by Walter Isaacson (2014)
The definitive history of the computer and the internet, following the visionary inventors—from Ada Lovelace and Alan Turing to the founders of Google—who turned computing into an indispensable human extension.
Chris Miller
Winner of the Financial Times Business Book of the Year. An epic account of how the tiny semiconductor microchip became the world's scarcest and most strategically vital resource, shaping the global balance of power.
David Flanagan
JavaScript is a powerful, object-based scripting language; JavaScript programs can be embedded directly into HTML web pages. When combined with the Document Object Model (DOM) defined by a web browser, JavaScript allows you to create Dynamic HTML (DHTML) content and interactive client-side web applications. JavaScript syntax is based on the popular programming languages C, C++, and Java, which makes it familiar and easy to learn for experienced programmers. At the same time, JavaScript is an interpreted scripting language, providing a flexible, forgiving environment in which new programmers can learn. *JavaScript: The Definitive Guide* provides a thorough description of the core JavaScript language and both the legacy and standard DOMs implemented in web browsers. The book includes sophisticated examples that show you how to handle common tasks such as validating form data, working with cookies, and creating portable DHTML animations. The book also contains detailed reference sections that cover the core JavaScript API, the legacy client-side API, and the W3C standard DOM API, documenting every JavaScript object, method, property, constructor, constant, function, and event handler in those APIs. This fourth edition of the bestselling JavaScript book has been carefully updated to cover JavaScript 1.5 (ECMAScript Version 3). The book also provides complete coverage of the W3C DOM standard (Level 1 and Level 2), while retaining material on the legacy Level 0 DOM for backward compatibility. *JavaScript: The Definitive Guide* is a complete programmer's guide and reference manual for JavaScript. It is particularly useful for developers working with the latest standards-compliant web browsers, such as Internet Explorer 6, Netscape 6, and Mozilla. HTML authors can learn how to use JavaScript to build dynamic web pages. Experienced programmers can quickly find the information they need to start writing sophisticated JavaScript programs. This book is an indispensable reference for all JavaScript programmers, regardless of experience level. *Description from the Fourth Edition (2007, O'Reilly Media)* <h2>Printing History</h2> <dl> <dt>August 1996</dt> <dd>Beta Edition.</dd> <dt>January 1997</dt> <dd>Second Edition.</dd> <dt>June 1998</dt> <dd>Third Edition.</dd> <dt>January 2002</dt> <dd>Fourth Edition.</dd> </dl>
Ronald Cramer, ed
This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 11th International Workshop on Practice and Theory in Public-Key Cryptography, PKC 2008, held in Barcelona, Spain, in March 2008. The 21 revised full papers presented together with 1 invited lecture were carefully reviewed and selected from 71 submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections on algebraic and number theoretical cryptoanalysis, theory of public key encryption, digital signatures, identification, broadcast and key agreement, implementation of fast arithmetic, and public key encryption. -- Publisher description.
Cristiano Castelfranchi, Yao-Hua Tan
One of the major problems in the development of virtual societies, in particular in electronic commerce and computer-mediated interactions in organizations, is trust and deception. This book provides analyses by various researchers of the different types of trust that are needed for various tasks, such as facilitating on-line collaboration, building virtual communities and network organizations, and even the design of effective and user-friendly human-computer interfaces. The book has a multi-disciplinary character providing theoretical models of trust and deception, empirical studies, and practical solutions for creating trust in electronic commerce and multi-agent systems.