April 2006 - Vol. 49 No. 4

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Features

Opinion Editorial pointers Apr 1 2006

Editorial Pointers

Online search is part of daily life, with popular search engines and digital libraries typically supporting users best able to define their information needs. The hitch…

Diane Crawford

Architecture and Hardware

News News track Apr 1 2006

The U.S. government is developing a massive computer system that could someday collect huge amounts of data and, by linking information from blogs and email messages to…

CACM Staff

Computing Applications

Opinion Forum Apr 1 2006

While Phillip G. Armour’s "The Business of Software" column ("Counting Boulders and Measuring Mountains," Jan. 2006) was based on good ideas,…

Architecture and Hardware

Opinion The profession of IT Apr 1 2006

Hastily Formed Networks

The ability to form multi-organizational networks rapidly is crucial to humanitarian aid, disaster relief, and large urgent projects. Designing and implementing the…

Peter J. Denning

Computing Applications

Opinion Digital village Apr 1 2006

Phishing Mongers and Posers

Unmasking deceptive schemes that range from clever to clumsy.

Hal Berghel

Computing Applications

News Apr 1 2006

Statewide Databases of Registered Voters

A study of accuracy, privacy, usability, security, and reliability issues.

CACM Staff

Computing Applications

Opinion Hot links Apr 1 2006

Top 10 Downloads from ACM’s Digital Library

Communications of the ACM Volume 49, Number 4 (2006), Pages 29-30 Hot links: Top 10 Downloads from ACM’s Digital Library Diane Crawford Table of Contents Tables…

Computing Applications

Opinion President's letter Apr 1 2006

Seven Reasons to Shave Your Head and Three Reasons Not to: The Bald Truth

Many of these monthly missives have addressed the different ways ACM is working to change the image of computing professionals. This month, in the spirit of April…

David A. Patterson

Computing Applications

Opinion Viewpoint Apr 1 2006

Toward Meaningful Computing

Computer science can revolutionize the humanities as it has the hard sciences by revealing and contextualizing the meaning hidden in digital libraries.

Shlomo Argamon and Mark Olsen

Computing Applications

Research and Advances Special Section: Supporting Exploratory Search Apr 1 2006

Supporting Exploratory Search: An Introduction

Online search has become an increasingly important part of the everyday lives of most computer users. Search engines, bibliographic databases, and digital libraries…

Ryen W. White, Bill Kules, Steven M. Drucker, and m.c. schraefel

Computing Applications

Research and Advances Special Section: Supporting Exploratory Search Apr 1 2006

Exploratory Search: From Finding to Understanding

Research tools critical for exploratory search success involve the creation of new interfaces that move the process beyond predictable fact retrieval.

Gary Marchionini

Computing Applications

Research and Advances Special Section: Supporting Exploratory Search Apr 1 2006

mSpace: Improving Information Access to Multimedia Domains with Multimodal Exploratory Search

If you do not know much about classical music, how do you discover what you might like? The first port of call for most people is to Google “classical music.”…

m.c. schraefel, Max Wilson, Alistair Russell, and Daniel A. Smith

Computing Applications

Research and Advances Special Section: Supporting Exploratory Search Apr 1 2006

Exploring Personal Information

When we look for information in large or unfamiliar sources such as the Web or an encyclopedia, it is almost second nature to use a search engine to help us find what we…

Edward Cutrell and Susan T. Dumais

Computing Applications

Research and Advances Special Section: Supporting Exploratory Search Apr 1 2006

Exploring the Computing Literature with Visualization and Stepping Stones & Pathways

An alternative interpretation of queries involves splitting a query into parts that cover different but connected aspects of the information needed.

Computing Applications

Research and Advances Special Section: Supporting Exploratory Search Apr 1 2006

Clustering Versus Faceted Categories For Information Exploration

Information seekers often express a desire for a user interface that organizes search results into meaningful groups, in order to help make sense of the results, and to…

Marti A. Hearst

Computing Applications

Research and Advances Special Section: Supporting Exploratory Search Apr 1 2006

Supporting Insight-Based Information Exploration in Intelligence Analysis

Capturing the exploratory search process can help represent analytical insight.

Computing Applications

Research and Advances Special Section: Supporting Exploratory Search Apr 1 2006

Find that Photo!: Interface Strategies to Annotate, Browse, and Share

As digital photos become the standard media for personal photo taking, supporting users to explore those photos becomes a vital goal. Dominant strategies that have…

Ben Shneiderman, Benjamin B. Bederson, and Steven M. Drucker

Computing Applications

Research and Advances Special Section: Supporting Exploratory Search Apr 1 2006

Using Temporal Patterns of Interactions to Design Effective Automated Searching Assistance

Web search engines effectively support searching of short queries, with session durations of typically 15 minutes, while providing limited searching assistance to the…

Bernard J. Jansen

Computing Applications

Research and Advances Apr 1 2006

From Fingerprint to Writeprint

Identifying the key features to help identify and trace online authorship.

Jiexun Li, Rong Zheng, and Hsinchun Chen

Computing Applications

Research and Advances Apr 1 2006

Modeling Strategies and Alternatives For Data Warehousing Projects

Choosing the appropriate modeling approach is often the critical factor in the success or failure of a data warehousing implementation.

Nenad Jukic

Computing Applications

Research and Advances Apr 1 2006

What Drives Market Transactions in B2B Exchanges?

A successful digital marketplace exploits content, governance, and structure in its business model to help generate revenue-producing transactions between buyer and…

Andrea Ordanini

Architecture and Hardware

Research and Advances Apr 1 2006

Does Color in Email Make a Difference?

Yes, if used correctly, it can excite and please, prompting recipients to respond as the sender intended---clicking a designated link or even buying something.

Moshe Zviran, Dov Te'eni, and Yuval Gross

Architecture and Hardware

Research and Advances Apr 1 2006

Thinking About Computer Systems to Support Design Synthesis

What should the CAD systems of the future be like?

Rosario Vidal and Elena Mulet

Architecture and Hardware

Research and Advances Apr 1 2006

Beyond Stereotypes of IT Professionals: Implications For IT HR Practices

IT professionals are complicated—managers need to go beyond stereotypes to truly understand them.

Harvey G. Enns, Thomas W. Ferratt, and Jayesh Prasad

Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning

Opinion Technical opinion Apr 1 2006

IT Managers’ Requisite Skills

Matching job seekers' qualifications with employers' skill requirements.

Sang M. Lee and Choong Kwon Lee

Computing Applications

Opinion Inside Risks Apr 1 2006

Fake ID: Batteries Not Included

It was only a matter of time. We’ve come to expect almost anything imaginable to be sold on late-night TV infomercials—from feel-good "health"…

Lauren Weinstein

Computing Applications

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