Communications of the ACM articles from June 1996

Communications of the ACM archives from June 1996

Teachers are the key. (computers in the classroom)
June 1, 1996... Classroom teachers are the key to making learning work. A central, robust finding in educational research reveals that if a teacher and a student build a relationship, then the student learns. A corollary finding is that class size is a key...

U.S. technology policy in the information age.
June 1, 1996... During the first few years of the Clinton administration, the frequency of published articles and reports on the deficiencies of the U.S. science and technology posture reached a feverish pace. Articles and opinions representing varied...

Electronic commerce and the Internet.
June 1, 1996... Traditional electronic commerce through such means as electronic document interchange (EDI), fax communication, symbol technology, bar code and interenterprise messaging and file transfer has been an exciting and growing aspect of information and...

Evaluated receipts and settlement at Bell Atlantic.
June 1, 1996... Seeking new efficiencies in every aspect of its operations, Bell Atlantic turned to electronic commerce to create its evaluated receipts and settlement system - responsible for the annual purchase of $3.5 billion of goods and services - linking...

Securing the commercial Internet. (includes related articles on Internet infrastructure flaws and cryptographic concepts)
June 1, 1996... Consumers as well as businesses wary of exposing secret financial data through the Internet's frail protection select from numerous patchwork security options incorporating protocols that may or may not turn out to be adopted as standards. The...

Perils and pitfalls of practical cybercommerce.
June 1, 1996... The first year in the life of First Virtual Holdings - a pioneering Internet-based service company - was conducted with little fanfare, yet filled with memorable challenges and experiences. Here, we get an inside take on the problems, successes,...

Money in electronic commerce: digital cash, electronic fund transfer, and Ecash
June 1, 1996... Driven by inherent weaknesses in traditional paper-based payment methods, networked companies and their customers around the world now have at least three pervasive electronic options to move the numbers between their online accounts. The...

Electronic markets for learning: education brokerages on the Internet. (includes related article on the implementation of an education brokerage)
June 1, 1996... As perhaps the world's largest information industry, education is set to adapt a new just-in-time, on-demand approach to delivering its products through virtual universities by way of the Internet administered through the technology of electronic...

Internet inroads.
June 1, 1996... The Internet continues to grow at a rapid pace. The growth is global, encompassing traffic volume, population, as well as the variety of applications being used. In 1995, the Internet reached 148 out of 185 United Nations member countries (86%),...

IP next generation overview. (Internet Protocol)
June 1, 1996... Issues relating to the design and selection of a new underlying protocol for the Internet are discussed, with emphasis on transition to the new protocol. This article presents an overview of the next-generation Internet Protocol (IPng). IPng...

Censorship and the internet: a Singapore perspective.
June 1, 1996... How does one society reconcile its efforts to censor some material with the desire to benefit from the immense amount information all societies are able to share with one another? In 1991, Singapore's National Computer Board, a quasi-government...

Publishing models for Internet commerce.
June 1, 1996... A successful publisher contends that electronic service hopefuls would do best to take their modeling cues from the print world. One of the greatest challenges facing the Internet over the next few years is the need to commercialize its...

The C-ODA project: online access to electronic journals.
June 1, 1996... Experiences in setting up, organizing, and searching a large database of articles in several compound document forms are described. Electronic access to large bodies of information such as journal articles is a comparatively new facility. As...

Bringing museums online.
June 1, 1996... The author provides an overview of the organizational aspects of publishing and distributing large collections of materials on the Internet. In most European countries an important effort has been made to preserve, describe, and index the...

Emerging trends in the WWW user population. (World Wide Web)
June 1, 1996... Vast amounts of attention and resources have recently been devoted toward the Word-Wide Web (WWW) [1], but relatively little research has been conducted examining Web usage and societal implications. With the goals of understanding the Web user...

Securing the information infrastructure.
June 1, 1996... Systems for power generation and distribution, telecommunications, banking, and transportation are just a few of those that depend critically on computing and telecommunication technologies. For convenience and cost, critical systems increasingly...