Wireless networking is undergoing a transformation from what has
been primarily a medium for supporting voice traffic between telephones,
into what is increasingly becoming a medium for supporting traffic among
a variety of digital devices transmitting media of many types (voice,
data, images, video ...
You probably have heard all about what you can do with the Raspberry Pi. This credit-
card sized computer can be plugged into your TV or any HDMI monitor to replace a
typical computer. This little device is used in many computer projects, DIY electronics
projects and even as a learning tool for kids ...
Why did an electricity market emerge? How does it really work? What are the perfor-
mance measures that we can use to tell that the electricity market under consideration
is well functioning? These are the questions that will be explored in this book. The
main purpose of this book is to introduce th ...
The field of cyber security, or information security, or information
assurance, depending on your preference, is an interdisciplinary one.
It is part computer science, part statistics, part psychology, part law,
and a part of many other fields. Moreover, any cyber security practi-
tioner needs to kn ...
RFID is at a critical price point that could enable its large-scale adoption.
What strengths are pushing it forward? What technical challenges and
privacy concerns must we still address?
With all the recent hype over radio frequency identification (RFID) and
the requirements to implement it, you might think that RFID can turn
water into wine, transform lead into gold, and cure the world’s diseases. You
might also be worried that RFID will enable Big Brother to track your move-
ment ...
To a quantum mechanic the whole universe is one godawful big interacting wavefunction ?
but to the rest of us, it’s a world full of separate and distinguishable objects that hurt us
when we kick them. At a few months of age, human children recognize objects, expect
them to be permanent and move con ...
Fun. We (your authors) wanted a word to describe our ultimate goal for this book, as well as a word
we hope you (our reader) will use to describe it, and that’s the one we chose. There are others goals,
of course, but in the end, when you’ve finished the book, we’re hoping you’ll have enjoyed th ...
There’s a story (it’s either an old vaudeville joke
or a Zen koan) in which a fisherman asks a fish,
“What’s the water like down there?” and the
fish replies “What is water?” If the story is just
a joke, the point is to make us laugh; but if it’s
a koan, the point is that the most obvious an ...
I can remember buying my first electronic calculator. I was teaching a graduate level statistics course and I
had to have a calculator with a square root function. Back in the late 1960s, that was a pretty high-end
requirement for a calculator. I managed to purchase one at the “educational discount ...
