The emergence of net-centric computing : network computers, Internet appliances, and connected PCs /

The traditional PC is history: Net-centric computing is the future. But what form will it take? Computing appliances, "connected PCs," Web-enabled set-top boxes, Webphones, Internet-connected wireless communicators, or Java-based network computers? All of them - or something else entirely?...

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Main Author: Cole, Bernard Conrad
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Upper Saddle River, N.J. : Prentice Hall PTR, c1999.
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Table of Contents:
  • Preface: Connecting The Dots: Engineers and the Net-Centric Paradigm
  • Pt. I. The Varieties of Net-centric Computing. Ch. 1. Network Computers: Reinventing The Wheel? Ch. 2. Web-enabled Set-top Boxes. Ch. 3. The Evolution of The Net-centric Appliance. Ch. 4. Connected PCs and NetPCs
  • Pt. II. Building Blocks. Ch. 5. Java and The Internet: Do We Need a "Lingua Internetica?" Ch. 6. Alternatives to Java. Ch. 7. Selecting A Net-centric Operating System. Ch. 8. Distributed Objects and Net-centric Computing. Ch. 9. Choosing the Right Processor
  • Pt. III. Listening for the Web Tone. Ch. 10. Building More Reliable Boxes. Ch. 11. Securing Network Connections. Ch. 12. Building Better I/O. Ch. 13. Adding 64-bit Muscle To The Internet. Ch. 14. Monitoring and Safeguarding the Network
  • Pt. IV. The Future of the Internet. Ch. 15. Multimedia and the Future of the Internet. Ch. 16. New Processors for the New Internet. Ch. 17. Achieving Real-time Networked Multimedia.
  • Ch. 18. Moving from GUI to NUI...To XUI?