I especially liked Phillip Armour’s idea of viewing projects through the lens of knowledge acquisition ("The Business of Software," Nov. 2002). I work for a European pharmaceutical wholesaler and retailer, currently dealing with the first stages of a project to replace wholesale supply chain systems across Europe in conjunction with a large consulting firm. Though […]
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Peer-to-peer (P2P) computing was on the fast track long before Napster put it on the map for general consumption. P2P is, in fact, a natural offshoot of the Net, where "community" and "sharing" among friends, colleagues, and strangers are prime attractions. P2P networking allows users to connect and collaborate without a central hub governing the […]
Pamela Samuelson’s “Legally Speaking” column (“Reverse Engineering Under Siege,” Oct. 2002) does a masterful job of explaining how a court’s interpretation of a law can affect the legitimate work of researchers and technologists. ACM members and other Communications readers might be interested to learn that USACM, the U.S. Public Policy Committee of the ACM, signed […]
We enter the new year exploring the burgeoning partnership of computer information science and government information service. This once-improbable pairing of researchers and civil servants is now a worldwide phenomenon, as IT continues to infiltrate all levels of government activity, affecting practically every aspect of the way government does business, particularly interacting with and disseminating […]
Thanks for Robert Glass’s delightfully written history ("The Proof of Correctness Wars," "Practical Programmer," Aug. 2002). As a mathematician and a computer scientist, I have always been saddened that proof-of-correctness methodology never worked out, but as a practical programmer I understand why. I remember discussing the proof-of-correctness effort to verify the correctness of the INMOS […]
Ubiquitous computing is intangible—physically, figuratively, literally. In the continuing evolution of computing technologies we’re not supposed to see or sense, technical advances have been swift, but the surface is barely scuffed. Many challenges and obstacles still stand between us and the promise of living and working environments embedded with computing devices in a seamless, invisible […]
This is truly a universal issue, ranging in editorial scope from the national discussion on the licensing of software engineers, to the challenges of creating collaborative design environments that operate on a global scale, to the search for intelligent life beyond Earth. Along this trip, we make stops to debate the future of UML, to […]
In "A Call for the Home Media Network," (July 2002), Gordon Bell and Jim Gemmell obviously understand where home networking has to go. Unfortunately they grossly underestimate what it takes to get there. Devising systems that realize the old dream of a truly networked home requires an unprecedented degree of cooperation among the IT, consumer […]
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