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Book SynopsisWhat is an artificial intelligence (AI)-enabled drone and what can it do? Are AI-enabled drones better than human-controlled drones? This book will answer these questions and more, and empower you to develop your own AI-enabled drone.You''ll progress from a list of specifications and requirements, in small and iterative steps, which will then lead to the development of Unified Modeling Language (UML) diagrams based in part to the standards established by for the Robotic Operating System (ROS). The ROS architecture has been used to develop land-based drones. This will serve as a reference model for the software architecture of unmanned systems. Using this approach you''ll be able to develop a fully autonomous drone that incorporates object-oriented design and cognitive deep learning systems that adapts to multiple simulation environments. These multiple simulation environments will also allow you to further build public trustTable of ContentsIntelligent Autonomous Drones with Cognitive Deep LearningChapter 1. Defining the Required Goals, Specifications, and RequirementsChapter 2. UML Systems for Reliable and Robust AI enabled Self-Driving DronesChapter 3. Setting Your Main Virtual Linux SystemChapter 4. Understanding Advanced Anaconda ConceptsChapter 5. Understanding Drone-Kit for Testing and Programming your Self-Driving DroneChapter 6. Understanding, Maintaining, and Controlling the DRIVING Trajectory of the AI Rover DroneChapter 7. AI Enabled Rover Drone Vision with the Python OpenCV LibraryChapter 8. Your First Experience with Creating Drone Reinforcement Learning for Self-Driving and ExploringChapter 9. AI Enabled Rover Drones with Advanced Deep LearningChapter 10. Nature's other Secrets (Uncertainty, Bayesian Deep Learning, and Evolutionary Computing for Rovers)Chapter 11. Building the Ultimate Cognitive Deep Learning Land-Rover ControllerChapter 12. AI Drone Verification and Validation with Computer SimulationsChapter 13. The Critical Need for Geo-Spatial Guidance for AI Rover DronesChapter 14. Statistics and Experimental Algorithms for Drone EnhancementsChapter 15. The Robotic Operating System (ROS) Architecture for AI enabled Land-Based Rover Drones.Chapter 16. Putting it all together and the Testing Required.Chapter 17. “It’s Alive! It’s Alive!” (Facing Ones Very Own Creation)Chapter 18. Your Creation can be your Best Friend or your Worst Nightmare.

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Table of ContentsChapter 1—What to Know Before You Start? • Recognizing the pieces: shape, size, colors. • Understanding the WeDo software: environment, blocks. Chapter 2—Walking robots: Un-legged Walking Robots • Frog • Turtle Chapter 3—Biped Robots: Robots Walking on Two Legs • Ostrich • Skier Chapter 4—Quadruped Robots: Robots walking in four legs • Dog• Elephant Chapter 5—Crawling Robots: Robots that Crawl to Move • Sea lion • Alligator • Cobra Chapter 6—Bio-Robotics: Robots Mimicking Animal Motions • Pelican • Shark• Dolphin Chapter 7—Conclusion• Applying programming to future projects• Pursuing engineering concepts further

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Book SynopsisHarness the power of MATLAB for deep-learning challenges. Practical MATLAB Deep Learning, Second Edition, remains a one-of a-kind book that provides an introduction to deep learning and using MATLAB''s deep-learning toolboxes. In this book, you''ll see how these toolboxes provide the complete set of functions needed to implement all aspects of deep learning. This edition includes new and expanded projects, and covers generative deep learning and reinforcement learning.Over the course of the book, you''ll learn to model complex systems and apply deep learning to problems in those areas. Applications include: Aircraft navigation An aircraft that lands on Titan, the moon of Saturn, using reinforcement learning Stock market prediction Natural language processing Music creation usng generative deep learning Plasma control Earth sensor processing for spacecraft MATLAB Bluetooth data acquisition applied to danTable of Contents1. What is deep learning? – no changes except editoriala. Machine learning vs. deep learningb. Approaches to deep learningc. Recurrent deep learningd. Convolutional deep learning2. MATLAB machine and deep learning toolboxesa. Describe the functionality and applications of each toolboxb. Demonstrate MATLAB toolboxes related to Deep Learningc. Include the text toolbox generative toolbox and reinforcement learning toolboxd. Add more detail on each3. Finding Circles – no changes except editorial.4. Classifying movies – no changes except editorial.5. Tokamak disruption detection – this would be updated.6. Classifying a pirouette – no changes except editorial.7. Completing sentences - This would be revamped using the MATLAB Text Processing Toolbox.8. Terrain based navigation-The example in the original book would be changed to a regression approach that can interpolate position. We would switch to a terrestrial example applicable to drones.9. Stock prediction – this is a very popular chapter. We would improve the algorithm.10. Image classification – no changes except editorial.11. Orbit Determination – add inclination to the algorithm.12. Earth Sensors – a new example on how to use neural networks to measure roll and yaw from any Earth sensor.13. Generative deep learning example. This would be a neural network that generates pictures after learning an artist’s style.14. Reinforcement learning. This would be a simple quadcopter hovering control system. It would be simulation based although readers would be able to apply this to any programmable quadcopter.

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Book SynopsisEvery solution that is in some way related to the IoT needs a platform; learn how to create that platform with us. This book is about being agile and reducing your time to market without breaking the bank. It is about designing something that can scale incrementally without rework and potentially disrupting the current work.So, the key questions are: What does it take? How long does it take? And, how much does it take to build your own IoT platform? This book answers these questions and provides you with step-by-step guide to building your own IoT platform. In this book, the author highlights what the core of an IoT platform looks like. There are always some must-haves and some nice-to-haves. This book distinguishes the two and focuses on building the must-haves. Building your IoT platform is not only the most significant cost-saver but can also be a satisfying learning experience. This edition will extend your work with a sample project to clarify the concepts Table of Contents Chapter 1: So… You Want to Build Your Own! · The Background of IoT and Our Focus · How Many Platforms Are Out There? · Platforms Supporting Network Servicing · Platforms Sitting Between Networks and Applications · Application-Layer Development Platforms · What Should a Good IoT Platform Have? · Why Should You Build Your Own IoT Platform? · Summary Chapter 2: The Building Blocks of an IoT Solution · The Functional Blocks of an IoT Solution · The Detailed Block Diagram of an IoT Platform · Is Everything from this Block Architecture Mandatory? · What Is the Proposed Approach? · Summary Chapter 3: The Essentials for Building Your Own Platform · Deciding Cloud Instance Specifics · Additional Specifications · Where Do We Get this Cloud Instance? · What About Our Own Machine? · Expanding on the IoT Platform Block Diagram · Edge Interface, Message Broker, and Message Bus · Message Router and Communications Management · Time-Series Storage and Data Management · REST API Interface · Microservices · Rule Engine · Device Manager and Application Manager · Our Own IoT Platform Block Diagram · Summary Chapter 4: Let’s Create Our Platform Wish List · Connecting with the Platform in Real Time · Using MQTT as the Message Broker · How Do We Want to Store the Data? · Data Storage Schema · Accessing Platform Resources Through APIs · Data Accessing APIs · Elementary Microservices and Utilities · Routing and Filtering Data and Messages · Updated Block Diagram of Our IoT Platform · Summary Chapter 5: Here We Go! · Initializing the Cloud Instance · Register and Create · Choosing an Operating System Image · Choosing the Size · Choosing a Datacenter Region · Finalizing and Creating the Instance · Connecting to Our Cloud Instance · Installing Basic Software Stacks · Installing Apache · Installing MySQL · Installing PHP · Securing the Instance and Software · It’s Easier with a Domain Name · Add Virtual Hosts to Our Web Server · Installing SSL Certificates · Installing Node.js and Node-RED · Modifying Node-RED Settings · Securing our Node-RED Editor · Summary Chapter 6: The Message Broker · What Is MQTT? · Publish and Subscribe Paradigm · Other Features of a Message Broker and MQTT · Quality of Service · Keep Alive Period · Last Will and Testament · The Retained Message · The Best Part: WebSocket · Are We Using the Best Message Broker Option? · When to Utilize a Message Broker and When Not To · Installing a Message Broker · Securing a Message Broker · Summary Chapter 7: Building the Critical Components · Creating a Time-Series Core Database · Installing Required Nodes in Node-RED · Creating First Flow for Our Platform · Adding MQTT Publish Capability · REST API Message Publisher · Creating the Database Listener · REST API Message Retriever · Verifying that Everything Is Working as Expected · Running Node-RED in the Background Continuously · Summary Chapter 8: Configuring the Message Broker · The Difference Between WebSocket and Normal MQTT · Why Is WebSocket Important? · Adding WebSocket to Our MQTT Configuration · Testing WebSocket · Let’s Add User Access Controls · Let’s Check If This Is Working · Using the Forever Tool with the Message Broker · Summary Chapter 9: Creating a REST Interface · Data Access APIs · Adding Time-Based Filters · Data Deletion APIs · Removing Data Records Completely · Adding Microservices to the Platform · Getting the Current Timestamp · Random Code Generator · Adding New Modules to Node-RED · UUID Generator · Email and Text Message Microservice APIs · Configuration of Nodes · SMS Sending Utility · Email-Sending Utility · Summary Chapter 10: Rule Engine and Authentication · Start with the Rule Engine Logic · Creating a Database · Building the Flow Sequence · Testing the Rule Engine · Rule Management APIs · Enable and Disable a Specific Rule · Enable and Disable All Rules · Create a New Rule · Building Another Rule Engine with Node-RED · Adding Authentication to the Data API · What Are Our Options? · What Is the Plan? · Adding Authentication Middleware · Enable and Test Authentication · Our Core Platform Is Ready Now · Summary Chapter 11: Documentation and Testing · Preparing a Valid OpenAPI Specification Document · Platform API Specification File Explained · Preparing Distribution Package for Final Upload · Upload API Docs and Make It Live · Authorize and Test API · Summary Chapter 12: Connecting Your Hardware · Why learn hardware alongwith IoT platform? · Available hardware options · Creating bespoke designs · Choosing the best option for your project · Connectivity options and suitability for project · Various topologies and arrangements § The “why” behind each topology and arrangement · Connecting our hardware to the platform § Two possible modes o Using REST API o Using MQTT o Can you use both? Why and when? § Requirements for each mode o Circuit specific o Firmware specific § How to incorporate them in hardware o Circuit specific o Firmware specific · Other considerations for connecting the hardware · Summary Chapter 13: Let's Build a Better Mousetrap · Backstory of better mousetrap case study § How I got this opportunity § What does “better” mean? § How I decided to approach this problem § Importance of top-down approach · System architecture § High level system design process § Block diagram and explanation · Hardware selection § What are different scenarios § What are potential options § What is on our shortlist · Connectivity choice § What are different scenarios § What are potential options § What is on our shortlist · Front-end application § What are different scenarios § What are potential options § What is on our shortlist · Hardware arrangement § Hardware construction (overview) § How it works § Testing the hardware · Backend buildup on the platform § What additions we need on the platform side § How to build them (details) § Testing the backend · Dashboard for visualization § Building a basic dashboard § How to pool the data · Additional services I built in the mousetrap application § Workflow for CRM § Client alert mechanism § Operator Scheduling § Compliance reporting § Machine learning provision for intelligent pest management § Other business benefits · Project takeaways – real life and for you (as a reader) · Summary Chapter 14: Unlimited Possibilities · What do I mean by unlimited possibilities? · Why is this platform so capable? · Five ideas you can work on § One button – based on my 1btn project o The concept o Block diagram o Key ideas and things to work on o Potential applications § Smart street lamps o The concept o Block diagram o Key ideas and things to work on o Potential applications § Council garbage collection management o The concept o Block diagram o Key ideas and things to work on o Potential applications § Datacenter climate control o The concept o Block diagram o Key ideas and things to work on o Potential applications § People counter for Covid-19 gathering compliance in shops & stores o The concept o Block diagram o Key ideas and things to work on o Potential applications · Summary Chapter 15: What We Built and the Takeaways · Increasing Security for the Cloud Instance · What About SQL Injection Through APIs? · Should We Have Used MongoDB Instead of MySQL? · Some Experts Might Still Try to Talk You Out of This · How Is Our Platform Different from AWS, Google, and Azure? · There Is a New Version of MQTT · My Platform Is Ready. Now What? · The Next Big Thing · If You Need to Find More Resources · Finally

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Book SynopsisWhether you are brand new to the world of digital experiences on the Salesforce platform or you are looking to take your Experience Cloud (previously Community Cloud) knowledge to the next level, this detailed guide will help you build and manage a Salesforce site by leveraging the declarative power of the platform with clicks, not code. Each Salesforce site/community is a part of a widespread ecosystem, with thousands of sites and millions of users active today on Experience Cloud. Through valuable social and business tools, this online platform enables companies to empower and equip their customers, partners, and employees in new, powerful ways. Author Philip Weinmeister, Salesforce MVP and the only recipient of the Community Cloud MVP Trailblazer award from Salesforce, leads you through the ins and outs of Salesforce Experience Cloud and provides you with an array of best practices to deliver top-notch business portals on the Salesforce platform. This completely revised editioTable of ContentsChapter 1: Why Digital Experiences on the Salesforce Platform? (REVISED) Chapter 2: Planning and Preparing for Success with Experience Cloud (REVISED) Chapter 3: Experience Cloud Licenses and Member Groups: Employees, Partners, and Customers (REVISED) Chapter 4: Experience Cloud Template Types: Tabs, Visualforce, and Lightning (REVISED) Chapter 5: Experience Builder (REVISED) Chapter 6: Experience Pages and Components (REVISED) Chapter 7: Experience Setup, Administration, and Workspaces (REVISED) Chapter 8: Access, Sharing, and Visibility in Experiences (REVISED) Chapter 9: Topics in Experiences (REVISED) Chapter 10: Knowledge (Articles) in Experiences (REVISED) Chapter 11: Process Automation in Experiences (REVISED) Chapter 12: Experience Audience Targeting and Personalization (REVISED) Chapter 13: Lightning Bolt for Experience Cloud (REVISED) Chapter 14: Salesforce CMS (Content) in Experiences (NEW) Chapter 15: B2B and B2C Commerce within Experience Cloud (NEW) Chapter 16: The Community/Experience Cloud Consultant Certification Exam (NEW) Chapter 17: The Best of the Rest: Additional Experience Cloud Topics

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Book SynopsisEnhance your product management skills and set yourself apart from other product managers working in the IoT industry. This book shows you how to navigate through the world of small and Edge devices to successfully launch and monitor products connected together to make smart environments. Working in Agile environments, you''ll learn to guide UI builds that serve customer needs and function the way top tech companies expect. Then measure the right product metrics and create reporting dashboards for your IoT products. That way you can effectively engage partners, engineers, and stakeholders. And you''ll learn the entire end-to-end development process of IoT products so that you can make sure you make the right moves at the right stages.     After mastering the IoT product lifecycle and measuring your success against KPIs, you''ll see how to work with marketing to effectively launch your product in the marketplace. Finally, a self-interTable of ContentsChapter 1. History of IoT Product ManagementGrowth of IoT technology Scope of product management How to become a PM Chapter 2. UI / UX for IoT Product Design User experience and user interface creation Steps for product Business models Hardware and recent IoT landscape Chapter 3. IoT Manager in the Agile Era Product Manager journey Advance skills Creating product metricsCreating reporting dashboards, Communication with partners, engineersm and stakeholders End-to-end development. Chapter 4. IoT Product Development and Life Cycle Product evaluation Journey of the product Chapter 5. IoT Product Manager and Life Cycle Management Collaborate Negotiate Launch Chapter 6. IoT Product Marketing Marketing strategy creation Monitor industry trends Review generation methods Chapter 7. Government Regulation in IoT Existing laws (US, EU, Canada) How to follow regulations Audience: Intermediate

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Book SynopsisImprove the video multimedia services you work on or develop using tools from video service technologies such as Netflix, Disney+, YouTube, and Skype. This book introduces you to the core technologies that enable Metaverse XR (eXtended Reality) services and advanced video multimedia streaming services.First, you''ll find out about the current and future trends in Metaverse and video streaming services. XR is a combination of technologies that include MR, AR, VR, voice recognition systems, haptic and 3D-motion UIs, as well as head mounted displays) like Microsoft Hololens 2 and Oculus Quest 2. You''ll review metaverse services XR applications and learn more about the core XR feature extraction technologies.  With XR capabilities mastered, you can move into the main technologies for video streaming services like Netflix, Disney+, and YouTube. You''ll also about video formats, such as H.264, MPEG-4 AVC, H.265, MPEG-5, and MPEG-DATable of ContentsChapter 1. Introduction to Metaverse and Video Streaming Technology and Services Ÿ Metaverse XR (eXtended Reality) Technology Introduction Ÿ Metaverse XR Products and BusinessŸ Video Streaming Technology Introduction Ÿ Video Streaming Services and Business Part-1: Metaverse XR Technologies Chapter 2. Metaverse XR ComponentsŸ XR, MR (Mixed Reality), AR (Augmented Reality) & VR (Virtual Reality) Ÿ XR System Components & Workflow Ÿ STT (Speech to Text) voice recognition technologyŸ Haptic & 3D-Motion UIs (User Interfaces) Ÿ HMDs (Head Mounted Displays) Ÿ Unity and Lua Programming LanguagesŸ XR cloud cooperative computation and offloading Chapter 3. XR Feature Extraction Technologies (SIFT, SURF, FAST, BRIEF, ORB, BRISK & AI)Ÿ XR Feature Detection & Description Technology Ÿ XR System Processing & Feature Extraction Ÿ SIFT (Scale Invariant Feature Transform) Ÿ SURF (Speed-Up Robust Feature) Ÿ FAST (Features from Accelerated Segment Test)Ÿ BRIEF (Binary Robust Independent Elementary Features) Ÿ ORB (Oriented FAST and Rotated BRIEF) Ÿ BRISK (Binary Robust Invariant Scalable Keypoints)Ÿ AI (Artificial Intelligence) Technologies Part-2: Video Streaming Technologies Chapter 4. Netflix, Disney+, YouTube, and Skype Video Technologies Ÿ NetflixŸ Disney+ Ÿ YouTube Ÿ Skype Ÿ H.264/MPEG-4 AVC Ÿ H.265/MPEG-5 Ÿ H.266 Future Standards Ÿ Futuristic Holography Technologies and Products (WayRay, SeeReal, RealView Imaging) Chapter 5. Video Streaming and MPEG-DASH Ÿ Streaming Video Network TechnologyŸ Push vs. Pull Media Streaming Ÿ Video Frames (I, P, B Frames) & GOP (Group of Pictures) Ÿ HTTP (Hypertext Transfer Protocol) Ÿ MDP (Multimedia Presentation Description) Ÿ MPEG-DASH (Moving Picture Experts Group - Dynamic Adaptive Streaming over HTTP) Chapter 6. CDN Video Streaming Technology Ÿ CDN (Content Delivery Network) Introduction Ÿ CDN Market Ÿ CDN Technologies & Hierarchical Content Delivery & Mobile CDN Ÿ Disney+ CDN StructureŸ Netflix Open Connect CDN Ÿ CDN AWS (Amazon Web Services) Cloud Support Chapter 7. Emerging Technologies Ÿ What’s Next Ÿ How to Future Proof Your Efforts Audience: Intermediate

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Book SynopsisBeginning-Intermediate user levelTable of ContentsChapter 1: Organizational Unit.- Chapter 2: Defining Chart of Accounts.- Chapter 3: Document Control.- Chapter 4: Tolerance Group.- Chapter 5: Creating General Ledger (G/L).- Chapter 6: Clearing Open Items.- Chapter 7: Maintaining Currency Types & Currency Pairs.- Chapter 8: GR/IR Clearing.- Chapter 9: House Bank.- Chapter 10: Tax on Sale/Purchase.- Chapter 11: Cash Journal.- Chapter 12: Financial Statement Versions (FSV).- Chapter 13: Integration of FI with Other SAP S4 HANA Modules.- Chapter 14: Accounts Receivable & Accounts Payable.- Chapter 15: Defining Dunning Procedure.- Chapter 16: ISpecial G/L Transactions.- Chapter 17: Ledgers.

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Book SynopsisThis book Identifies the right sensors and single board computers for any application to achieve the best performance in Industry 4.0 settings and applications. You''ll see what technologies apply the IIoT with elegant efficiency to drastically improve remote monitoring and controlling, decision making, and preventative maintenance. Start by learning exactly what Industry 4.0 is and advance your knowledge from simple Internet of Things projects to full-on Industrial IoT deployment. You''ll automate advanced processes, incorporate professional procedures, and take your IoT skills to a professional level. Then move into the protocols and standards expected for industrial applications of sensors at an industrial level. Match the right SBCs to the right use cases and sensor technologies to optimize efficiency and ensure peak performance. Then move into setting up a smart factory and monitoring your supply chain with tech. Finally, you''ll dive into programming with thTable of ContentsSensors and Protocols for Industry 4.0Chapter 1: Overview of Industry 4.0 Introduction Industry 4. 0 revolution Industry 4.0 Enabling Technologies General Framework Benefits of Industry 4.0 Chapter 2: Sensors for Industry 4.0 General Features of sensors to support IIoT List of various sensors and their capabilities Seamless integration with application Chapter 3: Protocols and Standards Open Platform Communications MTConnect Message Queue Telemetry Transport Distributed network protocol (DNP3) Constrained Application Protocol Reference Architectural Model for Industry 4.0 Industrial Internet Reference Architecture Chapter 4: Single Board Computers Raspberry Pi BeagleBone Black Banana Pi Odroid-boards Nvidia Boards Chapter 5: Industry 4.0 dashboard Data Insights and Decision Making Digital twin design Digitalization Business Intelligence Chapter 6: Smart Factories Custom Manufacturing Mass Customization Fault tolerant Systems Autonomic Machine Control and Monitoring Chapter 7: Supply Chain Monitoring Supply Chain Strategies Industry Operations with Supply Chain Supply Chain performance measures Supply Chain Technologies Chapter 8: CPS Programming Python packages for CPS Node-Red Platform and its features Programming with sensors Programming with Communication Mechanisms

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Book SynopsisOpen up the exciting world of electronics with 3D circuit designing tools and create your own fresh new projects.Table of ContentsChapter 1: Introduction● Introduction to Microcontrollers● Set-Up Your SystemChapter 2: Simulating Your First Circuit● Explaining the Interface ● SimulatingChapter 3: Dealing with Electronic Components● Editing Components● Wiring Components● Adding ComponentsChapter 4: Breadboard and RGB LEDs● Setting-Up Your Breadboard ● Adding RGB LEDsChapter 5: Ohm's Law● Introduction to Ohm’s Law● Practical ExampleChapter 6: Series and Parallel Circuits● Basics of Series and Parallel Circuits ● Practical ExampleChapter 7: Arduino Output Basics● Arduino Digital Output - Led Control● Arduino Dealing with Multiple LEDs and Breadboard● Arduino Analog Output - Fading LEDChapter 8: Arduino Input Basics● Reading Digital Input● Reading Analog ValueChapter 9: Arduino RGB LEDs + Potentiometers● Dealing with RGB LEDs with PotentiometersChapter 10: Serial Monitoring● Arduino Serial MonitorChapter 11: What to Do Next?● ReferencesAudience: Beginning

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Book SynopsisThis complete beginner's guide is for anyone interested in becoming a web developer. Aimed at those without any previous experience, this book provides an overview of the key principles of modern web development. You'll gain insight into the key facets of JavaScript, HTML and CSS, as well as the difference between front-end, back-end, and full stack development. You'll also be introduced to popular tools and frameworks such as React, Angular, GraphQL, and Node.js, and gain an understanding of the role of a web developer: what it entails, how to secure your first role, and how to survive your first week in the job.Moreover, How to be a Web Developer will take you through the steps of building your first web application, allowing you to apply the principles you've learned in a practical way. Filled with additional information and resources, this book will give you the knowledge and tools needed to start your journey tobecoming a professional web developer.What You Will LearnMaster the Table of Contents Part I: Getting Started- IntroductionPart II: The Tech Stack - SQL Basics - HTML& CSS - GraphQL & JavaScript - The Back-End - Other Technologies You Should Know Part III: Landing Your First Role - Your First Role - Working in A Team - Project Management Methods Part IV: In Summary - Conclusions

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Book Synopsis​​E-Commerce Strategy: Text and Cases provides the fundamental literature required for graduate students and practitioners to understand electronic commerce. Unlike similar books, topics such as e-channel adoption, factors affecting e-commerce adoption, and strategy design are reviewed in greater depth.Table of ContentsUnderstanding E-commerce.- Technology of E-commerce.- Web Page Hosting.- Concepts in E-commerce.- Understanding E-commerce Product Design Strategy.- E-commerce and Online Auctions.- E-commerce Strategy.- Channels in E-commerce.- E-commerce Portal Design Strategy.- Future Trend - Social Commerce.- Drivers of Online-selling Diffusion: A Look at Organizational and Environmental Factors Through Time.

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Book SynopsisCurrent hype aside, the Internet of Things will ultimately become as fundamental as the Internet itself, with lots of opportunities and trials along the way. To help you navigate these choppy waters, this practical guide introduces a dedicated methodology for businesses preparing to transition towards IoT-based business models.

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Book SynopsisPacked with practical advice, this hands-on guide provides valuable information you need to most effectively optimize and manage the XenServer open source virtualization platform.

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Book SynopsisThis O'Reilly report explains the capabilities of cloud-native platforms and examines the fundamental changes enterprises need to make in process, organization, and culture if they're to take real advantage of this approach.

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Book SynopsisAs threats to the security of information pervade the fabric of everyday life, A Vulnerable System describes how, even as the demand for information security increases, the needs of society are not being met. The result is that the confidentiality of our personal data, the integrity of our elections, and the stability of foreign relations between countries are increasingly at risk.Andrew J. Stewart convincingly shows that emergency software patches and new security products cannot provide the solution to threats such as computer hacking, viruses, software vulnerabilities, and electronic spying. Profound underlying structural problems must first be understood, confronted, and then addressed.A Vulnerable System delivers a long view of the history of information security, beginning with the creation of the first digital computers during the Cold War. From the key institutions of the so-called military industrial complex in the 1950s to STrade ReviewStewart has written an easy-to-read history of computer security. He continues his marvelous story telling, covering human weaknesses, perhaps the most reliable way of gaining access to networks, then to massive data breaches. Altogether, I consider this book very much worth reading. * Login *The author writes in an easily accessible style, allowing the reader to gain a good overview of computer security at various stages of development, from the mid-20th-century events to the late 2010s, and to delve deeper by following the notes at the back of the book (there are over 70 pages of them!). Most topics are covered this way and this lends a curious reader to complement their scientific knowledge with amusing or eye-opening anecdotes. * Cipher Newsletter *A Vulnerable System provides an accessible and engaging overview of many major developments in the history of computer security. It should be useful for teaching courses on the history of computer security, as well as for providing historical perspective to information security practitioners and general readers. * Technology and Culture *Andrew J. Stewart's A Vulnerable System: The History of Information Security in the Computer Age is a comprehensive review of the evolution of information security within the overall context of the remarkable level of information technological advancement in the twentieth century. Using carefully researched sources combined with an insightful analysis, Stewart takes readers on a journey through the history of safeguarding digital systems. * California History *Table of ContentsIntroduction: Three Stigmata 1. A "New Dimension" for the Security of Information 2. The Promise, Success, and Failure of the Early Researchers 3. The Creation of the Internet and the Web, and a Dark Portent 4. The Dot-Com Boom and the Genesis of a Lucrative Feedback Loop 5. Software Security and the "Hamster Wheel of Pain" 6. Usable Security, Economics, and Psychology 7. Vulnerability Disclosure, Bounties, and Markets 8. Data Breaches, Nation-State Hacking, and Epistemic Closure 9. The Wicked Nature of Information Security Epilogue: The Past, Present, and a Possible Future

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Book SynopsisThis inspirational book provides the backstory to current attempts by states and corporations to control the Internet. It explains key issues such as privacy, net neutrality and copyright in a way that is accessible to non-experts, as well as providing a clear, authoritative context for academic study. The Closing of the Net explains: Why apps are never 'free', and how data profiling got into politics How the entertainment industries went head-to-head with Internet companies over online copyright Why we got the GDPR (General Data Protection Regulation) and why Europe has stronger privacy laws than the US How post-Snowden surveillance politics is embedded in data retention law Why net neutrality matters How cloud service Megaupload was brought down Monica Horten's compelling account of these issues concludes with an outline of the risks we face in the future if monitoring and blocking of the Internet becomes the norm. And the results are chilling. This book is a must-read for all followers of cyber-policy, and is suitable for courses addressing digital media and society, communications policy, Internet and copyright law.Trade Review"Today's communications fabric relies on a layered connective space (the Internet). The corporate power that underwrites that space generates an unprecedented power problem for democracy. Monica Horten's sharply written book confronts that problem head-on, with striking case studies. Who really benefits from the "fingertap of desire" that drives our device use? Read this illuminating book to find out." Nick Couldry, London School of Economics and Political Science "Monica Horten writes about human beings' greatest invention – the Internet – and the emerging political and social trends that may cloud its future. Few thinkers could paint such a compelling, unified picture of the political forces across net neutrality, privacy, and mass surveillance – it is politics, not technology, that will most determine the Internet that our children inherit." Marvin Ammori, Affiliate Scholar at Stanford Law School, Center for Internet and Society "a book well worth reading ... both original and valuable" Times Higher Education "Future histories of information technology may record that the 'open' Internet proved but a transitory phase, and that those old enough to remember taking it for granted recall a golden era when views and ideas could be freely expressed online; for though we might still be able to express ourselves on tomorrow's Internet, 'The Closing of the Net' warns, it may not be for free." E&T"Considering the scope and breadth of the research and the clarity of the corresponding analysis, this book would be extremely helpful to those working in the fields of politics, law, media and technology as well as being a general interest text. It is an extremely relevant and timely addition to the growing body of cyber-related literature that I do not hesitate to recommend."LSE Book Review"Many books are insightful. The author has a vision, or an interpretation, or a prediction to make. These books all show insight, used by their writers to express a unique viewpoint. Rarer than all is a book which offers its readers insight; where the author does not simply demonstrate their own understanding, but allows the reader to gain new understanding of their own. Chapter by chapter, The Closing of the Netpaints an intricate picture of the politics and law of data privacy in Europe and beyond. Monica Horten’s understanding of internet politics is succinct and incisive, making this just such a book."It Security "Meticulously well-researched and thoughtfully written, the book takes the pulse of the open web. ... a must-read for any lawyer studying the legislation that internet politics produces." Journal of Intellectual Property Law & Practice "This book leads the reader to understand the intricate net of lobbying underpinning core Internet policy issues such as government surveillance, net neutrality, online piracy or the TTIP agreement." Journal of Cyber Policy (2016)Table of ContentsAcknowledgements Acronyms and Abbreviations 1 Power and the Internet 2 Private Lives, Public Policy 3 The PRISM Agenda 4 Surveillance Liabilities 5 Not Neutrality Under Pressure 6 Filtering Policy 7 The Cooperation Agenda 8 Blocking Judgements 9 A Dark Cloud 10 Closing Pressures Notes References Index

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Book SynopsisThis inspirational book provides the backstory to current attempts by states and corporations to control the Internet. It explains key issues such as privacy, net neutrality and copyright in a way that is accessible to non-experts, as well as providing a clear, authoritative context for academic study. The Closing of the Net explains: Why apps are never 'free', and how data profiling got into politics How the entertainment industries went head-to-head with Internet companies over online copyright Why we got the GDPR (General Data Protection Regulation) and why Europe has stronger privacy laws than the US How post-Snowden surveillance politics is embedded in data retention law Why net neutrality matters How cloud service Megaupload was brought down Monica Horten's compelling account of these issues concludes with an outline of the risks we face in the future if monitoring and blocking of the Internet becomes the norm. And the results are chilling. This book is a must-read for all followers of cyber-policy, and is suitable for courses addressing digital media and society, communications policy, Internet and copyright law.Trade Review"Today's communications fabric relies on a layered connective space (the Internet). The corporate power that underwrites that space generates an unprecedented power problem for democracy. Monica Horten's sharply written book confronts that problem head-on, with striking case studies. Who really benefits from the "fingertap of desire" that drives our device use? Read this illuminating book to find out." Nick Couldry, London School of Economics and Political Science "Monica Horten writes about human beings' greatest invention – the Internet – and the emerging political and social trends that may cloud its future. Few thinkers could paint such a compelling, unified picture of the political forces across net neutrality, privacy, and mass surveillance – it is politics, not technology, that will most determine the Internet that our children inherit." Marvin Ammori, Affiliate Scholar at Stanford Law School, Center for Internet and Society "a book well worth reading ... both original and valuable" Times Higher Education "Future histories of information technology may record that the 'open' Internet proved but a transitory phase, and that those old enough to remember taking it for granted recall a golden era when views and ideas could be freely expressed online; for though we might still be able to express ourselves on tomorrow's Internet, 'The Closing of the Net' warns, it may not be for free." E&T "Considering the scope and breadth of the research and the clarity of the corresponding analysis, this book would be extremely helpful to those working in the fields of politics, law, media and technology as well as being a general interest text. It is an extremely relevant and timely addition to the growing body of cyber-related literature that I do not hesitate to recommend." LSE Book Review "Many books are insightful. The author has a vision, or an interpretation, or a prediction to make. These books all show insight, used by their writers to express a unique viewpoint. Rarer than all is a book which offers its readers insight; where the author does not simply demonstrate their own understanding, but allows the reader to gain new understanding of their own. Chapter by chapter, The Closing of the Netpaints an intricate picture of the politics and law of data privacy in Europe and beyond. Monica Horten�s understanding of internet politics is succinct and incisive, making this just such a book." It Security "Meticulously well-researched and thoughtfully written, the book takes the pulse of the open web. ... a must-read for any lawyer studying the legislation that internet politics produces." Journal of Intellectual Property Law & Practice "This book leads the reader to understand the intricate net of lobbying underpinning core Internet policy issues such as government surveillance, net neutrality, online piracy or the TTIP agreement." Journal of Cyber Policy (2016)Table of ContentsAcknowledgements Acronyms and Abbreviations 1 Power and the Internet 2 Private Lives, Public Policy 3 The PRISM Agenda 4 Surveillance Liabilities 5 Not Neutrality Under Pressure 6 Filtering Policy 7 The Cooperation Agenda 8 Blocking Judgements 9 A Dark Cloud 10 Closing Pressures Notes References Index

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Book SynopsisComputer software and its structures, devices and processes are woven into our everyday life. Their significance is not just technical: the algorithms, programming languages, abstractions and metadata that millions of people rely on every day have far-reaching implications for the way we understand the underlying dynamics of contemporary societies. In this innovative new book, software studies theorist Matthew Fuller examines how the introduction and expansion of computational systems into areas ranging from urban planning and state surveillance to games and voting systems are transforming our understanding of politics, culture and aesthetics in the twenty-first century. Combining historical insight and a deep understanding of the technology powering modern software systems with a powerful critical perspective, this book opens up new ways of understanding the fundamental infrastructures of contemporary life, economies, entertainment and warfare. In so doing Fuller shows that everyone must learn ‘how to be a geek’, as the seemingly opaque processes and structures of modern computer and software technology have a significance that no-one can afford to ignore. This powerful and engaging book will be of interest to everyone interested in a critical understanding of the political and cultural ramifications of digital media and computing in the modern world.Trade Review"Insightful, informative, provocative and brilliant, Fuller 'geeks out' the problematic of software. In a wide–ranging analysis that moves from object oriented languages to github, from metadata to urban models, Fuller reveals software's intersecting technical, cultural and political aspects. A must read for anyone interested in software and new media studies." —Wendy Hui Kyong Chun, Brown University"This new book from the pioneer of software studies sets a new standard for critical discussion about the crucial part of contemporary culture and society – software. From mobile apps and social networks to email and word processing, we use software everyday. Yet critical thinking about software that can combine big ideas with careful attention to small details and genealogies of software concepts, tools, and interfaces is still rare. Fuller and his collaborators both give us fresh ideas and wonderful insights, and also show us what it means to study software culture." —Lev Manovich, City University of New YorkTable of ContentsAcknowledgements Biographies of Co-Authors Introduction Histories 1. The Obscure Objects of Object Orientation (with Andrew Goffey) 2. Abstract Urbanism (with Graham Harwood) Entities 3. Software Studies Methods 4. Big Diff, granularity, incoherence and production in the Github software repository, (with Andrew Goffey, Adrian Mackenzie, Richard Mills and Stuart Sharples) 5. The Author Name (with Nikita Mazurov and Dan McQuillan) Aesthetics 6. Always One Bit More, computing and the experience of ambiguity 7. Computational Aesthetics (with M. Beatrice Fazi) 8. Phrase (with Olga Goriunova) 9. Feral Computing: from ubiquitous computing to wild interactions (with Sónia Matos) 10. Just fun enough to go completely mad about: on games, procedures and amusement Powers 11. Black Sites and Transparency Layers 12. Algorithmic Tumult and the Brilliance of Chelsea Manning Index

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Book SynopsisComputer software and its structures, devices and processes are woven into our everyday life. Their significance is not just technical: the algorithms, programming languages, abstractions and metadata that millions of people rely on every day have far-reaching implications for the way we understand the underlying dynamics of contemporary societies. In this innovative new book, software studies theorist Matthew Fuller examines how the introduction and expansion of computational systems into areas ranging from urban planning and state surveillance to games and voting systems are transforming our understanding of politics, culture and aesthetics in the twenty-first century. Combining historical insight and a deep understanding of the technology powering modern software systems with a powerful critical perspective, this book opens up new ways of understanding the fundamental infrastructures of contemporary life, economies, entertainment and warfare. In so doing Fuller shows that everyone must learn ‘how to be a geek’, as the seemingly opaque processes and structures of modern computer and software technology have a significance that no-one can afford to ignore. This powerful and engaging book will be of interest to everyone interested in a critical understanding of the political and cultural ramifications of digital media and computing in the modern world.Trade Review"Insightful, informative, provocative and brilliant, Fuller 'geeks out' the problematic of software. In a wide–ranging analysis that moves from object oriented languages to github, from metadata to urban models, Fuller reveals software's intersecting technical, cultural and political aspects. A must read for anyone interested in software and new media studies." —Wendy Hui Kyong Chun, Brown University"This new book from the pioneer of software studies sets a new standard for critical discussion about the crucial part of contemporary culture and society – software. From mobile apps and social networks to email and word processing, we use software everyday. Yet critical thinking about software that can combine big ideas with careful attention to small details and genealogies of software concepts, tools, and interfaces is still rare. Fuller and his collaborators both give us fresh ideas and wonderful insights, and also show us what it means to study software culture." —Lev Manovich, City University of New YorkTable of ContentsContents Acknowledgements Biographies of Co-Authors Introduction Histories 1. The Obscure Objects of Object Orientation (with Andrew Goffey) 2. Abstract Urbanism (with Graham Harwood) Entities 3. Software Studies Methods 4. Big Diff, granularity, incoherence and production in the Github software repository, (with Andrew Goffey, Adrian Mackenzie, Richard Mills and Stuart Sharples) 5. The Author Name (with Nikita Mazurov and Dan McQuillan) Aesthetics 6. Always One Bit More, computing and the experience of ambiguity 7. Computational Aesthetics (with M. Beatrice Fazi) 8. Phrase (with Olga Goriunova) 9. Feral Computing: from ubiquitous computing to wild interactions (with Sónia Matos) 10. Just fun enough to go completely mad about: on games, procedures and amusement Powers 11. Black Sites and Transparency Layers 12. Algorithmic Tumult and the Brilliance of Chelsea Manning Index

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Book SynopsisAs people use self-tracking devices and other digital technologies, they generate increasing quantities of personal information online. These data have many benefits, but they can also be accessed and exploited by third parties. Using rich examples from popular culture and empirical research, Deborah Lupton develops a fresh and intriguing perspective on how people make sense of and use their personal data, and what they know about others who use this information. Drawing on feminist new materialism theory and the anthropology of material culture, she acknowledges the importance of paying attention to embodied experiences, as well as discourses and ideas, in identifying the ways in which people make and enact data, and data make and enact people. Arguing that personal data are more-than-human phenomena, invested with diverse forms of vitalities, Lupton reveals significant implications for data futures, politics and ethics. Lupton's novel approach to understanding personal data will be of interest to students and scholars in media and cultural studies, sociology, anthropology, surveillance studies, information studies, cultural geography and science and technology studies.Trade Review‘Deborah Lupton lucidly explains how data, human bodies and “selves” are inextricably entwined in our contemporary digital world. This is a perfect sequel to her excellent The Quantified Self.’José van Dijck, author of The Culture of Connectivity and The Platform Society ‘An exciting study of human-data interactions in a digital era. From digitized pregnancy to worries about the surveillant use of personal data by third parties, there’s much here to stimulate debate. A must-read marker for digital sociology in the twenty-first century.’David Lyon, Queen’s University, Canada"Data Selves puts forward a thorough and complete theory of human-data entanglement. Its strength lies in its breadth and ambition, uniting a variety of fields of study to produce nuanced views that will be fruitful for readers from both humanistic and social-scientific disci-plines. Ultimately, Lupton’s monograph represents a thoughtful and novel exploration of media-human ontology, rich with diverse examples, which will benefit undergraduates, graduate students, and scholars alike."Journal of Cinema and Media StudiesTable of Contents1 Introduction 2 More-than-Human Perspectives 3 Materialising Data 4 Doing Data 5 Sharing and Exploiting Data Final Thoughts Appendix References Index

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Book SynopsisWinner of the Science Fiction Research Association Book Award​A groundbreaking, alternate history of information technology and information discourses Although the scale of the information economy and the impact of digital media on social life in China today could pale that of any other country, the story of their emergence in the post-Mao sociopolitical environment remains untold. Information Fantasies offers a revisionist account of the emergence of the “information society,” arguing that it was not determined by the technology of digitization alone but developed out of a set of techno-cultural imaginations and practices that arrived alongside postsocialism.Anticipating discussions on information surveillance, data collection, and precarious labor conditions today, Xiao Liu goes far beyond the current scholarship on internet and digital culture in China, questioning the limits of current new-media theory and history, while also salvaging postsocialism from the persistent Cold War structure of knowledge production.Ranging over forgotten science fiction, unjustly neglected films, corporeal practices such as qigong, scientific journals, advertising, and cybernetic theories, Information Fantasies constructs an alternate genealogy of digital and information imaginaries—one that will change how we look at the development of the postsocialist world and the emergence of digital technologies.Trade Review"Xiao Liu’s creative, erudite, and richly researched book entirely reconfigures our understanding of the media landscape in 1980s China. Her dense explorations of how new media emerged, coalesced, and interacted in this crucial period range over multiple formats—forgotten science fiction stories, neglected films, photographs, videotapes, computers, television and teletext, qigong, scientific journals, advertising, and cybernetic theories—to draw science and aesthetics into a charged and illuminating encounter. The result is unquestionably one of the most original works to appear in Chinese cultural studies since the millennium."—Margaret Hillenbrand, University of Oxford"Liu solidly connects a very unique system with the IT perceptual revolution, essential for understanding the present futuristic scenario."—Neural"Information Fantasies strives to maintain a balance between the liberatory excitement around digital media and the constant crises of postsocialist precariousness (p. 10) and will surely prove a fundamental resource for an audience of readers as interdisciplinary as this volume’s author."—Asiascape"Information Fantasies shows that the close reading of signs, symptoms and systems need not be at odds with descriptions of materiality and technicity."—Critical Inquiry"An ambitious academic dream turned into reality. The book shows the author’s diligence in research and skills in organizing extensive and dispersive materials with a clear focus. . . . A valuable work in the study of communication and humanity."—China Review International"The site-specific and historically situated cases, along with brilliant interpretations, will interest researchers in media, literature, and modern China studies as well as historians of technology."—Technology and Culture Table of ContentsContentsIntroduction: “Information Pot” and Postsocialist Politics of Mediation1. Extrasensory Powers, Magic Waves, and Information Explosion: Imagining the Digital2. The Curious Case of a Robot Doctor: Rethinking Labor, Expert Systems, and the Interface3. The “Ultrastable System” and the New Cinema4. Affective Form: Advertising, Information Aesthetics, and Experimental Writing in the Market Economy5. Liminal Mediation and the Cinema RedefinedEpilogue: The Virtual Past(s) of the Future(s)AcknowledgmentsNotesIndex

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Book SynopsisA deep dive into the political roots of advertising on the internet The contemporary internet’s de facto business model is one of surveillance. Browser cookies follow us around the web, Amazon targets us with eerily prescient ads, Facebook and Google read our messages and analyze our patterns, and apps record our every move. In Profit over Privacy, Matthew Crain gives internet surveillance a much-needed origin story by chronicling the development of its most important historical catalyst: web advertising.The first institutional and political history of internet advertising, Profit over Privacy uses the 1990s as its backdrop to show how the massive data-collection infrastructure that undergirds the internet today is the result of twenty-five years of technical and political economic engineering. Crain considers the social causes and consequences of the internet’s rapid embrace of consumer monitoring, detailing how advertisers and marketers adapted to the existential threat of the internet and marshaled venture capital to develop the now-ubiquitous business model called “surveillance advertising.” He draws on a range of primary resources from government, industry, and the press and highlights the political roots of internet advertising to underscore the necessity of political solutions to reign in unaccountable commercial surveillance.The dominant business model on the internet, surveillance advertising is the result of political choices—not the inevitable march of technology. Unlike many other countries, the United States has no internet privacy law. A fascinating prehistory of internet advertising giants like Google and Facebook, Profit over Privacy argues that the internet did not have to turn out this way and that it can be remade into something better.Trade Review"A surveillance-oriented internet was not inevitable. As Matthew Crain brilliantly documents, the data-obsessed web was manifested to appease and uphold the advertising beast. By untangling the historic strings of policy, politics, and financial interests, Profit over Privacy invites the reader to question why we've come to accept the panoptic internet we know today."—danah boyd, author of It’s Complicated: The Social Lives of Networked Teens"In this exceptionally insightful and important book, Matthew Crain presents a definitive history of the evisceration of internet privacy. Rooted in a deep understanding of the history of advertising markets and the political economy of finance, Profit over Privacy focuses readers' attention on the fundamental forces demanding ever more data about our lives. Although it tells a dark story, its accessible and lively prose makes it a pleasure to read—and provides the historical knowledge necessary to help future regulators avoid the many mistakes of the past."—Frank Pasquale, author of New Laws of Robotics: Defending Human Expertise in the Age of AI "The book provides a fascinating look at the way that commercial and private interests and the companies and lobbyists representing them wonout over other interests, such as public ownership and public interests,in anumber of debates and processes largely in the United States that created the global internet infrastructure we have now... Anyone interested in online and digital spaces, surveillance practices, the history of internet companies,and discussions of public policy in the internet age should want to read Profit Over Privacy."—Surveillance & Society"Revealing the emergence of a market logic that has placed individual surveillance at its core, this is a forceful and engaging book."—LSE Review of Books"His writing skills, including his ability to make the sociopolitical complexities of political economy accessible and engaging for a broad audience, from undergraduates to business executives, are most impressive."—International Journal of Communication"Brilliantly researched and thoroughly documented, the book argues that surveillance capitalism could not have existed outside of politics."—Technical Communication"In documenting the historical development of surveillance advertising, Crain makes a forceful argument against the status quo in favor of strong privacy laws."—College & Research LibrariesTable of ContentsContentsIntroduction1. The Revolution Will Be Commercialized2. A Framework for Global Electronic Commerce3. The Web Gets a Memory4. The Dotcom Bubble5. Surveillance Advertising Takes Shape6. The Privacy Challenge7. The Legacy of the Dotcom EraAcknowledgmentsNotesIndex

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Book SynopsisA deep dive into the political roots of advertising on the internet The contemporary internet’s de facto business model is one of surveillance. Browser cookies follow us around the web, Amazon targets us with eerily prescient ads, Facebook and Google read our messages and analyze our patterns, and apps record our every move. In Profit over Privacy, Matthew Crain gives internet surveillance a much-needed origin story by chronicling the development of its most important historical catalyst: web advertising.The first institutional and political history of internet advertising, Profit over Privacy uses the 1990s as its backdrop to show how the massive data-collection infrastructure that undergirds the internet today is the result of twenty-five years of technical and political economic engineering. Crain considers the social causes and consequences of the internet’s rapid embrace of consumer monitoring, detailing how advertisers and marketers adapted to the existential threat of the internet and marshaled venture capital to develop the now-ubiquitous business model called “surveillance advertising.” He draws on a range of primary resources from government, industry, and the press and highlights the political roots of internet advertising to underscore the necessity of political solutions to reign in unaccountable commercial surveillance.The dominant business model on the internet, surveillance advertising is the result of political choices—not the inevitable march of technology. Unlike many other countries, the United States has no internet privacy law. A fascinating prehistory of internet advertising giants like Google and Facebook, Profit over Privacy argues that the internet did not have to turn out this way and that it can be remade into something better.Trade Review"A surveillance-oriented internet was not inevitable. As Matthew Crain brilliantly documents, the data-obsessed web was manifested to appease and uphold the advertising beast. By untangling the historic strings of policy, politics, and financial interests, Profit over Privacy invites the reader to question why we've come to accept the panoptic internet we know today."—danah boyd, author of It’s Complicated: The Social Lives of Networked Teens"In this exceptionally insightful and important book, Matthew Crain presents a definitive history of the evisceration of internet privacy. Rooted in a deep understanding of the history of advertising markets and the political economy of finance, Profit over Privacy focuses readers' attention on the fundamental forces demanding ever more data about our lives. Although it tells a dark story, its accessible and lively prose makes it a pleasure to read—and provides the historical knowledge necessary to help future regulators avoid the many mistakes of the past."—Frank Pasquale, author of New Laws of Robotics: Defending Human Expertise in the Age of AI "The book provides a fascinating look at the way that commercial and private interests and the companies and lobbyists representing them wonout over other interests, such as public ownership and public interests,in anumber of debates and processes largely in the United States that created the global internet infrastructure we have now... Anyone interested in online and digital spaces, surveillance practices, the history of internet companies,and discussions of public policy in the internet age should want to read Profit Over Privacy."—Surveillance & Society"Revealing the emergence of a market logic that has placed individual surveillance at its core, this is a forceful and engaging book."—LSE Review of Books"His writing skills, including his ability to make the sociopolitical complexities of political economy accessible and engaging for a broad audience, from undergraduates to business executives, are most impressive."—International Journal of Communication"Brilliantly researched and thoroughly documented, the book argues that surveillance capitalism could not have existed outside of politics."—Technical Communication"In documenting the historical development of surveillance advertising, Crain makes a forceful argument against the status quo in favor of strong privacy laws."—College & Research LibrariesTable of ContentsContentsIntroduction1. The Revolution Will Be Commercialized2. A Framework for Global Electronic Commerce3. The Web Gets a Memory4. The Dotcom Bubble5. Surveillance Advertising Takes Shape6. The Privacy Challenge7. The Legacy of the Dotcom EraAcknowledgmentsNotesIndex

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Book SynopsisThe latest installment of a digital humanities bellwether Contending with recent developments like the shocking 2016 U.S. Presidential election, the radical transformation of the social web, and passionate debates about the future of data in higher education, Debates in the Digital Humanities 2019 brings together a broad array of important, thought-provoking perspectives on the field’s many sides. With a wide range of subjects including gender-based assumptions made by algorithms, the place of the digital humanities within art history, data-based methods for exhuming forgotten histories, video games, three-dimensional printing, and decolonial work, this book assembles a who’s who of the field in more than thirty impactful essays.Contributors: Rafael Alvarado, U of Virginia; Taylor Arnold, U of Richmond; James Baker, U of Sussex; Kathi Inman Berens, Portland State U; David M. Berry, U of Sussex; Claire Bishop, The Graduate Center, CUNY; James Coltrain, U of Nebraska–Lincoln; Crunk Feminist Collective; Johanna Drucker, U of California–Los Angeles; Jennifer Edmond, Trinity College; Marta Effinger-Crichlow, New York City College of Technology–CUNY; M. Beatrice Fazi, U of Sussex; Kevin L. Ferguson, Queens College–CUNY; Curtis Fletcher, U of Southern California; Neil Fraistat, U of Maryland; Radhika Gajjala, Bowling Green State U; Michael Gavin, U of South Carolina; Andrew Goldstone, Rutgers U; Andrew Gomez, U of Puget Sound; Elyse Graham, Stony Brook U; Brian Greenspan, Carleton U; John Hunter, Bucknell U; Steven J. Jackson, Cornell U; Collin Jennings, Miami U; Lauren Kersey, Saint Louis U; Kari Kraus, U of Maryland; Seth Long, U of Nebraska, Kearney; Laura Mandell, Texas A&M U; Rachel Mann, U of South Carolina; Jason Mittell, Middlebury College; Lincoln A. Mullen, George Mason U; Trevor Muñoz, U of Maryland; Safiya Umoja Noble, U of Southern California; Jack Norton, Normandale Community College; Bethany Nowviskie, U of Virginia; Élika Ortega, Northeastern U; Marisa Parham, Amherst College; Jussi Parikka, U of Southampton; Kyle Parry, U of California, Santa Cruz; Brad Pasanek, U of Virginia; Stephen Ramsay, U of Nebraska–Lincoln; Matt Ratto, U of Toronto; Katie Rawson, U of Pennsylvania; Ben Roberts, U of Sussex; David S. Roh, U of Utah; Mark Sample, Davidson College; Moacir P. de Sá Pereira, New York U; Tim Sherratt, U of Canberra; Bobby L. Smiley, Vanderbilt U; Lauren Tilton, U of Richmond; Ted Underwood, U of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign; Megan Ward, Oregon State U; Claire Warwick, Durham U; Alban Webb, U of Sussex; Adrian S. Wisnicki, U of Nebraska–Lincoln. Trade Review"Ten years ago I asked what digital humanities was and what it was doing in English departments. This volume reveals the limits of that question—disciplinarily, methodologically, politically, and imaginatively. The Debates in the Digital Humanities series continues to define the field in the most expansive and provocative ways possible."—Matthew Kirschenbaum, University of Maryland"This latest installment in the Debates in the Digital Humanities series continues the important work of prising open computational black boxes and of connecting code to culture. The essays collected here are sharp, smart, and political as they tackle crucial issues of race, gender, sexuality, affect, ethics, and more. They also point the way toward a more vibrant and inclusive Digital Humanities."—Tara McPherson, author of Feminist in a Software Lab: Difference + Design

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Book SynopsisThe latest installment of a digital humanities bellwether Contending with recent developments like the shocking 2016 U.S. Presidential election, the radical transformation of the social web, and passionate debates about the future of data in higher education, Debates in the Digital Humanities 2019 brings together a broad array of important, thought-provoking perspectives on the field’s many sides. With a wide range of subjects including gender-based assumptions made by algorithms, the place of the digital humanities within art history, data-based methods for exhuming forgotten histories, video games, three-dimensional printing, and decolonial work, this book assembles a who’s who of the field in more than thirty impactful essays.Contributors: Rafael Alvarado, U of Virginia; Taylor Arnold, U of Richmond; James Baker, U of Sussex; Kathi Inman Berens, Portland State U; David M. Berry, U of Sussex; Claire Bishop, The Graduate Center, CUNY; James Coltrain, U of Nebraska–Lincoln; Crunk Feminist Collective; Johanna Drucker, U of California–Los Angeles; Jennifer Edmond, Trinity College; Marta Effinger-Crichlow, New York City College of Technology–CUNY; M. Beatrice Fazi, U of Sussex; Kevin L. Ferguson, Queens College–CUNY; Curtis Fletcher, U of Southern California; Neil Fraistat, U of Maryland; Radhika Gajjala, Bowling Green State U; Michael Gavin, U of South Carolina; Andrew Goldstone, Rutgers U; Andrew Gomez, U of Puget Sound; Elyse Graham, Stony Brook U; Brian Greenspan, Carleton U; John Hunter, Bucknell U; Steven J. Jackson, Cornell U; Collin Jennings, Miami U; Lauren Kersey, Saint Louis U; Kari Kraus, U of Maryland; Seth Long, U of Nebraska, Kearney; Laura Mandell, Texas A&M U; Rachel Mann, U of South Carolina; Jason Mittell, Middlebury College; Lincoln A. Mullen, George Mason U; Trevor Muñoz, U of Maryland; Safiya Umoja Noble, U of Southern California; Jack Norton, Normandale Community College; Bethany Nowviskie, U of Virginia; Élika Ortega, Northeastern U; Marisa Parham, Amherst College; Jussi Parikka, U of Southampton; Kyle Parry, U of California, Santa Cruz; Brad Pasanek, U of Virginia; Stephen Ramsay, U of Nebraska–Lincoln; Matt Ratto, U of Toronto; Katie Rawson, U of Pennsylvania; Ben Roberts, U of Sussex; David S. Roh, U of Utah; Mark Sample, Davidson College; Moacir P. de Sá Pereira, New York U; Tim Sherratt, U of Canberra; Bobby L. Smiley, Vanderbilt U; Lauren Tilton, U of Richmond; Ted Underwood, U of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign; Megan Ward, Oregon State U; Claire Warwick, Durham U; Alban Webb, U of Sussex; Adrian S. Wisnicki, U of Nebraska–Lincoln. Trade Review"Ten years ago I asked what digital humanities was and what it was doing in English departments. This volume reveals the limits of that question—disciplinarily, methodologically, politically, and imaginatively. The Debates in the Digital Humanities series continues to define the field in the most expansive and provocative ways possible."—Matthew Kirschenbaum, University of Maryland"This latest installment in the Debates in the Digital Humanities series continues the important work of prising open computational black boxes and of connecting code to culture. The essays collected here are sharp, smart, and political as they tackle crucial issues of race, gender, sexuality, affect, ethics, and more. They also point the way toward a more vibrant and inclusive Digital Humanities."—Tara McPherson, author of Feminist in a Software Lab: Difference + Design

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Book SynopsisThis title provides career planning help for a fast-evolving profession! This book's progressive approach, unmatched scope and up to date guidance will open the doors to a wide range of exciting information age careers to undergraduates, high school students, parents and advisors along with information students and recent graduates who are interested in exploring emerging career paths. Written by a team of seasoned career services experts at the University of Michigan, one of the nation's leading iSchools, this exceedingly comprehensive new resource provides in-depth coverage of career opportunities in eight core information fields, including: Archives and Preservation Management; Human Computer Interaction; Information Analysis and Retrieval; Information Management; Information Policy; Library and Information Services; Records Management; and, Social Computing. Chapters of this title are clearly organized by field, and each one includes a fully-fleshed description, real world profile, education and training programs, example job titles, illustrated career maps, and online resources for additional exploration. There is also an invaluable chapter on career planning that covers self-assessment, career-decision making, networking, and job search strategies.

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Book SynopsisProcess Mapping & Management is a 10-chapter book comprised of three sections: Process mapping mechanics, process improvement analysis, and process redesign and justification. Written for executives and graduate students the text offers practical techniques for simplifying and improving business processes that are immediately actionable. The improvement analysis is based on lean six sigma techniques and discusses leaning for the removal of process waste, cleaning for improving the remaining steps, and greening for evaluating methods that either automate or off-load work. A call-center case study runs through the book to illustrate many of the techniques.

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Book SynopsisIt has been estimated that as much as 80% of the total effort in a typical data analysis project is taken up with data preparation, including reconciling and merging data from different sources, identifying and interpreting various data anomalies, and selecting and implementing appropriate treatment strategies for the anomalies that are found. This book focuses on the identification and treatment of data anomalies, including examples that highlight different types of anomalies, their potential consequences if left undetected and untreated, and options for dealing with them.As both data sources and free, open-source data analysis software environments proliferate, more people and organizations are motivated to extract useful insights and information from data of many different kinds (e.g., numerical, categorical, and text). The book emphasizes the range of open-source tools available for identifying and treating data anomalies, mostly in R but also with several examples in Python.Mining Imperfect Data: With Examples in R and Python, Second Edition presents a unified coverage of 10 different types of data anomalies (outliers, missing data, inliers, metadata errors, misalignment errors, thin levels in categorical variables, noninformative variables, duplicated records, coarsening of numerical data, and target leakage); includes an in-depth treatment of time-series outliers and simple nonlinear digital filtering strategies for dealing with them; and provides a detailed introduction to several useful mathematical characteristics of important data characterizations that do not appear to be widely known among practitioners, such as functional equations and key inequalities.

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Book SynopsisThe Association officially endorses this definition of Instructional Technology which has been developed over three years by the Committee on Definition and Terminology. The Association recognizes that other theoretical frameworks exist and that these are valid, but believes that these are part of the more inclusive theoretical framework of Instructional Technology used in this definition. In making this definition and the document explaining it available, we hope to help other organizations clarify their relationship to the broad field of Instructional Technology. Although the Association offers this definition as its current position, it is committed to a continuous reevaluation of the definition and to revising and publishing it so that it reflects changing concepts and terminology.A document of this magnitude can only be produced as the result of the dedication and effort of the persons who formed the committee and of its chairperson, Barbara Seels and her collaborator, Rita C. Richey. Without their energies, skill, perseverance, and willingness to risk stating their perceptions in this format we could not have offered this document. Whether or not we agree with the statements presented here, they will provide a benchmark and a point of dialogue for further development of a profession which seeks to provide conditions for effective learning.Originally published in 1994.

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Book SynopsisXQuery is the best language for querying, manipulating, and transforming XML and JSON documents. Because XML is in many ways the lingua franca of the digital humanities, learning XQuery empowers humanists to discover and analyze their data in new ways. Until now, though, XQuery has been difficult to learn because there was no textbook designed for non- or beginner programmers. XQuery for Humanists fills this void with an approachable guidebook aimed directly at digital humanists. Clifford B. Anderson and Joseph C. Wicentowski introduce XQuery in terms accessible to humanities scholars and do not presuppose any prior background in programming. It provides an informed, opinionated overview and recommends the best implementations, libraries, and paradigms to empower those who need it most. Emphasizing practical applicability, the authors go beyond the XQuery language to include the basics of underlying standards like XPath, related standards like XQuery Full Text and XQuery Update, and explain the difference between XQuery and languages like Python and R. This book will afford readers the skills they need to build and analyze large-scale documentary corpora in XML. XQuery for Humanists is immeasurably valuable to instructors of digital humanities and library science courses alike and likewise is a ready reference for faculty, graduate students, and librarians who seek to master XQuery for their projects.

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Book SynopsisSmarter Than Their Machines: Oral Histories of the Pioneers of Interactive Computing is based on oral histories archived at the Charles Babbage Institute, University of Minnesota. Included are the oral histories of some key pioneers of the computer industry selected by John that led to interactive computing, such as Richard Bloch, Gene Amdahl, Herbert W. Robinson, Sam Wyly, J.C.R. Licklider, Ivan Sutherland, Larry Roberts, Robert Kahn, Marvin Minsky, Michael Dertouzos, and Joseph Traub, as well as his own. John has woven them together via introductions that is, in essence, a personal walk down the computer industry road. John had the unique advantage of having been part of, or witness to, much of the history contained in these oral histories beginning as a co-op student at Arthur D. Little, Inc., in the 1950's. Eventually, he would become a pioneer in his own right by creating the computer industry's first successful software products company (Cullinane Corporation). However, an added benefit of reading these oral histories is that they contain important messages for our leaders of today, at all levels, including that government, industry, and academia can accomplish great things when working together in an effective way. This is how the computer industry was created, which then led to the Internet, both totally unanticipated just 75 years ago.

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Book SynopsisThis book assesses the capabilities and benefits of connecting people, processes, data and things into the Internet of Everything (IoE). It begins by surveying the government and industrial sectors for current social and business challenges that are solvable using IoE. Within this section, the business and technology drivers for making the switch to IoE are covered. Examples include: rapid increases in the number and types of IP enabled devices, volume of new data streams emanating from these new devices and the easy access to cloud systems for data computation and analysis.Additionally, the book expands on the concepts of Data Fabrics applied to IoE Next, the book explains how IoE enables organizations to ramp the rate of new service creation and delivery of those services. These services are not feasible unless an underlying system can connect, integrate and reconcile data from previously unconnected and disparate functions. In addition, the underlying system must provide contextual perspective when presenting the data to enable optimal decisions that take all interactions and reactions into account. The latter portion of this text explains several barriers to IoE system adoption including integration with legacy IT systems and management systems using proprietary protocols. Using service models and service delivery mechanisms these barriers are removed. This book explains how this is done and what new capabilities are enabled in an IoE enabled network of people, processes, data and things.

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Book SynopsisMost IT directors and ITAM (Information Technology Asset Management) team leads learn on the job. ITAM is specialized enough that one cannot pick-up all the nuances without a lot of mistakes and pratfalls. This book, then, will help accelerate the ITAM program, set baselines for proper measures of success, and ensure both business leadership and the ITAM team are speaking the same language. The stakes couldn’t be higher. Worldwide enterprise IT spending estimate is $3.9 trillion USD for 2020, and expected to continue to increase at about 10% per year. However, software publishers estimate they are losing out on an addition $46.3 billion USD yearly revenue due to software piracy and volume license key abuses. To make up these losses, software companies engage in a policy of ‘auditing’ their existing customers to ensure software contract compliance.68% of all US companies can expect to be hit and fined by a software audit in any given 12-month period, with an average fine of $500,000 USD per audit event. Corporate ITAM initiatives keep failing because they are following the wrong methodology. Asset management should be an exercise of epistemology (as opposed to the transactional or accountancy methods most businesses use today). Epistemology is the philosophical study of knowledge: what do you know, and how can you prove it. Pragmatic ITAM will take the reader through a brief review of three Western philosophers: Socrates, Rene Descartes, and Blaise Pascal, and present 7 of their basic tenants on the topic. The next section uses these philosophical tenants to explain the ISO/IEC’s reasoning in building out their best business standards for corporate ITAM teams. The reader can then better interpret the “data lake.”

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Book SynopsisThis guidebook is designed to be the high school teacher's friend in addressing a wide variety of questions regarding the use of educational and instructional technologies. It can serve as a companion and guide through the myriad challenges and opportunities related to the effective use of technology in one's classroom and school.A sample of U.S. high school teachers provided us with detailed answers about their experiences with using technology in their teaching. Specifically, they shared their challenges, barriers, ideas, and suggestions for working successfully with administrators, technology specialists, students, fellow teachers, and parents when teaching with technology. We have organized the teachers' experiences and recommendations according to each stakeholder group.Rather than recommending or reviewing specific educational technology companies, applications, or tools, we provide a large number of strategies that are "built to last" and should be applicable regardless of the specific tool under consideration. We assume that it doesn't ultimately matter what the tool or technology is that you're using—it's how and why you're using it for teaching and learning that will determine whether it is successful or not. The "how" and "why" aspects encompass the built-to-last strategies included in this guidebook.Table of Contents Preface: Introduction To The Guidebook Part I: Technology Questions And Issues When Working With School/District Administration Part II: Technology Questions And Issues When Working With Technology Specialists Part III: Technology Questions And Issues When Working With Students Part IV: Technology Questions And Issues When Working With Fellow Teachers Part V: Technology Questions And Issues When Working With Parents Part VI: Solving Technology Questions And Issues On Your Own Part VII: Supplemental Resources About The Authors

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Book SynopsisThis guidebook is designed to be the high school teacher's friend in addressing a wide variety of questions regarding the use of educational and instructional technologies. It can serve as a companion and guide through the myriad challenges and opportunities related to the effective use of technology in one's classroom and school.A sample of U.S. high school teachers provided us with detailed answers about their experiences with using technology in their teaching. Specifically, they shared their challenges, barriers, ideas, and suggestions for working successfully with administrators, technology specialists, students, fellow teachers, and parents when teaching with technology. We have organized the teachers' experiences and recommendations according to each stakeholder group.Rather than recommending or reviewing specific educational technology companies, applications, or tools, we provide a large number of strategies that are "built to last" and should be applicable regardless of the specific tool under consideration. We assume that it doesn't ultimately matter what the tool or technology is that you're using—it's how and why you're using it for teaching and learning that will determine whether it is successful or not. The "how" and "why" aspects encompass the built-to-last strategies included in this guidebook.Table of Contents Preface: Introduction To The Guidebook Part I: Technology Questions And Issues When Working With School/District Administration Part II: Technology Questions And Issues When Working With Technology Specialists Part III: Technology Questions And Issues When Working With Students Part IV: Technology Questions And Issues When Working With Fellow Teachers Part V: Technology Questions And Issues When Working With Parents Part VI: Solving Technology Questions And Issues On Your Own Part VII: Supplemental Resources About The Authors

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Book SynopsisModern critical infrastructures can be considered as large scale Cyber Physical Systems (CPS). Therefore, when designing, implementing, and operating systems for Critical Infrastructure Protection (CIP), the boundaries between physical security and cybersecurity are blurred. Emerging systems for Critical Infrastructures Security and Protection must therefore consider integrated approaches that emphasize the interplay between cybersecurity and physical security techniques. Hence, there is a need for a new type of integrated security intelligence i.e., Cyber-Physical Threat Intelligence (CPTI).This book presents novel solutions for integrated Cyber-Physical Threat Intelligence for infrastructures in various sectors, such as Industrial Sites and Plants, Air Transport, Gas, Healthcare, and Finance. The solutions rely on novel methods and technologies, such as integrated modelling for cyber-physical systems, novel reliance indicators, and data driven approaches including BigData analytics and Artificial Intelligence (AI). Some of the presented approaches are sector agnostic i.e., applicable to different sectors with a fair customization effort. Nevertheless, the book presents also peculiar challenges of specific sectors and how they can be addressed. The presented solutions consider the European policy context for Security, Cyber security, and Critical Infrastructure protection, as laid out by the European Commission (EC) to support its Member States to protect and ensure the resilience of their critical infrastructures. Most of the co-authors and contributors are from European Research and Technology Organizations, as well as from European Critical Infrastructure Operators. Hence, the presented solutions respect the European approach to CIP, as reflected in the pillars of the European policy framework. The latter includes for example the Directive on security of network and information systems (NIS Directive), the Directive on protecting European Critical Infrastructures, the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), and the Cybersecurity Act Regulation. The sector specific solutions that are described in the book have been developed and validated in the scope of several European Commission (EC) co-funded projects on Critical Infrastructure Protection (CIP), which focus on the listed sectors. Overall, the book illustrates a rich set of systems, technologies, and applications that critical infrastructure operators could consult to shape their future strategies. It also provides a catalogue of CPTI case studies in different sectors, which could be useful for security consultants and practitioners as well.Table of Contents Part I “Securing Critical Infrastructures of Sensitive Industrial Plants and Sites”: • Chapter 1 “InfraStress approach on risk modelling of cascading events with live data for decision support”. • Chapter 2 “Cyber-physical adversarial attacks and countermeasures for deep learning vision systems on critical infrastructures”.• Chapter 3 “Modelling of interdependencies among and InfraStress approach on risk modelling of cascading events with live data for decision support”. • Chapter 4 “Data Visualisation for Situational Awareness in Industrial Critical Infrastructure: an InfraStress Case Study”.• Chapter 5 “Critical Infrastructures, SIPS and Threat Intelligence: legal and ethical aspects of security research”. Part II “Securing Critical Infrastructures in the Water Sector”: • Chapter 6 “Cyber security importance in the water sector and the contribution of the STOP-IT project”.• Chapter 7 “Cyber-Physical security for critical water infrastructures at strategic and tactical level”. • Chapter 8 “Cyber-physical solutions for real-time detection at operational level”. • Chapter 9 “Applying Machine Learning and Deep Learning algorithms for Anomaly Detection in Critical Water Infrastructures”. Part III “Securing Critical Infrastructures for Air Transport”: • Chapter 10 “Security Challenges for Critical Infrastructures in Air Transport”.• Chapter 11 “Toolkit to enhance cyber-physical security of Critical Infrastructures in Air Transport”.• Chapter 12 “Security ontologies as technological enabler for blended threat detection and enhanced systems interoperability”. Part IV “Securing Critical Infrastructures for Gas”: • Chapter 13 “Conceptual Model and CONOPS for Secure and Resilient Gas CI”.• Chapter 14 “High-Level Reference Architecture (HLRA) for Gas Infrastructures Protection”. • Chapter 15 “The SecureGas Key Performance Indicators for resilient gas critical infrastructures”. • Chapter 16 “Communication of Security-related Incident Information to the Authorities and the Population”. Part V “Securing Critical Infrastructures of the Healthcare Sector”: • Chapter 17 “Security monitoring for medical devices”.• Chapter 18 “User Experience models for threat monitoring and security management in healthcare”. • Chapter 19 “Attacking and defending healthcare building automation networks”.• Chapter 20 “An Intuitive Distributed Cyber Situational Awareness Framework Within a Healthcare Environment”. Part VI “Securing Critical Infrastructures in the Finance Sector”: • Chapter 21 “The FINSEC Platform: End-to-End Data-Driven Cyber-Physical Threat Intelligence for Critical Infrastructures in Finance”. • Chapter 22 “Anomaly detection for critical financial infrastructure protection”. Part VII “Critical Infrastructure Protection and Smart Resilience”: • Chapter 23 “Indicator-based assessment of resilience of critical infrastructures: From single indicators to comprehensive “smart” assessment”.

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Book SynopsisProgramming & Software Development examines various aspects of programming and software development along with the importance of identifying the right kind of project for the programming. It includes the meaning of programming and system designs and development. Provide the reader with the insights into the development of software testing and activities required to conduct programming so as to understand the importance of system documentation and data security with the current trends in system development.

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Book SynopsisInformation and Computer Ethics deals with the basic idea of information ethics. It also includes the concept of moral methodology and information technology. It provides the reader with basic insights of global development of information technology and computer ethics so as to understand the ethical issues that are involved in the information and computer sector along with the regulatory issues and challenges. This book also discusses about normative theories and computer ethics, ethical issues involved in the sector of information and computer, international development and computer ethics, technologies of autonomous agency and regulatory issues and challenges involved in the sector of information and computer ethics.

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Book SynopsisThe data science field has evolved so much recently with incredible quantities of generated data. To extract value from those data, one needs to be trained in the proper data science skills. This book covers some introductory steps in using R programming language as a data science tool.

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Book SynopsisInformation Technology (IT) refers to the use of computers, software, and telecommunications equipment to store, retrieve, transmit, and manipulate data, often in the context of business or other organizational operations. This book presents the fundamentals of information technology. The book aims to provide readers with a thorough understanding of the basic concepts and principles of information technology. It is an ideal textbook for students of computer science and related fields, as well as a useful reference for professionals in the industry. The book emphasizes the practical applications of information technology, providing real-world examples and case studies to illustrate key concepts. It is written in a clear and concise style, making it accessible to readers with varying levels of technical expertise.Table of Contents Chapter 1 Information Technology: An Overview Chapter 2 Information Technology and IoT Chapter 3 Artificial Intelligence and Information Technology Chapter 4 Web Application Architectures Chapter 5 Web Big Data and Data Analytics Chapter 6 Testing Web Applications Chapter 7 Web Project Management Chapter 8 Performance of Web Application

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Book SynopsisComputer systems application refers to the utilization of software and hardware components to perform various tasks and activities such as data processing, communication, entertainment, and business operations. This textbook covers the fundamental concepts of computer systems and their applications in various fields. It provides an in-depth understanding of computer architecture, operating systems, networking, and database management systems. With its practical approach, Computer Systems Application equips readers with the knowledge and skills needed to design, develop, and implement computer-based systems. It serves as a valuable resource for students of computer science, software engineering, and related fields, as well as professionals in the technology industry who wish to enhance their knowledge and skills.Table of Contents Chapter 1 Introduction to Computer Chapter 2 Understanding Virtual Reality Technology: Advances and Applications Chapter 3 Basics of Computer Architecture Chapter 4 Computer Program and Languages Chapter 5 Role of Artificial Intelligence in Computer Science Chapter 6 Data Communication and Computer Network Chapter 7 Fundamentals of Database Chapter 8 IoT and Computer Science

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Book SynopsisThis textbook focuses on the development of large-scale web-based applications, websites, and software systems. It covers various topics such as web design, web programming, web testing, and web project management. The book is an essential resource for software engineers, web developers, project managers, and anyone involved in the development of web-based applications. It provides readers with a comprehensive understanding of the process of web engineering and the skills required to develop high-quality web-based systems.Table of Contents Chapter 1 An Introduction to Web Engineering Chapter 2 Requirements Engineering for Web Applications Chapter 3 Modeling Web Applications Chapter 4 Web Application Architectures Chapter 5 Web Big Data and Data Analytics Chapter 6 Testing Web Applications Chapter 7 Web Project Management Chapter 8 Performance of Web Application

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