Communications of the ACM articles from January 2000

Communications of the ACM archives from January 2000

News Track.
January 1, 2000... CELESTIAL BACKBONE Engineers and network experts are extending the Internet into deep space, adapting Net architecture to space-based communications with the lofty goal of establishing an interplanetary Internet backbone, reports MSNBC....

Tackling OO Design Principles.(Letter to the Editor)
January 1, 2000... THIS LETTER IS IN RESPONSE TO Rachid Guerraoui and Mohamed Fayad's "Thinking Objectively" column (Aug. 1999, p. 125). Although the discussion gives a clear, if somewhat abbreviated, description of OO design principles, there are a number of...

Bugging Out: Y2K Fallout or Business As Usual?
January 1, 2000... Pondering the end of the world before it happens. I'm being paid to watch the world self-destruct. I've been here before. During a stint in the Air Force in the late 1970s, while working in the intelligence field, I was briefly...

K-12 and the Internet.(Internet/Web/Online Service Information)
January 1, 2000... The Internet as a learning tool has its highs and lows, its positive and negative aspects. But wherever you stand on the bumpy ride, the Net uniquely supports learning. Learning is promoted when information resources and discourse around...

Creating Lifelike Characters in Pixar Movies.(Technology Information)
January 1, 2000... Lifelike means convincing the audience an animated character has intelligence, personality, and emotion while inhabiting a physical world. Toy Story, the first full-length computer-generated animated feature film (released 1995)...

Building Big Brother.
January 1, 2000... "It seemed to him that he knew exactly what it felt like to sit in a room like this, in an armchair beside an open fire with your feet in the fender and a kettle on the hob, utterly alone, utterly secure, with nobody watching you, no voice...

The IMPLICATIONS of ONLINE INVESTING.(Industry Trend or Event)
January 1, 2000... Millions more individual investors, lower commissions, Web-based interfaces, new e-brokerages and e-trading systems.... Along with an unobservable market structure and hidden transaction costs. The number of do-it-yourself online investors...

Engaging Girls WITH Computers THROUGH SOFTWARE GAMES.
January 1, 2000... The market is ripe, the time is now, for tapping into the potential gold mine that surrounds computer games for girls. A RECENT REPORT FROM THE ACM COMMITtee on Women in Computing (ACM-W) noted the alarming decrease of women graduating with...

Radio's Lessons for the Internet.
January 1, 2000... Will the government's inevitable regulation reflect the Net's historic egalitarian, democratic, all-welcoming view of information? "It was not at all clear how, or even if, corporations could own or manage [it]. It seemed that [this...

Reexamining ORGANIZATIONAL MEMORY.
January 1, 2000... Reconceptualizing how an interpersonal memory--particularly one including people and technology--may be defined. AFTER NEARLY 10 YEARS OF RESEARCH, "ORGANIZATIONAL MEMORY" (OM) HAS BECOME overworked and confused. Burdened by a practical...

DIARY AS DIALOGUE in Papermill Process Control.
January 1, 2000... Papermills are gigantic and complex machines, incorporating state-of-the-art technology. As part of a larger project a papermill in Finland was used to provide support for factory floor workers in process industries [1, 5]. Paper diaries were...

Information Systems Frontiers.
January 1, 2000... INFORMATION SYSTEMS (IS) ARE QUICKLY EMERGING AS CRITICAL RESOURCES TO BE LEVERAGED for organizational productivity in many business, social, and economic enterprises. The explosive growth in information technology (IT) can be broadly...

CASE DEPLOYMENT IN IS ORGANIZATIONS.
January 1, 2000... Assessing the impact of software engineering development tools with an innovative set of measures for implementation. COMPUTER-AIDED SOFTWARE ENGINEERING (CASE) TECHNOLOGY IS SUGGESTED AS A POSSIBLE means to increase the productivity and...

ACADEMIC DIRECTIONS OF MULTIMEDIA EDUCATION.
January 1, 2000... Ask for a definition of "multimedia," and you'll likely never hear the same description twice. So, how do we go about teaching it? WHILE THE TERM "MULTIMEDIA" IS OFTEN THE SUBJECT OF CONTENTION, THERE IS NO DiSputing its novelty and the...

Risks of PKI: Secure Email.(Industry Trend or Event)
January 1, 2000... Public-key infrastructure (PKI), usually meaning digital certificates from a commercial or corporate certificate authority (CA), is touted as the current cure-all for security problems. Certificates provide an attractive business model....