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Product Description: The demand for workers proficient in virtually any field involving computers, the Internet, and electronic information continues to grow. With this up-to-date volume, job-seekers can examine more than seventy jobs in the field, from programming to manufacturing to sales.

Offers more than four hundred alphabetically arranged, cross-referenced entries covering topics including artificial intelligence, hacking, user groups, and the World Wide Web.

Discusses mathematics and how it plans an intricate part of daily life rather than an isolated science.

Profiles eleven individuals who have greatly influenced the development of articificial intelligence, focusing on their struggle to accomplish what they have.

Profiles ten individuals, including inventors, engineers, and programmers, who have greatly influenced the field of telecommunications, focusing on their contributions and the struggle to promote their ideas.

Profiles eleven individuals, including mathematicians, engineers, and inventors, who have greatly influenced the field of robotics, focusing on their struggle to accomplish what they have.

Adresses issues of privacy in the context of computerized information, overviewing technologies, and legal issues.

Provides an overview of the topic, a chronology of important events, an annotated bibliography, and other resources for conducting further research.

Describes what computer viruses and worms are and how they work, why people would want to create and send viruses, the damage viruses, worms, and spam can cause, and what laws and measures are in place to prevent this damage.

A fascinating and comprehensive guide that provides students and general readers with the resources necessary to define, understand, and research issues related to cyber crime issues. Includes an annotated bibliography, an introduction, chronology, glossary, appendixes, and graphs. Annotation. Although the Internet traces its origins back more than 35 years, the online world as it is known today is only a decade old. Since the mid-1990s, email and Internet access have been transformed from 'techie preoccupations to everyday activities. Unfortunately, wider public access has led to some problems. The distribution of child pornography and the use of Internet chat rooms by pedophiles to gain access to children are two of the best-known and most feared formsof Internet predation. Recent large-scale operations conducted by the FBI, Interpol, and other law enforcement agencies have netted hundreds of alleged offenders. Other types of crime include cyber stalking and harassment using the Internet, frauds and scams carried out online or by email, identity theft, and other crimes related to personal information. Internet Predators discusses the struggle to combat criminal and antisocial activity online and to prevent victimization without excessively restrictingthe freedom that has helped make the online world a vital part of the U.S. economy and society. It focuses on the individual online user and on what service providers, regulatory agencies, law enforcement officials, legislators, and others can and shoulddo to protect the online public. A lively reference resource and useful research guide, this book provides readers with clear and essential information needed to define, understand, and research this important topic.Provides an overview of such Internet crimes as fraud, child pornography, identity theft, and stalking, and includes an annotated bibliography, relevant laws and court cases, and a list of organizations and agencies.

Provides an overview of gun control issues and includes such research aids as an annotated bibliography, relevant laws and court cases, and a list of organizations and agencies.

Reviews the history of drug abuse and regulation in the United States, surveys the laws and court cases that dictate drug policies, and suggests resources for researching drug abuse issues.

Provides information about what terrorism is, major organizations around the world, laws relating to terrorism and terroristic activities, and how to research the subject.

Provides a research tool on the role of the media, discussing the role it plays in society, how it shapes attitues, and generates publicity.

Looks at campaign and election reform and legal issues on campaign fund raising, including the Federal Election Campaign Act of 1974 and the Bipartisan Compaign Reform Act of 2002, with a chronology and profiles of key figures.

Provides concise biographical profiles of more than 100 men and women who have made significant contributions in the field of computer science.

Discusses the threat of terrorism in the United States, the changes wrought by the events of September 11, 2001, and how to research terrorism issues.

Discusses the nature of terrorism, major organizations around the world, laws relating to terrorism and terrorist activities, and specific terrorist attacks and trials. (view table of contents)

Discusses the history of computers, the Internet and World Wide Web, navigating tools, and electronic commerce, with an emphasis on developers and entrepreneurs in the field. (view table of contents)

Provides information about what terrorism is, major organizations around the world, laws relating to terrorism and terroristic activities, and how to research the subject. (view table of contents)

Looks at the developments in nuclear energy from the discovery of radiation to the present. (view table of contents)