Many people will have used a network, be it the World Wide Web, email, or another of the utilities that are starting to worm their way into our everyday lives. Some aspects of networks will be familiar to many, such as clicking in a Web browser, or deleting spam from our inbox. There is a lot of (mostly) hidden technology that drives this phenomenon we call the Internet, and this book aims to g…
Bell Labs research has never written a book. Bell Labs researchers have, of course, written or edited thousands of books, and tens of books have been written about Bell Labs and its unique history of innovation. But, in the 90 years that Bell Labs has been in existence, Bell Labs research as an organization has never written a book. So, why start now? Well, in short, it seemed that the time was…
This book deals with the evolving role of the teaching profession and the role of teacher networks in response to changing skills needs in society. It argues that teachers can be the main change agents for reforms of education, provided that they are well supported and enabled to do so. Recently, various teacher networks have emerged at the local and international scale, and questions around th…
Advances in communications technology to seamlessly connect all types of home devices and appliances are driving the vision to create an intelligent home ecosystem. This would enable control, access, and information sharing among all the devices and thereby a much more enhanced user experience. The future growth of electronics at home lies in the devices being able to wire- lessly communicate a…
With multiple cloud platforms out there, it is easy to get confused when making a technology decision for your projects. This gets further complicated with the plethora of development tools and frameworks available today. Microsoft Azure simplifies this problem by providing a scalable and manageable platform for customers to easily deploy, monitor, and troubleshoot their cloud-based application…
Firstly these questions are intriguing. How do trusted people and organizations become cheats? Not just once, but repeatedly and systematically. What motivates and possesses them? What explains these twists and turns? How come factory workers went so far as to regularly bind a colleague naked to a push cart and push it through the production room as a joke to lighten the mood? How did a manager…
This book provides an in-depth look at how to build web-based applications (web apps) for Google TV, a new platform that integrates the open web with traditional TV. This powerful and versatile new platform includes Google Chrome, a modern web browser that enables developers to deliver rich and sophisticated web apps to Google TV users. This book has three primary goals. First, this book aims t…
This book presents a new approach to industrial marketing and purchasing based on a research project carried out in five European countries. The book, however, is not a complete and final report of the project. It will be followed by others. The book ought to be of interest both to researchers and managers. It presents an alternative theoretical approach but is also highly empirical. The main …
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The intention of this one semester leadership course is to leave participants actually being leaders and exercising leadership effectively as their natural self-expression. By “natural self-expression” we mean a way of being and acting in any leadership situation that is a spontaneous and intuitive effective response to what one is dealing with. The course is based on a new science of lea…
This course is designed to leave students being leaders and exercising leadership effectively as their natural self-expression – rather than attempting to learn the characteristics, styles, and skills of noteworthy leaders, and then trying to remember and apply them where appropriate. The course is not designed to merely leave the students with knowledge (that is, not designed to leave stu…