A fun-to-read intro to the business of smart contract platforms and blockchain technology In Blockchain Explained: A No-Nonsense Cryptocurrency Guide, accomplished founder of Tezos, a leading cryptocurrency, Kathleen Breitman delivers an engaging introduction to the business of smart contract platforms. In the book, you’ll explore the technology that powers cryptocurrencies and the applications that sit upon them (non-fungible tokens, decentralized finance, and more). Balancing the technical...
Handbook of Big Data Technologies
This handbook offers comprehensive coverage of recent advancements in Big Data technologies and related paradigms. Chapters are authored by international leading experts in the field, and have been reviewed and revised for maximum reader value. The volume consists of twenty-five chapters organized into four main parts. Part one covers the fundamental concepts of Big Data technologies including data curation mechanisms, data models, storage models, programming models and programming platforms. I...
"The industry provocateur behind such companies as Twitter and a nascent Facebook presents an irreverent exposé of life inside the tech bubble that traces his hedonist lifestyle against a backdrop of early social media and online marketing, sharing critical insights into how they are shaping today's world."--NoveList.
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Use That Computer! (IP (Nashville, Tenn.), 457-6)
by Lacinda Johnston, J Howard Johnston, James Forde, and Lucinda L Johnston
HBR Insights Future of Business Boxed Set (8 Books) (HBR Insights)
by Harvard Business Review
Business is changing. Will you adapt or be left behind? Get up to speed and deepen your understanding of the topics that are shaping your company's future with the Insights You Need from Harvard Business Review series. Featuring HBR's smartest thinking on fast-moving issues, each book provides the foundational introduction and practical case studies your organization needs to compete today and collects the best research, interviews, and analysis to get it ready for tomorrow. You can't afford t...
Clustering Methods for Big Data Analytics (Unsupervised and Semi-Supervised Learning)
This book highlights the state of the art and recent advances in Big Data clustering methods and their innovative applications in contemporary AI-driven systems. The book chapters discuss Deep Learning for Clustering, Blockchain data clustering, Cybersecurity applications such as insider threat detection, scalable distributed clustering methods for massive volumes of data; clustering Big Data Streams such as streams generated by the confluence of Internet of Things, digital and mobile health,...
Operations Research Proceedings 2018 (Operations Research Proceedings)
This book gathers a selection of peer-reviewed papers presented at the International Conference on Operations Research (OR 2018), which was held at the Free University of Brussels, Belgium on September 12 - 14, 2018, and was jointly organized by the German Operations Research Society (GOR) and the Belgian Operational Research Society (ORBEL). 575 scientists, practitioners and students from mathematics, computer science, business/economics and related fields attended the conference and presented...
This important book presents a unique body of research into the economics of the digital society. It questions how modern economies have been transformed as a result of digital goods and markets, and explores the policy implications and challenges of this revolution. Luc Soete and Bas ter Weel have assembled leading economists and social scientists to provide an invaluable insight into the influence of the digital society in the core fields of economics. They offer a comprehensive overview o...
The September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks are transforming information technology, leading to profound and permanent changes. In Byte Wars, legendary software engineering expert Ed Yourdon focuses on the immediate changes IT professionals are already encountering, and the long-term changes they must prepare for. From privacy issues to lean supply chains, "Death March," security, disaster recovery, and contingency planning projects, Yourdon addresses 9/11's impact on IT at every level - and outlin...
Blockchain technology, one of the most buzzed-about yet least understood technological innovations of recent years, is at a point similar to where the Internet was in the mid-1990s or peer-to-peer file-sharing services were in the late 1990s: ready for takeoff. The Economist has cited blockchain s extraordinary potential in business, since it enables people who have no particular confidence in each other to collaborate without having to go through a neutral central authority. Simply put, blockch...
Data Analytics in the Era of the Industrial Internet of Things
by Aldo Dagnino
This book presents the characteristics and benefits industrial organizations can reap from the Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT). These characteristics and benefits include enhanced competitiveness, increased proactive decision-making, improved creativity and innovation, augmented job creation, heightened agility to respond to continuously changing challenges, and intensified data-driven decision making. In a straightforward fashion, the book also helps readers understand complex concepts tha...
Racing on the Information Superhighway (Perspectives on Europe S.)
by Dai and Bottomley
"In Defence of Serendipity" is a lively and buccaneering work of investigative philosophy, treating the origins of serendipity, accident and sagacity, both as riddles and philosophical concepts that can be put to a future political use. Taking in Aristotle, LSD, Tony Blair and techno-mysticism, Olma challenges the prevailing faith in the benevolenceof digital technology and the illegitimate equation of innovation and entrepreneurship, arguing instead that we musttake responsibility for the care...
This volume celebrates the can-do, risk-taking, creative pioneers of Texas Instruments from its inception in the 1930s as a tiny geophysical exploration company working out of the back of a truck in the oilfields of the Southwest, to its status in the world today as one of the world's leading electronics companies. From the determination of its founders - Eugene McDermott, Erik Jonsson, Cecil Green, and Pat Haggerty - to the genius of its inventors such as Nobel prizewinner Jack Kilby, TI has tr...
This account describes what can happen to a business venture in the fierce world of Silicon Valley when its timing is wrong, its technology too speculative and its market not yet ready. Computer scientist Jerry Kaplan auctioned his award-winning computer company "GO" in July 1994, after six fast-paced years in the start-up game accruing a value of $60 million. This book presents each stage of the "GO" venture, from the birth of the idea to the start-up game and war with Microsoft, and on to the...