NOW FOR THEN: HOW TO FACE THE DIGITAL FUTURE WITHOUT FEAR

Ben Hammersley gives readers the essential guide to the things they need to know for life in the 21st century. The book explains the effects of the changes in the modern world, and the latest ideas in technology, culture, business and politics. Now for Then will demystify the Internet, decode cyber space, and guide readers through the innovations of the revolution they are all living through.

Published by: Hodder Paperback

REAL-TIME SYSTEMS

Hermann Kopetz focuses on hard real-time systems, which are computing systems that must meet their temporal specification in all anticipated load and fault scenarios. The book stresses the system aspects of distributed real-time applications, treating the issues of real-time, distribution and fault-tolerance from an integral point of view. Real-Time Systems: Design Principles for Distributed Embedded Applications also serves as an invaluable reference for professionals in industry.

Published by: Springer-Verlag New York

ELEMENTS OF QUANTUM COMPUTATION AND QUANTUM COMMUNICATION

Anirban Pathak gives a clear, self-contained introduction to quantum computation and communication. The book is written primarily for undergraduate students in physics, mathematics, computer science, and related disciplines. The introductory text is also suitable for researchers interested in quantum computation and communication. The book covers quantum Turing machines, error correction, the quantum circuit model of computation, and complexity classes relevant to quantum computing and cryptography.

Published by: CRC Press

WIRELESS NETWORKING – UNDERSTANDING INTERNETWORKING CHALLENGES

Jack L Burbank, Julia Andrusenko, Jared S Everett, and William Kasch focus on providing practical explanations of key existing and emerging wireless networking technologies and trends, while minimising the amount of theoretical background information. The book goes beyond simply presenting what the technology is, but also examines why the technology is the way it is, the history of its development, standardisation, and deployment.

Published by: John Wiley & Sons