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Using a computer to beat Wall Street from afar is, arguably, the new American dream. While it will remain just that for most of us, an offbeat gang of academics turned financial wizards is showing it can be done. Led by acclaimed physicists Doyne Farmer and Norman Packard, the Santa Fe-based Prediction Company has proven since its 1991 founding in an adobe bungalow furnished with plastic lawn chairs and top-of-the-line Sun workstations that it is indeed possible to make millions in the world's financial markets by anticipating trends and developing software that automatically capitalizes on them. In The Predictors, Thomas A. Bass colorfully relates their tale of fiscal triumph--and reveals in the process how even an unorthodox group of anti... Rest of this review on the detail page
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If you're charged with maintaining the security of e-commerce sites, you need this unique book that provides an in-depth understanding of basic security problems and relevant e-commerce solutions, while helping you implement today's most advanced security technologies. From designing secure Web, e-commerce, and mobile commerce applications… to securing your internal network… to providing secure employee/user authentication, this cutting-edge book gives you a valuable security perspective you won't find in other resources. Flexibly structured to give you a comprehensive overview or to help you quickly pinpoint topics of immediate concern, the book includes sections on basic security mechanisms, the specific requirements of electron... Rest of this review on the detail page
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How many times has your PC crashed today? While Gordon Moore's now famous law projecting the doubling of computer power every 18 months has more than borne itself out, it's too bad that a similar trajectory projecting the reliability and usefulness of all that power didn't come to pass, as well. Advances in information technology are most often measured in the cool numbers of megahertz, throughput, and bandwidth--but, for many us, the experience of these advances may be better measured in hours of frustration. The gap between the hype of the Information Age and its reality is often wide and deep, and it's into this gap that John Seely Brown and Paul Duguid plunge. Not that these guys are Luddites--far from it. Brown, the chief scientist at ... Rest of this review on the detail page
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Broadwell's book is aimed primarily at the manager or supervisor who has responsibility for the training and performance of subordinate workers. The material is both thoughtful and practical. The text is short enough to be read through in a few hours, but is more suitable as an ongoing study guide, or as the outline for a series of management meetings on the topic. Most of the book is free of the jargon of education. Rather than speaking of testing and measurement, the outcome of training is stated to be having the worker "show [he] can do the job." The educational concepts, however, are all there, and explained very clearly. The examples are taken from production and line jobs, but the bulk of the material would be applicable fo... Rest of this review on the detail page
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When you have discarded the quotes from Twain's "Connecticut Yankee", the weird architectural photography, the jargon, and the Venn diagrams, this is a book on how to plan and implement a computer system. There are, of course, a great many other books on the same topic. This is no worse, though no better, than most. As usual, the material is general rather than specific, and even rather vague at times. Specific stages, and questions, are outlined for project leaders to follow. If followed correctly, they *could* keep projects on track--but only if answered correctly. The book seems to be aimed primarily at non-technical people, but you would have to have a thorough understanding of current, emerging and realistic technologies in orde... Rest of this review on the detail page
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