April 2005 - Vol. 48 No. 4

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Features

Opinion Editorial pointers Apr 1 2005

Editorial Pointers

It’s a nascent technological mecca that defies description, or calculation, and sometimes even logic. It’s a potential gold mine to many high-tech global…

Diane Crawford

Computing Applications

News News track Apr 1 2005

An international team of scientists has joined to genetically identify—or provide a barcode for—every plant and animal species on Earth. The Barcode of Life…

CACM Staff

Computing Applications

Opinion Forum Apr 1 2005

Chenglie Hu’s Technical Opinion "Dataless Objects Considered Harmful" (Feb. 2005) is a breath of fresh air in a world gone overboard with the notion that…

Computing Applications

Opinion Digital village Apr 1 2005

The Two Sides of Roi: Return on Investment vs. Risk of Incarceration

Legislative mandates potentially replace CIO's primary concerns of technology risk management with the possibility of serving jail time.

Hal Berghel

Computing Applications

Opinion President's letter Apr 1 2005

The State of Funding For New Initiatives in Computer Science and Engineering

The intellectual opportunities are huge, the social benefits transforming, yet redesigning a workable funding model for CS&E research will require our collective…

David A. Patterson

Architecture and Hardware

Opinion The profession of IT Apr 1 2005

Is Computer Science Science?

Computer science meets every criterion for being a science, but it has a self-inflicted credibility problem.

Peter J. Denning

Computing Applications

Opinion Hot links Apr 1 2005

Top 10 Downloads from Acm’s Digital Library

Communications of the ACM Volume 48, Number 4 (2005), Pages 33-34 Hot links: Top 10 downloads from ACM’s digital library Diane Crawford Table of Contents Tables…

Computing Applications

Opinion Viewpoint Apr 1 2005

A New Technonationalism?: China and the Development of Technical Standards

Chinese technology executives, government officials, and members of its research community are debating how far to push the country's strategy for promoting technology…

Richard P. Suttmeier

Computing Applications

Opinion Viewpoint Apr 1 2005

Spam, Spim, and Spit

Abolishing spam, and its morphing forms, will take more than public protest and current filtering and legislative quick fixes.

Vinton G. Cerf

Computing Applications

Research and Advances Transforming China Apr 1 2005

In the 19th century, Napoleon Bonaparte predicted "When China awakens, it will astonish the world." China's recent stirring from its centuries-old slumber has…

Maris G. Martinsons

Computing Applications

Research and Advances Transforming China Apr 1 2005

Diffusion, Use, and Effect of the Internet in China

China has embraced the Internet. As of December 2004, 94 million people had gone online, making China the second largest Internet-user market in the world, behind only…

Jonathan J. H. Zhu and Enhai Wang

Computing Applications

Research and Advances Transforming China Apr 1 2005

Internet Diffusion in Chinese Companies

The Internet is increasingly indispensable to national economies worldwide. Here, we focus on the Internet diffusion process in Chinese businesses and its link to the…

Xunhua Guo and Guoqing Chen

Computing Applications

Research and Advances Transforming China Apr 1 2005

The Internet Enlightens and Empowers Chinese Society

Charles Zhang is founder, chairman, and chief executive of Sohu.com, a company incorporated in the U.S. state of Delaware with headquarters in Beijing. In 2004, Sohu took…

Maris G. Martinsons

Computing Applications

Research and Advances Transforming China Apr 1 2005

The E-Transformation of Western China

Western China is a vast area of just over four million square kilometers traditionally associated with the historic Silk Road connecting traders, manufacturers, and…

Robert M. Davison, Douglas R. Vogel, and Roger W. Harris

Computing Applications

Research and Advances Transforming China Apr 1 2005

It Is Not For Everyone in China

A 2004 report by consulting firm Gartner Dataquest forecasts that the worldwide market for IT services will top $762.3 billion in 2008, up from $608.1 billion in 2004.…

Jing Quan, Qing Hu, and Xinan Wang

Computing Applications

Research and Advances Transforming China Apr 1 2005

Knowledge Management in China

China's high-priority effort to become a more knowledge-based economy and society means that knowledge management (KM) is increasingly important. For example, the timely…

Glen R. Burrows, Damon L. Drummond, and Maris G. Martinsons

Computing Applications

Research and Advances Transforming China Apr 1 2005

Computer-Related Technostress in China

Technostress has been defined as any negative effect on human attitudes, thoughts, behavior, and psychology that directly or indirectly results from technology [8]. With…

Qiang Tu, Kanliang Wang, and Qin Shu

Computing Applications

Practice Apr 1 2005

Surviving It Project Cancellations

In a Forbes cover story, an investment banker expressed a preference for hiring former athletes, not because they are competitive, but "because they recycle so quickly…

Charalambos L. Iacovou and Albert S. Dexter

Computing Applications

Research and Advances Apr 1 2005

Self-Plagiarism in Computer Science

We are all too aware of the ravages of misconduct in the academic community. Students submit assignments inherited from their friends, online papermills provide term…

Christian Collberg and Stephen Kobourov

Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning

Research and Advances Apr 1 2005

Performance Benefits Through Integration Hubs

Some recent integration hubs provide configurations that facilitate optimization beyond the buyer-supplier dyad provided by traditional point-to-point integration. We…

Ellen Christiaanse

Computing Applications

Research and Advances Apr 1 2005

Privacy in E-Commerce: Stated Preferences vs. Actual Behavior

In times of ubiquitous electronic communication and increasing industry pressure for standard electronic authentication, the maintenance of privacy, or "the right to be…

Bettina Berendt, Oliver GÜnther, and Sarah Spiekermann

Computing Applications

Research and Advances Apr 1 2005

Integrated Modeling: the Key to Holistic Understanding of the Enterprise

Current business modeling methods are one-dimensional. Here, an integrated modeling approach helps decision makers study the enterprise as a whole from multiple…

Dursun Delen, Nikunj P. Dalal, and Perakath C. Benjamin

Computing Applications

Research and Advances Apr 1 2005

A P2p Genetic Algorithm Environment For the Internet

Effectively utilizing distributed computational resources while hiding the complexity of the network programming.

K. C. Tan, M. L. Wang, and W. Peng

Computing Applications

Opinion Technical opinion Apr 1 2005

Semantic Grid: Scientific Issues, Infrastructure, and Methodology

Creating a new interconnection environment incorporating the Internet, sensor networks, mobile devices, and the interconnection semantics.

Hai Zhuge

Architecture and Hardware

Opinion Inside risks Apr 1 2005

Two-Factor Authentication: Too Little, Too Late

Two-factor authentication isn’t our savior. It won’t defend against phishing. It’s not going to prevent identity theft. It’s not going to secure…

Bruce Schneier

Computing Applications

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