Information Technology

Robot waiters serve customers their meals. A digital fitness instructor tells its clients to work out harder. Driverless taxis take visitors around the city. No, we're not talking about science-fiction movies. This is the real world--a world we are sharing with artificial intelligence.

This bookwill bring awareness to community college administrators and faculty to the recent technological developments, such as Artificial Intelligence, autonomous vehicles, personal robots, 3-D printing, the Internet of Things, nanotechnology, genome research, bitcoin, and quantum computing.

These are complex topics and have been addressed from many different disciplinary perspectives. As a result, we discuss them from the point of view of philosophy, psychology, neuroscience, artificial intelligence and robotics.

Grokking Algorithms is a fully illustrated, friendly guide that teaches you how to apply common algorithms to the practical problems you face every day as a programmer. You'll start with sorting and searching and, as you build up your skills in thinking algorithmically, you'll tackle more complex concerns such as data compression and artificial intelligence.

This book provides a concise yet comprehensive overview on the setup, management, and governance of a cloud data lake. Author Rukmani Gopalan, a product management leader and data enthusiast, guides data architects and engineers through the major aspects of working with a cloud data lake, from design considerations and best practices to data format optimizations, performance optimization, cost management, and governance.

A Complete Guide to DevOps with AWS will show you how to use AWS DevOps to launch and scale services using AWS tools. It demonstrates how to handle infrastructure as code such as AWS CodeCommit, AWS CodeBuild, and AWS CodeArtifact, and how to adapt your software with familiar tools such as terraform and cloud formation.

This open access book brings together perspectives from multiple disciplines including psychology, law, IS, and computer science on data privacy and trust in the cloud. Cloud technology has fueled rapid, dramatic technological change, enabling a level of connectivity that has never been seen before in human history.

Linux Bible, 9th Edition is the ultimate hands-on Linux user guide, whether you're a true beginner or a more advanced user navigating recent changes. This updated ninth edition covers the latest versions of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 (RHEL 7), Fedora 21, and Ubuntu 10.04 LTS, and includes new information on cloud computing and development with guidance on Openstack and Cloudforms.

Cleverly illustrated and easy to understand, this is the book that cracks the mystery. You'll discover what flashlights, black cats, seesaws, and the ride of Paul Revere can teach you about computing, and how human ingenuity and our compulsion to communicate have shaped every electronic device we use.

A book that introduces readers to the fundamentals of hardware and software. It covers foundational aspects of computing, from binary and circuit design to the internet and modern computing, and includes a mix of exercises and hands-on activities.

Prolific hacker and author Simon Monk also teaches basic principles to help you use new technologies with Raspberry Pi as its ecosystem continues to develop. This cookbook is ideal for programmers and hobbyists familiar with the Pi through resources.

Provides information on personal computer maintenance and repair, covering such topics as hardware, software, networking, device manager, system restore, and security.

This book is an easy-to-follow series of tutorials that will lead readers through different facets of protecting household or small-business networks from cyber attacks.

Enterprise Networking, Security, and Automation Companion Guide is the official supplemental textbook for the Enterprise Networking, Security, and Automation v7 course in the Cisco Networking Academy CCNA curriculum.

Introduction to Networks Companion Guide is the official supplemental textbook for the Introduction to Networks course in the Cisco Networking Academy CCNA curriculum. The course introduces the architecture, protocols, functions, components, and models of the internet and computer networks.

Taking the connectivity optimization perspective, the book analyzes the problem theoretically and introduces an approximation framework to effectively optimize the network connectivity. Lastly, the book discusses the new research frontiers and directions to explore for network connectivity studies.

Official Cert Guide series from Cisco Press to help you learn, prepare, and practice for exam success. They are built with the objective of providing assessment, review, and practice to help ensure you are fully prepared for your certification exam.

This book is for anyone who wants to learn Microsoft Teams. To get the most out of the book, a basic understanding of Microsoft 365 and a subscription, including a Microsoft Teams license, is useful.

Each chapter focuses on a project that begins as a command-line batch program and grows into a fully fledged application. If you can write basic Java code, you'll learn state-of-the-art software development practices for building modern, robust, and maintainable Java software.

This book introduces the software defined system concept, architecture, and its enabling technologies such as software defined sensor networks (SDSN), software defined radio, cloud/fog radio access networks (C/F-RAN), software defined networking (SDN), network function virtualization (NFV), software defined storage, virtualization and docker.