Publisher's Synopsis
Covering every aspect of the internet for professionals, this up-to-date, three-volume compendium offers a broad perspective on the internet as a business tool, an IT platform, and a medium for communications and commerce. It presents leading-edge theory and developments as described by global experts from such prestigious institutions as Stanford University and Harvard University, and such leading corporations as Microsoft and Sun Microsystems. It is available in both a print version and as an online product.;The key features of the volumes include: detailed cross-referencing and extensive references to additional reading; more than 200 articles vigorously peer-reviewed by more than 800 academics and practitioners from around the world; more than 1000 illustrations and tables for in-depth understanding of complex subjects; and eleven major subject categories that address key issues in design, utilization, and management of internet-based systems.
