The book offers a curated collection from the editors of a popular series, showcasing a diverse range of voices and perspectives. It features insightful essays and thought-provoking narratives that explore contemporary issues and universal themes. Each piece is designed to engage readers, provoke discussion, and inspire reflection on the complexities of modern life. With contributions from both established and emerging writers, this anthology promises to be a compelling read for those seeking depth and diversity in literature.
Two experts show that innovation is a skill that can be learned and describe
eight essential practices for achieving success. Innovation is the ruling
buzzword in business today. Technology companies invest billions in developing
new gadgets; business leaders see innovation as the key to a competitive edge;
policymakers craft regulations to foster a climate of innovation. And yet
businesses report a success rate of only four percent for innovation
initiatives. Can we significantly increase our odds of success? In The
Innovator's Way, innovation experts Peter Denning and Robert Dunham reply with
an emphatic yes. Innovation, they write, is not simply an invention, a policy,
or a process to be managed. It is a personal skill that can be learned,
developed through practice, and extended into organizations. Denning and
Dunham identify and describe eight personal practices that all successful
innovators perform: sensing, envisioning, offering, adopting, sustaining,
executing, leading, and embodying. Together, these practices can boost a
fledgling innovator to success. Weakness in any of these practices, they show,
blocks innovation. Denning and Dunham chart the path to innovation mastery,
from individual practices to teams and social networks.
Assaults on privacy! Theft of information! Break-ins, assaults, and thefts are prohibited. Yet they happen. How is this so? Just how clever are the invaders? What are the holes in supposedly secure systems? Internet Besieged explains the ingenious strategies employed by intruders. It shows how security experts must be both defensive and proactive to protect information, privacy, and electronic commerce. Internet Besieged consists of over thirty original and recently published chapters written by leading figures in security. They range from technical explanations of encryption and intrusion-detection systems to popular accounts of hacker attacks. Internet Besieged is organized for the general reader as well as the practicing professional. It covers: The emergence of the Internet-the evolution of security problems and required countermeasures Major patterns of weakness in Internet-connected computer systems and methods for preventing and detecting attacks The use of cryptography to secure computers and data on the Internet Electronic commerce and secure transactions-authentication and integrity-checking technologies; foiling identity theft Ethics, laws, practices, and policies that g
"Computing is usually viewed as a technology field that advances at the breakneck speed of Moore's law. If we turn away even for a moment, we might miss a game-changing technological breakthrough or an earth-shaking theoretical development. This book takes a different perspective, presenting computing as a science governed by fundamental principles that span all technologies. Computer science is a science of information processes. We need a new language to describe the science, and in this book, Peter Denning and Craig Martell offer the great principles framework as just such a language. This is a book about the whole of computing - its algorithms, architectures, and designs. Denning and Martell divide the great principles of computing into six categories: communication, computation, coordination, recollection, evaluation, and design. They begin with an introduction to computing, its history, its many interactions with other fields, its domains of practice, and the structure of the great principles framework. They go on to examine the great principles in different areas: information, machines, programming, computation, memory, parallelism, queueing, and design. Finally, they apply the great principles to networking, the Internet in particular."--Back cover
Jacket: "Twenty-four of the world's leading experts tell us about the future of computers in business, in science, and in our lives ... Paul W. Abrahams -- Franz L. Alt -- Gordon Bell -- John Seely Brown -- James Burke -- Vinton G. Cerf -- Donald D. Chamberlin -- Peter J. Denning -- Edsger W. Dijkstra -- Larry Druffel -- Bob O. Evans -- Fernando Flores -- Bob Frankston -- David Gelernter -- James N. Gray -- Richard W. Hamming -- William J. Mitchell -- Abbe Mowshowitz -- Donald A. Norman -- Oliver Strimpel -- Dennis Tsichritzis -- Sherry Turkle -- Mark Weiser -- Terry Winograd."
