August 2004 - Vol. 47 No. 8

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Features

Opinion Editorial pointers Aug 1 2004

Editorial Pointers

Every year around this time we take the opportunity to present some of the emerging trends and latest applications created by the vibrant fields surrounding graphics technologies. Part of this strategy is to provide some editorial coverage to complement the annual SIGGRAPH conference—surely one of ACM’s most globally renowned events. Each summer researchers, artists, software […]

Architecture and Hardware

News News track Aug 1 2004

Technology creates many legal quandaries in life, and now it appears, in death, too. While there is currently no case law involving legal access to a person’s data after that person dies, experts contend this situation must change as baby boomers—the first generation of widespread and regular computer users—grow older. The New York Times reports […]

Computing Applications

Opinion Forum Aug 1 2004

Tom Slewe and Mark Hoogenboom fairly accurately defined information security as it exists today in "Who Will Rob You on the Digital Highway?" (May 2004). They also inadvertently revealed what an incorrect, inconsistent, and incomplete folk art it is as well. Information security is akin to the practice of alchemy in ancient times when there […]

Computing Applications

Practice Practical programmer Aug 1 2004

The Mystery of Formal Methods Disuse

A story of zealotry and chicanery.

Robert L. Glass

Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning

Opinion Viewpoint Aug 1 2004

A Science of Design For Software-Intensive Systems

Computer science and engineering needs an intellectually rigorous, analytical, teachable design process to ensure development of systems we all can live with.

Peter Freeman and David Hart

Computing Applications

News On site Aug 1 2004

Computer Science Education in Japan

Firsthand observations trace the current state, future potential, and obstacles ahead for Japanese academia.

Computing Applications

Research and Advances Interactive immersion in 3D graphics Aug 1 2004

Complex 3D worlds built from scientific data or transformed into multiplayer games can be experienced naturally, not just viewed through flat 2D windows.

Andrew Rosenbloom

Architecture and Hardware

Research and Advances Interactive immersion in 3D graphics Aug 1 2004

Designing Cranial Implants in a Haptic Augmented Reality Environment

Medical sculptors and neurosurgeons create virtual 3D cranial models based on patient CT data superimposed over their hands as if they were sculpting physical models.

Chris Scharver, Ray Evenhouse, Andrew Johnson, and Jason Leigh

Architecture and Hardware

Research and Advances Interactive immersion in 3D graphics Aug 1 2004

Physically Based Virtual Painting

Tapping the compelling illusion of physical interaction with paints, brushes, surfaces, color, and light, users express the nuances of their visual and emotional imaginations.

Ming Lin, William Baxter, Vincent Scheib, and Jeremy Wendt

Architecture and Hardware

Research and Advances Interactive immersion in 3D graphics Aug 1 2004

Toward the Merging of Real and Virtual Spaces

In hybrid environments, where real and virtual overlap, participants naturally see, touch, and manipulate the object at hand.

Benjamin C. Lok

Architecture and Hardware

Research and Advances Interactive immersion in 3D graphics Aug 1 2004

Visualizing Dynamic Architectural Environments

How to expose the internal 3D structures of multiplayer games and architectural models by automatically generating interactive exploded views.

Mike Houston, Chris Niederauer, Maneesh Agrawala, and Greg Humphreys

Architecture and Hardware

Research and Advances Interactive immersion in 3D graphics Aug 1 2004

Adaptive Document Layout

How to automatically reformat, resize, and paginate electronic text and graphics so documents look as good on displays of any size as they do on paper.

Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning

Research and Advances Aug 1 2004

Is Hierarchical Public-Key Certification the Next Target For Hackers?

Considering alternatives to hierarchical authentication structures that are not sufficiently secure for communication on open networks such as the Internet.

Mike Burmester and Yvo G. Desmedt

Computing Applications

Research and Advances Aug 1 2004

Certified Mail: the Next Challenge For Secure Messaging

The lack of evidence for message receipt is a missing piece of the infrastructure required for the more professional use of email.

Computing Applications

Research and Advances Aug 1 2004

Electronic Frontiers in Foreign Exchange Trading

In pursuit of the $1.2-trillion-a-day opportunity.

John Gallaugher and Nigel Melville

Architecture and Hardware

News Aug 1 2004

2004 ACM Awards Banquet: a Night to Celebrate

ACM played host to over 200 industry luminaries at its 2004 Awards Banquet held June 5 at the Plaza Hotel in New York City. The event recognizes technical excellence and outstanding service to the computing field. The 2003 award winners and newly inducted ACM Fellows represent a diverse group of leaders in the computing field and the IT community. The following images capture those honored:

Computing Applications

Research and Advances Aug 1 2004

Does Telecommuting Really Increase Productivity?

As many companies have learned in the last decade, the reality of telecommuting does not reflect the hype, the expected potential, or the existing literature.

Ralph D. Westfall

Computing Applications

Research and Advances Aug 1 2004

Voice Says It All in the Navy

The commercial potential for voice technology innovations currently being developed by the U.S. Navy is immense.

David J. Paper, James A. Rodger, and Steven J. Simon

Architecture and Hardware

Research and Advances Aug 1 2004

Negotiating in Service-Oriented Environments

Buy or rent? This question applies not only to houses and cars, but now to software.

Ahmed Elfatatry and Paul Layzell

Computing Applications

Opinion Inside risks Aug 1 2004

Close Exposures of the Digital Kind

Sometimes the impacts of powerful technologies are relatively clear and pretty much expected. For example, we all realize that nuclear bombs are capable of impacting the world in drastic and dramatic ways via their very existence, even when not detonated. But some technologies, even seemingly ordinary consumer products, can impact global events and society in […]

Lauren Weinstein

Computing Applications

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