An executive's guide to information technology; principles, business models, and terminology.9780521853361 An executive's guide to information technology; principles, business models, and terminology. Plant, Robert Robert, Henry Martyn 1837-1923. American army engineer and parliamentary authority. He designed the defenses for Washington, D.C., during the Civil War and later wrote Robert's Rules of Order (1876). Noun 1. and Stephen Murrell. Cambridge U. Pr. 2007 374 pages $65.00 Hardcover HD30 This reference defines about 200 terms in information technology for non-technical managers and executives and graduate students in business and technology management. Terms include computer-related process methodologies and technology-related laws in the US and UK. Along with definitions, an overview is given, with descriptions of the major advantages and disadvantages of the technology, and business value propositions. Examples of terms: anti-virus software anti-virus software n → Antivirensoftware f , HTML HTML in full HyperText Markup Language Markup language derived from SGML that is used to prepare hypertext documents. Relatively easy for nonprogrammers to master, HTML is the language used for documents on the World Wide Web. , virtual organization, Digital Millennium Copyright Act The Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) is a United States copyright law which implements two 1996 WIPO treaties. It criminalizes production and dissemination of technology, devices, or services that are used to measures that control access to copyrighted works (commonly , and spam E-mail that is not requested. Also known as "unsolicited commercial e-mail" (UCE), "unsolicited bulk e-mail" (UBE), "gray mail" and just plain "junk mail," the term is both a noun (the e-mail message) and a verb (to send it). . Plant teaches business administration at the U. of Miami, and Murrell teaches computer engineering there. ([c]20082005 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR) |
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