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Communications of the ACM back issues
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Editorial Pointers.(Industry Trend or Event)
April 1, 2001... IN THE WORLD OF TELECOMMUNICAtions, more is never enough. Pursuing ever greater capacity and services, the long-time suppliers of voice-based services are transforming themselves into full-service providers of a galaxy of communication and IT options. The challenge now becomes how to manage...
News Track.(News Briefs)
April 1, 2001... ICANN's Domain Name Experiment
Appearing before a congressional panel, the head of the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers defended the process ICANN used to select new suffixes to compete with the popular established generic top-level domain--.com. With the number of Web...
FORUM.(Letter to the Editor)
April 1, 2001... Participatory Vs. Representative Democracy
SEVERAL OF THE ARTICLES IN the January 2001 Communications are linked by the same implicit proposition: Direct (participatory, "quick") democracy is a better form of government than representative democracy. Information and communication...
Correction.(Correction Notice)
April 1, 2001... IN OUR ARTICLE ("GAUGING THE Risks of Internet Elections," Jan. 2001, p. 73), Deborah Phillips and I referred to the U.S. military's pilot Internet voting project in the November 2000 election. According to the Pentagon's spokesperson, Glenn Flood, as quoted in the New York Times, the project...
Academics, and the Scarlet Letter "A".(Industry Trend or Event)
April 1, 2001... The computing world desperately needs truth-seekers, and fewer Advocates.
"Scarlet letter: a scarlet letter `A' formerly worn by a person convicted of adultery"
--Oxford American Dictionary
This column isn't about what you think it's about based on the opening quotation. (This...