A Mathematical Introduction to Logic

Herbert B. Enderton

A Mathematical Introduction to Logic, Second Edition, offers increased flexibility with topic coverage, allowing for choice in how to utilize the textbook in a course. The author has made this edition more accessible to better meet the needs of today's undergraduate mathematics and philosophy students. It is intended for the reader who has not studied logic previously, but who has some experience in mathematical reasoning. Material is presented on computer science issues such as computational complexity and database queries, with additional coverage of introductory material such as sets.

Alan Turing: Life and Legacy of a Great Thinker

Christof Teuscher

Written by a distinguished cast of contributors, Alan Turing: Life and Legacy of a Great Thinker is the definitive collection of essays in commemoration of the 90th birthday of Alan Turing. This fascinating text covers the rich facets of his life, thoughts, and legacy, but also sheds some light on the future of computing science with a chapter contributed by visionary Ray Kurzweil, winner of the 1999 National Medal of Technology. Further, important contributions come from the philosopher Daniel Dennett, the Turing biographer Andrew Hodges, and from the distinguished logician Martin Davis, who provides a first critical essay on an emerging and controversial field termed "hypercomputation".

MongoDB: The Definitive Guide

Kristina Chodorow, Michael Dirolf

How does MongoDB help you manage a huMONGOus amount of data collected through your web application? With this authoritative introduction, you'll learn the many advantages of using document-oriented databases, and discover why MongoDB is a reliable, high-performance system that allows for almost infinite horizontal scalability. Written by engineers from 10gen, the company that develops and supports this open source database, MongoDB: The Definitive Guide provides guidance for database developers, advanced configuration for system administrators, and an overview of the concepts and use cases for other people on your project. Learn how easy it is to handle data as self-contained JSON-style documents, rather than as records in a relational database. Explore ways that document-oriented storage will work for your project Learn how MongoDB’s schema-free data model handles documents, collections, and multiple databases Execute basic write operations, and create complex queries to find data with any criteria Use indexes, aggregation tools, and other advanced query techniques Learn about monitoring, security and authentication, backup and repair, and more Set up master-slave and automatic failover replication in MongoDB Use sharding to scale MongoDB horizontally, and learn how it impacts applications Get example applications written in Java, PHP, Python, and Ruby

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.

Python Essential Reference

David M. Beazley

Python Essential Reference is the definitive reference guide to the Python programming language--the one authoritative handbook that reliably untangles and explains both the core Python library. Designed for the practicing programmer, the book is concise, to the point, and highly accessible. It also includes detailed information on the Python library and many advanced subjects that is not available in either the official Python documentation or any other single reference source. Thoroughly updated to reflect the significant new programming language features and library modules that have been introduced in Python 2.6 and Python 3, the fourth edition of Python Essential Reference is the complete guide for programmers who need to modernize existing Python code or who are planning an eventual migration to Python 3.

Concrete Abstractions

An Introduction to Computer Science Using Scheme

Max Hailperin, Barbara Kaiser, Karl Knight

CONCRETE ABSTRACTIONS offers students a hands-on, abstraction-based experience of thinking like a computer scientist. This text covers the basics of programming and data structures, and gives first-time computer science students the opportunity to not only write programs, but to prove theorems and analyze algorithms as well. Students learn a variety of programming styles, including functional programming, assembly-language programming, and object-oriented programming (OOP). While most of the book uses the Scheme programming language, Java is introduced at the end as a second example of an OOP system and to demonstrate concepts of concurrent programming.

The Art of Computer Virus Research and Defense

Peter Szor

A guide to computer viruses covers such topics as virus behavior, malware, technical defenses, and worm blocking.

Understanding the New SQL

A Complete Guide

Jim Melton, Alan R. Simon

The only book you'll ever need on SQL. The authors detail the changes in the new standard and provide a thorough guide to programming with SQL 2 for both newcomers and experienced programmers. The book is one that novice programmers should read cover to cover and experienced DBMS professionals should have as a definitive reference book for the new SQL 2 standard.

Global Sourcebook of Address Data Management

A Guide to Address Formats and Data in 194 Countries

Graham R. Rhind

Global Sourcebook of Address Data Management provides, for each country, such information as address and postcode formats, postbox names, salutations, personal name patterns, information about languages, diacritical marks, job titles, casing rules, street types and much more. It will make the management and development of any marketing database more efficient, less expensive and will result in fewer errors and, most importantly, will present the best first impression of the company to its potential customers.

Database

Principles Programming Performance

Patrick O'Neil

Database: Principles Programming Performance provides an introduction to the fundamental principles of database systems. This book focuses on database programming and the relationships between principles, programming, and performance. Organized into 10 chapters, this book begins with an overview of database design principles and presents a comprehensive introduction to the concepts used by a DBA. This text then provides grounding in many abstract concepts of the relational model. Other chapters introduce SQL, describing its capabilities and covering the statements and functions of the programming language. This book provides as well an introduction to Embedded SQL and Dynamic SQL that is sufficiently detailed to enable students to immediately start writing database programs. The final chapter deals with some of the motivations for database systems spanning multiple CPUs, including client-server and distributed transactions. This book is a valuable resource for database administrators, application programmers, specialist users, and end users.

Cyberethics

Morality and Law in Cyberspace

Richard A. Spinello

This fully revised and updated fifth edition offers an in-depth and comprehensive examination of the social costs and moral issues emerging from ever-expanding use of the Internet and new information technologies. Focusing heavily on content control, free speech, intellectual property, and security, this book provides legal and philosophical discussions of these critical issues. It includes new sections on Luciano Floridi's macroethics, gatekeepers and search engines, censorship, anti-piracy legislation, patents, and smartphones. Real-life case studies, including all-new examples focusing on Google, Facebook, video games, reader's rights, and the LulzSec Hackers, provide real-world context. --

The Elements of Statistical Learning

Data Mining, Inference, and Prediction

Trevor Hastie, Robert Tibshirani, Jerome H. Friedman

This book describes the important ideas in a common conceptual framework. While the approach is statistical, the emphasis is on concepts rather than mathematics. Many examples are given, with a liberal use of color graphics. It should be a valuable resource for statisticians and anyone interested in data mining in science or industry.

Data Models

Dionysios C. Tsichritzis, Frederick H. Lochovsky

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Introduction to Quantitative Ecology

Mathematical and Statistical Modelling for Beginners

Timothy E. Essington

Environmental science (ecology, conservation, and resource management) is an increasingly quantitative field. This accessible textbook introduces quantitative ecology in a manner that aims to confront the limitations of the current literature and thereby appeal to a far wider audience.

The Essential Guide to Computer Data Storage

From Floppy to DVD

Andrei Khurshudov

This book covers all data storage systems and latest technologies. It's a practical easy-to-use book on data storage. Extensive glossary of computer data storage-related terms. Aimed at a wide audience from beginner to advanced levels.

An Introduction to Database Systems

C. J. Date

A comprehensive treatment of database technology, revised and expanded to reflect changes in theory and practice since the mid-1980s. Includes new chapters on logic-based systems, object-oriented systems, the first commercially available distributed database products, and an extensive revision of the relational model. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

Information Warfare and Security

Dorothy Elizabeth Robling Denning

What individuals, corporations, and governments need to know about information-related attacks and defenses! Every day, we hear reports of hackers who have penetrated computer networks, vandalized Web pages, and accessed sensitive information. We hear how they have tampered with medical records, disrupted emergency 911 systems, and siphoned money from bank accounts. Could information terrorists, using nothing more than a personal computer, cause planes to crash, widespread power blackouts, or financial chaos? Such real and imaginary scenarios, and our defense against them, are the stuff of information warfare-operations that target or exploit information media to win some objective over an adversary. Dorothy E. Denning, a pioneer in computer security, provides in this book a framework for understanding and dealing with information-based threats: computer break-ins, fraud, sabotage, espionage, piracy, identity theft, invasions of privacy, and electronic warfare. She describes these attacks with astonishing, real examples, as in her analysis of information warfare operations during the Gulf War. Then, offering sound advice for security practices and policies, she explains countermeasures that are both possible and necessary. You will find in this book: A comprehensive and coherent treatment of offensive and defensive information warfare, identifying the key actors, targets, methods, technologies, outcomes, policies, and laws; A theory of information warfare that explains and integrates within a single framework operations involving diverse actors and media; An accurate picture of the threats, illuminated by actual incidents; A description of information warfare technologies and their limitations, particularly the limitations of defensive technologies. Whatever your interest or role in the emerging field of information warfare, this book will give you the background you need to make informed judgments about potential threats and our defenses against them. 0201433036B04062001

A First Course in Database Systems

Jeffrey D. Ullman, Jennifer Widom

The worlds of databases systems; Database modeling; The relational data model; Operations in the relational model; The database language SQL; Constraints and triggers in SQL; Systems aspects of SQL; Object-oriented query languages.

Predictive Data Mining

A Practical Guide

Sholom M. Weiss, Nitin Indurkhya

This book is the first technical guide to provide a complete, generalized road map for developing data-mining applications, together with advice on performing these large-scale, open-ended analyses for real-world data warehouses.