faced hackers. While both of these archetypes are still well-represented in the computing industry, the last two years have witnessed an explosive growth in the number of organizations that are seeking to boost the...

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This is the most comprehensive, practical, and useful guide to Windows Home Server, including Microsoft’s major updates in PowerPacks 1, 2, and 3. Top Windows expert Paul McFedries brings together tips, techniques, and shortcuts available nowhere else and presents them all in plain English for every Windows Home...