Communications of the ACM articles from December 1996

Communications of the ACM archives from December 1996

War, information technologies, and international asymmetries.
December 1, 1996... The modern computing era was born during World War II (in Germany, Great Britain, and the U.S.) and the first decade of the Cold War (in the U.S.S.R. and several NATO and eastern European countries). During the more than four decades of the Cold...

Legal protection for database contents.
December 1, 1996... By the time you read this column, an international committee of intellectual property experts, working under the auspices of the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO), will have recommended worldwide adoption of a new form of legal...

ACM 97 Speakers Corner. (Assn. for Computing Machinery, Inc.)(Interview)
December 1, 1996... PATTIE MAES is the founder of MIT's Media Laboratory Agents group and a founder and board member of Firefly Network, Inc. (previously Agents, Inc.). Maes earned a bachelor's degree in computing science (1983) and a doctorate in artificial...

CyberNetwork technology: issues and uncertainties.
December 1, 1996... The way to understand cyber technology is first to understand the various services delivered over telecommunication networks. The single most important telecommunication service is voice telephony, what is sometimes known by the acronym POTS, for...

The Internet @ home.(Cover Story)
December 1, 1996... The dramatic changes now occurring in household computing have the potential to transform the lives of average citizens as much as the telephone did in the early part of the 20th century and the television did in the 1950s and 1960s. As of 1994,...

Internet and Web use in the U.S. (World Wide Web)
December 1, 1996... These baseline numbers and marketing insights for commercial development reveal how to estimate Internet use in all its ambiguity using the CommerceNet/Nielsen Internet Demographic Survey as a case study. Tapping the enormous potential of the...

Computers and other interactive technologies for the home.
December 1, 1996... Want to design information technology for the home? First figure out the interaction between the social space in which family behavior occurs and the technological space in which the technologies are embedded and used. Despite the recent...

The HomeNet field trial of residential Internet services.
December 1, 1996... What compels ordinary citizens to log onto the Internet? What social factors predict their Net behavior? Teens are the heaviest users, and communication keeps them coming back for more. HomeNet is an empirical field trial of residential...

Winona gets wired: technical difficulties in the home. (Minnesota)
December 1, 1996... A Minnesota town is the backdrop for an ambitious project that is introducing hundreds of residents to the challenges - and frustrations - of the Internet. National and local Internet service providers (ISPs) market to a much broader range of...

Is my research ethical? (use of the Internet in research)
December 1, 1996... Not just about communication and access, the Net also poses concerns over choosing the criteria that define ethical research. The internet is a fresh field abounding with intriguing research questions. Much of its allure stems from being a...

Developing the Blacksburg electronic village.
December 1, 1996... Almost half the population of Blacksburg, Virginia are Internet veterans, having spent the past three years at the core of one of the most advanced community network projects in the U.S. Building community networks is, in some respects, an odd...

Implementing a tenth strand in the CS curriculum. (computer science)
December 1, 1996... The second report from Project ImpactCS is given here, and a new required area of study - ethics and social impact - is proposed. "Computer Science Education should not drive a wedge between the social and the technical but rather link both...

A revised model curriculum for a liberal arts degree in computer science.
December 1, 1996... Combining the strengths of a liberal arts environment with those of computer science education. This article presents recommendations for a high-quality undergraduate computer science major within a liberal arts setting. These recommendations...

Computing research program in the U.S.
December 1, 1996... Faculty productivity is measured, tabulated, and assessed. In 1989 Schneider [3] provided an evaluation, based on contributions to the research literature, of graduate programs in computer science in the U.S. and Canada. He considered...