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|  | | Captain Hawkins (The Jamie Hawkins Saga Book 1)
strong vibrant characters with action packed battle drama
Jamie Hawkins was living on an obscure planet in the twenty third-century when on one fateful night--his life changed forever. His heroic effort to save the lives of innocent women and children, caught in the cross-fire of war, placed him squarely in the cross-hairs of avenging soldiers.
Hawkins was stunned when his rescue effort was seen as treachery. Unfairly convicted of treason by a corrupt judge, he was sentenced to life imprisonment at hard labor on an infamous penal colony.
Once in prison, his courage and perseverance won him the admiration and trust of his fellow conv | |  | | Connections: Patterns of Discovery
From the Foreword by James Burke:
"In their fascinating analysis of the recent history of information technology, H. Peter Alesso and Craig F. Smith reveal the patterns in discovery and innovation that have brought us to the present tipping point. . . . A generation from now, every individual will have personally tailored access to the whole of knowledge . . . the sooner we all begin to think about how we got here, and where we're going, the better. This exciting book is an essential first step."
Many people envision scientists as dispassionate characters who slavishly repeat experiments until 'eureka' -something unexpected happens. Actually, there is a great deal more to the story of scientific discovery, but seeing 'the big picture' is not easy.
Connections: Patterns of Discovery uses the primary tools of forecasting and three archetypal patterns of discovery —Serendipity, Proof of Principle, and 1% Inspiration and 99% Perspiration—to discern relationships of past developments and synthesize a cohesive and compelling vision for the future.
It challenges readers to | |  | | Developing Semantic Web Services
This book presents the complete Language Pyramid of Web markup languages, including; Resource Description Framework (RDF), Web Ontology Language (OWL) and OWL-Services (OWL-S) along with examples and software demos. In addition, it describes the semantic software development tools; including design and analysis methodologies, parsers, validators, editors, development environments and inference engines. The source code for the “Semantic Web Author,” an Integrated Development Environment for Semantic Markup Languages is discussed and available for download at www.web-iq.com.
The inventor of the World Wide Web, Tim Berners-Lee, is also the originator of the next generation Web architecture, the Semantic Web. Currently, his World Wide Web consortium (W3C) team works to develop, extend, and standardize the Web’s markup languages and tools. The objective of the Semantic Web Architecture is W3C has developed a new generation of open standard markup languages which are now poised to unleash the power, flexibility and above all - logic – of the next generation of Web, as well as, open the door to the next generation of Web Services.
Currently, Web Services using | |  | | e-Video: Producing Internet Video as Broadband Technologies Converge
This resource-packed guide to producing, encoding, editing, compressing, and serving video over the Internet lets you understand both the technolgy and the process of publishing video to the Web.
The book covers bandwidth requirements for video delivery-from low-end broadband to the ultimate high-speed HDTV transmission. It follows the video preparation and production process, demonstrating various software tools for developing, encoding, and editing content. You will also find in-depth information on the state-of-the-art in video compression and streaming technology. In addition, the book explains how the networks and servers currently support Internet video, and describes future developments in the works.
If you can recall the special effects from Star Wars, then you already understand the impact of video.
Someday, when you go on-line to make a purchase, you’ll see a video demonstration of the product in action. If it needs assembly, instead of piecing it together from a single sheet of indecipherable instructions, you’ll go back on-line for step-by-step video instructions. And you’ll be able to ask questions and receive answers in real-time.
Someday, you will only attend school classes if you want to because much of your education and training will be available on Web video | |  | | Liueutenant Henry Gallant
In Lieutenant Henry Gallant, one man pits the naked human mind against the perspicacity of machine intelligence.
In an era of genetic engineering, Lieutenant Henry Gallant is the only Natural (non-genetically enhanced) officer left in the fleet. In spite of his superiors’ concerns that he is not up to the challenge, his unique mental abilities have proven essential to the defense of the United Planets in its fight against the Titan invaders.
Serving on the first FTL prototype, the Intrepid, on its maiden voyage to Tau-Ceti, Gallant finds a lost human colony on the planet Elysium. Elysium’s leader, Cyrus Wolfe, has allied himself with an ancient Artificial Intelligence which had lain dormant on | |  | | Midshipman Henry Gallant in Space
Space Opera at its best. Rousing read, introverted young man against impossible odds, a girl to win or lose, an enemy or is he??
As the last star fighter in Squadron 111, Midshipman Henry Gallant is on his way from Jupiter to the nearest space base in orbit around Mars.
With the United Earth fleet on the verge of annihilation from alien ships, he can expect no help.
In order to reach Mars, Gallant must make his way through the asteroid belt and threating aliens.
With so much uncertainty about the alien capabilities and intentions, analyzing the captured computer equipment in Gallant’s possession could prove crucial.
The fate of Earth could rest on the abilities of Midshipman Henry | |  | | The Intelligent Wireless Web
Developing the next generation Web - The Intelligent Wireless Web - requires the compatibility, integration and synergy of the following five technology areas:
User Interface - from mouse and keyboard to speech;
Personal Space - from wired to multifunction wireless devices;
Networks - from wired to an integrated infrastructure;
Protocols - from Internet protocol (IP) to the Mobile IP; and
Web Architecture - from HTML/XML to Semantic architecture.
While progress is being made in wireless mobile devices, speech interfaces and intelligent software, the construction of an Intelligent Wireless Web requires the integration of advances in many disparate fields. There is need for clarifying the "Big Picture" of how the many and varied fields of study fit together - where they touch, where they cooperate and where they conflict.
As new intelligent products and applications become available, the Web appears to become smarter, or at least more productive. But whether or not the Artificial Intelligence (AI) programs being applied over the | |  | | Thinking on the Web:Berners-Lee, Godel and Turing
A vision of Web-enabled machine intelligence
Tim Berners-Lee, Kurt Gödel, and Alan Turing are the pivotal pioneers who opened the door to the Information Revolution, beginning with the introduction of the computer in the 1950s and continuing today with the World Wide Web evolving into a resource with intelligent features and capabilities.
Taking the main questions posed by these thinkers—"What is decidable?" by Gödel, "What is machine intelligence?" by Turing, and "What is solvable on the Web?" by Berners-Lee—as jumping-off points, Thinking on the Web offers an incisive guide to just how much "intelligence" can be projected onto the Web.
Presenting Web intelligence from both philosophical and applied perspectives, Thinking on the Web explores the next generation of Web architecture, the Semantic Web, and takes a realistic look at the Artificial Intelligence (AI) capabilities resulting from this new layer of machine pr |
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