Communications of the ACM articles from June 2000

Communications of the ACM archives from June 2000

News Track.(Industry Trend or Event)(News Briefs)
June 1, 2000... THE SUPREME COURT GOES ONLINE The tradition-bound institution may may be late to the e-vironment, but many legal scholars are still stunned to learn the highest court in the U.S. opened its own Web site in mid-April...

A Plea for Dumb Computers.(Technology Information)
June 1, 2000... THIS LETTER IS A RESPONSE TO various points of view expressed in the March 2000 Communications. For want of a better title, I will call it a manifesto: entitled "A Plea for Dumb Computers." The focus of the issue is improvement of the...

Gloom-and-Doom Predictions.(Letter to the Editor)
June 1, 2000... I FIND IT SOMEWHAT IRONIC that Robert Glass took such pains to distinguish Edward Yardeni from Ed Yourdon in his "Practical Programmer" column (Mar. 2000, p. 17) on gloom-and-doom predictions prior to 2000. I heard Yourdon speak at a Y2K...

Expanding the SE View.(Industry Trend or Event)
June 1, 2000... THE ENVIRONMENT FAYAD, Laitinen, and Ward write about in "Software Engineering in the Small" ("Thinking Objectively," Mar. 2000, p. 115) is exactly what I encountered from 1988 to 1997 while working for a software startup on programmer...

Libel and Slander on the Internet.(Industry Trend or Event)
June 1, 2000... The Internet adds a new dimension to the power of words, challenging our freedom of speech as we know it. Following the Reno decision regarding the Communications Decency Act, euphoria swept the electronic village as Internet users...

Bad Moon Rising.(Industry Trend or Event)
June 1, 2000... We might be in for some nasty weather with the marriage of content providers and cable companies. There ought to be a law: If you own the conduit, you can't own the content. But fat chance it'll ever happen, and those who call for one are...

Teachers and Technology: Easing the Way.(Technology Information)
June 1, 2000... As technology professionals, parents, and community members, how can we help grade school teachers integrate technology into the classroom? Asking K-12 teachers to integrate networked computers into the classroom is the biggest challenge...

Access to Classroom Computers.(Technology Information)
June 1, 2000... When computer professionals imagine a well-equipped elementary and secondary school, many picture a room full of students, or pairs of students, each working independently on a computer. This image stems from how they view the typical adult...

Access to Computers at Home.(Technology Information)
June 1, 2000... While Becker's research explored the impact of teachers' access to computers in school, here we explore the impact of teachers' access to computers in their own home. There is a bit of folk wisdom that goes like this: teachers who use...

Why We Must Fight UCITA.(Government Activity)
June 1, 2000... The Uniform Computer Information Transactions Act (UCITA) is a proposed law, designed by the proprietary software developers who are now asking all 50 states of the U.S. to adopt it. If UCITA is adopted, it will threaten the free software...

The Internet Patent Land Grab.(Company Business and Marketing)
June 1, 2000... At about 6 p.m., February 29, I posted an open letter to Jeff Bezos of Amazon.com on my Web site. I asked my customers to join me in protesting Amazon.com's suit against Barnes & Noble for infringing Amazon.com's "1-Click" patent. This event...

INFORMATION SYSTEM INTEGRATION.(Technology Information)
June 1, 2000... For information systems, it is increasingly difficult to draw a line around an application system and say that you own and control it. For example, as value chains extend beyond enterprises, supplier and customer systems become part of each...

INTEROPERATION SUPPORT FOR ELECTRONIC BUSINESS.(Technology Information)
June 1, 2000... Integrated value chains that consist of business alliance partners compete as single entities for customers. E-commerce is not simply about business transactions that run over the Internet, but is fundamentally about the flow of...

THE SI CHALLENGE IN HEALTH CARE.(Technology Information)
June 1, 2000... The inability to share information across systems and between care organizations is just one of the major impediments in the health care business's progress toward efficiency and cost-effectiveness. Health care is an information-intensive...

MAINTAINING DATA WAREHOUSES OVER CHANGING INFORMATION SOURCES.(Technology Information)
June 1, 2000... Tomorrow's Web applications need a robust, efficient data warehouse system to succeed in dynamic Web-based environments. In recent years, the number of digital information storage and retrieval systems has increased immensely. These...

SI IN DIGITAL LIBRARIES.(Technology Information)
June 1, 2000... Scaling on an international level requires integrating independently evolved systems. Digital libraries can be viewed as infrastructures for supporting the creation of information sources, facilitating the movement of information across...

EMERGING MOBILE AND WIRELESS NETWORKS.(Technology Information)
June 1, 2000... Wireless and mobile networks are quickly becoming the networks of choice, not only because of large bandwidth, but due to the flexibility and freedom they offer. With the increasing use of small portable computers, wireless network, and...

MULTIVALENT DOCUMENTS.
June 1, 2000... The MVD architecture heralds a document model supporting deep extension to novel and arbitrary aspects of document functionality, even distributed in situ annotation. Sending and receiving email, writing articles and programs, browsing the...

Is Telemedicine A Practical Reality?(Technology Information)
June 1, 2000... The behemoths of managed health care and the digital age are converging as quickly as the technology allows. THE FEE-FOR-SERVICE BASIS FOR HEALTH-CARE delivery has been a mainstay in the health-care business for a long time--a procedure...

INTEGRATED Internet Marketing.(Industry Trend or Event)
June 1, 2000... Companies worldwide may recognize the marketing potential of the Internet, but using it to its full potential is open ignored. Communication is the very heart of marketing, and for years companies have fashioned communication strategies...

A PARADIGM SHIFT IN THE DISTRIBUTION OF MULTIMEDIA.
June 1, 2000... RWANDA, a dynamic transport protocol, puts the "active" in interactive multimedia. Multimedia blends two or more media together, such as text, graphics, sound, or movies. The Internet, home to multimedia for quite some time, has been...

The Real Challenges of Mobile Agents.(Technology Information)
June 1, 2000... Mobile agents provide an innovative concept for creating distributed systems. Being mobile means the ability of a computational entity to move itself from one system to another in the same network. Acting and interacting with compatible objects...

Risks of Internet Voting.(Technology Information)
June 1, 2000... Risks in computer-related voting have been discussed here by Peter Neumann in November 1990 and by Rebecca Mercuri in November 1992 and 1993. Recently we've seen the rise of a new class of likely risks in this area, directly related to the...

Commentary: CFP Chair Lorrie Faith Cranor Discusses Highlights of 10th Annual Computers, Freedom, and Privacy Conference.(Industry Trend or Event)
June 1, 2000... Lorrie Faith Cranor was the Conference Chair of the 10th Annual Computers, Freedom, and Privacy (CFP) Conference held this past April in Toronto, Canada. (To see her article "Ten Years of Computers, Freedom and Privacy: A Personal...

CrossRef Initiative Enhances ACM's Expanding Digital Library.(Industry Trend or Event)
June 1, 2000... ACM has joined CrossRef, a not-for-profit organization formed by a group of leading scientific and scholarly publishers. The CrossRef initiative is intended to effect online interpublisher linking of article references to their full texts, thus...

Publications Donation Program Now in Russia.(Industry Trend or Event)
June 1, 2000... ACM is very pleased to have worked with Professor Leonid A. Kalinichenko (Institute for Problems of Informatics of the Russian Academy of Sciences, and Moscow State University) to implement a program to donate print copies of ACM's primary...

ACM-W Student Chapters.(Industry Trend or Event)
June 1, 2000... ACM's Committee on Women in Computing (ACM-W) coordinates projects to improve the working and learning environments for women in computing. These projects include gathering and disseminating information about the status of women in the...

UPE ACM Student Chapter Scholarship Award.(Industry Trend or Event)
June 1, 2000... In the search for excellence and professional commitment to the computing and information technology field, the Executive Council of Upsilon Pi Epsilon (UPE) and the Membership Activities Board of ACM announces the UPE ACM Student Chapter...

ACM Student Chapter Excellence Awards.(Industry Trend or Event)
June 1, 2000... The Membership Activities Board is proud to announce the winners of the ACM Student Chapter Excellence Awards. Chapters from around the globe competed for cash prizes. Entries were based on Outstanding Chapter Activities, Outstanding...

Princeton Chapters Celebrate 20th Anniversary.(Industry Trend or Event)
June 1, 2000... The Princeton, N.J. Professional Chapters of the ACM and IEEE Computer Society are celebrating their 20th year of service to the local computing community. They have sponsored professional activities in the central New Jersey area since 1980....

ACM Developing Technical Interest Profile for Members.(Industry Trend or Event)
June 1, 2000... ACM is in the process of developing a Technical Interest and Demographic Profile (TIP) mechanism to capture members' technical interests. The Association is developing TIP to better understand the technical needs of members for planning...

The 2000 ICPC World Champions: The St. Petersburg State University.(Industry Trend or Event)
June 1, 2000... Sixty teams of students from 2,400 teams representing universities and colleges in six continents competed for recognition, prizes, and the opportunity to advance to the World Finals of The 24th Annual ACM International Collegiate Programming...

New & Noteworthy Products.(Industry Trend or Event)
June 1, 2000... Welcome to "For Members Only: New & Noteworthy Products," a showcase for the latest (and most noteworthy) ACM publications and products. The listed books are offered at better-than-member rates for members only, and are publications that will...

Computing Reviews Adds Exciting New Services!(Industry Trend or Event)
June 1, 2000... "Where is Computing Reviews on the Web?" "Why isn't there a discussion forum on acm.org?" Questions, speculations, and suggestions for future incarnations have been circulating among the ACM community for the past several years. To answer...

ACM Ubiquity Magazine Off to a Rousing Start!(Industry Trend or Event)
June 1, 2000... In February 2000, ACM launched Ubiquity, an online, weekly magazine devoted to publishing short essays and opinions on topics of interest to Information Technology professionals. The content of Ubiquity usually includes an interview, an essay/...

ACM Receives Grant For Internet Governance Project.(Industry Trend or Event)
June 1, 2000... ACM has received a grant of $100,000 from the Ford Foundation to support the work of its Internet Governance Project (IGP). The ACM-IGP and Committee were created in mid-1999 to provide representation for ACM membership as well as the academic,...

Member Value Plus Update.(Industry Trend or Event)
June 1, 2000... Have you taken advantage of your MVP benefits lately? The ACM Member Value Plus Program (MVP) provides ACM members with discounts on products and services to enhance career development, facilitate personal achievement, or merely present an...

New Transactions: Call for Papers.(Industry Trend or Event)
June 1, 2000... The ACM Transactions on Asian Language Information Processing (TALIP) publishes high quality original archival papers and technical notes in the areas of computation and processing of information in Asian languages and related disciplines. ...

Thirty Years Old, SIGGRAPH Seeks to Share Values.(Industry Trend or Event)
June 1, 2000... ACM's Special Interest Group on Computer Graphics and Interactive Techniques (SIGGRAPH) is now in its 30th year of providing services to the graphics community. In an interview with MemberNet, SIGGRAPH Chair Judith Brown discussed new...

ACM Awards Banquet Held in May in San Francisco.(Industry Trend or Event)
June 1, 2000... Recipients of ACM'S 1999 awards and the new ACM Fellows were honored at the 2000 ACM Awards Ceremony on Saturday, May 6, 2000 at the Fairmont Hotel in San Francisco. Kay Mauchly Antonelli and Jean Bartik were Keynote Speakers and the Keynote...

Nominations for 2000 Awards.(Industry Trend or Event)
June 1, 2000... Nominations are being sought for ACM's 2000 Awards Program. Nominations must include: * Name, address, phone, fax, and email of the person making the nomination * Name, address, phone, fax, and email of the candidate for whom an award...

ACM to Launch Career Resource Center in Fall 2000.(Company Business and Marketing)
June 1, 2000... ACM is in the process of developing a very exciting, web-based, member program and service -- a career community currently called the ACM Career Resource Center. The CRC will be a unique exploration site for career management and job search,...

Update On ACM Digital Library.
June 1, 2000... Through agreements with John Wiley and Sons for the International Journal of Network Management and SSC, (Specialized System Consultants) for the Linux Journal, these publications are now available to ACM DL subscribers. The Network...