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  • The Quick Guide to Cloud Computing and Cyber Security

    This is a Quick Guide to Cloud Computing and Cyber Security - For Beginners.Cloud computing has appeared in many small forms and now it is emerging as a huge solution to the problem of the fast changing and increasingly cyber world in which we live and work.Table of ContentsWhat is Cloud Computing?Types of Cloud ComputingCloud Computing ExamplesCyber SecurityCyber Security DangersPhysical ... Read more

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  • Algorithms to Live By

    The Computer Science of Human Decisions

    An exploration of how computer algorithms can be applied to our everyday lives to solve common decision-making problems and illuminate the workings of the human mind.What should we do, or leave undone, in a day or a lifetime? How much messiness should we accept? What balance of the new and familiar is the most fulfilling? These may seem like uniquely human quandaries, but they are not. Computers, ... Read more

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  • Python Crash Course, 3rd Edition

    A Hands-On, Project-Based Introduction to Programming

    by Eric Matthes ...
    Python Crash Course is the world’s bestselling programming book, with over 1,500,000 copies sold to date!Python Crash Course is the world’s best-selling guide to the Python programming language. This fast-paced, thorough introduction will have you writing programs, solving problems, and developing functioning applications in no time.You’ll start by learning basic programming concepts, such as ... Read more

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  • Console Wars

    Sega, Nintendo, and the Battle that Defined a Generation

    Now a documentary on CBS All Access.Following the success of The Accidental Billionaires and Moneyball comes Console Wars—a mesmerizing, behind-the-scenes business thriller that chronicles the history of video games and how Sega, a small, scrappy gaming company led by an unlikely visionary and a team of rebels, took on the juggernaut Nintendo and revolutionized the video game industry.In 1990, ... Read more

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  • Easy Money: Cryptocurrency, Casino Capitalism, and the Golden Age of Fraud

    The Basis for the Documentary Everyone Is Lying to You for Money

    THE BASIS FOR THE FEATURE DOCUMENTARY EVERYONE IS LYING TO YOU FOR MONEYINSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERLONGLISTED FOR THE FINANCIAL TIMES BUSINESS BOOK OF THE YEAR“A smart, savvy road map through the mayhem of the cryptocurrency madness.” —RON CHERNOW, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of <e... ... Read more

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  • Understanding Computers, Smartphones and the Internet

    by Ernie Dainow ...
    Were you ever curious to know how computers work but were afraid to ask? This book is for people who would like to understand how computers work, without having to learn a lot of technical details. There are clear explanations of hardware, software, the Internet and smartphones, using examples and diagrams that are easy to follow.Chapter 1 follows step by step how a computer program is developed ... Read more

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  • Hit Refresh

    The Quest to Rediscover Microsoft's Soul and Imagine a Better Future for Everyone

    “At the core, Hit Refresh, is about us humans and the unique quality we call empathy, which will become ever more valuable in a world where the torrent of technology will disrupt the status quo like never before.” – Satya Nadella from Hit Refresh“Satya has charted a course for making the most of the opportunities created by technology while also facing up to the hard questions.” – Bill Gates from ... Read more

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  • Everybody Lies

    Big Data, New Data, and What the Internet Can Tell Us About Who We Really Are

    An Economist Best Book of the YearA PBS NewsHour Book of the YearAn Entrepeneur Top Business BookAn Amazon Best Book of the Year in Business and LeadershipNew York Times BestsellerForeword by Steven Pinker, author of The Better Angels of our NatureBlending the informed analysis of The Signal and the Noi... ... Read more

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  • Criminal Futures

    Predictive Policing and Everyday Police Work

    Series series Routledge Studies in Policing and Society
    This book explores how predictive policing transforms police work. Police departments around the world have started to use data-driven applications to produce crime forecasts and intervene into the future through targeted prevention measures. Based on three years of field research in Germany and Switzerland, this book provides a theoretically sophisticated and empirically detailed account of how ... Read more

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  • Data Privacy for the Smart Grid

    Privacy for the Smart Grid provides easy-to-understand guidance on data privacy issues and the implications for creating privacy risk management programs, along with privacy policies and practices required to ensure Smart Grid privacy. It addresses privacy in electric, natural gas, and water grids from two different perspectives of the topic, one from a Smart Grid expert and another from a privacy ... Read more

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  • Tools and Algorithms for the Construction and Analysis of Systems

    25th International Conference, TACAS 2019, Held as Part of the European Joint Conferences on Theory and Practice of Software, ETAPS 2019, Prague, Czech Republic, April 6–11, 2019, Proceedings, Part II

    Edited by Tomáš Vojnar, Lijun Zhang ...
    Series Book 2 - Springer Nature Proceedings Computer Science
    This book is Open Access under a CC BY licence.The LNCS 11427 and 11428 proceedings set constitutes the proceedings of the 25th International Conference on Tools and Algorithms for the Construction and Analysis of Systems, TACAS 2019, which took place in Prague, Czech Republic, in April 2019, held as part of the European Joint Conferences on Theory and Practice of Software, ETAPS 2019.The total of ... Read more

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  • Law, Technology and Dispute Resolution

    The Privatisation of Coercion

    by Riikka Koulu ...
    Series series Law, Science and Society
    The use of new information and communication technologies both inside the courts and in private online dispute resolution services is quickly changing everyday conflict management. However, the implications of the increasingly disruptive role of technology in dispute resolution remain largely undiscussed. In this book, assistant professor of law and digitalisation Riikka Koulu examines the ... Read more

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  • Finance 4.0 - Towards a Socio-Ecological Finance System

    A Participatory Framework to Promote Sustainability

    Series series Computer Science (R0)
    This Open Access book outlines ideas for a novel, scalable and, above all, sustainable financial system.We all know that today’s global markets are unsustainable and global governance is not effective enough. Given this situation, could one boost smart human coordination, sustainability and resilience by tweaking society at its core: the monetary system? A Computational Social Science team at ETH ... Read more

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  • Black Holes

    The Key to Understanding the Universe

    By the star physicist and author of multiple #1 Sunday Times bestsellers, a major and definitive narrative work on black holes and how they can help us understand the universe.At the heart of our galaxy lies a monster so deadly it can bend space, throwing vast jets of radiation millions of light years out into the cosmos. Its kind were the very first inhabitants of the universe, the black holes ... Read more

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  • Head First Design Patterns

    What will you learn from this book?You know you don't want to reinvent the wheel, so you look to Design Patterns: the lessons learned by those who've faced the same software design problems. With Design Patterns, you get to take advantage of the best practices and experience of others so you can spend your time on something more challenging. Something more fun. This book shows you the patterns ... Read more

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  • Programming for Computations - Python

    A Gentle Introduction to Numerical Simulations with Python 3.6

    Series series Mathematics and Statistics (R0)
    This book is published open access under a CC BY 4.0 license.This book presents computer programming as a key method for solving mathematical problems. This second edition of the well-received book has been extensively revised: All code is now written in Python version 3.6 (no longer version 2.7). In addition, the two first chapters of the previous edition have been extended and split up into five ... Read more

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  • Quantifying Quality of Life

    Incorporating Daily Life into Medicine

    Series series Health Informatics
    This open access book presents the rise of technology-enabled methods and tools for objective, quantitative assessment of Quality of Life (QoL), while following the WHOQOL model. It is an in-depth resource describing and examining state-of-the-art, minimally obtrusive, ubiquitous technologies. Highlighting the required factors for adoption and scaling of technology-enabled methods and tools for ... Read more

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  • The Amazing Journey of Reason

    from DNA to Artificial Intelligence

    by Mario Alemi ...
    Series series Computer Science (R0)
    This Open Access book explores questions such as why and how did the first biological cells appear? And then complex organisms, brains, societies and –now– connected human societies? Physicists have good models for describing the evolution of the universe since the Big Bang, but can we apply the same concepts to the evolution of aggregated matter –living matter included? The Amazing Journey ... Read more

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  • AI Knowledge Transfer from the University to Society

    Applications in High-Impact Sectors

    AI Knowledge Transfer from the University to Society: Applications in High-Impact Sectors brings together examples from the "Innovative Ecosystem with Artificial Intelligence for Andalusia 2025" project at the University of Seville, a series of sub-projects composed of research groups and different institutions or companies that explore the use of Artificial Intelligence in a variety of high ... Read more

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  • Shedding Light on Cloud Computing

    by Gregor Petri ...
    Cloud Computing is the most discussed IT innovation of recent times. This Primer provides a structured overview of what Cloud Computing is and what the potential benefits and risks are. In addition it explores how Cloud Computing will impact IT management and IT's role in the organization as a service provider.For everyone who is interested in Cloud Computing. No prior knowledge is required. ... Read more

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  • Balancing Privacy and Free Speech

    Unwanted Attention in the Age of Social Media

    by Mark Tunick ...
    Series series Routledge Research in Information Technology and E-Commerce Law
    In an age of smartphones, Facebook and YouTube, privacy may seem to be a norm of the past. This book addresses ethical and legal questions that arise when media technologies are used to give individuals unwanted attention. Drawing from a broad range of cases within the US, UK, Australia, Europe, and elsewhere, Mark Tunick asks whether privacy interests can ever be weightier than society’s interest ... Read more

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  • Social Networks as the New Frontier of Terrorism

    #Terror

    by Laura Scaife ...
    Series series Routledge Research in Information Technology and E-Commerce Law
    Terrorism. Why does this word grab our attention so?Propaganda machines have adopted modern technology as a means to always have their content available. Regardless of the hour or time zone, information is being shared by somebody, somewhere. Social media is a game changer influencing the way in which terror groups are changing their tactics and also how their acts of terror are perceived by the ... Read more

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  • Software Engineering with UML

    This book presents the analysis, design, documentation, and quality of software solutions based on the OMG UML v2.5. Notably it covers 14 different modelling constructs including use case diagrams, activity diagrams, business-level class diagrams, corresponding interaction diagrams and state machine diagrams. It presents the use of UML in creating a Model of the Problem Space (MOPS), Model of the ... Read more

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