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WWW: Book 1

“One of the foremost science fiction writers of our generation”( SF Site ) comes to Ace with a trilogy of the Web’s awakening. Caitlin Decter is young, pretty, feisty, a genius at math—and blind. Still, she can surf the net with the best of them, following its complex paths clearly in her mind. But Caitlin’s brain long ago co-opted her primary visual cortex to help her navigate online. So when she receives an... (more)

Apache: the Definitive Guide (With CD-ROM)

Apache: the Definitive Guide (With CD-ROM)

by Ben Laurie, Peter Laurie

Apache is far and away the most widely used web server platform in the world. It runs on about half of the world's existing web sites and is rapidly increasing in popularity, especially since the new version includes support for Win32 systems. Apache: The Definitive Guide describes how to obtain, set up, and secure the Apache software on both Unix and Windows systems. This new second edition fully... (more)

Always Already New: Media, History, and the Data of Culture

Always Already New: Media, History, and the Data of Culture

by Lisa Gitelman

Choice Outstanding Academic Title, 2007. In Always Already New , Lisa Gitelman explores the newness of new media while she asks what it means to do media history. Using the examples of early recorded sound and digital networks, Gitelman challenges readers to think about the ways that media work as the simultaneous subjects and instruments of historical inquiry. Presenting original case studies of Edison's... (more)

Windows NT Thin Client Solutions: Implementing Terminal Server and Citrix MetaFrame

Windows NT Thin Client Solutions: Implementing Terminal Server and Citrix MetaFrame

by Todd W. Mathers

A comprehensive treatment of implementation considerations, Windows NT Thin Client Solutions: Implementing Terminal Server and Citrix Metaframe is an invaluable resource for system architects, system engineers, and network administrators who are integrating thin client technology into their networks. This book is a critical resource to help you evaluate the potential benefits of thin client technology for ... (more)

Caught in the Web: Inside the Police Hunt to Rescue Children from Online Predators

Caught in the Web: Inside the Police Hunt to Rescue Children from Online Predators

by Julian Sher

From an award-winning investigative reporter, the true story behind the heroes who are out to stop the horrifying Internet child-predator epidemic. Delving into the shocking netherworld of child pornography, Julian Sher tells the dramatic story of police officers, prosecutors, and high-tech analysts worldwide who, using undercover work and computer forensics, are combatting child abuse on the Internet and... (more)

Inventing the Internet (Inside Technology)

Inventing the Internet (Inside Technology)

by Janet Abbate

"This sophisticated history is the best account so far published of the unpredictable and turbulent evolution of the Internet. With its broad international context, the book will be of value to makers and users of the global communications network, as well as to science and technology policy makers." -- Martin Campbell-Kelly, Reader in Computer Science, University of Warwick, UK Since the late 1960s the... (more)

Accessing and Browsing Information and Communication

Accessing and Browsing Information and Communication

by Ronald E. Rice

This book contends that accessing and browsing information and communication are multidimensional and consequential aspects of the information user’s entire experience and of general human behavior. Problems in information creation, processing, transmittal, and use often arise from an incomplete conceptualization of the "information seeking" process, where information seeking is viewed as the intentional finding... (more)

Your Library Goes Virtual

by Audrey P. Church

Learn how to develop a commanding virtual presence for your school library! ·Make your library Web page meaningful, instructive, attractive, and helpful, making it a learning tool for the entire school! ·Develop your virtual library presence to increase student online learning and interaction with valuable resources ·Create interactive online library communities with information on catalogs, databases,... (more)

The Second Life Herald: The Virtual Tabloid that Witnessed the Dawn of the Metaverse

The Second Life Herald: The Virtual Tabloid that Witnessed the Dawn of the Metaverse

by Peter Ludlow

Choice Outstanding Academic Title, 2008. and Winner, Media and Cultural Studies category, 2007 Professional/Scholarly Publishing Awards for Excellence Competition presented by the Association of American Publishers, Inc. When a virtual journalist for a virtual newspaper reporting on the digital world of an online game lands on the real-world front page of the New York Times, it just might signal the dawn... (more)

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WWW: Wake (Www)

by Robert J. Sawyer