by David A. Korn (1999)
"Based on Roberta Cohen and Francis M. Deng's work, Masses in Flight: The Global Crisis of Internal Displacement (Brookings, 1998), this book offers, in summary and less technical form, the essential findings of that in-depth study: who and where the internally displaced are and what is being done for them, and how the international community can better organize itself to deal with not only a humanitarian challenge but also a threat to the security, stability, and economic well-being of nations on all continents. And Exodus within Borders offers one other important dimension. Through powerful photographs, it shows just what it can mean to be driven from one's home with no clothes, no food, and no sure place of refuge."--BOOK JACKET.
Paul McAuley
In a world teeming with surveillance cameras and with censors patrolling the Internet, a young woman is murdered before an audience of avid voyeurs, and a policeman who is determined to solve her murder faces a world where people will do anything to control information.
sous la direction d'Alain Mayama
Parler de la relation Homme-milieu, c'est reconnaître l'interaction entre l'Homme et la nature. Repenser cette relation sous-tend que les règles qui la régissent aujourd'hui posent problème. L'Homme qui tire sa vie et son existence de la nature a l'obligation de conserver cette nature, faisant appel à un sens des responsabilités plus accru de l'Homme envers la création. Ce livre attire l'attention sur la question écologique, notamment le respect de l'environnement.
Sean W. Smith
How can one trust computation taking place at a remote site, particularly if a party at that site might have motivation to subvert this trust? In recent years, industrial efforts have advanced the notion of a "trusted computing platform" as a building block. Through a conspiracy of hardware and software magic, these platforms attempt to solve this remote trust problem, to preserve various critical properties against various types of adversaries. However, these current efforts are just points on a larger continuum, which ranges from earlier work on secure coprocessor design and applications, through TCPA/TCG, to recent academic developments. Without wading through stacks of theses and research literature, the general computer science reader cannot see this big picture. Trusted Computing Platforms:Design and Applications fills this gap. Starting with early prototypes and proposed applications, this book surveys the longer history of amplifying small amounts of hardware security into broader system security---and reports real case study experience with security architecture and applications on multiple types of platforms. The author examines the theory, design, implementation of the IBM 4758 secure coprocessor platform and discusses real case study applications that exploit the unique capabilities of this platform. The author discusses how these foundations grow into newer industrial designs, and discusses alternate architectures and case studies of applications that this newer hardware can enable. The author closes with an examination of more recent cutting-edge experimental work in this area. Trusted Computing Platforms:Design and Applications is written for security architects, application designers, and the general computer scientist interested in the evolution and uses of this emerging technology.
Bernhard Kegel
Eine neue Ära ist angebrochen, das Zeitalter der Sexy Sons, der schönsten und attraktivsten Nachkommen. Nichts wird mehr dem Zufall überlassen, Eltern lassen sich, oder auch ihre Idole, klonen und stellen die genetischen Merkmale ihres Nachwuchses per Katalog zusammen. ED Senft, einer der reichsten Männer Hamburgs, feiert seinen 60. Geburtstag. Alles, was in der Hansestadt Rang und Namen hat, ist in die neu errichtete Elbuferhalle geladen, das Fernsehen überträgt die Veranstaltung live, moderiert vom bekannten Star Paul Abend. Doch die wahre Sensation ist dem Publikum noch nicht bekannt. Anlässlich dieses runden Geburtstags soll die neueste Erfindung der Senft AG präsentiert werden: Globacter, die Zelle für die Welt. In jahrelanger Forschung ist es Senfts Genetikern gelungen, ein Bakterium zu synthetisieren, das Erdöl frisst und als unschädlichen Stoff wieder ausscheidet.: das Ende der Umweltverschmutzungen durch Tankerunfälle und lecke Überlandpipelines ist abzusehen. Doch der Abend verläuft keinesfalls so reibungslos wie geplant: Globacter wird gestohlen, das Schwimmwunder Rebecca Scholz tätlich angegriffen. Ein Alptraum beginnt.