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An essential contribution to the study of the history of computers, this work identifies the computer's impact on the physical, biological, cognitive, and medical sciences. References fundamental to the understudied area of the history of scientific computing also document the significant role of the sciences in helping to shape the development of computer technology. More broadly, the many resources on scientific computing help demonstrate how the computer was the most significant scientific instrument of the 20th century. ... Read more

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This book and CD-ROM presents the complete collection of all the proceedings of the 32 CRYPTO and EUROCRYPT conferences, held between 1981 and 1997. Besides more than 14,500 papers of text in pdf format, the CD-ROM provides a user-friendly interface for navigation, search tools, and indexes. The book gives a complete documentation of the conferences covered from the meta-cryptology point of view; it also provides a printed index listing all contributing authors. The CD-ROM is ready for use on most common platforms. ... Read more

Customer Reviews (3)

Technical problems....
I love the idea of having a good-sized library of important research on CD-ROM.However, they really needed some people who were more technically competent to produce this CD-ROM.

For example, they have not used thestandard Rock Ridge CD format, so when mounted on a Unix system (and notusing flags available only to root) it simply doesn't work:the filenamesare treated as lower case, and all the links on the CD are in upper case. On a system like Windows, that can't distinguish between upper and lowercase in filenames, this isn't a problem.But for those of us who don't useWindows it's a serious problem.I ended burning a copy of the CD with allupper-case file names, and that works -- but people who use Unix (includingLinux) and don't have a CD burner are going to have some realproblems.

Secondly, the scanned pages are all in the standardSpringer-Verlag small page format, but for some reason the scanned imagesare much larger with lots of whitespace at the bottom.That means that mystandard acrobat setting of "fit page" has the text about 2/3 ofthe size that it should, and it's hard to read.It seems like anyeditorial person reviewing the scanned material would have recognized andtried to fix this problem.

Finally, the book that accompanies the CD isjust ridiculous -- it duplicates material on the CD, and simply adds to theproduction (and so retail) cost, and wastes paper.

Overall, this is avaluable resource, and I'll hold on to it.I just wish the publishers hadmade some more intelligent choices along the way....

CD-ROM Collection of most major academic papers in crypto
This CD-ROM contains an excellent collection of academic referreed papers in the area of cryptography.The papers are highly technical -- beginners would do better with a book like Handbook of Applied Cryptography or Applied Cryptography.

For researchers and people learning the mathematics of cryptography, this collection assembled by Kevin McCurley isunquestionably the best purchase available.

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Dear sir, I am just wondering does this book (ISBN #3540650695) include a CD?? If yes, I will buy this book right away, and please reply me ASAP.Thanks for your time. ... Read more

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"This well-conceived annotated bibliography of 497 items covers all areas of hypermedia and hypertext through the end of 1989. Though not meant to be exhaustive, it does a very good job of identifying many important books, articles, proceedings and ERIC documents pertaining to hypertext/hypermedia and related issues. . . . This bibliography is the most thorough compilation of works in the field of hypertext/hypermedia and it deserves a place on the reference shelves of any large academic or public libraries. Any individual interested in finding information on this fast growing field will find this book extremely helpful." Choice ... Read more

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We live in a wired society, with computers containing and passing around vital information on both personal and public matters. Keeping this data safe is of paramount concern to all. Yet, not a day seems able to pass without some new threat to our computers. Unfortunately, the march of technology has given us the benefits of computers and electronic tools, while also opening us to unforeseen dangers. Identity theft, electronic spying, and the like are now standard worries. In the effort to defend both personal privacy and crucial databases, computer security has become a key industry. A vast array of companies devoted to defending computers from hackers and viruses have cropped up. Research and academic institutions devote a considerable amount of time and effort to the study of information systems and computer security. Anyone with access to a computer needs to be aware of the developing trends and growth of computer security. To that end, this book presents a comprehensive and carefully selected bibliography of the literature most relevant to understanding computer security. Following the bibliography section, continued access is provided via author, title, and subject indexes.With such a format, this book serves as an important guide and reference tool in the defence of our computerised culture. ... Read more

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As we approach the 21st century, the Advances in Computers serial remains the oldes continuously published anthology chronicling the evolution of the information technology field. Since 1960, this series has described the ever-changing nature of computing. In this volume, we will emphasize the major themes that have dominated computing in these latter days of the 1990s. Of course we mean the distributed nature of information technology.
The growth of networking, the Internet and the World Wide Web have greatly changed the role of the computer, and in turn, our lives as well. Starting as a computer science research topic in 1969, the ARPANET, funded by the U.S. government's Advanced Research Projects Agency (ARPA), tied together university, research, and military computing centers. By the mid-1980s the ARPANET evolved into the Internet under funding by the U.S. National Science Foundation (NSF). The computer experimenter, the so-called "computer geek," discovered the Internet and joined the fun. By the early 1990s, the World Wide Web (WWW) grew as a subnet of the Internet, and email and Web browsing became available to all. Today millions of "computer illiterate" individuals daily use these resources to send mail and search for online information. No longer is the Internet the domain of the serious computer researcher. In this volume we will describe some of the changes the Internet has brought us. ... Read more

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As we approach the 21st century, the Advances in Computers serial remains the oldes continuously published anthology chronicling the evolution of the information technology field. Since 1960, this series has described the ever-changing nature of computing. In this volume, we will emphasize the major themes that have dominated computing in these latter days of the 1990s. Of course we mean the distributed nature of information technology.
The growth of networking, the Internet and the World Wide Web have greatly changed the role of the computer, and in turn, our lives as well. Starting as a computer science research topic in 1969, the ARPANET, funded by the U.S. government's Advanced Research Projects Agency (ARPA), tied together university, research, and military computing centers. By the mid-1980s the ARPANET evolved into the Internet under funding by the U.S. National Science Foundation (NSF). The computer experimenter, the so-called "computer geek," discovered the Internet and joined the fun. By the early 1990s, the World Wide Web (WWW) grew as a subnet of the Internet, and email and Web browsing became available to all. Today millions of "computer illiterate" individuals daily use these resources to send mail and search for online information. No longer is the Internet the domain of the serious computer researcher. In this volume we will describe some of the changes the Internet has brought us. ... Read more

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The literature on the Internet and library and information services has emerged since 1990 and has exploded in 1994 and 1995. Though the amount of material on this topic has increased significantly, little has been done to organize this body of literature. This book selects, organizes, reviews, analyzes, and presents books and articles on the Internet and the library published in 1994 and 1995. An introductory essay provides a comprehensive discussion of the most important issues, trends, and challenges faced by library and information professionals as they respond to the Internet in diverse ways. The annotated bibliography that follows contains more than a thousand entries, which are grouped in topical chapters to facilitate use. ... Read more

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Information technologies are having a profound impact on traditional library services and education. This book identifies emerging technologies and assesses their impact on reference service, bibliographic instruction, and organizational management. In addition. library education is discussed as a partner responsible for redesigning the curriculum and redefining the librarian of the future. ... Read more

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Technical reports have functioned as the preprint literature for the field of computer science. Over the past thirty years, Stanford University has collected these reports on a regular basis from approximately 100 computer science departments and research groups worldwide. This publication is a listing of 36,364 reports in the Stanford collection. The reports are listed in order by institution name and, within the institution listings, by report number. In addition, there is a list of institution names and codes and an author index. This publication is useful to researchers in mathematics and computer science, as well as to librarians and others needing access to this kind of bibliographic information. ... Read more

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Library research has changed dramatically since Marilyn Lutzker and Eleanor Ferrall's Criminal Justice Research in Libraries was published in 1986. In addition to covering the enduring elements of traditional research, this new edition provides full coverage of research using the World Wide Web, hypertext documents, computer indexes, and other online resources. It gives an in-depth explanation of such concepts as databases, networks, and full text, and the Internet gets a full chapter. The chapters on bibliographic searching, the library catalog, and comparative research are almost completely new, and chapters on indexes and abstracts, newsletters, newspapers and news broadcasts, documents, reports and conference proceedings, and statistics reflect the shift to computerized sources. The chapter on legal resources discusses the wealth of legal information available on the Internet. This book is a valuable guide for both students and scholars wishing to research criminal justice. ... Read more

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The book presents an extension, due to the present author, of Conley's homotopy index theory to certain (one-sided) semiflows on general (not necessarily locally compact) metric spaces. This permits direct applications to say, parabolic partial differential equations, or functional differential equations. The presentation is self-contained. The subject of the book was previously presented by the author in a series of published papers. ... Read more

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The computer has become today a ubiquitous tool which has been deployed in all areas of research. However with very few exceptions, there have not been many applications to classical scripts, especial those treating of liturgical data. This is paradoxical: these texts lend themselves much easier to analysis, since in a majority of cases, the corpus is well-documented and to a certain extent also limited and well-defined; especially in the case of the Avesta. It is this lacuna that this book tries to fill by providing the student as well as scholars working in the field of the Avesta, indexes, hapax legomena as well as frequency counts. These, it is hoped, will be of certain utility by not only reducing the amount of time looking up for a particular word and its recensions, but by also allowing researchers to break new ground in Avestan studies with the help of the distributional analyses provided. The data, based on the Geldnerian version of the Avesta, has been generated by computer and has subsequently been validated and verified manually. ... Read more

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The purpose of Index Data Structures in Object-OrientedDatabases is to provide technical information about current andfuture issues of search data structures used to index largeobject-oriented databases. The intended audience of this book includespractitioners involved in OODBMS product selection, applicationdependent database performance tuning and application development ontop of object databases, as well as researchers and studentsinterested in the technical issues of object-oriented databases. Theonly prerequisite for understanding the material presented in thisbook is a working knowledge of object-oriented modeling andprogramming concepts and a minimum knowledge of algebraic conceptslike, for example, sets. Index Data Structures in Object-Oriented Databases is suitableas a secondary text for a graduate level course on Indexing andObject-Oriented Databases, and as a reference for researchers andpractitioners in industry. ... Read more

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Over the past six years personal computers have carved a deep niche in the music world largely due to the establishment of the Musical Instrument Digital Interface standard in 1983. This annotated bibliography offers educators many introductory sources, articles on how to evaluate and purchase equipment, directories of available software, and access to numerous writings exploring the possibilities of present and future technology. deep niche in the music world. This widespread popularity is largely due to the establishment of the MIDI (Musical Instrument Digital Interface) standard in 1983. This communications protocol allows computers to send, receive, and store digital information generated by various electronic musical instruments. ... Read more

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This textbook was first published by the British Library (London) in 1985 as the official introductory-level description of its own subject indexing system. It sold quickly to an international market. Due to demand it has now been reprinted by Scarecrow, with minor revisions, in agreement with the British Library. ... Read more

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This digital document is an article from Journal of Computer Science & Technology, published by Graduate Network of Argentine Universities with Computer Science Schools (RedUNCI) on July 1, 2008. The length of the article is 7571 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: XM-Tree, a new index for Web Information Retrieval.
Author: Claudia Deco
Publication: Journal of Computer Science & Technology (Magazine/Journal)
Date: July 1, 2008
Publisher: Graduate Network of Argentine Universities with Computer Science Schools (RedUNCI)
Volume: 8Issue: 2Page: 78(7)

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