Communications of the ACM articles from May 1996

Communications of the ACM archives from May 1996

Professor Katz goes to Washington. (Executive Office of the President staff Randy H. Katz)
May 1, 1996... The presidential election of 1992 was exciting. For the first time in national politics, information technology was a cornerstone of a presidential campaign. Candidates used email and computer networks to reach their potential supporters. I...

Windows NT as a personal or intranet server. (Microsoft Windows NT)
May 1, 1996... In the January 1996 Communications, Thomas Erickson discussed the widespread use of personal home pages to describe personal and professional identities on the Internet [5]. We search for people as well as information on the Net [12], and...

The game plan to save cyberspace. (utilizing the Internet to the fullest)
May 1, 1996... Let's face it: lately cyberspace has had its butt kicked from Capitol Hill to the White House. The many millions of people jacked into the Net and the issues that concern them have been treated like the bastard stepchildren of constituencies...

The university's next challenges. (upgrading the computer science and engineering program in universities)(Editorial)
May 1, 1996... On October 23, 1995, Peter Denning presented invited testimony to the NSF Hearings on the status of Science, Engineering, Math, and Technology Education in the U.S. As we make progress with the challenges we currently face, new ones continue to...

Addressing intellectual property issues and the White Paper. (White Paper on Intellectual Property and the National Information Infrastructure)
May 1, 1996... Thank you for publishing Pamela Samuelson's "Intellectual Property Rights and the Global Information Economy" ("Legally Speaking," Jan. 1996, p. 23). I agree with Samuelson that this topic should be more widely discussed and that governments...

Virtual reality: software and technology.(Cover Story)
May 1, 1996... The promise of Virtual Reality (VR) is beginning to be recognized. Interesting, useful applications of VR are emerging in areas as diverse as medicine, design, the arts, scientific visualization, education, and entertainment. Nevertheless, the...

Dextrous virtual work. (Virtual Workbench)(Cover Story)
May 1, 1996... A system for visualizing and manipulating medical images is detailed, with emphasis on interaction techniques. The media perception of Virtual Reality (VR) is fixated on one potent image: the blind mask of inner vision, the head-mounted...

A geometric modeling and animation system for virtual reality.(Cover Story)
May 1, 1996... Creating tools for object design, for use by both programmers and non-programmers, poses some challenging developmental factors. Virtual Reality (VR) immerses the user in a three-dimensional (3D) environment that can be actively interacted...

The HoloSketch VR sketching system. (virtual reality)(Cover Story)
May 1, 1996... This 3D geometry creation and manipulation tool gives non-programmers the ability to create highly accurate virtual objects much more rapidly than with traditional 3D drawing systems. The vast majority of today's software packages for...

Virtual reality in scientific visualization.(Cover Story)
May 1, 1996... Immersing the user in the solution, virtual reality reveals the spatially complex structures in computational science in a way that makes them easy to understand and study. But beyond adding a 3D interface, virtual reality also means greater...

Virtual reality for driving simulation.(Cover Story)
May 1, 1996... The authors describe the data structure necessary to provide real-time simulation and visualization of complex environments and situations. The limitations imposed by market costs and technology have so far obstructed the development of...

Comparing information without leaking it.
May 1, 1996... How can two people determine without revealing anything else to each other whether they possess the same information - in case they do not? There are surprisingly simple solutions. Consider the following problem, which actually occurred in...

A reengineering framework for evaluating a financial imaging system.
May 1, 1996... Not quite able to "obliterate" its old securities processing operations, Merrill Lynch opted instead to fundamentally change - using image processing - the way it processed securities between its branch offices and its securities processing...

How the "what" becomes the "how." (artificial intelligence)
May 1, 1996... If I were a little older, I would have known Alan Turing. As it was, I missed him by a decade at the National Physical Laboratory. I finished my Ph.D. work at Carnegie Tech (now Carnegie-Mellon University) and immediately shipped off to...

To dream the possible dream. (artificial intelligence research)
May 1, 1996... It is an honor and a pleasure for me to accept this award from ACM. It is especially gratifying to share this award with Ed Feigenbaum, who has been a close friend and helpful colleague for nearly 30 years. As a second-generation artificial...

Comparing undergraduate courses in systems analysis and design.
May 1, 1996... Think there are big differences in how systems analysis and design are taught in two-year and four-year schools and in business and computer science programs? Think again. A study of more than 600 instructors found no major differences. The...

Accredited programs in computing.
May 1, 1996... There are two agencies that accredit programs in the computing field. The Computer Science Accreditation Commission (CSAC) of the Computing Sciences Accreditation Board (CSAB) is the accrediting body for computer science programs. It accredits...

Monty Newborn and Yasser Seirawan reflect on ACM Chess Challenge. (interviews with McGill University computer science professor Newborn and International Grandmaster Seirawan)(Interview)
May 1, 1996... World Chess Champion Garry Kasparov defeated IBM's Deep Blue 4-2 in the ACM Chess Challenge, the six-game match held in Philadelphia, PA, Feb. 11-17, and one of the major events of ACM's Computing Week 96. Monty Newborn, Chairman of the ACM...

Berkeley wins ACM Collegiate Programming Contest. (University of California Berkeley)
May 1, 1996... Team members Ben-Rudiak Gould, Scott McPeak, and Amit Sahai of the the University of California at Berkeley took the first prize of $15,000 in scholarships and a trophy at the 20th annual ACM International Collegiate Programming Contest,...

For members only: new and noteworthy products. (ACM publications and services)
May 1, 1996... Come visit our web site at: http://www.acm.org/ For a complete listing of all ACM Press Books and other ACM products and services, visit our on-line publications catalog: http://www.acm.org/catalog/ Welcome to For Members Only: New &...

FCRC '96 builds on success of predecessor. (Federated Computing Research Conference)
May 1, 1996... The second Federated Computing Research Conference (FCRC) will be held in Philadelphia, PA, May 20-28, 1996. It follows the model of the first FCRC, held in 1993, in which a number of existing, specialized, research conferences were coordinated...

ACM StandardView has taken off! (standards journal)
May 1, 1996... Would you like to find out how the Julian calender was standardized? Read "Julius Caesar and Queen Eanfleda" in the December, 1993 issue of ACM StandardView. Or which article in StandardView was cited in arguments before the Supreme Court in...