Thirty years ago, when I joined the faculty at MIT to study computer culture, the world re- tained a certain innocence. Children played tic-tac-toe with their electronic toys, video game missiles took on invading asteroids, and “intelligent” programs could hold up their end of a serious chess match. The first home computers were being bought by people called hobby- ists. The people who boug…
The future of higher education: how technology will shape learning is an Economist Intelligence Unit white paper, sponsored by the New Media Consortium. The Economist Intelligence Unit’s editorial team executed the survey, conducted the interviews and wrote the report. The findings and views expressed do not necessarily reflect the views of the sponsor. Marie Glenn was the author of the repor…
“Only sociology, founded on biology, founded on all the positive sciences, can give us the laws of humanity. Humanity, or human communities, are the organisms already prepared, or still in process of formation, and which are subservient to all the laws of the evolution of organisms. “One of the chief of these laws is the variation of destination among the portions of the organs. Some peopl…
This book is a tutorial on Enterprise JavaBeans (EJB). It’s about EJB concepts, methodology, and development. This book also contains a number of advanced EJB topics, giving you a practical and real-world understanding of the subject. By reading this book, you will acquire a deep understanding of EJB. Make no mistake about it—what you are about to read is not easy. EJB incorporates concept…
Practical Programming is true to its name. The information it presents is organized around useful tasks rather than abstract constructs, and each chapter addresses a well-contained and important aspect of programming in Python. A student wondering “How do I make the computer do X?” would be able to find their answer very quickly with this book.
this textbook is to provide a step-by-step guide to financial econometrics using EViews 6.0 statistical package. It contains brief overviews of econometric concepts, models and data analysis techniques followed by empirical examples of how they can be implemented in EViews. This book is written as a compendium for undergraduate and graduate stu- dents in economics and finance. It also ca…
s ago most rms would manage cybersecurity and make investment decisions based mainly on industry best practices, resulting in their adopting certain technologies, policies and practices, without a detailed understanding of their specic overall cyber risk situation. As a result, very few successfully developed and deployed a strategic, comprehensive and eective cyber risk mana…
These essays deal for the most part with Science in Arcady. 'Tis my native country: for I am not of those who 'praise the busy town.' On the contrary, in the words of the great poet who has just departed to join Milton and Shelley in a place of high collateral glory, I 'love to rail against it still,' with a naturalist's bitterness. For the town is always dead and lifeless. There are who admire…
For L ATEX use the ‘Not so short introduction to L ATEX’ by Oetiker et al. For further reading and future reference, it is highly recommended that you get ‘Guide to L ATEX’ by Kopka and Daly [15]. The original reference is the book by Lamport [16]. While it is a fine book, it has not kept up with developments around L ATEX, such as contributed graphics and other packages. A book that d…
Think Java is an introduction to computer science and programming intended for people with little or no experience. We start with the most basic concepts and are careful to define all terms when they are first used. The book presents each new idea in a logical progression. Larger topics, like recursion and object- oriented programming, are divided into smaller examples and introduced over the…
Color is common to every website. While the way designers use col- or changes dramatically based on trends and time periods, we are definitely designing in the decade of vibrant color. Red, orange, pink and bright green, blue and purple have become the focal point of web design projects across a variety of industries. Designers are pairing bright color choices in a way that was almost taboo a …
There are a number of protocols and standards, mostly built on top of HTTP, designed for building Web Services (note the capitalization). These standards are collectively called the WS-* stack. They include WS-Notification, WS-Security, WSDL, and SOAP. Throughout this book we give the name “Big Web Services” to this collection of tech- nologies as a fairly gentle term of disparagement. Thi…
This book assumes that you understood precalculus when you took it. So you used to know how to do things like factoring polynomials, solving high school geometry problems, using trigonometric identities. However, you probably can’t remember it all cold. Many useful facts can be looked up (e.g. on the internet) as you need them. This chapter reviews concepts and notation that will be used a lo…
In the modern world of computers and information technology, the importance of statistics is very well recogonised by all the disciplines. Statistics has originated as a science of statehood and found applications slowly and steadily in Agriculture, Economics, Commerce, Biology, Medicine, Industry, planning, education and so on. As on date there is no other human walk of life, where statistics …
This 15th edition of Energy Efficiency Trends in Canada delivers on Canada’s commitment to provide a comprehensive summary of secondary energy use and related greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions in Canada. It also tracks trends in energy efficiency. This year’s edition is produced electronically and in paper format. For more secondary energy use statistics, see the comprehensive energy use d…
This document outlines the Risk Management Strategy for the management of the EEA & Norway Grants. 2. The strategy applies directly to the donor states and their Secretariat – the Financial Mechanism Office (FMO) . 3. The risk management of the beneficiary states is guided by the respective national systems , while the Regulations require …
Since the turn of the century most western countries have experienced alternating periods of population booms and busts. In the United Kingdom, the low birth rate during the Great Depression and the war years was followed by the baby-‐boom of the 1950s and early 1960s and the baby bust of …
Nearly 60% of the world’s human population is malnourished and the numbers are growing. Shortages of basic foods related to decreases in per capita cropland, water, and fossil energy resources contribute to spreading malnutrition and other diseases. The suggestion is that in the future only a smaller number of people will have access to adequate nourishment. In about 100 years, when it is rep…
The Manual on Statistics of International Trade in Services is an important first step in addressing a growing demand from Governments, business and analysts for more relevant, detailed and internationally comparable statistics on such trade. A special emphasis is given to the statistical information needs of international trade negotiations and agreements. The aim of the Manual is to provid…
This publication summarises the numerical results and methodological findings of pilot water accounts in 15 European countries. Water accounts focus on physical flows of water in to and out of the economy: abstraction and use of water by industries and households, emissions to water by different actors; as well as the costs of water supply and wastewater treatment. These pilot accounts generat…