Invisible Networks

Invisible Networks
Author: Ann Durkin Keating
Publisher:
Total Pages: 116
Release: 1994
Genre: History
ISBN: 9780894648717

This work explores public works as a part of community history. It: examines visible structures and identifies the tools for exploring their history; looks at invisible networks that tie homes to communities and communities to regions; and examines the financers, builders and users of public works.

The Creative Lawyer

The Creative Lawyer
Author: Michael F. Melcher
Publisher: American Bar Association
Total Pages: 196
Release: 2007
Genre: Law
ISBN: 9781590318430

A high level of pay doesn't necessarily mean a high level of satisfaction. Written in a fun and inspirational way, this book will help lawyers find a way to happiness in their career and life. Starting with self examination, readers will be able to analyze their personal values and then create their own personal fulfillment plan. Create a step-by-step plan for life and career that will get you back on track with your personal definition of happiness with this important book.

Intelligent Infrastructure

Intelligent Infrastructure
Author: T. F. Tierney
Publisher: University of Virginia Press
Total Pages: 290
Release: 2017-02-03
Genre: Architecture
ISBN: 0813939429

While many of its traditional elements, such as roads and utilities, do not change, urban infrastructure is undergoing a fascinating and necessary transformation in the wake of new information and communication technologies. This volume brings together many of the most important new voices in the fields impacting modern urban infrastructure to explore this revolutionary change in the city. Increasingly, it is connective systems rather than built forms that bind a city together. Intelligent infrastructure confers upon a city previously unimagined levels of adaptability, with mobile telephony serving to organize people and events on the move and in real time. Beginning with a consideration of invisible networks—the sociohistorical systems that contribute to and constitute urbanity—the essays collected here examine a variety of actual tools, from handheld devices to autonomous vehicles, within a fully networked built environment: the smart city. This book argues that knowledge of both the visible and invisible components--information, energy, sustainability, transportation, housing, and social practices--are critical to understanding the urban environment. The dynamic and diverse cast of contributors includes Mitchell Schwarzer, Frederic Stout, Anthony Townsend, Carlo Ratti of the MIT SENSEable City Lab, Mitchell Joachim of Terreform ONE, and many other innovators who are changing the urban landscape.

Invisible Users

Invisible Users
Author: Jenna Burrell
Publisher: MIT Press
Total Pages: 249
Release: 2012-05-04
Genre: Technology & Engineering
ISBN: 0262300680

An account of how young people in Ghana's capital city adopt and adapt digital technology in the margins of the global economy. The urban youth frequenting the Internet cafés of Accra, Ghana, who are decidedly not members of their country's elite, use the Internet largely as a way to orchestrate encounters across distance and amass foreign ties—activities once limited to the wealthy, university-educated classes. The Internet, accessed on second-hand computers (castoffs from the United States and Europe), has become for these youths a means of enacting a more cosmopolitan self. In Invisible Users, Jenna Burrell offers a richly observed account of how these Internet enthusiasts have adopted, and adapted to their own priorities, a technological system that was not designed with them in mind. Burrell describes the material space of the urban Internet café and the virtual space of push and pull between young Ghanaians and the foreigners they encounter online; the region's famous 419 scam strategies and the rumors of “big gains” that fuel them; the influential role of churches and theories about how the supernatural operates through the network; and development rhetoric about digital technologies and the future viability of African Internet cafés in the region. Burrell, integrating concepts from science and technology studies and African studies with empirical findings from her own field work in Ghana, captures the interpretive flexibility of technology by users in the margins but also highlights how their invisibility puts limits on their full inclusion into a global network society.

The Invisible Organization

The Invisible Organization
Author: Neil Farmer
Publisher: Gower Publishing, Ltd.
Total Pages: 232
Release: 2008
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 9780566088773

We are on the verge of major breakthroughs in change management, knowledge management, organizational design, talent management, employee engagement, innovation, outsourcing and almost all of the traditional approaches to HR. Managing and motivating people effectively in a turbulent, fast-changing world is, for the first time, about to enter the executive's comfort zone. Neil Farmer explains how to adapt your organization to the informal networks that form most of the basis for communication between managers and employees. It is possible to identify accurately who the key players are across informal personal networks and this book explores the key themes.

Hidden Patterns

Hidden Patterns
Author: Mónica Bello
Publisher: Hatje Cantz Verlag
Total Pages: 97
Release: 2021-01-19
Genre: Art
ISBN: 3775748628

Netzwerke liefern zweifelsohne eines der zentralen Modelle unserer Gegenwart und unseres Lebens. Aber was versteht man eigentlich darunter? Welche Vorstellungen können wir uns von ihnen machen? Niemand sonst könnte diese Fragen besser beantworten als Albert-László Barabási. Er ist Professor für Physik und Leiter des CCNR (Center for Complex Network Research) an der Northeastern University in Boston. Seine Forschung reicht von den Verzweigungen sozialer Medien über die Interaktion von Proteinen bis hin zu Galaxie-Konstellationen. Eng arbeitet er mit Designern und Künstlern zusammen, um Netzwerken eine nachvollziehbare und ästhetisch beeindruckende Visualität zu verleihen. Seine Werke werden in Kunstgalerien und Museen gehandelt und bestaunt, denn dort begegnen sich Komplexität und Schönheit auf einmalige Weise.

Network World

Network World
Author:
Publisher:
Total Pages: 60
Release: 1998-07-06
Genre:
ISBN:

For more than 20 years, Network World has been the premier provider of information, intelligence and insight for network and IT executives responsible for the digital nervous systems of large organizations. Readers are responsible for designing, implementing and managing the voice, data and video systems their companies use to support everything from business critical applications to employee collaboration and electronic commerce.

Mobile and Wireless Communications

Mobile and Wireless Communications
Author: Peter Smyth
Publisher: IET
Total Pages: 412
Release: 2004-02-02
Genre: Computers
ISBN: 0863413684

The following topics are dealt with: Future of mobile and wireless communications; optical radio-a review of a radical new technology for wireless access infrastructure; wireless LANs-present and future; future applications of bluetooth; ultrawideband and its capabilities; ad hoc wireless networks; scalability, capacity and local connectivity in ad hoc networks; the role of ad hoc networks in mobility; securing mobile ad hoc networks - a motivational approach; the use of satellite for multimedia communications; evolving systems beyond 3G-the 1st brain and mind projects; economic tussles in the public mobile access market; enabling applications deployment on mobile networks; the parlay API-allowing third party application providers safe and secure access to network capabilities; radio spectrum management for tetherless communications; mobile multimedia services; multimodality-the future of the wireless user interface; mobile video-streaming; a social history of the mobile telephone with a view of its future.