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  • Differential Privacy

    by Simson L. Garfinkel ...
    Series series The MIT Press Essential Knowledge series
    A robust yet accessible introduction to the idea, history, and key applications of differential privacy—the gold standard of algorithmic privacy protection.Differential privacy (DP) is an increasingly popular, though controversial, approach to protecting personal data. DP protects confidential data by introducing carefully calibrated random numbers, called statistical noise, when the data is used. ... Read more

    $19.99 CAD

  • Security and Usability

    Designing Secure Systems that People Can Use

    by Lorrie Faith Cranor, Simson Garfinkel ...
    Human factors and usability issues have traditionally played a limited role in security research and secure systems development. Security experts have largely ignored usability issues--both because they often failed to recognize the importance of human factors and because they lacked the expertise to address them.But there is a growing recognition that today's security problems can be solved only ... Read more

    $35.99 CAD

  • Practical UNIX and Internet Security

    Securing Solaris, Mac OS X, Linux & Free BSD

    by Simson Garfinkel, Gene Spafford, Alan Schwartz ...
    When Practical Unix Security was first published more than a decade ago, it became an instant classic. Crammed with information about host security, it saved many a Unix system administrator from disaster. The second edition added much-needed Internet security coverage and doubled the size of the original volume. The third edition is a comprehensive update of this very popular book - a companion ... Read more

    $39.99 CAD

  • Database Nation

    The Death of Privacy in the 21st Century

    by Simson Garfinkel ...
    Fifty years ago, in 1984, George Orwell imagined a future in which privacy was demolished by a totalitarian state that used spies, video surveillance, historical revisionism, and control over the media to maintain its power. Those who worry about personal privacy and identity--especially in this day of technologies that encroach upon these rights--still use Orwell's "Big Brother" language to ... Read more

    $12.99 CAD

  • Web Security, Privacy & Commerce

    Security for Users, Administrators and ISPs

    by Simson Garfinkel, Gene Spafford ...
    Since the first edition of this classic reference was published, World Wide Web use has exploded and e-commerce has become a daily part of business and personal life. As Web use has grown, so have the threats to our security and privacy--from credit card fraud to routine invasions of privacy by marketers to web site defacements to attacks that shut down popular web sites.Web Security, Privacy & ... Read more

    $35.99 CAD

  • The Computer Book

    From the Abacus to Artificial Intelligence, 250 Milestones in the History of Computer Science

    by Simson L Garfinkel, Rachel H. Grunspan ...
    Series series Union Square & Co. Milestones
    Part of Sterling’s extremely popular Milestones series, this illustrated exploration of computer science ranges from the ancient abacus to superintelligence and social media.With 250 illustrated landmark inventions, publications, and events—encompassing everything from ancient record-keeping devices to the latest computing technologies—this highly topical addition to the Sterling Milestones series ... Read more

    $19.99 CAD

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  • Artificial Intelligence and Legal Analytics

    New Tools for Law Practice in the Digital Age

    by Kevin D. Ashley ...
    The field of artificial intelligence (AI) and the law is on the cusp of a revolution that began with text analytic programs like IBM's Watson and Debater and the open-source information management architectures on which they are based. Today, new legal applications are beginning to appear and this book - designed to explain computational processes to non-programmers - describes how they will ... Read more

    $57.99 CAD

  • Privacy, Big Data, and the Public Good

    Frameworks for Engagement

    Edited by Julia Lane, Victoria Stodden, Stefan Bender, Helen Nissenbaum ...
    Massive amounts of data on human beings can now be analyzed. Pragmatic purposes abound, including selling goods and services, winning political campaigns, and identifying possible terrorists. Yet 'big data' can also be harnessed to serve the public good: scientists can use big data to do research that improves the lives of human beings, improves government services, and reduces taxpayer costs. In ... Read more

    $44.99 CAD

  • Computational Social Science

    Discovery and Prediction

    Edited by R. Michael Alvarez ...
    Series series Analytical Methods for Social Research
    Quantitative research in social science research is changing rapidly. Researchers have vast and complex arrays of data with which to work: we have incredible tools to sift through the data and recognize patterns in that data; there are now many sophisticated models that we can use to make sense of those patterns; and we have extremely powerful computational systems that help us accomplish these ... Read more

    $39.99 CAD

  • Telling Stories with Data

    With Applications in R

    by Rohan Alexander ...
    Series series Chapman & Hall/CRC Data Science Series
    The book equips students with the end-to-end skills needed to do data science. That means gathering, cleaning, preparing, and sharing data, then using statistical models to analyse data, writing about the results of those models, drawing conclusions from them, and finally, using the cloud to put a model into production, all done in a reproducible way.At the moment, there are a lot of books that ... Read more

    $159.99 CAD

  • Modern Data Science with R

    by Benjamin S. Baumer, Daniel T. Kaplan, Nicholas J. Horton ...
    Series series Chapman & Hall/CRC Texts in Statistical Science
    From a review of the first edition: "Modern Data Science with R… is rich with examples and is guided by a strong narrative voice. What’s more, it presents an organizing framework that makes a convincing argument that data science is a course distinct from applied statistics" (The American Statistician).Modern Data Science with R is a comprehensive data science textbook for undergraduates that ... Read more

    $174.99 CAD

  • Spationomy

    Spatial Exploration of Economic Data and Methods of Interdisciplinary Analytics

    Edited by Vít Pászto, Carsten Jürgens, Polona Tominc, Jaroslav Burian ...
    This open access book is based on "Spationomy – Spatial Exploration of Economic Data", an interdisciplinary and international project in the frame of ERASMUS+ funded by the European Union.The project aims to exchange interdisciplinary knowledge in the fields of economics and geomatics. For the newly introduced courses, interdisciplinary learning materials have been developed by a team of lecturers ... Read more

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