The riveting quest to construct the machine that would take on the world’s greatest human chess player**—**told by the man who built itOn May 11, 1997, millions worldwide heard news of a stunning victory, as a machine defeated the defending world chess champion, Garry Kasparov. Behind Deep Blue tells the inside story of the quest to create the mother of all chess machines and what happened at the two historic Deep Blue vs. Kasparov matches...

Are all film stars linked to Kevin Bacon? Why do the stock markets rise and fall sharply on the strength of a vague rumour? How does gossip spread so quickly? Are we all related through six degrees of separation? There is a growing awareness of the complex networks that pervade modern society. We see them in the rapid growth of the internet, the ease of global communication, the swift spread of news and information, and in the way epidemics and financial crises develop with startling speed...

What time of year do teenage girls search for prom dresses online? How does the quick adoption of technology affect business success (and how is that related to corn farmers in Iowa)? How do time and money affect the gender of visitors to online dating sites? And how is the Internet itself affecting the way we experience the world? In Click, Bill Tancer takes us behind the scenes into the massive database of online intelligence to reveal the naked truth about how we use the Web, n...

Even in a global economy, businesses need targeted, localized information about customers, companies, and industries. But as skilled searchers know, adding the element of geography to any research project creates new challenges. With Research on Main Street, Marcy Phelps presents a unique and useful guide to finding business and market information about places—including counties, cities, census blocks, and other sub-state areas—using free and low-cost online resources. You'll learn expert ...

Master the art of conducting modern pen testing attacks and techniques on your web application before the hacker does! Key Features\[\*\] This book covers the latest technologies such as Advance XSS, XSRF, SQL Injection, Web API testing, XML attack vectors, OAuth 2.0 Security, and more involved in today’s web applications\[\*\] Penetrate and secure your web application using various techniques\[\*\] Get this comprehensive reference guide that p...

Learn the fundamentals of PowerShell to build reusable scripts and functions to automate administrative tasks with WindowsKey FeaturesBook DescriptionWindows PowerShell is a task-based command-line shell and scripting language designed specifically for system administration. Built on the .NET Framework, Windows PowerShell helps IT professionals and power users control and automate the administration of the Windows operating system and applications that...

Leverage the power of basic Windows PowerShell scripts to manage your Exchange messaging environmentKey Features\[\*\]Get to grips with Windows PowerShell and how it can be used to manage various aspects of the operating system and applications\[\*\]Become proficient in PowerShell and apply it to manage Exchange infrastructure on-premise or via Exchange Online as part of Office 365\[\*\]Learn to create Windows PowerShell scripts to do administr...

Malicious software (i.e., malware) has become a severe threat to interconnected computer systems for decades and has caused billions of dollars damages each year. A large volume of new malware samples are discovered daily. Even worse, malware is rapidly evolving becoming more sophisticated and evasive to strike against current malware analysis and defense systems.Automatic Malware Analysis presents a virtualized malware analysis framework that addresses common challenges i...

IRC (Internet Relay Chat) may very well turn out to be the world's most successful hack. In 1988, Jarkko Oikarinen wrote the original IRC program at the University of Oulu, Finland. As he says in his foreword, "IRC started as one summer trainee's programming exercise. A hack grew into a software development project that hundreds of people participated in, and then became a worldwide environment where tens of thousands of people now spend time with each other. I have found many of my friend...

Internet of Things: Principles and Paradigms captures the state-of-the-art research in Internet of Things, its applications, architectures, and technologies. The book identifies potential future directions and technologies that facilitate insight into numerous scientific, business, and consumer applications. The Internet of Things (IoT) paradigm promises to make any electronic devices part of the Internet environment. This new paradigm opens the doors to new innovations and interactions be...

This two-volume set (LNAI 10448 and LNAI 10449) constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Collective Intelligence, ICCCI 2017, held in Nicosia, Cyprus, in September 2017.The 117 full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 248 submissions. The conference focuseson the methodology and applications of computational collective intelligence, included: multi-agent systems, knowledge engineering and semantic web, social networks and rec...

The two-volume set LNAI 10061 and 10062 constitutes the proceedings of the 15th Mexican International Conference on Artificial Intelligence, MICAI 2016, held in Cancún, Mexico, in October 2016.The total of 86 papers presented in these two volumes was carefully reviewed and selected from 238 submissions. The contributions were organized in the following topical sections:Part I: natural language processing; social networks and opinion mining; fuzzy logic; time series analysis ...