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The LLL Algorithm: Survey and Applications (Information Security and Cryptography)

Springer, 2009

The LLL algorithm is a polynomial-time lattice reduction algorithm, named after its inventors, Arjen Lenstra, Hendrik Lenstra and László Lovász. The algorithm has revolutionized computational aspects of the geometry of numbers since its introduction in 1982, leading to breakthroughs in fields as diverse as computer algebra,...

Electronics Demystified

McGraw-Hill, 2004

SHOCK YOURSELF BY LEARNING ELECTRONICS

Now anyone with an interest in electronics can master it„oby reading this book. In Electronics Demystified, best-selling science and math writer Stan Gibilisco provides an effective and painless way to understand the electronics that power so much of modern life.

With Electronics...

The Book of JavaScript, 2nd Edition: A Practical Guide to Interactive Web Pages

No Starch Press, 2006

The Book of JavaScript teaches readers how to add interactivity, animation, and other tricks to their web sites with JavaScript. Rather than provide a series of cut-and-paste scripts, thau! takes the reader through a series of real world JavaScript code with an emphasis on understanding. Each chapter focuses on a few important JavaScript...

Understanding Surveillance Technologies: Spy Devices, Their Origins & Applications

CRC Press, 2000

This is the first comprehensive text to cover this fascinating field from origins to present-day practices. Secret agents are no longer the only people using spycams, radio beacons, and tiny audio listening devices called 'bugs.' Spy devices are now an important part of almost every investigation, office environment, phone system, traffic...

The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference

Little, Brown and Company, 2000

The Tipping Point is that magical moment when an idea, trend, or social behaviour crosses a threshhold, tips, and spreads like wildfire. Just as a sick individual in a crowded store can start can epidemic of the flu, so too can a small but precisely targeted push cause a fashion trend or the popularity of a new restaurant to take off overnightor...

The Secret History of Star Wars

Legacy Books Press, 2008

Star Wars is one of the most important cultural phenomena of the Western world. The tale of Luke Skywalker, Han Solo, and the fall and redemption of Anakin Skywalker has become modern myth, an epic tragedy of the corruption of a young man in love into darkness, the rise of evil, and the power of good triumphing in the end. But it didn’t...

Technological Turf Wars: A Case Study of the Computer Antivirus Industry

Temple University Press, 2008

Computer security is a technical and social problem. It is just as much about social relationships as it is about computers as tools. Internet security professionals are as concerned with how people use information as they are with how machines manipulate and process that information. This book is a case study of how the knowledge systems...

Digital Communication over Fading Channels: A Unified Approach to Performance Analysis

John Wiley & Sons, 2000

Regardless of the branch of science or engineering, theoreticians have always been enamored with the notion of expressing their results in the form of closed-form expressions. Quite often, the elegance of the closed-form solution is overshadowed by the complexity of its form and the difficulty in evaluating it numerically. In such instances, one...

Palm webOS

O'Reilly, 2009

This is the official guide to building native JavaScript applications for Palm's new mobile operating system, Palm® webOS™. Written by Palm's software chief technology officer along with the Palm webOS development team, Palm webOS provides a complete tutorial on the design principles, architecture, UI, tools, and...

Library World Records, second edition

McFarland, 2008

"This fascinating second edition of Library World Records...celebrates all aspects of library life, and lists the various world records in an orderly index that only a librarian could create...more than simply a comprehensive list of records: it is woven together with a strong and poignant sense of library history." --London...

$Real-Life Math: Everyday Use of Mathematical Concepts$

Real-Life Math: Everyday Use of Mathematical Concepts

Greenwood Press, 2002

"What does this have to do with real life?" is a question that plagues mathematics teachers across America, as students are confronted with abstract topics in their high school mathematics courses. The National Council of Teachers of Mathematics emphasizes the importance of making real world connections in teaching mathematics so that...

Antennas for Information Super Skyways: An Exposition on Outdoor and Indoor Wireless Antennas

Research Studies Press, 2004

The primary goal of this book is to present the salient aspects of antenna principles and technology and relate these to wireless communications applications. It is written from a unique perspective, containing a mix of topics - theory, design and applications of outdoor and indoor antennas adopted in modern wireless communication systems. The...

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