Communications of the ACM articles from July 1995

Communications of the ACM archives from July 1995

Making groupware payoff: the British model.
July 1, 1995... In order to accelerate its research development in collaborative technologies, Britain has made efforts to leverage government/industry/university expertise and resources. Britain's Department of Trade and Industry (similar to the U.S. Commerce...

McLuhan meets the Net. (Marshall McLuhan's thoughts applied to the Internet)
July 1, 1995... In 1964, Marshall McLuhan published Understanding Media, a classic discussion of media and their effects on society and the individual. Understanding Media helped transform the 52-year-old McLuhan from a somewhat obscure English professor at the...

The HPCC: still a Percheron horse. (High Performance Computing and Communication federal initiative)
July 1, 1995... The federal government's High Performance Computing and Communication (HPCC) Initiative has been around for some time. It has been the focus of attention in the computing research community for about 13 years. By most accounts, HPCC's origins...

End-user training and learning. (information systems)(Cover Story)
July 1, 1995... Information systems practitioners and researchers widely acknowledge that providing appropriate end-user training is critical to successfully implementing systems, and key to promoting productive use of the technology [1]. Consequently,...

The assessment of end-user training needs. (information technology)(End-User Training and Learning)
July 1, 1995... Recent studies estimates that of the more than $50 billion that U.S. organizations spend on training annually [1], well over $5 billion is directed toward the users of information technology [10]. Despite the high dollar investment in end-user...

Managing evaluation goals for training. (information technology)(End-User Training and Learning)
July 1, 1995... Evaluations of training material serve many goals and are characteristically underresourced. In this article, we describe a framework for managing training evaluation in such contexts. We illustrate by example the feasibility of taking a broad...

Champagne training on a beer budget. (computers)(End-User Training and Learning)
July 1, 1995... When confronted by rapidly escalating costs for End-User Computing (EUC) training and support, the Gold Coast City Council (GCCC) - the local government authority for Australia's premier tourist destination - took a proactive stance by adopting a...

Studying long-term system use. (computers)(End-User Training and Learning)
July 1, 1995... There have been many studies of computer users but few that extend over very long periods. The reasons for this include costs, the quality of the data that can be obtained and satisfactorily analyzed, and the requirement to obtain results in the...

Social influence and end-user training.(End-User Training and Learning)
July 1, 1995... It is a commonly held axiom that user training is a key element in MIS success [3, 16]. Included among positive outcomes afforded by user training are improved user attitudes, behavior, and performance. Although the typical focus of training...

Exploring the software engineering component in MIS research. (management information systems)
July 1, 1995... The academic study of management information systems (MIS) is a recent addition to most universities. Because of its arrival, because of the youth of business schools compared to other colleges in universities, and because of the insecurity and...

Organizing arrays for paged memory systems. (software programming)
July 1, 1995... Large data arrays are widely used in computing applications ranging from simulation to video. Although each of these brings with it a different set of system performance requirements, they all have one common thread: Needed data does not entirely...