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Mobile big data: a roadmap from models to technologies Skourletopoulos G., Mastorakis G., Mavromoustakis C., Dobre C., Pallis E., Springer International Publishing, New York, NY, 2018. 347 pp. Type: Book (978-3-319679-24-2)
Part of Springer’s “Lecture Notes on Data Engineering and Communications Technologies” series, this edited book is divided into four parts. The editors have chosen 13 different topics (chapters) related to...
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May 31 2019 |
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US power and the Internet in international relations: the irony of the information age Carr M., Palgrave Macmillan, New York, NY, 2016. 221 pp. Type: Book (978-1-137550-23-1)
As the title points out, the author emphasizes throughout the book how the power of the Internet is useful in international relations and how the US wants to shape that growth. This book traces the history of the evolution of the Inter...
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Oct 19 2016 |
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Safeguarding users¿ sensitive data in the cloud and the browser Brad Karp. YouTube, 00:53:52, published on May 4, 2016, The Alan Turing Institute, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vws4xF6gXmU. Type: Video
In this 54-minute video presentation, Brad Karp of University College London talks about “safeguarding users’ sensitive data in the cloud and the browser.” The title is very inviting to those who want to k...
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Sep 6 2016 |
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Crowdsourced health: how what you do on the Internet will improve medicine Yom-Tov E., The MIT Press, Cambridge, MA, 2016. 160 pp. Type: Book (978-0-262034-50-0)
This is an excellent book by a reputed scientist who has worked for several years in the area of analyzing data gathered from people’s web searches of medical questions. Additional material in the form of notes is found throu...
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Jul 20 2016 |
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The future X network: a Bell Labs perspective Weldon M., CRC Press, Inc., Boca Raton, FL, 2015. 472 pp. Type: Book (978-1-498759-26-7), Reviews: (1 of 2)
This is a very interesting book that has 14 chapters on the future of different types of networks, such as the Internet of Things, energy networks, and cloud networks. The chapter contributors are primarily Bell Labs employees or from ...
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Jul 11 2016 |
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Bruce Schneier on security and privacy in the world-sized web Bruce Schneier. YouTube, 01:06:35, published on Mar 24, 2016, BerkmanCenter, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KWD2v0SJAM8. Type: Video
Bruce Schneier presented a talk about security and privacy in the world-sized web at Harvard University’s Berkman Center on February 16, 2016. This hour-long presentation included questions and answers (Q&A) as well. Schn...
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Jun 27 2016 |
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Profiling relational data: a survey Abedjan Z., Golab L., Naumann F. The VLDB Journal: The International Journal on Very Large Data Bases 24(4): 557-581, 2015. Type: Article
The question of processing metadata for a dataset is covered in this survey paper. Much of the analysis is about the automation that is needed to discover the appropriate metadata and the complexities in such discovery....
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Mar 31 2016 |
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Fundamentals of predictive text mining (2nd ed.) Weiss S., Indurkhya N., Zhang T., Springer Publishing Company, Incorporated, New York, NY, 2015. 239 pp. Type: Book (978-1-447167-49-5)
Fundamentals of predictive text mining is a second edition that is designed as a textbook, with questions and exercises in each chapter. The authors mention that the book was extensively class tested and additional supplemental ...
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Feb 17 2016 |
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SQL Server Integration Services design patterns (2nd ed.) Leonard A., Masson M., Mitchell T., Moss J., Ufford M., Apress, Berkeley, CA, 2014. 464 pp. Type: Book (978-1-484200-83-4)
SQL Server Integration Services (SSIS) is a Microsoft product. The primary goal of this product, introduced in 2005, is to help users building a data warehouse. SSIS automates many of the processes associated with data warehouse creati...
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Jul 21 2015 |
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The Ruby way: solutions and techniques in Ruby programming (3rd ed.) Fulton H., Addison-Wesley Professional, Upper Saddle River, NJ, 2015. 888 pp. Type: Book (978-0-321714-63-3)
This book on Ruby 2.1 covers both basic and advanced topics. The goal of the book is to present in one volume all the major features of Ruby so that interested readers will be able to find what they are looking for with respect to the ...
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Jul 14 2015 |
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