From the Publisher: 
A Question of Identity 
Life on the Screen is a fascinating and wide-ranging investigation of the impact of computers and networking on society, peoples' perceptions of themselves, and the individual's relationship to machines. Sherry Turkle, a Professor of the Sociology of Science at MIT and a licensed psychologist, uses Internet MUDs (multi-user domains, or in older gaming parlance multi-user dungeons) as a launching pad for explorations of software design, user interfaces, simulation, artificial intelligence, artificial life, agents, "bots," virtual reality, and "the on-line way of life." 
Turkle's discussion of postmodernism is particularly enlightening. She shows how postmodern concepts in art, architecture, and ethics are related to concrete topics much closer to home, for example AI research (Minsky's "Society of Mind") and even MUDs (exemplified by students with X-window terminals who are doing homework in one window and simultaneously playing out several different roles in the same MUD in other windows). Those of you who have (like me) been turned off by the shallow, pretentious, meaningless paintings and sculptures that litter our museums of modern art may have a different perspective after hearing what Turkle has to say. 
This is a psychoanalytical book, not a technical one. However, software developers and engineers will find it highly accessible because of the depth of the author's technical understanding and credibility. Unlike most other authors in this genre, Turkle does not constantly jar the technically-literate reader with blatant errors or bogus assertions about how things work. Although I personally don't have time or patience for MUDs,view most of AI as snake-oil, and abhor postmodern architecture, I thought the time spent reading this book was an extremely good investment.

스크린 위의 삶 = Life on the screen : identity in the age of the internet

What Video Games Have to Teach Us about Learning and Literacy

Cultivating Communities of Practice: A Guide to Managing Knowledge

Unmarked: The Politics of Performance, Peggy Phelan. London: Routtedge, 1993. xi + 207 pp., figures, notes, bibliography, index.

Unmarked: The Politics of Performance

Fault tolerance in distributed computing is a wide area with a significant body of literature that is vastly diverse in methodology and terminology. This paper aims at structuring the area and thus guiding readers into this interesting field. We use a formal approach to define important terms like fault, fault tolerance, and redundancy. This leads to four distinct forms of fault tolerance and to two main phases in achieving them: detection and correction. We show that this can help to reveal inherently fundamental structures that contribute to understanding and unifying methods and terminology. By doing this, we survey many existing methodologies and discuss their relations. The underlying system model is the close-to-reality asynchronous message-passing model of distributed computing.

Fundamentals of fault-tolerant distributed computing in asynchronous environments

Failure and repair rates of components are often assumed to be exponentially distributed. This hypothesis is testable for failure rates, though the process of gathering and reducing the data to a usable form can be difficult. By applying an appropriate test statistic, some samples were found to have a realistic change of being drawn from an exponential distribution, while others can be confidently classed as nonexponential. Data were collected from a large number of hosts via the Internet. Almost all of the visible Internet (over 350000 hosts) were considered, and more than 68000 of these that were judged likely to respond were queried. These hosts were sampled several times to obtain up-times, and finally to determine average host availability. Estimates of availability, mean-time-to-failure, and mean-time-to-repair were derived. The results reported correspond with those commonly seen in practice. >

A study of the reliability of Internet sites

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Real Players?: Drama, Technology and Education

Block-Level Consistency of Replicated Files.

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A study of the reliability of Internet sites

Theory of Finite Automata With an Introduction to Formal Languages

Real Players?: Drama, Technology and Education

Block-Level Consistency of Replicated Files.

Digital Drama: A Snapshot of Evolving Forms