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Unstructured text, as one of the most important data forms, plays a crucial role in data-driven decision making in domains ranging from social networking and information retrieval to scientific research and healthcare informatics. In many emerging applications, people's information need from text data is becoming multidimensional—they demand useful insights along multiple aspects from a text corpus. However, acquiring such multidimensional knowledge from massive text data remains a challenging t...

This book describes the principle application areas of smart card technology. Covering smart cards and tokens in finance, telecommunications, government and transport, Everett provides guidance on how these areas can fully exploit this technology. By explaining the key concepts surrounding the performance and cost of smart cards this book will provide you with the means to understand and implement smart card technology in a variety of projects.

Affordable and mainstream manipulation of multimedia data types will lead to tremendous growth in imaging and multimedia data in general computing environments. Multimedia and imaging applications can now provide benefits to common business applications by integrating voice, sound, images, animation and digitized video. Ultimately, it will be possible to convert all information that is currently stored on paper, video and film into a digitized environment. This will allow users to organize, sear...

A complete nuts-and-bolts guide to designing, building, and managing the smart card system that's right for your company Already a well-established medium of exchange in Europe, smart card technology has made major inroads in the North American market in the past few years. Visa and Mastercard are committed to replacing credit cards with them over the next five years, and Microsoft is racing to use them for e-commerce. Clearly, the time for asking "Why?" regarding smart cards has passed. The im...

This volume is part of a set of four manuals which provides information on how to develop SBus and SCSI devices for the Solaris 2 operating system. Each title in the set - "Open Boot Command Reference", "SBus Handbook: Desktop Strategies", "SunOS 5.2 Writing Device Drivers" and "Writing FCode Programs" - is available individually or in a four-volume set. The series provides all the information needed for designing, developing and implementing a product. It includes detailed technical information...

The Extension to Industry Standard Architecture (EISA) standard specifies a means of designing hardware that handles the internal communications and data exchange within a personal computer, and is specifically designed for data communications using 32-bit technology. This book details the difference between EISA and ISA specifications and describes the EISA bus structure, bus masters and slaves, bus arbitration, EISA interrupt handling and other areas.

Everyone now has the chance to scan images into a computer manipulate them into their own designs and print out the results in colour at near-photographic standard. This book provides straightforward guidance on all aspects of scanning and printing taking you through the whole process from choosing and installing the hardware to scanning correcting and printing your images. By the end of the book you will have received a thorough grounding in using these two vital pieces of PC hardware a...

In today's world, smart cards play an increasingly important role in everyday life. We encounter them as credit cards, loyalty cards, electronic purses, health cards, and as secure tokens for authentication or digital signature. Their small size and the compatibility of their form with the magnetic stripe card make them the ideal carriers of personal information such as secret keys, passwords, customization profiles, and medical emergency information. This book provides a guide for the rapid dev...

Get the most from your BlackBerry Curve with this easy-to-understand reference The BlackBerry Curve smartphone is the most popular BlackBerry model sold by Research in Motion. It boasts an optical trackpad, dedicated media keys, easy media sharing, Mac compatibility, iTunes synchronization, a camera, Wi-Fi calling, and extended battery life-to name just a few features. This fun, friendly, and easy-to-understand book is a practical guide to the BlackBerry Curve and covers an array of how-to topi...

This book provides you with the material you need to make a wise purchasing decision and then to make use of digital photography technology. It quickly describes desirable features in equipment, what to expect at a given price level, and what ihiddeni costs are to be expected for accessories and related software. It also explains how to correct problems common to digital images. Finally, it provides the essential information for making images Web-ready.

This text is designed for do-it-yourselfers who don't want to deal with weighty guides containing more information than they probably need. With practical examples, step-by-step guidance and friendly advice, this text empowers readers with time and money-saving ways to make their systems state-of-the-art. Linda Rohrbough guides readers through each step of the upgrade process - from installing sound cards and adding more memory, right through to simplifying the technicalities of adding new hard...

Maximize PC performance with memory management! This book covers issues from the early PCs to 486 speed demons. -- Boxed tips, notes, and cautions simplify the reader's search for answers to common problems -- Includes a disk containing utilities to help increase hard disk memory