April 2003 - Vol. 46 No. 4

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Features

Opinion Editorial pointers Apr 1 2003

Editorial Pointers

Technologists today are in a precarious position. On the one hand they’re expected to build consumer electronics and computers that fulfill user desires to tap the Internet’s free-flowing nature, accessing and sharing all it has to offer. On the other hand they’re compelled by content owners and policymakers to build digital rights-enabled systems into these […]

Computing Applications

News News track Apr 1 2003

While war might hurt the overall U.S. economy, homeland security could help boost the beleaguered U.S. tech industry in the form of million-, indeed, billion-dollar contracts in defense spending over the next two years. The Bush Administration plans to increase government spending on computers, software, and services to over $58 billion in FY03, up 17% […]

Computing Applications

Opinion Forum Apr 1 2003

Alan Karp’s "Making Money Selling Content that Others Are Giving Away" (Jan. 2003) places the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) where it belongs—on the scrap heap of legislative solutions to outdated business models. Sometimes called the best legislation money can buy, the DMCA, along with digital rights management software, seeks to maintain existing business models. […]

Computing Applications

Opinion Digital village Apr 1 2003

Anonymizing the Net

Sanitizing packets for fun and profit.

Hal Berghel and Kim Womack

Computing Applications

Opinion Viewpoint Apr 1 2003

Legal and Technological Efforts to Lock up Content Threaten Innovation

Legislation poses greater restrictions on the very freedom on which the Net was founded.

Computing Applications

Opinion Staying connected Apr 1 2003

Providers have a new boss: The customer.

Architecture and Hardware

Opinion Viewpoint Apr 1 2003

Communicating through the natural human senses, not just theusual text and images, experiential environments can serve even the illiterate and impoverished in the remotest human societies.

Architecture and Hardware

Research and Advances Digital rights management and fair use by design Apr 1 2003

The fair-use exceptions in U.S. copyright law are being undermined by rules programmed into consumer electronics and computers that reflect the exclusive interest of rights holders alone.

Deirdre K. Mulligan

Computing Applications

Research and Advances Digital rights management and fair use by design Apr 1 2003

Fair Use, Drm, and Trusted Computing

How can DRM architectures protect historical copyright limitations like fair use while ensuring the security and property interests of copyright owners?

John S. Erickson

Computing Applications

Research and Advances Digital rights management and fair use by design Apr 1 2003

Drm {and, Or, Vs.} the Law

The main purpose of DRM is not to prevent copyright infringement but to change consumer expectations about what they are entitled to do with digital content.

Pamela Samuelson

Computing Applications

Research and Advances Digital rights management and fair use by design Apr 1 2003

Drm and Privacy

How should the law respond to DRM restrictions that invade user privacy?

Computing Applications

Research and Advances Digital rights management and fair use by design Apr 1 2003

Fair use By Design in the European Copyright Directive of 2001

Is it an empty promise, privileging and preserving author interests at the expense of the public goal of safeguarding fair-use exceptions?

Séverine Dusollier

Computing Applications

Research and Advances Digital rights management and fair use by design Apr 1 2003

A Skeptical View of Drm and Fair use

Don't expect DRM to ever be smart enough to distinguish fair use from copyright infringement.

Edward W. Felten

Computing Applications

Research and Advances Digital rights management and fair use by design Apr 1 2003

Encouraging Recognition of Fair Uses in Drm Systems

Create subsets of fair uses---safe harbors---that are allowed without the explicit permission of copyright holders.

Barbara L. Fox and Brian A. LaMacchia

Computing Applications

Practice Apr 1 2003

Software Development Method Tailoring at Motorola

Perfection is achieved not when there is nothing more to be added but when there is nothing left to take away.<br>---Antoine de Saint-Exupery

Brian Fitzgerald, Nancy L. Russo, and Tom O'Kane

Computing Applications

Research and Advances Apr 1 2003

Content Management For Electronic Music Distribution

Two approaches to distributing music on the Net---the hard way and the easy way---compete and complement each other in the quest for meaningful musical metadata.

François Pachet

Computing Applications

Research and Advances Apr 1 2003

Bringing Non-Adopters Along: the Challenge Facing the Pc Industry

Until holdout buyers are convinced a PC will operate like a workhorse home appliance, PC sales will continue to stall.

Susan A. Brown and Viswanath Venkatesh

Computing Applications

Research and Advances Apr 1 2003

Innovative Web use to Learn About Consumer Behavior and Online Privacy

Consumers are more protective of their personal data than most e-marketers probably ever expected. Indeed, any willingness by consumers to provide certain information online greatly depends on who's doing the asking.

Julia B. Earp and David Baumer

Computing Applications

Practice Apr 1 2003

Building a Successful E-Business: the Fedex Story

The company famous for transporting goods from anywhere to anywhere around the globe has used its impressive information infrastructure to expand into a channel logistics business.

Ali F. Farhoomand, Pauline S. P. Ng, and William L. Conley

Computing Applications

Research and Advances Apr 1 2003

Building Customer Trust in Mobile Commerce

Gaining customer trust in m-commerce is a daunting process, extending from initial trust formation to continuous trust development---but it can be done.

Keng Siau and Zixing Shen

Computing Applications

Research and Advances Apr 1 2003

-sing E-Crm For a -nified View of the Customer

Applying detailed knowledge of the customer to a larger business domain.

Shan L. Pan and Jae-Nam Lee

Computing Applications

Opinion Technical opinion Apr 1 2003

Computation Beyond Turing Machines

Seeking appropriate methods to model computing and human thought.

Peter Wegner and Dina Goldin

Computing Applications

Opinion Inside risks Apr 1 2003

On Sapphire and Type-Safe Languages

Beginning Saturday, January 25 at approximately 12:30 a.m. EST, a distributed denial-of-service attack spread rapidly throughout the global Internet. Within 10 minutes, most of the vulnerable hosts on the Internet were infected. By morning, Bank of America customers could not withdraw money from 13,000 ATMs. Continental Airline’s Web site was offline, forcing manual check-in. Normally […]

Computing Applications

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