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• In ‘Making computers accessible,’ Elizabeth R. Petrick tells the compelling story of how computer engineers and corporations gradually became aware of the need to make computers accessible for all people. Motivated by user feedback and prompted by legislation such as the Americans with Disabilities Act, which offered the promise of equal rights via technological accommodation, companies developed sophisticated computerized devices and software to bridge the accessibility gap. People with disabilities, Petrick argues, are paradigmatic computer users, demonstrating the personal computer’s potential to augment human abilities and provide for new forms of social, professional, and political participation. Bridging the history of technology, science and technology studies, and disability studies, this book traces the psychological, cultural, and economic evolution of a consumer culture aimed at individuals with disabilities, who increasingly rely on personal computers to make their lives richer and more interconnected. — Publisher’s web site.
• Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Introduction: the development of accessible personal computer technologies — Disability rights and technology before the personal computer — Early personal computer accessibility, 1980-1987 — Building the network: corporate philanthropy and the National Special Education Alliance — The growth of disability rights and accessible computer technologies — Accessibility and software applications in the 1990s — Conclusion: the promises of personal computers.

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• Computers and people with disabilities — United States.
• Assistive computer technology — United States.
• Microcomputers — Social aspects — United States.
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• Includes index.
• Few organizations realize a return on their digital investment. They’re distracted by political infighting and technology-first solutions. To reach the next level, organizations must realign their assets–people, content, and technology–by practicing the discipline of digital governance. Managing Chaos inspires new and necessary conversations about digital governance and its transformative power to support creativity, real collaboration, digital quality, and online growth.

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• Business enterprises — Computer networks — Management.

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Part of the series Pragmatic programmers;Pragmatic programmers.
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• Previous edition: New York: McGraw-Hill, 2000.
• Includes index.
• Your own computer — Tinder for the fire. Steam The breakthrough Critical mass Breakout Hackers — The voyage to Altair. Uncle Sol’s boys Going for broke All hell breaks loose Putting it together The competition The fall — The miracle makers. After Altair Amateurs and professionals Building one and building two Miracles and mistakes est and entrepreneur’s disease Death and rebirth — Homebrew. Power to the people The Homebrew Computer Club Wildfire in Silicon Valley Nostalgia for the future Sixers and seventy-sixers Home rule Homebrew legacy — The genie in the box. The Altair’s first recital Pleasure before business The first operating system Getting down to BASIC The other BASIC Electric pencil The rise of general software companies The bottom line Software empires — Retailing the revolution. Spreading the word : the magazines Word of mouth : the clubs and shows Hand-holding : the first retailers The big players — Apple. Jobs and Woz Starting Apple Magic times Trouble in paradise Shooting for the moon — The gate comes down. The luggable computer The HP way and the Xerox worm IBM — The PC industry. Losing their religion Clones Consolidation Commoditization Cyberspace Apple without Jobs — The post-PC era. The big turnaround Getting really personal Into the cloud Leaving the stage Looking back.
• Overview: In the 1970s, while their contemporaries were protesting the computer as a tool of dehumanization and oppression, a motley collection of college dropouts, hippies, and electronics fanatics were engaged in something much more subversive. Obsessed with the idea of getting computer power into their own hands, they launched from their garages a hobbyist movement that grew into an industry, and ultimately a social and technological revolution. What they did was invent the personal computer: not just a new device, but a watershed in the relationship between man and machine. This is their story. Fire in the Valley is the definitive history of the personal computer, drawn from interviews with the people who made it happen, written by two veteran computer writers who were there from the start. Working at InfoWorld in the early 1980s, Swaine and Freiberger daily rubbed elbows with people like Steve Jobs and Bill Gates when they were creating the personal computer revolution. A rich story of colorful individuals, Fire in the Valley profiles these unlikely revolutionaries and entrepreneurs, such as Ed Roberts of MITS, Lee Felsenstein at Processor Technology, and Jack Tramiel of Commodore, as well as Jobs and Gates in all the innocence of their formative years. This completely revised and expanded third edition brings the story to its completion, chronicling the end of the personal computer revolution and the beginning of the post-PC era. It covers the departure from the stage of major players with the deaths of Steve Jobs and Douglas Engelbart and the retirements of Bill Gates and Steve Ballmer the shift away from the PC to the cloud and portable devices and what the end of the PC era means for issues such as personal freedom and power, and open source vs. proprietary software.

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• Microcomputers — United States — History.
• United States. fast (OCoLC)fst01204155
• History. fast (OCoLC)fst01411628

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• Includes bibliographical references (p. [225]-247) and index.

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• Computer hackers.
• Computer programmers.
• Computer programming — Moral and ethical aspects.
• Computer programming — Social aspects.
• Intellectual freedom.

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Part of the series Undergraduate Topics in Computer Science, 1863-7310;Undergraduate topics in computer science, 1863-7310
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• Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Introduction — Software Engineering — Project Management — Requirements, Design and Development — Configuration Management — Software Inspections — Software Testing — Supplier Selection and Management — Software Quality Assurance — Software Metrics — ISO 9000 — Software Process Improvement — Capability Maturity Model Integration — Setting up a CMMI Initiative — SCAMPI Appraisals — Software Engineering Tools — Formal Methods — Z Formal Specification Language — Unified Modelling Language — Epilogue.
• In order to maintain strong levels customer satisfaction and loyalty, software developers face considerable pressure to meet expectations for high-quality software products that are consistently delivered on time. Introduction to Software Quality describes the approaches used by software engineers to build quality into their software. The fundamental principles of software quality management and software process improvement are discussed in detail, with a particular focus on the capability maturity model integration (CMMI) framework. Topics and features: Includes review questions at the end of each chapter Covers both theory and practice, in addition to providing guidance on applying the theory in an industrial environment Examines all aspects of the software development process, including project planning and tracking, software lifecycles, software inspections and testing, configuration management, and software quality assurance Provides detailed coverage of software metrics and problem solving Describes SCAMPI appraisals and how they form part of the continuous improvement cycle Presents an introduction to formal methods and the Z specification language, which are important in the safety critical field Discusses UML, which is used to describe the architecture of the system Reviews the history of the field of software quality, highlighting the pioneers who made key contributions to this area This clearly written and easy-to-follow textbook will be invaluable to students of computer science who wish to learn how to build high-quality and reliable software on time and on budget. Software engineers, quality professionals and software managers in industry will also find the book to be a useful tool for self-study.

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• Computer software — Quality control.
• Software engineering.

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• Includes bibliographical references (p. 241-248) and index.
• A brief history of anonymity — Anonymous rises — Anonymous goes political — Anonymity wired — The age of the anonymous web — The year of the hacktivist — Nym wars — Is total anonymity even possible? — Is total transparency even possible? — Faces of anonymity — The case for anonymity.
• A broad analysis of how issues in anonymity and privacy are influencing politics, activism, religion, and art in America and the world poses strong arguments about free speech, Internet identity, and online piracy while profiling some of the tools and organizations that have evolved on both sides of the debate.

Subjects:

• Computer programming — Moral and ethical aspects.
• Computer hackers.
• Hacktivism.
• Internet — Security measures.
• Online identities.
• Computer security.
• Internet.
• Privacy.
• Identity (Psychology)

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Part of the series Design briefs-essential texts on design;Design briefs.
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• Includes index.
• Fonts on screen / Christopher Clark : Web fonts: a short history Rendering type on screen Type anatomy and taxonomy Heads and bodies A brief survey of web fonts Google fonts Case study: A-sans Mutable typefaces Case study: Alphabeta Case study: History + hipster = hipstory Case study: ZXX: disruptive typography In the classroom: Typeface design — Text on screen / Young Sun Compton : Choosing a screen size The grid Vertical and horizontal fields Responsive typography Type size Paragraph blocks Column alignment Space between lines Space between characters Hierarchy Typographic HTML tags Special characters In the classroom: The HTML posters — Digital publishing / Young Sun Compton : Linear reading Selective reading The flow of content Orbital content Case study: Works that work Write about it In the classroom: Experimental readers In the classroom: The mutant library — Type and interface / Javier Lopez, Alice Hom : Wireframes Interaction elements Menus Type as navigation Expanding the vocabulary Drop shadows and gradients Hide and reveal Typography and data display Designing data tables Data tables: do’s and don’ts Case study: Travel interfaces In the classroom: Weather apps — Icons and logotypes / Noel Cunningham, Abe Garcia, Brian Pelsoh : Writing with pictures Case study: Noun project Wayfinding for screen Icons as typography Tutorial: Creating an app icon Scalability Case study: Imaginary apps Icons for interaction Case study: Not to distant relatives Case study: Logo, meet navigation Tutorial: Drawing interface icons Logotypes Working with color Animated logotypes Flexible logotypes Generative logotypes Scalable vector graphics Case study: MFA branding Case study: Branding a metropolis In the classroom : Icons — Animation and code / Brian Pelsoh, Jinhwan Kim, Nicki Dlugash, Cameron Zotter : Basic animation Animated GIFs In the classroom: Animated GIFs Storyboarding Narrative tec
• The definitive guide to using classic typographic concepts of form and structure to make dynamic compositions for screen-based applications. Covering a broad range of technologies — from electronic publications and websites to videos and mobile devices — this hands-on primer presents the latest information available to help designers make critical creative decisions, including how to choose typefaces for the screen, how to style beautiful, functional text and navigation, how to apply principles of animation to text, and how to generate new forms and experiences with code-based operations. Type on Screen is an essential design tool for anyone seeking clear and focused guidance about typography for the digital age.

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• Graphic design (Typography)
• Digital media.

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• Includes bibliographical references (pages 255- 288) and index.
• Brief history of computers, communications, and security — Security and privacy overview — Cryptography primer — SSL/TLS case study project — Securing networks — Virtual private network case study project — Insertion attacks — Buffer overflow case study project — Polymorphic virus advanced case study project — Web security — Privacy and anonymity — Side-channel attacks — Digital rights management and copyright — Security economics.
• This text provides a classroom-tested, practical introduction to software design and implementation, cryptographic tools, and networking issues while addressing social, economic, and political implications. It covers cutting-edge topics, such as wireless security and attacks on websites, privacy and digital rights management, and recent work on security and economics. The text includes hands-on projects to help students better understand how computers and networks function. It also contains a number of case studies and discussion points — Provided by publisher.

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• Computer security.
• Computer networks — Security measures.
• Data protection.
• Data encryption (Computer science)

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• Includes bibliographical references (pages 518-542) and index.

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• Game theory.
• Logic.

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• Mobile Robotics offers comprehensive coverage of the essentials of the field suitable for both students and practitioners. Adapted from Alonzo Kelly’s graduate and undergraduate courses, the content of the book reflects current approaches to developing effective mobile robots. Professor Kelly adapts principles and techniques from the fields of mathematics, physics and numerical methods to present a consistent framework in a notation that facilitates learning and highlights relationships between topics. This text was developed specifically to be accessible to senior level undergraduates in engineering and computer science, and includes supporting exercises to reinforce the lessons of each section. Practitioners will value Kelly’s perspectives on practical applications of these principles. Complex subjects are reduced to implementable algorithms extracted from real systems wherever possible, to enhance the real-world relevance of the text — Provided by publisher.
• Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Introduction — Math fundamentals — Numerical methods — Dynamics — Optimal estimation — State estimation — Control — Perception — Localization and mapping — Motion planning.

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• Mobile robots — Textbooks.
• Textbooks. fast (OCoLC)fst01423863

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