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The article reviews the book "Information Technology for the Health Professions," by Lillian Burke and Barbara Weill.

The article reviews the book "The Guide to IT Contracting," by Samuel Blankson.

As the first narrative to integrate the many dimensions of cybernetics into a single narrative, this book presents a new answer to this crucial question. For Ronald Kline, cybernetics was most critically a site of contestation, and more specifically of what sociologists term boundary work. Practitioners continuously fought over and redrew the borders of cybernetics, demarcating it from adjacent disciplines like information theory, general systems theory, and bionics, and dividing cybernetics itself into subdisciplines like management cybernetics and medical cybernetics. Many of the founders of the field had the ambition to create a universal discipline, but Kline emphasizes their failure to do so, as practitioners disagreed about the content of cybernetics, fractured it into more narrowly defined disciplines, or carried lessons back to traditional disciplines and, thus, abandoned the project of building a new one. Kline's emphasis on boundary work is supported by his careful attention to shifting alliances, discourses, and research programs. He points out, for example, that the cofounders of cybernetics who attended the Macy Conferences in the 1940s and 1950s focused on feedback and circular causality only in their first meetings; after about 1949, they fixed their attention firmly on the question of how to measure information. Concepts and discourses of information remain a central dimension of the book from that point forward; it devotes a chapter to how scientists constructed information theory as a distinct discipline in the 1950s, and another to how the phrases information technology and information society became ubiquitous tools for making sense of technology and society in the 1980s and 1990s. Kline's accounts of the relationships between cybernetics and the fringe are strongest in these accounts of the 1950s, when many of those involved were canonical founders of cybernetics. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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The article reviews the book "Privacy in Context: Technology, Policy, and the Integral of Social Life," by Helen Nissenbaum.

This article is an analytical review of the book “ROI for Technology Projects: Measuring and Delivering Value” by Roulstone and Phillips. The authors of the book effectively demystify a popular perception of the return on investment (ROI) metric as an ad hoc calculation based on a simple formula. They promote ROI assessment as a set of procedures that process data to provide an effective evaluation of a project. The book collects and arranges a large volume of material on ROI, and presents it with consistency, in plain English, and at a level which will be appreciated by an information technology (IT) professional. This review highlights several points to be kept in mind by readers of Roulstone and Phillips’ book to encourage unimpassioned expectations of the ROI metric and its implementation for IT initiatives. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

The article reviews the book "Sarbanes-Oxley IT Compliance Using COBIT and Open Source Tools," by Christian Lathi, Roderick Peterson, and Steve Lanza.

The article reviews the book "The Executive's Guide to Information Technology," by John Baschab and Jon Piot.

Reviews the web site about information technology-related white papers, product literature, webcats, analyst reports and case studies from Bitpipe Inc.

The article reviews the book "From Gutenberg to the Internet: A Sourcebook on the History of Information Technology," by Jeremy Norman.

This set of Book Reviews covers Everyday Information: The Evolution of Information Seeking in America edited by William Aspray and Barbara M. Hayes (MIT Press, 2011) and James Gleick's The Information: A History, a Theory, a Flood (Pantheon Books, 2011). [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

The article reviews the book "Reconfiguring the Firewall: Recruiting Women to Information Technology Across Cultures and Continents," edited by Carol Burger, Elizabeth Creamer and Peggy Meszaros.

The article reviews the book "The Global Information Technology Report," by Soumitra Dutta and Irene Mia.

Reviews the book "People in Computing: Biographies of Technology's Pioneers," vol. 5.

Reviews the book "Information Technology Careers: The Hottest Jobs for the New Millennium," by Drew Bird and Mike Harwood.