In 1862, the gardener James Bateman sent several specimens of the Christmas
orchid to Charles Darwin. This orchid was first planted in Britain in 1855 and it did
not blossom until 1857. It had been discovered several decades before by the
French botanist Louis-Marie Aubert du Petit-Thouars in Madagascar in 1822. The
most significant...
Hacking and electronic crimes sophistication has grown at an exponential rate in recent years. In fact, recent
reports have indicated that cyber crime already surpasses the illegal drug trade! Unethical hackers better known
as black hats are preying on information systems of government, corporate, public, and private networks and
are...
Welcome to the Microsoft Official Academic Course (MOAC) program for the 2007 Microsoft
Office system. MOAC represents the collaboration between Microsoft Learning and John
Wiley & Sons, Inc. publishing company. Microsoft and Wiley teamed up to produce a series of
textbooks that deliver compelling and innovative teaching solutions...
The Shelly Cashman Series® offers the finest textbooks in computer education. This
Microsoft Visual Basic 2008 book utilizes an innovative step-by-step pedagogy, which
integrates demonstrations of professional-quality programs with in-depth discussions
of programming concepts and techniques and opportunities for hands-on practice...
PRACTICAL OFFICE 2010 provides clear instruction on the basics of the Microsoft Office 2010 suite. Concise lessons within each chapter, usually one page in length, are presented in an appealing Frequently Asked Questions format and include full-color screenshots or diagrams. This textbook comes with a robust BookOnCD, which is a digital...
This third edition explains the connection between a detailed design plan that considers audience needs, site purpose, and various technical issues of a successful Web site. Written for an introductory course, the text offers a variety of challenging written and hands-on activities at the end of each chapter that test comprehension, build Web...
The objective of this book is to present a substantial introduction to the ideas, phenomena and methods of the problems that are frequently observed in mathematics, mathematical physics and engineering technology. The book can be appreciated at a considerable number of levels and is designed for everyone from amateurs to research workmen.
The original goal of the AI field was the construction of “thinking machines”
– that is, computer systems with human-like general intelligence. Due to the
difficulty of this task, for the last few decades the majority of AI researchers have
focused on what has been called “narrow AI” – the production...
This volume contains the papers presented at the 14th International Workshop
on Approximation Algorithms for Combinatorial Optimization Problems
(APPROX 2011) and the 15th International Workshop on Randomization and
Computation (RANDOM 2011), which took place concurrently in Princeton
University, USA, during August 17–19,...
The book is full of immediately-usable task-based recipes for managing and maintaining your Microsoft Exchange 2010 environment with Windows PowerShell 2.0 and the Exchange Management Shell. The focus of this book is to show you how to automate routine tasks and solve common problems. While the Exchange Management Shell provides hundreds of...
This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 31st Annual International Cryptology Conference, CRYPTO 2011, held in Santa Barbara, CA, USA in August 2011. The 42 revised full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 230 submissions. The volume also contains the abstract of one invited talk. The papers are organized...
What’s this book all about? Well, it’s about how to develop software, from a personal perspective. We’ll
look at what it means for you to take a problem and produce a program to solve it from beginning to
end. That said, this book focuses a lot on design. How do you design software? What things do you take
into...
