Where Wizards Stay Up Late

The Vanishing Vision

The Inside Story of Public Television

James Day

Story of public television

Mining Text Data

Charu C. Aggarwal, ChengXiang Zhai

Text mining applications have experienced tremendous advances because of web 2.0 and social networking applications. Recent advances in hardware and software technology have lead to a number of unique scenarios where text mining algorithms are learned. Mining Text Data introduces an important niche in the text analytics field, and is an edited volume contributed by leading international researchers and practitioners focused on social networks & data mining. This book contains a wide swath in topics across social networks & data mining. Each chapter contains a comprehensive survey including the key research content on the topic, and the future directions of research in the field. There is a special focus on Text Embedded with Heterogeneous and Multimedia Data which makes the mining process much more challenging. A number of methods have been designed such as transfer learning and cross-lingual mining for such cases. Mining Text Data simplifies the content, so that advanced-level students, practitioners and researchers in computer science can benefit from this book. Academic and corporate libraries, as well as ACM, IEEE, and Management Science focused on information security, electronic commerce, databases, data mining, machine learning, and statistics are the primary buyers for this reference book.

Fundamentals of Multimedia

Ze-Nian Li, Mark S. Drew, Jiangchuan Liu

This textbook introduces the “Fundamentals of Multimedia”, addressing real issues commonly faced in the workplace. The essential concepts are explained in a practical way to enable students to apply their existing skills to address problems in multimedia. Fully revised and updated, this new edition now includes coverage of such topics as 3D TV, social networks, high-efficiency video compression and conferencing, wireless and mobile networks, and their attendant technologies. Features: presents an overview of the key concepts in multimedia, including color science; reviews lossless and lossy compression methods for image, video and audio data; examines the demands placed by multimedia communications on wired and wireless networks; discusses the impact of social media and cloud computing on information sharing and on multimedia content search and retrieval; includes study exercises at the end of each chapter; provides supplementary resources for both students andinstructors at an associated website.

Where the Action is

The Foundations of Embodied Interaction

Paul Dourish

The philosophical underpinnings of human-computer interaction and their consequences for future design.

The Road Ahead

Bill Gates, Nathan Myhrvold, Peter Rinearson

In this clear-eyed, candid, and ultimately reassuring

Blockchain and the Law

The Rule of Code

Primavera De Filippi, Aaron Wright

“Blockchains will matter crucially; this book, beautifully and clearly written for a wide audience, powerfully demonstrates how.” —Lawrence Lessig “Attempts to do for blockchain what the likes of Lawrence Lessig and Tim Wu did for the Internet and cyberspace—explain how a new technology will upend the current legal and social order... Blockchain and the Law is not just a theoretical guide. It’s also a moral one.” —Fortune Bitcoin has been hailed as an Internet marvel and decried as the preferred transaction vehicle for criminals. It has left nearly everyone without a computer science degree confused: how do you “mine” money from ones and zeros? The answer lies in a technology called blockchain. A general-purpose tool for creating secure, decentralized, peer-to-peer applications, blockchain technology has been compared to the Internet in both form and impact. Blockchains are being used to create “smart contracts,” to expedite payments, to make financial instruments, to organize the exchange of data and information, and to facilitate interactions between humans and machines. But by cutting out the middlemen, they run the risk of undermining governmental authorities’ ability to supervise activities in banking, commerce, and the law. As this essential book makes clear, the technology cannot be harnessed productively without new rules and new approaches to legal thinking. “If you...don’t ‘get’ crypto, this is the book-length treatment for you.” —Tyler Cowen, Marginal Revolution “De Filippi and Wright stress that because blockchain is essentially autonomous, it is inflexible, which leaves it vulnerable, once it has been set in motion, to the sort of unforeseen consequences that laws and regulations are best able to address.” —James Ryerson, New York Times Book Review

Where Wizards Stay Up Late

The Origins Of The Internet

Matthew Lyon, Katie Hafner

Twenty five years ago, it didn't exist. Today, twenty million people worldwide are surfing the Net. Where Wizards Stay Up Late is the exciting story of the pioneers responsible for creating the most talked about, most influential, and most far-reaching communications breakthrough since the invention of the telephone. In the 1960's, when computers where regarded as mere giant calculators, J.C.R. Licklider at MIT saw them as the ultimate communications devices. With Defense Department funds, he and a band of visionary computer whizzes began work on a nationwide, interlocking network of computers. Taking readers behind the scenes, Where Wizards Stay Up Late captures the hard work, genius, and happy accidents of their daring, stunningly successful venture.

Where Wizards Stay up Late

Katie Hafner, Matthew Lyon

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脆弱系統

從人性貪婪、網路詐騙到駭客入侵，探索資訊安全的歷史和未來

安德魯‧史都華（Andrew J. Stewart）

美國2022年資訊安全名人堂（Cybersecurity Canon Hall of Fame 2022）得獎作品 個資外洩、網路詐騙、駭客勒索猖獗，受害者卻求償無門。 一本書，分析資訊安全的歷史，以及網路系統如此脆弱的原因。 你常常這樣做嗎？ ●定期更換各種網路密碼 ●連網設備用畢之後，隨手登出、關機 ●對於來路不明的電郵、網址心存懷疑，不會因為好奇而點開 ●時常關心資訊安全新聞，例如：網路詐騙、駭客入侵、個資外洩事件等 網路科技急速發展，資訊安全卻有很多漏洞，導致個資外洩、詐騙頻傳，甚至遭到駭客和勒索軟體的攻擊。 事實上，資訊系統的本質其實很脆弱，並不像大家想像的「牢靠」。資安問題持續存在且難以根除的原因在於，許多開發者和企業在設計和推出系統時，往往採取「先行動，後補救」策略，導致許多系統在推出後，才發現存在嚴重的安全漏洞，不僅為後續的修補和維護帶來了巨大挑戰，更為潛在的攻擊者提供了可乘之機。 安德魯‧史都華（Andrew J. Stewart）在書中詳述資訊安全從發展初期至今的歷史，其實是連續失敗的過程，即使到了現在，嚴密的資安依然無法杜絕個資外洩、網路勒索的發生，從個人到企業的傷害，仍然持續擴大。 這本書特別從攻擊者、防禦者的角度分析過去的資安事件，也從政策層面探討人們在不同年代如何填補資安漏洞。 然而，造成資安破口的根源，不只是系統出現漏洞，往往人性的脆弱也是原因之一，例如因為好奇、貪圖方便、妄想致富而落入網路詐騙、個資外洩的陷阱。史都華認為，說不定我們可以藉由心理學和行為經濟學對人類行為得出新的見解，進而讓資訊安全問題獲得解決。 現在是過去的產物，想要面對當今的問題，就必須從了解歷史開始。這本書帶我們了解橫跨半個世紀的資安攻防戰，讓活在虛偽又真實時代的我們，重新認識資訊安全的全貌。

A Vulnerable System

The History of Information Security in the Computer Age

Andrew J. Stewart

As 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 Silicon Valley start-ups in the 2020s, the relentless pursuit of new technologies has come at great cost. The absence of knowledge regarding the history of information security has caused the lessons of the past to be forsaken for the novelty of the present, and has led us to be collectively unable to meet the needs of the current day. From the very beginning of the information age, claims of secure systems have been crushed by practical reality. The myriad risks to technology, Stewart reveals, cannot be addressed without first understanding how we arrived at this moment. A Vulnerable System is an enlightening and sobering history of a topic that affects crucial aspects of our lives.

Where Wizards Stay Up Late: The Story Behind the Creation of the Internet

Katie Hafner

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The Yankee Road

Tracing the Journey of the New England Tribe that Created Modern America

James D. McNiven

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