New legal approaches, such as the European Union’s 1996 Directive on the Legal Protection of Databases, and other legal initiatives now being considered in the United States at the federal and state level, are threatening to compromise public access to scientific and technical data available through computerized databases. …
Academic Careers for Experimental Computer Scientists and Engineers
The information age has grown out of the work of experimental computer science, which is dedicated to the development of new hardware, software, graphics, interfaces, and other computer system technologies. …
Research Strategies: Finding Your Way Through the Information Fog
Research Strategies: Finding Your Way Through the Information Fog is a textbook in informational research for students in higher education. …
Being Fluent with Information Technology
Being Fluent with Information Technology sets the standard for what everyone should know about IT in order to use it effectively now and in the future. It explores three kinds of knowledge intellectual capabilities, foundational concepts, and skills that are essential for fluency with IT. …
The Internet Companion
The Internet Companion has been a leading beginner’s title since its original publication date in 1992. It has succeeded because it is nontechnical, easy-to-understand, and enlivened by anecdotes, while containing all the solid information one needs to know to begin an Internet journey. …
Beyond Productivity: Information, Technology, Innovation, and Creativity
Beyond Productivity argues that, at the beginning of the 21st century, information technology (IT) is forming a powerful alliance with creative practices in the arts and design to establish the exciting new, domain of information technology and creative practices ITCP. …
Law for Computing Students
Get this 131 page eBook “Law for Computing Students” in pdf format. Anyone hoping for an IT career needs to know something of how the IT industry is affected by the law. This free textbook gives computing students the basic essentials. …
Broadband: Bringing Home the Bits
Broadband: Bringing Home the Bits provides a contemporary snapshot of technologies, strategies, and policies for improving our communications and information infrastructure. …
Mathematics for Computer Scientists
Free 155 page eBook “Mathematics for Computer Scientists” in pdf format. …
Building a Workforce for the Information Economy
Look at any newspaper’s employment section suggests that competition for qualified workers in information technology (IT) is intense. Yet even experts disagree on not only the actual supply versus demand for IT workers but also on whether the nation should take any action on this economically important issue. …