Communications of the ACM (CACM), Volume 42, 1999

Volume 42, Number 1, January 1999

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  Diane Crawford:
  Editorial Pointers. 5
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  Robert Fox:
  News Track. 9-10
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  Diane Crawford:
  Forum. 11-13

Legally Speaking

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  Michael E. Whitman, Anthony M. Townsend, Robert J. Aalberts:
  The Communications Decency Act Is not as Dead as You Think. 15-17

Digital Village

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  Hal Berghel:
  Value-Added Publishing. 19-23

Viewpoint

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  Max Hailperin:
  The COPA Battle and the Future of Free Speech. 24-25

From the President

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  Barbara Simons:
  Starr Wars. 26-27

Symbolic Modeling in Practice

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  Hermann Kaindl, John M. Carroll:
  Symbolic Modeling in Practice - Introduction. 28-30
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  John Mylopoulos, Lawrence Chung, Eric S. K. Yu:
  From Object-Oriented to Goal-Oriented Requirements Analysis. 31-37
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  Keith A. Butler, Chris Esposito, Ron Hebron:
  Connecting the Design of Software to the Design of Work. 38-46
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  Matthias Jarke:
  Scenarios for Modelling. 47-48
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  Mary Beth Rosson:
  Integrating Development of Task and Object Models. 49-56
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  Brian R. Gaines, Mildred L. G. Shaw:
  Embedding Formal Knowledge Models in Active Documents. 57-63

Articles

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  Jakob Nielsen:
  User Interface Directions for the Web. 65-72
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  Donald P. Ballou, Giri Kumar Tayi:
  Enhancing Data Quality in Data Warehouse Environments. 73-78
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  John R. Nicol, Yechezkal-Shimon Gutfreund, James Paschetto, Kimberly S. Rush, Christopher Martin:
  How the Internet Helps Build Collaborative Multimedia Applications. 79-85
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  Pierre N. Robillard:
  The Role of Knowledge in Software Development. 87-92
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  David E. Avison, Francis Y. Lau, Michael D. Myers, Peter Axel Nielsen:
  Action Research. 94-97

Technical Opinion

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  Satish Nambisan, Yu-Ming Wang:
  Roadblocks to Web Technology Adoption? 98-101

Inside Risks

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  Fred B. Schneider, Steven M. Bellovin:
  Evolving Telephone Networks. 160

Volume 42, Number 2, February 1999

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  Diane Crawford:
  Editorial Pointers. 5
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  Robert Fox:
  News Track. 9-11
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  Diane Crawford:
  Forum: More Ugly Truths about Consulting Assignments. 21-24

Personal Computing

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  Larry Press:
  The Next Generation of Business Data Processing. 13-16

Electronic Frontier

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  Brock N. Meeks:
  The Privacy Hoax. 17-19

On Site

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  Ghinwa Jalloul:
  Computing in Lebanon. 25-26

Internet Privacy

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  Lorrie Faith Cranor:
  Internet Privacy - Introduction. 28-31
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  Michael K. Reiter, Aviel D. Rubin:
  Anonymous Web Transactions with Crowds. 32-38
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  David M. Goldschlag, Michael G. Reed, Paul F. Syverson:
  Onion Routing. 39-41
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  Eran Gabber, Phillip B. Gibbons, David M. Kristol, Yossi Matias, Alain J. Mayer:
  Consistent, Yet Anonymous, Web Access with LPWA. 42-47
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  Joseph Reagle, Lorrie Faith Cranor:
  The Platform for Privacy Preferences. 48-55
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  Paola Benassi:
  TRUSTe: An Online Privacy Seal Program. 56-59
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  Roger Clarke:
  Internet Privacy Concerns Confirm the Case for Intervention. 60-67

Articles

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  J. Arthur Gowan, Chris Jesse, Richard G. Mathieu:
  Y2K Compliance and the Distributed Enterprise. 68-73
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  Robert L. Glass:
  The Realities of Software Payoffs. 74-79
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  Rajiv Sabherwal:
  The Role of Trust in Outsourced IS Development Projects. 80-86

Technical Opinion

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  Wilhelm Hasselbring:
  On Defining Computer Science Terminology. 88-91

Inside Risks

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  Peter G. Neumann:
  Robust Open-Source Software. 128

Volume 42, Number 3, March 1999

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  Andrew Rosenbloom:
  Editorial Pointers. 5
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  Robert Fox:
  News Track. 11-12
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  Diane Crawford:
  Forum. 27-32

International Perspectives

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  Kalle Lyytinen, Seymour E. Goodman:
  Finland: The Unknown Soldier on the IT Front. 13-17

Legally Speaking

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  Pamela Samuelson:
  Good News and Bad News on the Intellactual Property Front. 19-24

Viewpoint

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  Donald E. Rickert, Thomas Nagy:
  Focus Groups, Theory or the Kid in the Garage? 34-36

Multiagent Systems on the Net

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  Anupam Joshi, Munindar P. Singh:
  Multiagent Systems on the Net - Introduction. 38-40
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  Rune Gustavsson:
  Agents with Power. 41-47
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  Tzvetan T. Drashansky, Elias N. Houstis, Naren Ramakrishnan, John R. Rice:
  Networked Agents for Scientific Computing. 48-54
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  Douglas E. Dyer:
  Multiagent Systems and DARPA. 53
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  Fumio Hattori, Takeshi Ohguro, Makoto Yokoo, Shigeo Matsubara, Sen Yoshida:
  Socialware: Multiagent Systems for Supporting Network Communities. 55-61
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  Alok R. Chaturvedi, Shailendra Raj Mehta:
  Simulations in Economics and Management. 60-61
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  Anuj K. Jain, Manuel Aparicio IV, Munindar P. Singh:
  Agents for Process Coherence in Virtual Enterprises. 62-69
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  Richard Green, Sangam Pant:
  Multiagent Data Collection in Lycos. 70
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  Aaron Sloman, Brian Logan:
  Building Cognitively Rich Agents Using the SIM_AGENT Toolkit. 71-77
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  Jeremy W. Baxter, Richard T. Hepplewhite:
  Agents in Tank Battle Simulations. 74-75

Agents in E-Commerce

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  Moses Ma:
  Agents in E-Commerce - Introduction. 78-80
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  Pattie Maes, Robert H. Guttman, Alexandros Moukas:
  Agents That Buy and Sell. 81-91
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  Tuomas Sandholm:
  Automated Negotiation. 84-85
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  Danny B. Lange, Mitsuru Oshima:
  Seven Good Reasons for Mobile Agents. 88-89
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  David Wong, Noemi Paciorek, Dana Moore:
  Java-based Mobile Agents. 92-102
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  Reuven Koblick:
  Concordia. 96-97
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  Hideki Tai, Kazuya Kosaka:
  The Aglets Project. 100-101
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  Barbara Hayes-Roth, M. Vaughan Johnson Jr., Robert van Gent, Keith Wescourt:
  Staffing the Web with Interactive Characters. 103-105
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  Robert J. Glushko, Jay M. Tenenbaum, Bart Meltzer:
  An XML Framework for Agent-Based E-Commerce. 106-114
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  Howard Smith, Kevin Poulter:
  Share the Ontology in XML-based Trading Architectures. 110-111

Technical Opinion

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  Albert Alderson, Hanifa Shah:
  Viewpoints on Legacy Systems. 115-116

Inside Risks

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  Lauren Weinstein:
  Bit-Rot Roulette. 144

Volume 42, Number 4, April 1999

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  Diane Crawford:
  Editorial Pointers. 5
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  Robert Fox:
  News Track. 11-12
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  Diane Crawford:
  Forum. 13-16
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  John White:
  ACM Digital Library Enhancements. 30-31

Practical Programmer

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  Robert L. Glass:
  Inspections - Some Surprising Findings. 17-19

Sharing Standards

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  Roy Rada:
  IT Skills Standards. 21-26

Viewpoint

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  Donald J. Bagert:
  Taking the Lead in Licensing Software Engineers. 27-29

Open-Source Software Development

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  Tim O'Reilly:
  Lessons from Open-Source Software Development - Introduction. 32-37
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  Linus Torvalds:
  The Linux Edge. 38-39
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  Larry Wall:
  The Origin of the Camel Lot in the Breakdown of the Bilingual Unix. 40-41
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  Roy T. Fielding:
  Shared Leadership in the Apache Project. 42-43
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  John K. Ousterhout:
  Free Software Needs Profit. 44-45

Evolvable Hardware

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  Xin Yao:
  Following the Path of Evolvable Hardware - Introduction. 46-49
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  Moshe Sipper, Daniel Mange, Eduardo Sanchez:
  Quo Vadis Evolvable Hardware? 50-56
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  Pierre Marchal:
  Field-Programmable Gate Arrays. 57-59
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  Tetsuya Higuchi, Nobuki Kajihara:
  Evolvable Hardware Chips for Industrial Applications. 60-66
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  Tomofumi Hikage, Hitoshi Hemmi, Katsunori Shimohara:
  Hardware Evolution System AdAM. 64-65
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  Jason D. Lohn:
  Experiments on Evolving Software Models of Analog Circuits. 67-69
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  Adrian Thompson, Paul J. Layzell:
  Analysis of Unconventional Evolved Electronics. 71-79

Articles

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  Donna L. Hoffman, Thomas P. Novak, Marcos Peralta:
  Building Consumer Trust Online. 80-85
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  Tomasz Imielinski, Julio C. Navas:
  GPS-Based Geographic Addressing, Routing, and Resource Discovery. 86-92
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  Niv Ahituv, Moshe Zviran, Chanan Glezer:
  Top Management Toolbox for Managing Corporate IT. 93-99

Thinking Oobjectively

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  Rachid Guerraoui, Mohamed Fayad:
  OO Distributed Programming is Not Distributed OO Programming. 101-104

Inside Risks

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  Lauren Weinstein:
  Just a Matter of Bandwidth. 120

Volume 42, Number 5, May 1999

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  Diane Crawford:
  Editorial Pointers. 5
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  Robert Fox:
  News Track. 9-10

Digital Village

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  Hal Berghel:
  How Xday Figures in the Y2K Countdown. 11-15

Personal Computing

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  Gerald V. Post:
  How Often Should a Firm Buy New PCs? 17-21

Viewpoint

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  Leon A. Kappelman:
  Saving Our Sacred Honor. 23-25

Persuasive Technologies

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  B. J. Fogg:
  Persuasive Technologies - Introduction. 26-29
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  Phillip King, Jason Tester:
  The Landscape of Persuasive Technologies. 31-38
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  Shawn Tseng, B. J. Fogg:
  Credibility and Computing Technology. 39-44
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  Julie Khaslavsky, Nathan Shedroff:
  Understanding the Seductive Experience. 45-49
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  Daniel Berdichevsky, Erik Neunschwander:
  Toward an Ethics of Persuasive Technology. 51-58

The Diversity of Usability Practices

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  Kim Halskov Madsen:
  The Diversity of Usability Practices - Introduction. 60-62
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  Jacob Buur, Kirsten Bagger:
  Replacing Usability Testing with User Dialogue. 63-66
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  Karel Vredenburg:
  Increasing Ease of Use. 67-71
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  Klaus B. Bærentsen, Henning Slavensky:
  A Contribution to the Design Process. 72-77
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  Julia Gardner:
  Strengthening the Focus on Users' Working Practices. 79-82
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  William R. Dolan, Joseph S. Dumas:
  A Flexible Approach to Third-Party Usability. 83-85
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  Michael J. Muller, Mary Czerwinski:
  Organizing Usability Work to Fit the Full Product Range. 87-90
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  Thea Borgholm, Kim Halskov Madsen:
  Cooperative Usability Practices. 91-97

Technical Opinion:

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  Jeffrey S. Poulin:
  Reuse: Been There, Done That. 98-100

Inside Risks

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  David Lorge Parnas:
  Ten Myths About Y2K Inspections. 128

Volume 42, Number 6, June 1999

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  Diane Crawford:
  Editorial Pointers. 5
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  Robert Fox:
  News Track. 9-10

Practical Grogrammer

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  Robert L. Glass:
  Is Criticism of Computing Academe Inevitably Divisive? 11-13

International Perspectives

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  Richard B. Heeks:
  Software Strategies in developing Countries. 15-20

Viewpoint

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  Wei-Lung Wang:
  Information in the Information Age. 23-24

From the President

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  Barbara Simons:
  Melissa's Message. 25-26

Emerging Internet Infrastructures Worldwide

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  Milton Mueller:
  Emerging Internet Infrastructures Worldwide - Introduction. 28-30
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  Ben Petrazzini, Mugo Kibati:
  The Internet in Developing Countries. 31-36
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  Robert B. Cohen:
  Moving Toward a Non-U.S.-Centric International Internet. 37-40
• 
  Milton Mueller:
  Commentary: ICANN and Internet Regulation. 41-43
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  Zixiang (Alex) Tan, William Foster, Seymour E. Goodman:
  China's State-coordinated Internet Infrastructure. 44-52
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  P. K. Agarwal:
  Building India's National Internet Backbone. 53-58
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  Mugo Kibati, Donyaprueth Krairit:
  The Wireless Local Loop in Developing Regions. 60-66
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  Jon M. Peha:
  Lessons from Haiti's Internet Development. 67-72

Articles

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  Samir Chatterjee, Suzanne D. Pawlowski:
  All-Optical Networks. 74-83
• 
  Randall D. Beer, Hillel J. Chiel, Richard F. Drushel:
  Using Autonomous Robotics to Teach Science and Engineering. 85-92
• 
  Dennis Tsichritzis:
  Reengineering the University. 93-100
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  Michael E. Whitman, Anthony M. Townsend, Robert J. Aalberts:
  Considerations for an Effective Telecommunications-Use Policy. 101-108
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  Vicki L. Sauter:
  Intuitive Decision-Making. 109-115
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  David S. Wise:
  Changes in ACM's Revised Copyright Policy. 116-119

Technical Opinion

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  A. Michael Noll:
  Does Data Traffic exceed voice Traffic? 121-124

Inside Risks

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  Peter G. Neumann, Declan McCullagh:
  Risks of Y2K. 144

Volume 42, Number 7, July 1999

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  Diane Crawford:
  Editorial Pointers. 5
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  Robert Fox:
  News Track. 9-10
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  Diane Crawford:
  Forum. 11-13

Staying Connected

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  Meg McGinity:
  Telecom Act, Scene One. 15-18

From Washington

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  Neil Munro:
  Inforwar: AK-47s, Lies, and Videotape. 19-22

On Site

• 
  Scott R. Tilley:
  The Need for Speed. 23-26

Viewpoint

• 
  John Gallaugher:
  Challenging to New Conventional Wisdom of Net Commerce Strategies. 27-29

Defensive Information Warfare

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  Brajendra Panda, Joseph Giordano:
  Defensive Information Warfare - Introduction. 30-32
• 
  Shiu-Kai Chin:
  High-Confidence Design for Security: Don't Trust - Verify. 33-37
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  Anup K. Ghosh, Jeffrey M. Voas:
  Inoculating Software for Survivability. 38-44
• 
  Terrance Goan:
  A Cop on the Beat Collecting and Appraising Intrusion Evidence. 46-52
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  Robert Durst, Terrence G. Champion, Brian Witten, Eric Miller, Luigi Spagnuolo:
  Testing and Evaluating: Computer Intrusion Detection Systems. 53-61
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  Matthew Stillerman, Carla Marceau, Maureen Stillman:
  Intrusion Detection for Distributed Applications. 62-69
• 
  Sushil Jajodia, Catherine D. McCollum, Paul Ammann:
  Trusted Recovery. 71-75

Articles

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  Jim Waldo:
  The Jini Architecture for Network-Centric Computing. 76-82
• 
  David W. Plummer, Larry J. Dalton, Frank Peter:
  The Recodable Locking Device. 83-87
• 
  Janice C. Sipior, Burke T. Ward:
  The Dark Side of Employee Email. 88-95
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  Ned Kock:
  A Case of Academic Plagiarism. 96-104

Inside Risks

• 
  Peter G. Neumann:
  Information is a Double-Edged Sword. 120

Volume 42, Number 8, August 1999

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  Diane Crawford:
  Editorial Pointers. 5
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  Robert Fox:
  News Track. 9-10
• 
  Diane Crawford:
  Forum. 11-15

Practical Programmer

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  Robert L. Glass:
  Buzzwordism and the Epic $150 Million Software Debacle. 17-19

Log on Education

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  Elliot Soloway, Wayne C. Grant, Robert Tinger, Jeremy Roschelle, Mike Mills, Mitchel Resnick, Robert Berg, Michael Eisenberg:
  Science in the Palms of Their Hands. 21-26

Toward an Image Indistinguishable from Reality

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  Andrew Rosenbloom:
  Toward an Image Indistinguishable from Reality - Introduction. 28-31
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  Demetri Terzopoulos:
  Artificial Life for Computer Graphics. 32-42
• 
  Donald P. Greenberg:
  A Framework for Realistic Image Synthesis. 44-53
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  George W. Fitzmaurice, Ravin Balakrishnan, Gordon Kurtenbach:
  Sampling, Synthesis, and Input Devices. 54-63
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  Norman I. Badler, Martha Stone Palmer, Rama Bindiganavale:
  Animation Control for Real-Time Virtual Humans. 64-73
• 
  John Kenneth Salisbury Jr.:
  Making Graphics Physically Tangible. 74-81
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  Steve Bryson, David N. Kenwright, Michael Cox, David A. Ellsworth, Robert Haimes:
  Visually Exploring Gigabyte Data Sets in Real Time. 82-90

Articles

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  Surendra N. Singh, Nikunj P. Dalal:
  Web Home Pages as Advertisements. 91-98
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  David S. Ebert, Edward Bedwell, Stephen Maher, Laura Smoliar, Elizabeth Downing:
  Realizing 3D Visualization Using Grossed-beam Volumetric Displays. 100-107
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  Richard G. Vedder, Michael T. Vanecek, Carl Stephen Guynes, James J. Cappel:
  CEO and CIO Perspectives on Competitive Intelligence. 108-116
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  Duane P. Truex, Richard L. Baskerville, Heinz K. Klein:
  Growing Systems in Emergent Organizations. 117-123

Thinking Objectively

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  Rachid Guerraoui, Mohamed Fayad:
  Object-oriented Abstractions for Distributed Programming. 125-127

Inside Risks

• 
  Bruce Schneier:
  The Uses and Abuses of Biometrics. 136

Volume 42, Number 9, September 1999

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  Diane Crawford:
  Editorial Pointers. 5
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  Robert Fox:
  News Track. 9-10
• 
  Diane Crawford:
  Forum. 11-15

Legally Speaking

• 
  Pamela Samuelson:
  Why the Anticircumvention Regulations Need Revision. 17-21

International Perspectives

• 
  William K. McHenry:
  Y2K International Status and Opportunities. 23-27

Viewpoint

• 
  Vir V. Phoha:
  Can a Course Be Taught Entirely Via Email? 29-30

Articles

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  Jonathan W. Palmer, Lars Bo Eriksen:
  Digital Newspapers Explore Marketing on the Internet. 32-40
• 
  Stewart Robertson, Philip Powell:
  Exploiting the Benefits of Y2K Preparation. 42-48
• 
  Rachna Dhamija, Rachelle S. Heller, Lance J. Hoffman:
  Teaching E-Commerce to a Multidisciplinary Class. 50-55
• 
  Alok Gupta, Dale O. Stahl, Andrew B. Whinston:
  The Economics of Network Management. 57-63

Distributed Mission Training: Teams, Virtual Reality, and Real-time Networking

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  Ram Ramesh, Dee H. Andrews:
  Distributed Mission Training: Teams, Virtual Reality, and Real-time Networking - Introduction. 64-67
• 
  Lynn A. Carroll:
  Multimodal Integrated Team Training. 68-71
• 
  Herbert H. Bell:
  The Effectiveness of Distributed Mission Training. 72-78
• 
  Judith S. Dahmann, James O. Calvin, Richard M. Weatherly:
  A Reusable Architecture for Simulations. 79-84
• 
  Philipp W. Peppler, Steve Stephens:
  Image Generation Systems in Virtual Training Platforms. 85-88
• 
  Peter Crane:
  Implementing Distributed Mission Training. 90-94

Technical Opinion

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  Eric W. Tatham:
  Getting the Best of Both Real and Virtual Worlds. 96-98

Inside Risks

• 
  Bruce Schneier:
  The Trojan Horse Race. 128

Volume 42, Number 10, October 1999

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  Diane Crawford:
  Editorial Pointers. 5
• 
  Robert Fox:
  News Track. 9-10
• 
  Diane Crawford:
  Forum. 11-14

From Washington

• 
  Neil Munro:
  The Ongoing Tug-of-War for E-Commerce Control. 17-20

Personal Computing

• 
  Larry Press:
  The Post-PC Era. 21-24

From the President

• 
  Barbara Simons:
  The Heroes Among Us. 25

UML in Action

• 
  Grady Booch:
  UML in Action - Guest Editor's Introduction. 26-28
• 
  Cris Kobryn:
  UML 2001: A Standardization Odyssey. 29-37
• 
  Grant Larsen:
  Designing Component-Based Frameworks Using Patterns in the UML. 38-45
• 
  Bran Selic:
  Turning Clockwise: Using UML in the Real-Time Domain. 46-54
• 
  Alex E. Bell, Ryan W. Schmidt:
  UMLoquent Expression of AWACS Software Design. 55-61
• 
  Jim Conallen:
  Modeling Web Application Architectures with UML. 63-70

Articles

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  Michael A. Cusumano, David B. Yoffie:
  What Netscape Learned from Cross-Platform Software Development. 72-78
• 
  Michael Mattsson, Jan Bosch, Mohamed Fayad:
  Framework Integration Problems, Causes, Solutions. 80-87
• 
  Tessa A. Lau, Oren Etzioni, Daniel S. Weld:
  Privacy Interfaces for Information Management. 88-94
• 
  Håkon Wium Lie, Janne Saarela:
  Multipurpose Web Publishing Using HTML, XML, and CSS. 95-101
• 
  Donald Gotterbarn, Keith W. Miller, Simon Rogerson:
  Software Engineering Code of Ethics is Approved. 102-107

Technical Opinion

• 
  Lutz Prechelt:
  Comparing Java vs. C/C++ Efficiency Differences to Interpersonal Differences. 109-112

Inside Risks

• 
  Bruce Schneier:
  Risks of Relying on Cryptography. 144

Volume 42, Number 11, November 1999

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  Diane Crawford:
  Editorial Pointers. 5
• 
  Robert Fox:
  News Track. 9-10
• 
  Diane Crawford:
  Forum. 21-24

Digital Village

• 
  Hal Berghel:
  The Cost of Having Analog Executives in a Digital World. 11-15

Practical Programmer

• 
  Robert L. Glass:
  Evolving a New Theory of Project Success. 17-19

Knowledge Discovery

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  Toshinori Munakata:
  Knowledge Discovery - Introduction. 26-29
• 
  Tom M. Mitchell:
  Machine Learning and Data Mining. 30-36
• 
  Raúl E. Valdés-Pérez:
  Discovery Tools for Science Apps. 37-41
• 
  Stephen H. Muggleton:
  Scientific Knowledge Discovery Using Inductive Logic Programming. 42-46
• 
  LiMin Fu:
  Knowledge Discovery Based on Neural Networks. 47-50
• 
  Kenneth A. De Jong:
  Evolutionary Computation for Discovery. 51-53
• 
  Wojciech Ziarko:
  Discovery Through Rough Set Theory. 54-57
• 
  Kevin Knight:
  Mining Online Text. 58-61
• 
  Steffen Schulze-Kremer:
  Discovery in the Human Genome Project. 62-64
• 
  Murray Campbell:
  Knowledge Discovery in Deep Blue. 65-67

Articles

• 
  Ravi Ganesan:
  The Messyware Advantage: The Precipitous Rise of the Middleman. 68-73
• 
  Sharon L. Oviatt:
  Ten Myths of Multimodal Interaction. 74-81
• 
  George S. Nezlek, Hemant K. Jain, Derek L. Nazareth:
  An Integrated Approach to Enterprise Computing Architectures. 82-90
• 
  Dawn G. Gregg, Michael Goul:
  A Proposal for an Open DSS Protocol. 91-96

Thinking Oobjectively

• 
  Pascal Felber, Rachid Guerraoui, Mohamed Fayad:
  Putting OO Distributed Programming to Work. 97-101

Inside Risks

• 
  Peter G. Neumann, Lauren Weinstein:
  Risks of Content Filtering. 152

Volume 42, Number 12, December 1999

• 
  Diane Crawford:
  Editorial Pointers. 5
• 
  Robert Fox:
  News Track. 9-10
• 
  Diane Crawford:
  Forum. 11-13

From Washington

• 
  Mike Godwin:
  Net to Worry. 15-17

Staying Connected

• 
  Meg McGinity:
  Staying Connected: Flying Wireless, With a Net. 19-21

On Site

• 
  Patrick Walsh, Adamantios Koumpis:
  The Espirt ATLAS Project. 23-26

Viewpoint

• 
  Amr El-Kadi:
  Stop That Divorce! 27-28
• 
  Dennis J. Frailey:
  Licensing Software Engineers. 29-30

Articles

• 
  Steven Bellman, Gerald L. Lohse, Eric J. Johnson:
  Predictors of Online Buying Behavior. 32-38
• 
  Anne Adams, Martina Angela Sasse:
  Users Are Not The Enemy. 40-46
• 
  William H. Dutton, Anita Elberse, Matthew Hale:
  A Case Study of a Netizen's Guide to Elections. 48-54
• 
  Kai R. T. Larsen:
  Voting Technology Implementation. 55-57
• 
  Richard T. Watson, Sigmund Akselsen, Bente Evjemo, Nils Aaraæther:
  Teledemocracy in Local Government. 58-63
• 
  Magid Igbaria:
  The Driving Forces in the Virtual Society. 64-70
• 
  Hilda Tellioglu, Ina Wagner:
  Software Cultures. 71-77
• 
  Pearl Brereton, David Budgen, Keith H. Bennett, Malcolm Munro, Paul J. Layzell, Linda A. Macaulay, David Griffiths, Charles Stannett:
  The Future of Software. 78-84
• 
  Fay Cobb Payton, Patricia Flatley Brennan:
  How a Community Health Information Network is Really Used. 85-89

Are We Ready?

• 
  Frank Cuccias:
  The FAA's Y2K Preparedness. 91-92
• 
  Leon A. Kappelman:
  Risk, Reality, and Readiness. 93-94

Inside Risks

• 
  Peter G. Neumann:
  Risks of Insiders. 160