APPPLIED CRYPTOGRAPHY: PROTOCOLS, AGORITHMS, AND SOURCE CODE IN C, Bruce Schneier, John Wiley & Sons, ISBN 0-471-59756-2, $44.95
The opening sentence in the preface of Applied Cryptography says it all--I have to quote it: "There are two kinds of cyrptograp
hy in this world: cryptography that will stop your kid sister from reading your files, and cryptography that will stop major governments from reading your files.
- by Rick Grehan
FIRST PERSON: MARVIN MINSKY, THE SOCIETY OF MIND, The Voyager Co., 578 Broadway, Suite 406, New Yor
k, NY 10012, (212) 431-5199, $49.95
The Voyager Co., a pioneer in moving printed media to electronic media, serves up a new CD-ROM title, First Person: Marvin Minsky, The Society of Mind.
- by Tom Thompson
PLUG & PLAY PROGRAMMING: AN OBJECT-ORIENTED CONSTRUCITON KIT, William Won
g, M&T Books, ISBN 1-55851-302-7, $39.95 (with disk)
Programming fads come and go, but the search for the Holy Grail productivity, reusability, and simplicity continues unabated.
- by Raymond GA Cote
VISUALIZATION OF NATURAL PHENOMENA, Robert S. Wolff and Larry Yaeger, Springer-V
erlag, ISBN 0-387-97809-7, $59.95
With its large format and classy production, this 374-page volume might be mistaken for a coffee table book.
- by Scott Wallace
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