About the Author Dana Moore is a Senior Scientist with BBN Technologies in Arlington, VA. He joined BBN in June 2001 to focus on ULTRA*LOG, a DARPA initiative to build very large-scale Java-based multi-agent societies. Previously, he was Chief Scientist with Roku Technologies, a P2P infrastructure developer, and prior to that, a Distinguished Member of Technical Staff at AT&T Laboratories Research. He is the coauthor of Peer-to-Peer: Building Secure, Scalable, and Manageable Networks. He is a popular conference speaker on software agent systems and various management topics, a university lecturer, and he has contributed articles for numerous computing publications. Moore holds a master of science degree in Technology Management from the University of Maryland, and a bachelor of science in Industrial Design, also from the University of Maryland. William Wright is a Division Engineer with BBN Technologies in Arlington, VA. He provides architecture design and development support for several projects utilizing the Cognitive Agent Architecture (Cougaar) distributed software agent framework. He led the integration and demonstration of one of the world's largest software agent systems, and led the development of an extension to Cougaar to bring agent technology to embedded systems. He has recently written for Java Developer's Journal, Dr. Dobb's Journal, and Embedded Systems Programming magazines. He is coauthor of the book Beginning Java Networking. Wright holds an M.S. in computer science from George Mason University and a Bachelor of Music Education from Indiana University. Read more
B**N
Interesting, but...
This is a reprint of a book originally published in 1890. So one expects that some of the things in it may have been superseded as more study has occurred. But that is not its problem, as we are talking about a subject that was rather thoroughly explored even back then. The real problem is that it expects the reader to be able fluently to read a number of different alphabets (or syllabaries): at least four different scripts (Amharic, Arabic, Hebrew/Aramaic, and Syriac), only transliterating some, but not all, of the words and phrases used as examples. I am pretty well conversant with the Hebrew script, especially as the examples generally have vowel points, but cannot make head or tail of the others, so the usefulness is limited -- where transliterations are provided, fine, but otherwise, I'm at a loss.So let the reader be warned.
J**L
poor printing quality
Excellent book to read, not for beginners. I was able to read the content since I am fluent in Semitic languages. The only issue that I didn’t like about this book is the poor printing quality. Because the book was originally published in 1890, certain vowels were missing and not clear.
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