In the near future, information technology is likely to be one of the most potent growth areas in advanced industrialised countries. Indeed, it is ...

Information processing and technology have known an impressive development recently and are poles of attraction for many engineers and scientists. ...

Federal agencies and our nation's critical infrastructures, such as communications and financial services, are dependent on information technology ...

While the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) has taken steps to protect its air traffic control systems from cyber-based and other threats, sign...

Information Superhighway Issues & Challenges

Information systems are critical to the health, economy, and security of the nation. To support these systems, the federal government invested over...

The federal government spends more than $80 billion each year on information technology (IT) investments; in FY2017 that investment is expected to ...

Planned federal information technology (IT) spending has now risen to at least $81 billion for fiscal year 2012. Although a variety of best practic...

The United States Trade Representative (USTR) asked the U.S. International Trade Commission (USITC) to deliver two reports providing advice and inf...

This book consists of several chapters, each of which focuses upon the different aspects of innovative usage of modern Informational Technology and...

This book leverages the discipline of data integration and applies it to the Hadoop open-source software framework for storing data on clusters of ...

Contains eight chapters from leading experts from across the globe, chronicling recent developments in the design, development, and implementation ...

This book reflects on the unique dynamics of the international on-line marketplace.

A practical introduction to the Internet, which covers subjects such as E-mail; surfing the Net; World Wide Web; Gopher; TELNET; Wide Area Informat...

Everyone is doing it, doing it, doing it -- but what is it? it is proclaimed as the vehicle to success, happiness and even wealth? But what is it? ...

Internet has become an integral part of the life of millions of people in the Western countries and in the developing world. Millions of people sea...

The People's Republic of China (PRC) has the world's largest number of Internet users, estimated at 500 million people. Despite government efforts ...

Communication technologies, such as computers and cell phones, and social-networking sites like My Space enable the rapid creation and disseminatio...

The authors set out to demystify the Internet and put it into a context that makes it relevant and accessible to as many women as possible. It is f...

This book presents a review of the federal criminal statutes implicated by conducting illegal gambling using the Internet. It also discusses some o...

Hundreds of millions of people search the Internet everyday throughout the world. In the process, they are exposed to the ever-confusing jargon, wh...

The Internet is often described as a "network of networks" because it is not a single physical entity, but hundreds of thousands of interconnected ...

The Internet of Things ("IoT") refers to the ability of everyday objects to connect to the Internet and to send and receive data. It includes, for ...

Internet of things (IOT) encompasses a wide range of objects and technologies such as radio frequency identification (RFID), near field communicati...