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General Magic [videorecording] / by Ferguson, Claire(Motion picture editor),editor of moving image work.; Kerruish, Sarah J.,film director,film producer,screenwriter.; Key, Jonathan,screenwriter.; Maude, Jay,director of photography.; Maude, Matt,film director,film producer,director of photography,screenwriter.; Meller, Anna,editor of moving image work.; Merrison, Benji,composer (expression); Gravitas Ventures (Firm),publisher.(CARDINAL)340634; Silva Screen,presenter.; Spellbound Productions (San Francisco, Calif.),presenter.;
Music by Benji Merrison ; directors of photography, Matt Maude & Jay Maude ; edited by Claire Ferguson & Anna Meller.From the first smartphones to social media, eBay to emojis, the ideas that dominate lives were born at a 1989 tech startup never heard of. It is a tale of how a great vision and an epic failure changed the world.Rating: TV-PG.DVD.
Subjects: Documentary films.; Feature films.; Nonfiction films.; Video recordings for the hearing impaired.; General Magic, Inc.; New business enterprises;
Available copies: 3 / Total copies: 3
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Customer-centered products : creating successful products through smart requirements management / by Hooks, Ivy F.(CARDINAL)119952; Farry, Kristin A.(CARDINAL)223704;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 261-266) and index.Introduction: Managers and Requirements -- Requirements: Structure for Success -- Why Johnny Can't Write Requirements: Cultural, Educational, and Management Influences of Requirement Definition -- American Culture -- Samples from Other Cultures -- Corporate Requirement Management Myths -- The Individual -- What Is the Solution? -- The View from the Top: Steps to Creating and Managing Good Requirements -- Why Adopt a Process? -- Requirements for a Requirement Definition Process -- What Process? -- What Is the Manager's Role? -- Just the Beginning -- Creating a Shared Vision: Scoping the Project Up Front -- Why Scope? -- How Do You Communicate Scope? -- How Much Effort Should You Invest in Defining Scope? -- What is the Manager's Role in Scope Definition? -- Scoping Success -- One Day in the Life of A Product: Using Operational Concepts to Improve Requirement Quality -- Why Should You Develop Operational Concepts? -- How Do You Develop Operational Concepts? -- Beyond Basic Usage -- The Abnormal -- Human Interface Detail -- Assessing Completeness -- Early Validation Opportunities -- What Is the Manager's Role in Operational Concepts? -- Operational Concepts Have High Return on Investment -- Collision Course: Identifying and Managing Interfaces -- Why Define External Interfaces So Soon? -- How Do You Identify Interfaces Early? -- The External Interfaces -- The Internal Interfaces -- Document, Document! -- What Is the Manager's Role with Interfaces? -- Ignoring Interface Issues Makes Them Bigger -- Be Careful What You Ask For: Writing Good Requirements -- Why Are Individual Requirements So Important? -- How Do You Recognize the Good? -- The Bad and the Ugly -- What Is the Manager's Role in Writing Requirements? -- A Review Mindset -- Theirs But to Reason Why: The Value of Recording Rationale -- Why Record Rationale? -- What Should Rationale Include? -- How and When Should You Capture Rationale? -- What Is the Manager's Role in Rationale? -- The Rationale for Rationale -- Everything in Its Place: Levels, Allocating, and Tracing Requirements -- What Are Requirement Levels? -- Why Is Writing Requirements to Levels Important? -- What Is Allocation? -- Why a Top-Down Requirement Allocation? -- What Is Traceability? -- Why Start Tracing Requirements Now? -- How Do You Get Every Requirement in the Right Place at the Right Time? -- What Is the Manager's Role in Levels, Allocation, and Traceability? -- Wrapping Up with Neat Packages -- But Will It Work? Thinking Ahead to Verification -- Why Look at Verification during Requirement Definition? -- How Do You Address Verification during Requirement Definition? -- What Is the Manager's Role in Assessing Verification? -- Verifying Your Assessment -- A Needle in a Haystack: Formatting Requirements -- What's Wrong with Just a List of Requirements? -- What Are the Requirements for a Requirement Format? -- How Do You Tailor? -- What Is the Manager's Role in Formatting Requirements? -- Maintaining Perspective among the Piles of Paper -- Drawing a Line in the Sand: Preparing to Baseline Requirements -- What's the Big Deal about a Baseline? -- Drawing the Line -- All at Once or Step-by-Step? -- What Is the Manager's Role in Baselining? -- The Bottom Line on Drawing the Line -- Not All Requirements Are Created Equal: The Case for Prioritizing Requirements -- The Case for Early Prioritization -- Selling the Concept of Prioritizing Requirements -- How Do You Prioritize Requirements? -- What Is the Manager's Role in Prioritizing Requirements? -- The Bottom Line on Prioritizing Requirements -- Keeping Sane: Automating Requirement Management -- Why Automate? -- How Do You Automate? -- What Is the Manager's Role in Automating Requirement Management? -- No Magic Here -- Death, Taxes, and Requirement Change: Managing Change -- Why Formal Change Control? -- How Do You Control Change? -- What Is the Manager's Role in Change Management? -- A Balancing Act -- Cap'n, Are We There Yet? Measuring Requirement Quality -- Why Measure Requirement Quality? -- Using Common Data for Quality Measurement -- The Fifth Amendment Syndrome -- What Is the Manager's Role in Measuring Requirement Quality? -- Measurement Is the Foundation of Improvement -- It Can Happen on Your Watch: Making Changes in an Organization's Requirement Definition Process -- The Process -- The Culture -- The Pitfalls -- The Price."This book will show you, as a manager, how to prevent failure by guiding and empowering your people to define and understand the right requirements early in the product development cycle." "Drawing on their 50 combined years of real-world product development experience in many industries - including aerospace, medical transportation, insurance, and military applications - the authors spell out exactly what's involved in "doing it right the first time." They provide tested methods for defining hardware and service products as well as software, a true rarity in handbooks on requirements."--Jacket.
Subjects: New products.; Production management.; Production planning.;
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Dot. unplugged / by Zuckerberg, Randi,creator.(CARDINAL)404602; Candlewick Press,editor.(CARDINAL)334430; Jim Henson Company.(CARDINAL)536287;
When the power goes out, it sparks an idea for Dot, Hal, Mom, and Dad. But stepping away from gadgets and devices isn't as easy as it seems. No video games, no laptaps or tablet, no drone. A trip to the basement turns up some interesting materials, none of which require electricity, software, or Internet access. What Dot and her family will need to plug into are their imaginations, creativity, and sense of adventure. They sing, play games, make art, and even read a book!
Subjects: Fiction.; Picture books.; Electric power failures; Electronics; Indoor games; Technology and children; Technology;
Available copies: 5 / Total copies: 6
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The DevOps handbook : how to create world-class agility, reliability, & security in technology organizations / by Kim, Gene,author.(CARDINAL)879299; Debois, Patrick,author.(CARDINAL)879700; Willis, John(Writer on information technology),author.(CARDINAL)878670; Humble, Jez,author.(CARDINAL)878025; Allspaw, John,writer of foreword.(CARDINAL)878971;
part I. The three ways: Agile, continuous delivery, and the three ways ; The first way : the principles of flow -- The second way : the principles of feedback ; The third way : the principles of continual learning and experimentation -- part II. Where to start: Selecting which value stream to start with ; Understanding the work in our value stream, making it visible, and expanding it across the organization ; How to design our organization and architecture with Conway's Law in mind ; How to get great outcomes by integrating operations into the daily work of development -- part III. The first way : the technical practices of flow: Create the foundations of our deployment pipeline ; Enable fast and reliable automated testing ; Enable and practice continuous integration ; Automate and enable low-risk releases ; Architect for low-risk releases -- part IV. The second way : the technical practices of feedback: Create telemetry to enable seeing and solving problems ; Analyze telemetry to better anticipate problems and achieve goals ; Enable feedback so development and operations can safely deploy code ; Integrate hypothesis-driven development and A/B testing into our daily work ; Create review and coordination processes to increase quality of our current work -- part V. The third way : the technical practices of continual learning and experimentation: Enable and inject learning into daily work ; Convert local discoveries into global improvements ; Reserve time to create organizational learning and improvement -- part VI. The technological practices of integrating information security, change, management, and compliance: Information security as everyone's job, every day ; Protecting the deployment pipeline, and integrating into change management and other security and compliance controls -- Conclusion to the DevOps handbook: A call to action."Increase profitability, elevate work culture, and exceed productivity goals through DevOps practices. More than ever, the effective management of technology is critical for business competitiveness. For decades, technology leaders have struggled to balance agility, reliability, and security. The consequences of failure have never been greater--whether it's the healthcare.gov debacle, cardholder data breaches, or missing the boat with Big Data in the cloud. And yet, high performers using DevOps principles, such as Google, Amazon, Facebook, Etsy, and Netflix, are routinely and reliably deploying code into production hundreds, or even thousands, of times per day. Following in the footsteps of The Phoenix Project, The DevOps Handbook shows leaders how to replicate these incredible outcomes, by showing how to integrate Product Management, Development, QA, IT Operations, and Information Security to elevate your company and win in the marketplace"--Includes bibliographical references (pages 366-407) and index.
Subjects: Handbooks and manuals.; Agile software development.; Information technology; Computer software; Corporate culture.; Industrial management.;
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Scythe [sound recording] / by Shusterman, Neal,author.(CARDINAL)766047; Tremblay, Greg,narrator.(CARDINAL)354868;
Performed by Greg Tremblay.A world with no hunger, no disease, no war, no misery: Humanity has conquered all those things and has even conquered death. Now Scythes are the only ones who can end life -- and they are commanded to do so in order to keep the size of the population under control. Citra and Rowan are chosen to apprentice to a scythe - a role that neither wants. These teens must master the "art" of taking life, knowing that the consequences of failure could mean losing their own.CD/MP3 player or PC with MP3 capable software.Michael L. Printz Honor, 2017YALSA Top Ten Best Fiction for Young Adults, 2017
Subjects: Death; Murder; Young adult fiction.;
Available copies: 9 / Total copies: 9
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Flowers on Main [sound recording] a Chesapeake Shores novel / by Woods, Sherryl.(CARDINAL)344511;
Performed by Christina Traister.When her last two plays are dismal failures and her relationship falls apart, writer Bree O{u2019}Brien abandons Chicago and returns home to Chesapeake Shores to open a flower shop in search of a new kind of fulfillment. But not all is peaceful and serene in Chesapeake Shores with her estranged mother on the scene and her ex-lover on the warpath. Jake Collins has plenty of reasons to want Bree out of his life, but none of those are a match for the one reason he wants her to stay: he{u2019}s still in love with her.System requirements: CD/MP3 player or PC with MP3-capable software.
Subjects: Bed and breakfast accomodations; Love stories.;
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The physics of Wall Street : a brief history of predicting the unpredictable / by Weatherall, James Owen.(CARDINAL)339877;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 250-268) and index.Of quants and other demons -- Primordial seeds -- Swimming upstream -- From coastlines to cotton prices -- Beating the dealer -- Physics hits the street -- The prediction company -- Tyranny of the Dragon King -- A new Manhattan project -- Send physics, math, and money!While many of the mathematicians and software engineers on Wall Street failed when their abstractions turned ugly in practice, a special breed of physicists has a much deeper history of revolutionizing finance. From fin-de-siècle Paris to Rat Pack-era Las Vegas, from wartime government labs to Yippie communes on the Pacific coast, Weatherall shows how physicists successfully brought their science to bear on some of the thorniest problems in economics, from options pricing to bubbles. The 2008 crisis was partly a failure of mathematical modeling, but even more, it was a failure of some very sophisticated financial institutions to think like physicists. Models--whether in science or finance--have limitations; they break down under certain conditions. And in 2008, sophisticated models fell into the hands of people who didn't understand their purpose, and didn't care. It was a catastrophic misuse of science. The solution, however, is not to give up on models; it's to make them better. Weatherall reveals the people and ideas on the cusp of a new era in finance. This book is riveting history that will change how we think about our economic future.--From publisher description.
Subjects: Securities; Securities industry;
Available copies: 3 / Total copies: 3
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Silicon Valley. by Judge, Mike,creator.(CARDINAL)341205; Altschuler, John,creator.(CARDINAL)341204; Krinsky, Dave,approximately 1963-(CARDINAL)341203; Berg, Alec,television producer.(CARDINAL)341195; Middleditch, Thomas,actor.(CARDINAL)341194; Brener, Josh,actor.(CARDINAL)341193; Miller, T. J.,1981-actor.(CARDINAL)340056; Starr, Martin,1982-actor.(CARDINAL)341191; Nanjiani, Kumail,actor.(CARDINAL)341192; Crew, Amanda,1986-actor.(CARDINAL)341189; Woods, Zach,1984-actor.(CARDINAL)341190; Ross, Matt,actor.(CARDINAL)341188; Cryer, Suzanne,actor.(CARDINAL)341186; Yang, Jimmy O.,actor.(CARDINAL)341187; Tobolowsky, Stephen,1951-actor.(CARDINAL)432241; Diamantopoulos, Chris,actor.(CARDINAL)557814; 3 Arts Entertainment (Firm),production company.(CARDINAL)341183; HBO Entertainment (Firm),presenter.(CARDINAL)341185; Home Box Office (Firm),publisher.(CARDINAL)165002; Judgmental Films,production company.(CARDINAL)341184; Warner Home Video (Firm),distributor.(CARDINAL)218485;
Thomas Middleditch, Josh Brener, T. J. Miller, Martin Starr, Kumail Nanjiani, Amanda Crew, Zach Woods, Matt Ross, Suzanne Cryer, Jimmy O. Yang, Stephen Tobolowsky, Chris Diamantopoulos.In the high-tech gold rush of modern Silicon Valley, the people most qualified to succeed are the least capable of handling success. A comedy partially inspired by Mike Judge's own experiences as a Silicon Valley engineer in the late 1980s.Rating: TVMADVD, NTSC, region 1; widescreen (16:9 aspect ratio); Dolby Digital 5.1 (English); Dolby Digital 2.0 (Latin Spanish)
Subjects: Video recordings for the hearing impaired.; Television series.; Fiction television programs.; Video recordings for the hearing impaired.; Comedy television programs.; Computer engineers; Computer programmers; Application software; Data compression (Computer science); New business enterprises; Businesspeople; Ingenieros; Computadoras; Software; Negocios; Spanish language materials; Informationstechnische Industrie.;
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Lighthouse [sound recording] a novel / by Price, Eugenia,author.(CARDINAL)504568; Richards, Tessa,narrator.;
Read by Tessa Richards.Raised in post-Revolution Granville, Massachusetts, James Gould longed to journey south to build bridges and lighthouses from his very own designs and plans. In time, he follows his dream--to Bangor on the Penobscot River, to St. Simons Island off the coast of Georgia, to lawless Spanish East Florida, and then back, finally, to St. Simons. Along the way, he encounters hardship, peril, failure, and success, but it is the unwavering love of Janie Harris, an especially beautiful and strong-willed young woman, that fulfills his deep need for someone who can share the dream and the life he has chosen.Compact disc-MP3 formatSystem requirements: CD/MP3 player or PC with MP3-capable software
Subjects: Audiobooks.; Historical fiction.; Romance fiction.; Gould, James (Fictitious character);
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Wiki government : how technology can make government better, democracy stronger, and citizens more powerful / by Noveck, Beth Simone.(CARDINAL)295694;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 191-218) and index.Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Collaborative democracy and the changing nature of expertise -- Peer-to-patent : a modest proposal -- The single point of failure -- Peer-to-patent and the patent challenge -- Patents and the information deficit -- Designing for collaborative democracy -- Thinking in wiki -- Social life of information -- History of citizen participation -- Citizen participation in a collaborative democracy -- Lessons learned."In explaining how to enhance political institutions with the power of networks, examines the Peer-to-Patent project. Discusses its design challenges faced in creating software to distill online collaboration into useful expertise. Explains how law, policy, and technology can be revamped to help government work in more open, participatory ways"--Provided by publisher.
Subjects: Case studies.; Political participation; Wikis (Computer science); Patent practice;
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