ITA - Information Technology Associates

Research Strategies: Finding Your Way Through the Information Fog is a textbook in informational research for students in higher education. Topics include Taking Charge, Databases, Information Fog, Periodical Maze, Internet Research, Other Resources, Case Studies, Learning to Read, Organizing Notes and Research Writing.

Information Theory, Inference, and Learning Algorithms

Information Theory, Inference, and Learning Algorithms is available free online. This book is divided into six parts as Data Compression, Noisy-Channel Coding, Further Topics in Information Theory, Probabilities and Inference, Neural networks, Sparse Graph Codes.

The Online Edition of The Unicode Standard, Version 3.0

This is the online edition of The Unicode Standard, Version 3.0. It consists of PDF files, an online glossary, links to the charts, technical reports, and other files.

The Virtual Community

'The Virtual Community,' even though a more accurate title might be: 'People who use computers to communicate, form friendships that sometimes form the basis of communities, but you have to be careful to not mistake the tool for the task and think that just writing words on a screen is the same thing as real community

Underground

Underground: Tales of hacking, madness and obsession on the electronic frontier can be downloaded in variety of formats.

Information Retrieval Interaction

The aims of the book are to establish a unifying scientific approach to IR – a synthesis based on the concept of IR interaction and the Cognitive Viewpoint; to present research and developments in the field of information retrieval based on a new categorisation; and to generate a consolidated framework of functional requirements for intermediary analysis and design – the Mediator Model.

Spinning the Web

Spinning the Web was the first book in print to deal with publishing information on the Web. I wrote the first edition in October and November 1994 and formatted this electronic version in December 1994, while the book was being printed. The publishers now have no copies of the first edition left in stock and have given permission for this HTML version to be published on the web

Digital History

Digital History: A Guide to Gathering, Preserving, and Presenting the Past on the Web provides for the first time a plainspoken and thorough introduction to the web for historians--teachers and students, archivists and museum curators, professors as well as amateur enthusiasts--who wish to produce online historical work or to build upon and improve the projects they have already started in this important new medium.

Cable Mergers and Monopolies

Cable Mergers and Monopolies: Market Power in Digital Media and Communications Networks provides a detailed study of the increasingly concentrated cable TV industry, which has dominated the video market for decades and is rapidly gaining dominance in the high-speed Internet market.

Tools for Thought

Tools for Thought: The History and Future of Mind-Expanding Technology by Howard Rheingold is available online.