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Report copyright infringementby Gregory L. Ulmer (Author)NEW MEDIA THEORY Series Editor, Byron Hawk 327 pages, including photographs, bibliography, and index. (c) 2012 by Parlor Press AVATAR EMERGENCY is Gregory L. Ulmer's fourth book featuring the EmerAgency, an online virtual consultancy for the digital age. This time his point of departure is Paul Virilio's Generalized Accident from which he develops and theorizes the new concepts of Flash Reason, and specifically Avatar, which serves as t...

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Report copyright infringementby Jeff Rice (Editor)FLORIDA proposes Florida as a nexus of various contested moments, ideas, concepts, and relations. In the age of networks, it is not enough to only think of computerized, economic, or labor intensive systems as networks. As Bruno Latour writes, networks are represented in ways other than graphic visualizations or visualizations of spokes and connections. Spaces, too, are networks, and specific spaces, such as Florida, are networks in need of ex...

Quality Instruction: Building and Evaluating Computer-Delivered Courseware

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Report copyright infringementby Robert T. Hays (Author)This book provides a theoretically- and empirically-based method to evaluate the instructional quality of computer-delivered courseware. The book is intended to help instructional developers, instructional procurement officials, instructors, and other individuals responsible for ensuring that the resources invested in courseware result in the highest instructional quality. The method can be applied throughout the instructional systems dev...

Suasive Iterations: Rhetoric, Writing, and Physical Computing

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Report copyright infringementby David M. Rieder (Author)New Media Theory Series Edited by Byron HawkIn Suasive Iterations, Rieder argues that in order to engage persuasively with audiences today, digital rhetors and (distant) writers must break through the screen-based looking glass of the PC era that persists in our fields. The PC era normed us to the idea that the virtual realm of the computer is separate and distinct from our "real," everyday world. Yet the new, post-PC era of physical com...

Best of the Independent Journals in Rhetoric and Composition 2012

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Report copyright infringementby Steve Parks (Editor), Brian Bailie (Editor), Heather Christiansen (Editor)THE BEST OF THE INDEPENDENT RHETORIC AND COMPOSITION JOURNALS 2012 represents the result of a nationwide conversation-beginning with journal editors, but expanding to teachers, scholars and workers across the discipline of Rhetoric and Composition-to select essays that showcase the innovative and transformative work now being published in the field's independent journals. Representing bot...

Best of the Independent Journals in Rhetoric and Composition 2013

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Report copyright infringementby Steve Parks (Editor), Brian Bailie (Editor), Heather Christiansen (Editor)THE BEST OF THE INDEPENDENT RHETORIC AND COMPOSITION JOURNALS 2013 represents the result of a nationwide conversation-beginning with journal editors, but expanding to teachers, scholars and workers across the discipline of Rhetoric and Composition-to select essays that showcase the innovative and transformative work now being published in the field's independent journals. Representing bot...

Play/Write: Digital Rhetoric, Writing, Games

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Report copyright infringementby Douglas Eyman (Editor), Andréa D. Davis (Editor)ELECTRACY AND TRANSMEDIA STUDIES, Edited by Jan Rune Holmevik and Cynthia Haynes PLAY/WRITE: DIGITAL RHETORIC, WRITING, GAMES presents a wide range of approaches to digital video games as sites of composition and rhetorical performance. The chapters in PLAY/WRITE examine writing-both textual and multimodal-and rhetorical activity that takes place within games as player-game and player-player interactions, as well ...

Mics, Cameras, Symbolic Action: Audio-Visual Rhetoric for Writing Teachers

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Report copyright infringementby Scott K. Halbritter (Author), Bump Halbritter (Author)NEW MEDIA THEORY SERIES EDITOR: BYRON HAWK MICS, CAMERAS, SYMBOLIC ACTION: AUDIO-VISUAL RHETORIC FOR WRITING TEACHERS addresses the current technological challenges and opportunities of writing teachers through a conceptualization of writing and reading that could not have been imagined by many writing teachers at the turn of the twenty-first century. While MICS, CAMERAS, SYMBOLIC ACTION looks forward to eme...

Document Image Analysis: Table Detection, Analysis And Format Preservation

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Report copyright infringementby Akmal Jahan Mac (Author), Roshan G. Ragel (Author)While Optical Character Recognition (OCR) techniques have made significant strides, they often fall short when dealing with non-text elements in documents. This gap highlighted the need for comprehensive solutions that recognize text and accurately detect and reconstruct tables and other graphical components. Our collaborative research efforts, extensive experiments, and continuous learning have culminated in de...

Ready to Wear: A Rhetoric of Wearable Computers and Reality-Shifting Media

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Report copyright infringementby Isabel Pedersen (Author)NEW MEDIA THEORY, SERIES EDITOR: BYRON HAWK READY TO WEAR: A RHETORIC OF WEARABLE COMPUTERS AND REALITY-SHIFTING MEDIA is a book about the future but geared to the present. More and more, we are asked to adopt new or future technologies before we ever see, touch, or experience them. This rhetoric of innovation and adoption goes beyond commercial advertising. Emergent or disruptive technologies are circulated and explored in social media,...

Performance Evaluation of Vision Algorithms on FPGA

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Report copyright infringementby Mahendra Gunathilaka Samarawickrama (Author)The modern FPGAs enable system designers to develop high-performance computing (HPC) applications with a large amount of parallelism. Real-time image processing is such a requirement that demands much more processing power than a conventional processor can deliver. In this research, we implemented software and hardware based architectures on FPGA to achieve real-time image processing. Furthermore, we benchmark and com...

Exposed: The Harrowing Story of a Mother's Undercover Work with the FBI to Save Children from Internet Sex Predators

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Report copyright infringementby R. Stephanie Good (Author)Think your child is safe surfing the Web? Think again, says R. Stephanie Good in this chilling expose and personal memoir about her efforts with the FBI to bust child sex predators. Posing as a young girl, Stephanie has helped the federal government catch everyone from common perverts to Fortune 1000 executives, even an executive from a children's cable television channel. Stephanie reveals the near-tragic personal story that compelled...

24 Things You Can Do with Social Media to Help Get Into College

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Report copyright infringementby Gina Carroll (Author)Offers twenty-four ideas to help with college selection, admissions, and financial aid, including attending an online college fair, highlighting talents, and registering on official college Web sites. Number of Pages: 232 Dimensions: 0.7 x 6.4 x 5.5 IN Publication Date: October 28, 2010

Visualization of Interface Metaphor for Software: An Engineering Approach

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Report copyright infringementby Dinesh S. Katre (Author)This book presents a comprehensive process for visualization of interface metaphor for software. It is helpful in designing interactive user interfaces with magical super-affordances and definitive user experiences. As per the ancient Indian Vedic literature, metaphors are always conceived out of Vastu (entities having existence in our world). The visualization process given in the book shows how metaphorization could help in innovating ...

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Report copyright infringementby Andrew M. Colarik (Author)Cyber Terrorism: Political and Economic Implications is a cyber terrorism brief that outlines many of the recent terrorist activities, political objectives, and their use of cyberspace. Much of this book is dedicated to illustrating the use of the global information infrastructure by terrorists for the communication and coordination of distributed terrorist cells, the gathering of target intelligence, and the use of cyber criminal acti...

Implementing the ISO/IEC 27001 Information Security Management System Standard

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Report copyright infringementby Edward Humphreys (Author)The ISO/IEC 27000 is a critical series of information security technology standards, and ISO/IEC 27001 is the newest release of this series. Authored by a recognized expert in the field, this authoritative and clear guide explores the ISO/IEC 27000 security standards and their implementation, focusing on the recent ISO/IEC 27001. Number of Pages: 286 Dimensions: 0.78 x 9.38 x 6.31 IN Illustrated: Y...

TCP/IP - The Ultimate Protocol Guide: Complete 2 Volume Set

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Report copyright infringementby Philip M. Miller (Author)This is the complete 2 volume set, containing both volumes one (ISBN: 9781599424910) and two (ISBN: 9781599425436) packaged together. The book provides a complete guide to the protocols that comprise the Internet Protocol Suite, more commonly referred to as TCP/IP. The work assumes no prior knowledge of TCP/IP and only a rudimentary understanding of LAN/WAN access methods. The book is split into a number of sections; the manner in which...

The Waveform Model of Vowel Perception and Production

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Report copyright infringementby Michael A. Stokes (Author)This book presents a new model of vowel perception and production derived from visual cues identified in waveform displays. In addition to describing waveform displays of vowels beyond previous descriptions, included in the book are descriptions of experimental evidence supporting near 100% vowel identification accuracy across 20 male talkers using the concepts in the model. The book content will be of interest to several academic fiel...

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Report copyright infringementby Myra Vanderpool Gormley (Author), Tana Pederson Lord (Author)From the former editor of the RootsWeb Review and the author of The Official Guide to Family Tree Maker 2006 comes the insider's tour of RootsWeb.com. In it, you will learn how to put your family tree online, locate valuable research resources, create successful message board posts, search effectively, connect with other users, and much more. The guide also features success stories from members of the...

Technology for the Rest of Us: A Primer on Computer Technologies for the Low-Tech Librarian

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Report copyright infringementby Nancy Courtney (Author)Librarians are affected by technology in every aspect of their jobs, yet they often have little understanding of the technologies underlying the systems they use every day. Nancy Courtney and 15 well-known contributors discuss such technologies as Wireless LANs, Radio Frequency Identification, OpenURL and other essential technological innovations in everyday language. Wireless LANs, Radio Frequency Identification. OpenURL. Chances are you...

Beyond the Basics: A Guide for Advanced Users of Family Tree Maker 2011 - Paperback

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Report copyright infringementby Tana L. Pedersen (Author)You've mastered the basics. Now it's time to dive in and adapt Family Tree Maker 2011 to work for you and your unique family. Picking up where the Companion Guide leaves off, Beyond the Basics teaches you the best ways to define complex relationships; gives examples of custom reports that can help you organize your family history and become a more effective researcher; and explains techniques to help you design beautiful family tree cha...

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Report copyright infringementby Nurul Sarkar (Editor)Tools for Teaching Computer Networking and Hardware Concepts makes the teaching and learning of computer networking and hardware a more active process by using interactive learning to add life to a very technical subject. Fundamental theoretical concepts are illustrated with the use of interactive practical exercises. Each chapter presents learning objectives, figures and illustrations, real-world examples and review questions. Tools for Te...

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Report copyright infringementby Kevin Curran (Author)This book aims to introduce the area of wireless (Wi-Fi, 802.11) security with particular emphasis on WEP. Weaknesses are highlighted through the art of war-driving where unprotected access points are discovered. War driving used ethically can be a powerful tool in the hands of security professionals to test the security of the networks they are charged with protecting. Number of Pages: 132 Dimensions: 0.28 x 9.02 ...

U.S. Government on the Web: Getting the Information You Need Third Edition

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Report copyright infringementby Peter Hernon (Author), John A. Shuler (Author), Robert E. Dugan (Author)The definitive guide to U.S. government information on the Web has been expanded and updated with the latest information from the current administration, including material on the Department of Homeland Security, the Patriot Act, and the E-Government Act of 2002. Peter Hernon, one of the country's foremost authorities on government information, and his colleagues provide additional Web site...

Library Programs Online: Possibilities and Practicalities of Web Conferencing

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Report copyright infringementby Thomas Peters (Author)Meet your library patrons where they increasingly live and work-online. This guide introduces you to the exciting possibilities online programs offer, and shows you how to set up online programs in your library-whether one-time stand-alone or half-day, full-day, or multi-day workshops and conferences. Public programs-from lectures, demonstrations, and interviews to book discussions and story hours can be delivered in real time (live) prima...

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Report copyright infringementby Badrul Khan (Author)Walks readers through developing, evaluating and implementing an open, flexible and distributed learning environment. It contains practical items that the reader can use as review criteria to check if e-learning modules, courses and programs provide the level of services that learners (or consumers) should expect. Number of Pages: 228 Dimensions: 0.51 x 10 x 6.5 IN Illustrated: Yes Publicat...

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Report copyright infringementby Pam Berger (Author), Sally Trexler (Author)Choosing Web 2.0 Tools for Learning and Teaching in a Digital World provides practical strategies and examples to effectively integrate Web 2.0 tools to support the inquiry process in the school library program and the classroom curriculum. Targeted for school librarians, this book addresses the questions: What is digital literacy? How is learning different in a digital world? And the most important questions, what are...

ChatGPT and the Future of AI: The Deep Language Revolution - Paperback

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by Terrence Sejnowski (Author)An insightful exploration of Chat GPT and other advanced AI systems--how we got here, where we're headed, and what it all means for how we interact with the world. In ChatGPT and the Future of AI, the sequel to The Deep Learning Revolution, Terrence Sejnowski offers a nuanced exploration of large language models (LLMs) like ChatGPT and what their future holds. How should we go about understanding LLMs? Do these language models truly understand what they are sayin...

Handheld Computers in Schools and Media Centers

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Report copyright infringementby Ann Bell (Author)This resource guides educators through the process of selecting the hardware and software for students to use handheld computers necessary to listen to eBooks, to research websites, and to use videos and audio books. The author's purpose is to help educators teach students to use handheld computers to learn the curriculum and meet national standards. By using these portable technologies in the classroom, students will increase their achievement...

Technology Projects for Library Media Specialists and Teachers

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Report copyright infringementby Patricia Conover (Author)These easy-to-use technology projects require very basic hardware and software, while engaging students in Information Literacy Standards for Student Learning and National Educational Technology Standards (NETS). Lessons include clear, concise instructions for technology projects created in Microsoft Word(TM), PowerPoint(TM), and Excel(TM) programs. Use this book to challenge your students to research and then exhibit what they have lea...

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Report copyright infringementby Ve Winter (Author), Eve Winter (Author)THE BLUE NOTE is an indiscreet book about a discreet subject. It is a love and sex story that takes place both in the virtual world and in the real world. The computer screen is the mediating interface, the "door of perception," through which our heroine and hero speak of love and, step by step, achieve sexual union. They discover and exploit the intense eroticism provided by the anonymity of electronics, a phenomenon of c...

Geographic Information Systems and Crime Analysis

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Report copyright infringementby Fahui Wang (Author), Fahui Wang (Editor)This book features a diverse array of GIS applications in crime analysis, from general issues such as GIS as a communication process and inter-jurisdictional data sharing to specific applications in tracking serial killers and predicting juvenile violence. Number of Pages: 364 Dimensions: 0.96 x 10.44 x 7.04 IN Publication Date: April 18, 2011