In April 2005, I received a telephone call from Humana Press Senior Editor, Harvey Kane, inquiring whether there might be a need for a book to be published concerning the different aspects of computer forensics. During a subsequent meeting to discuss the current state of available texts covering this topic, I noted to Mr. Kane that there were...

As night settled on April 20, 2010, a series of explosions rocked Deepwater Horizon, the immense semisubmersible drilling platform leased by British Petroleum, located 40 miles off the Louisiana coast. The ensuing inferno claimed 11 lives, and it would rage uncontained for two days, until its wreckage sank to a final resting place nearly a...

Though we did not know it at the time, this book’s genesis began with the arrival of Cris Calude in New Zealand. Cris has always had an intense interest in algorithmic information theory. The event that led to much of the recent research presented here was the articulation by Cris of a seemingly innocuous question. This question...

When usability testing is part of the design and development of products, the results are better products that users want and like. You may be doing testing now or want to help your company get...

Kenntnisse des Projektmanagements und seine Anwendungsmöglichkeiten sind für IT-Manager und IT-Entwickler unentbehrlich. In diesem Buch werden die wichtigsten Verfahren und Methoden für das Management großer IT-Projekte vorgestellt. In die Darstellung lassen die Autoren ihre umfangreichen Erfahrungen bei der Führung...

Process-based models open the way to useful predictions of the future growth rate of forests and provide a means of assessing the probable effects of variations in climate and management on forest productivity. As such they have the potential to overcome the limitations of conventional forest growth and yield models, which are based on...

 Sams Teach Yourself Google Places in 10 Minutes gives you straightforward, practical answers when you need fast results. By working through its 10-minute lessons, you’ll learn how to claim your free Google Places business...

You don't need to have a web shop to make money with your website. Web Strategy Fundamentals deals with building a website from a visitor perspective and the business-related structures that should be in place today to make a website profitable for the organization. The book is not about web design or web development. It's about how...

As wired networks are increasingly replaced with 802.11n wireless connections, enterprise users are shifting to centralized, next-generation architectures built around Wireless LAN Controllers (WLC). These networks will increasingly run business-critical voice, data, and video applications that once required wired...