December 2000 - Vol. 43 No. 12
Features
A new study claims exposure in early education to computers can harm children’s ability to reason, imagine, and play, and calls for legislators to refocus early…
Forum: Software Piracy Is Not Just Economics Anymore
In "Global Software Piracy: You Can’t Get Blood Out of a Turnip," (Sept. 2000, p. 82) Gopal and Sanders seem to state the obvious, albeit backed up with…
Log on Education: the Three Ts of Elementary Education
The John Glenn Commission on Education pushes for the biggest change in public education in 200 years.
Sharing Standards: Standardizing Software Projects
Deploying organizational standards across the life of a project is one of the single biggest competitive advantages.
Viewpoint: Signing Your 011001010
In recent years we have seen everything from sex to taxes go online. The Internet revolution may now be claiming a new victim, as the handwritten signature gives way to a…
Trusting Technology: Introduction
How can technology be engineered to inspire user trust? How can businesses, consumers, and individuals employ that trust—without destroying it—for the sake of…
Trust can be cultivated to enhance our personal and social lives and increase our social capital.
The depth of participants' trust and trustworthiness depends on how the medium transmits and translates the social experience, including its often unviewable cultural and…
For buyers and sellers alike, there's no better way to earn one another's trust in online interactions.
External Manifestations of Trustworthiness in the Interface
Humans gradually learn to trust embodied interface agents that use the same social cues people use, including interaction rituals like small talk.
Designing Trust Into Online Experiences
These principles and their guidelines enhance cooperative behaviors and win user/customer loyalty by giving assurances, references, certifications from third parties, and…
The Internet neither destroys nor creates social capital. Sometimes trust matters, sometimes it doesn't in our technology-mediated relationships.
Exploring the barriers to efficient e-commerce and the critical role of government.
Trust Requirements in E-Business
A conceptual framework for understanding the needs and concerns of different stakeholders.
Software Piracy: a View from Hong Kong
Software piracy accounts for billions of dollars in lost sales. But for many nations, U.S. price tags make legal ownership impossible. Here's how one thriving city…
Technical Opinion: on the Perils of Programming
Viewed as an art and a science among professionals and academics, programming retains its significance in any teaching or training program in the field of computing.
Inside Risks: Semantic Network Attacks
On August 25, 2000, Internet Wire received a forged email press release seemingly from Emulex Corp., saying that the Emulex CEO had resigned and the company’s…