This chapter provides an introduction to and discussion of global information warfare and sets the stage for the chapters that follow. It begins with a fictional scenario that soon can become all too real—some of it already has occurred. Some aspects of information warfare attacks have already been tested by government agencies, terrorists, hackers, organized crime members, and the general cr…
A system of interconnected computers and computerized peripherals such as printers is called computer network. This interconnection among computers facilitates information sharing among them. Computers may connect to each other by either wired or wireless media.
The women of South Australia were placed in a position of political equality with men several years ago. Accordingly, everybody has become accustomed to the arrangement, and it seems perfectly natural. It has not produced any marked effect on female character, or made any particular difference to domestic life. Women are more interested in public affairs than they used to be, and politicians de…
Developing geographic applications is far more complicated than it should be. I have several goals for this book. The first is to demystify geographic information systems (GIS) and teach you a bit of the lingo. The second goal is to help you download some free data and learn a programmatic API or two. These lead to the final goal of turning you into a GIS developer.
According to Webster's dictionary, the word "exceptional" means "rare" or "unusual." In psychology, however, we require a more precise definition. We ask: In what respects does this person who we consider exceptional differ from his mates? Are these differ- ences likely to be an advantage or a handicap to himself and to society? To what extent can they be modified by medical or surgical trea…
This is the first in a three-semester series of core courses designed to introduce students to the field of global studies and to processes of globalization. The course’s approach is interdisciplinary and thematic, with special attention to the political, economic, social, historical and cultural patterns that are defining the modern world – its “people” and its “politics.” The co…
It’s the Windows for every- thing: Windows 8 is the first version of Windows designed to run on desktop PCs, laptops, and touch-based PC tablets. To do that, it brings a whole new way of working with Windows called the Start screen environment (some- times known by its code name, Metro). The Start screen is a sleek, tile-based user interface designed especially for touch- screen users and is …
Fluidinfo is an online storage system in which there is a place for information about everything—everything that exists, everything that could exist, and everything that can be imagined. It allows anyone to store any information, about anything, in any digital form. And Fluidinfo makes it easy to find information in the system, and to extract it, using an unusually simple query language. Flui…
Technology as a whole, is the foundation of a strong and energetic job industry brimming with a seemingly neverending supply of jobs. Most IT help desk jobs are on a form of help desk, but there is a lot of diversity in roles, including consulting, a customer facing help desk, and internal technical support team member. If you’re looking to get in on the ground floor of technology, the IT hel…
T he information security (InfoSec) profession got its start decades ago, but it consisted of few people, mostly in military and other secret organizations. With the appearance of the Internet in the 1990s, organizations started to put information online, and the InfoSec profession became a little more popular. Fast‐forward to the mid 2010s, with its big security breaches as well as new laws …
FXRuby is a library for developing powerful and sophisticated cross- platform graphical user interfaces (GUIs) for your Ruby applications. It’s based on the FOX Toolkit, a popular open source C++ library devel- oped by Jeroen van der Zijp. What that means for you as an application developer is that you’re able to write code in the Ruby programming language that you already know and love, wh…
Topic Gateways are intended as a refresher or introduction to topics of interest to CIMA members. They include a basic definition, a brief overview and a fuller explanation of practical application. Finally they signpost some further resources for detailed understanding and research. Topic Gateways are available electronically to CIMA Members only in the CPD Centre on the CIMA website, along w…
Modern digital technology has made it possible to manipulate multi-dimensional signals with systems that range from simple digital circuits to advanced parallel computers. The goal of this manipulation can be divided into three categories: • Image Processing image in → image out • Image Analysis image in → measurements out • Image Understanding image in → high-level descri…
In the past decade, networked control systems (NCSs) have attracted much attention owing to their successful applications in a wide range of areas for the advantage of decreasing the hard- wiring, the installation cost, and implementation difficulties. Nevertheless, network-related challenging problems inevitably arise due to the physical equipment constraints, the complexity, and uncertainty …
’ve looked here at three issues around adaptation. There are others that I could have selected but, working as I do in NCCARF at the interface between research and policy, these are three that come up time and time again when we are considering how to overcome barriers to adaptation and equip decision makers with the best tools for their task. Time and again, it boils down to equipping decisi…
The world of accounting is in turmoil. New accounting standards are being pressed into use that will at a stroke cut the value of a company such as Shell by £2.5 bn, whilst adding a similarly large sum to its liabilities to account for ‘black holes’ in pension schemes. Small wonder that the big accountancy firm PwC (Price water house Coopers), for example, reported record global revenues o…
With more than 200 million active users and 250,000 new registrants every day, Facebook has become a virtual world unto itself. But, what started as a dorm room exercise to extend the popular printed college directory of incoming freshmen online, Harvard drop-out Mark Zuckerberg has developed an international organization employing more than 400 programmers, graphic artists, and business develo…
Accounting and finance have a language of their own with a variety of statements and techniques that can mystify non-accounting colleagues. This new edition, like its predecessors, is written primarily for those non-financial students and managers who need to know about finance and accounting in any organization. The aim is to cut through as much of the jargon as possible and explain the variou…