When your Internet cable leaves your living room, where does it go? Almost everything about our day-to-day lives-and the broader scheme of human culture-can be found on the Internet. But what is it physically? And where is it really? Our mental map of the network is as blank as the map of the ocean that Columbus carried on his first Atlantic voyage. The Internet, its material nuts and bolts, is an unexplored territory. Until now.In Tubes, journalist...

By one estimate, 90 percent of all of the data in history was created in the last two years. In 2014, International Data Corporation calculated the data universe at 4.4 zettabytes, or 4.4 trillion gigabytes. That much information, in volume, could fill enough slender iPad Air tablets to create a stack two-thirds of the way to the moon. Coal, iron ore, and oil were the key productive assets that fueled the Industrial Revolution. The vital raw material...

"An accessible guide for increasing female presence and leadership in tech companies. Tech giants like Apple and Google are among the fastest growing companies in the world, leading innovations in design and development. Owning most of the world's consumer electronics and digital software market, the cutting-edge tech industry extends far beyond Silicon Valley. The industry continues to see rapid growth and employs millions, in the US it is at the...

"From Erica Dhawan, co-author of Get Big Things Done, the definitive guide to communicating and connecting wherever you are. Email replies that show up a week later. Video chats full of 'oops sorry no you go' and 'can you hear me?!' Ambiguous text-messages. Weird punctuation you can't make heads or tails of. Is it any wonder communication takes us so much time and effort to figure out? How did we lose our innate capacity to understand each other?...

"Tech giants like Facebook, Amazon, and Google can collect real-time data from billions of users. For companies that design and manufacture physical products, that type of fluid, data-rich information used to be a pipe dream. Now, with the rise of cheap and powerful sensors, computing power, and artificial intelligence, things are changing-fast. In Fusion Strategy, world-renowned innovation guru Vijay Govindarajan and digital strategy expert Venkat...

The book is a story of the two most important protagonists in the IT business, who work together to help each other in achieving their specific goals through common means: buyer and supplier. This book brings out the subtle differences between different types of suppliers and buyers in the IT services industry, based on their objectives, offerings, and priorities. The book questions the status quo and prescribes 7 "C" principles based on simple observations,...

In Detail Writing business rules has always been a challenging task. Business rules tend to change often leading to a maintenance nightmare. This book shows you various ways to code your business rules using Drools, the open source Business Rules Management System. Drools JBoss Rules 5.5 Developer's Guide shows various features of the Drools platform by walking the reader through several real-world examples. Each chapter elaborates on different...

Move from ignorance to enlightenment on Bitcoin and Blockchain related technologies at the speed of light. Whether you're an IT knowledge worker, an investment banker, or just someone who wants to know what all the fuss is about, this book will explain everything you need to know about thee revolution that is Bitcoin and Blockchain. This is a very short primer covering the fundamental concepts necessary to understand Bitcoin and Blockchain and the...

Ever wondered how all the great-looking, feature packed, amazing Joomla! sites are made? Would you like to add image transitions, popups, scrolls, AJAX forms, image galleries, no-page reloads to your website, but are worried that they will be difficult to implement? To make any Joomla! site look more professional, interactive, and interesting you need the ease and power of jQuery.This book will help you to use the jQuery library with the Joomla! CMS....

One or many image sensor develops a digital image. Along with different kinds of light-sensitive cameras, it also incorporates a range of sensors, radar, tomography devices, ultra-sonic cameras, and so on. This book is helpful for undergraduate, postgraduate students, research scholars who belong to the field of image processing and engineering.