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Ghosts of Boulder (Paperback)
Ann Alexander Leggett, Jordan Alexander Leggett; Foreword by Wendy Hall
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R545
R458
Discovery Miles 4 580
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Founded in 1859 and situated at the base of the Rocky Mountains,
Boulder's small size harbors a big-city feel, and its rich past
hides plenty of hair-raising lore. A home in the Newlands is said
to be haunted by a previous owner who was displeased with
remodeling done on his longtime abode, while a small Victorian on
Pearl Street has been plagued by strange events for over a century.
Guests at one hotel might be surprised by the number of mysteries
wrapped around the building, and local spirits have a standing
reservation at a popular restaurant that was once a mortuary.
Authors Ann Alexander Leggett and Jordan Alexander Leggett offer up
a tour of the tales that haunt this Colorado college town.
Rethinking Hypermedia: The Microcosm Approach is essentially the
story of the Microcosm hypermedia research and development project
that started in the late 1980's and from which has emerged a
philosophy that re-examines the whole concept of hypermedia and its
role in the evolution of multimedia information systems. The book
presents the complete story of Microcosm to date. It sets the
development of Microcosm in the context of the history of the
subject from which it evolved, as well as the developments in the
wider world of technology over the last two decades including
personal computing, high-speed communications, and the growth of
the Internet. These all lead us towards a world of global
integrated information environments: the publishing revolution of
the 20th century, in principle making vast amounts of information
available to anybody anywhere in the world. Rethinking Hypermedia:
The Microcosm Approach explains the role that open hypermedia
systems and link services will play in the integrated information
environments of the future. It considers issues such as authoring,
legacy systems and data integrity issues, and looks beyond the
simple hypertext model provided in the World Wide Web and other
systems today to the world of intelligent information processing
agents that will help us deal with the problems of information
overload and maintenance. Rethinking Hypermedia: The Microcosm
Approach will be of interest to all those who are involved in
designing, implementing and maintaining hypermedia systems such as
the World Wide Web by setting the groundwork for producing a system
that is both easy to use and easy to maintain. Rethinking
Hypermedia: The Microcosm Approach is essential reading for anyone
involved in the provision of online information.
Social machines are a type of network connected by interactive
digital devices made possible by the ubiquitous adoption of
technologies such as the Internet, the smartphone, social media and
the read/write World Wide Web, connecting people at scale to
document situations, cooperate on tasks, exchange information, or
even simply to play. Existing social processes may be scaled up,
and new social processes enabled, to solve problems, augment
reality, create new sources of value, and disrupt existing
practice. This book considers what talents one would need to
understand or build a social machine, describes the state of the
art, and speculates on the future, from the perspective of the
EPSRC project SOCIAM - The Theory and Practice of Social Machines.
The aim is to develop a set of tools and techniques for
investigating, constructing and facilitating social machines, to
enable us to narrow down pragmatically what is becoming a wide
space, by asking 'when will it be valuable to use these methods on
a sociotechnical system?' The systems for which the use of these
methods adds value are social machines in which there is rich
person-to-person communication, and where a large proportion of the
machine's behaviour is constituted by human interaction.
Rethinking Hypermedia: The Microcosm Approach is essentially the
story of the Microcosm hypermedia research and development project
that started in the late 1980's and from which has emerged a
philosophy that re-examines the whole concept of hypermedia and its
role in the evolution of multimedia information systems. The book
presents the complete story of Microcosm to date. It sets the
development of Microcosm in the context of the history of the
subject from which it evolved, as well as the developments in the
wider world of technology over the last two decades including
personal computing, high-speed communications, and the growth of
the Internet. These all lead us towards a world of global
integrated information environments: the publishing revolution of
the 20th century, in principle making vast amounts of information
available to anybody anywhere in the world. Rethinking Hypermedia:
The Microcosm Approach explains the role that open hypermedia
systems and link services will play in the integrated information
environments of the future. It considers issues such as authoring,
legacy systems and data integrity issues, and looks beyond the
simple hypertext model provided in the World Wide Web and other
systems today to the world of intelligent information processing
agents that will help us deal with the problems of information
overload and maintenance. Rethinking Hypermedia: The Microcosm
Approach will be of interest to all those who are involved in
designing, implementing and maintaining hypermedia systems such as
the World Wide Web by setting the groundwork for producing a system
that is both easy to use and easy to maintain. Rethinking
Hypermedia: The Microcosm Approach is essential reading for anyone
involved in the provision of online information.
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Ghosts of Boulder (Hardcover)
Ann Alexander Leggett, Jordan Alexander Leggett; Foreword by Wendy Hall
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R767
R638
Discovery Miles 6 380
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A Framework for Web Science sets out a series of approaches to the
analysis and synthesis of the World Wide Web, and other web-like
information structures. A comprehensive set of research questions
is outlined, together with a sub-disciplinary breakdown,
emphasising the multi-faceted nature of the Web, and the
multi-disciplinary nature of its study and development. These
questions and approaches together set out an agenda for Web
Science, the science of decentralised information systems. Web
Science is required both as a way to understand the Web, and as a
way to focus its development on key communicational and
representational requirements. A Framework for Web Science surveys
central engineering issues, such as the development of the Semantic
Web, Web services and P2P. Analytic approaches to discover the
Web's topology, or its graph-like structures, are examined.
Finally, the Web as a technology is essentially socially embedded;
therefore various issues and requirements for Web use and
governance are also reviewed. A Framework for Web Science is aimed
primarily at researchers and developers in the area of Web-based
knowledge management and information retrieval. It will also be an
invaluable reference for students in computer science at the
postgraduate level, academics and industrial practitioners.
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