A Postcard from the Lickeys
Author: Joe Brannan
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Published: 2001
Total Pages: 108
ISBN-13: 9781858582009
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Author: Joe Brannan
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Published: 2001
Total Pages: 108
ISBN-13: 9781858582009
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Total Pages: 516
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Author: Andrew Maxam
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Published: 2016-07
Total Pages: 39
ISBN-13: 9780993012044
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Published: 1989
Total Pages: 80
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Published: 1998
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Josep Domingo-Ferrer
Publisher: Springer
Published: 2013-03-14
Total Pages: 388
ISBN-13: 0387355286
DOWNLOAD EBOOKSmart cards or IC cards offer a huge potential for information processing purposes. The portability and processing power of IC cards allow for highly secure conditional access and reliable distributed information processing. IC cards that can perform highly sophisticated cryptographic computations are already available. Their application in the financial services and telecom industries are well known. But the potential of IC cards go well beyond that. Their applicability in mainstream Information Technology and the Networked Economy is limited mainly by our imagination; the information processing power that can be gained by using IC cards remains as yet mostly untapped and is not well understood. Here lies a vast uncovered research area which we are only beginning to assess, and which will have a great impact on the eventual success of the technology. The research challenges range from electrical engineering on the hardware side to tailor-made cryptographic applications on the software side, and their synergies. This volume comprises the proceedings of the Fourth Working Conference on Smart Card Research and Advanced Applications (CARDIS 2000), which was sponsored by the International Federation for Information Processing (IFIP) and held at the Hewlett-Packard Labs in the United Kingdom in September 2000. CARDIS conferences are unique in that they bring together researchers who are active in all aspects of design of IC cards and related devices and environments, thus stimulating synergy between different research communities from both academia and industry. This volume presents the latest advances in smart card research and applications, and will be essential reading for smart card developers, smart card application developers, and computer science researchers involved in computer architecture, computer security, and cryptography.
Author: Arthur James Wells
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Published: 1993
Total Pages: 2000
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Humphrey Carpenter
Publisher: HarperCollins
Published: 2014-03-04
Total Pages: 301
ISBN-13: 0547524420
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe authorized biography of the creator of Middle-earth. “One of the most interesting and readable biographies of a literary figure.” —The Times In the decades since his death in September 1973, millions have read The Hobbit, The Lord of the Rings, and The Silmarillion and become fascinated about the very private man behind the books. Born in South Africa in January 1892, John Ronald Reuel Tolkien was orphaned in childhood and brought up in near-poverty. He served in the first World War, surviving the Battle of the Somme, where he lost many of the closest friends he’d ever had. After the war he returned to the academic life, achieving high repute as a scholar and university teacher, eventually becoming Merton Professor of English at Oxford where he was a close friend of C. S. Lewis and the other writers known as “The Inklings.” Then suddenly his life changed dramatically. One day while grading essay papers he found himself writing “In a hole in the ground there lived a hobbit”—and worldwide renown awaited him. Humphrey Carpenter was given unrestricted access to all Tolkien’s papers, and interviewed his friends and family. From these sources he follows the long and painful process of creation that produced The Lord of the Rings and The Silmarillion and offers a wealth of information about the life and work of the twentieth century’s most cherished author. “J. R. R. Tolkien left his impress upon a whole generation as few recent writers have done . . . an excellent biography.” —Newsweek “A panorama of vignettes done with poise and exhaustive command. A man emerges whole.” —The Washington Post Book World
Author: Keith M. Martin
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2017
Total Pages: 707
ISBN-13: 0198788002
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