December 2002 - Vol. 45 No. 12

Features

Opinion Editorial pointers Dec 1 2002

Ubiquitous computing is intangible—physically, figuratively, literally. In the continuing evolution of computing technologies we’re not supposed to see or sense, technical advances have been swift, but the surface is barely scuffed. Many challenges and obstacles still stand between us and the promise of living and working environments embedded with computing devices in a seamless, invisible […]

Diane Crawford

Architecture and Hardware

News News track Dec 1 2002

News Track

A simulation computer program designed to prevent terrorist attacks was shown at the White House to demonstrate the program’s homeland defense applications. Two professors at Purdue University’s e-Business Research Center improved on the technology, which was originally built for telecommunications and business, by incorporating two IBM supercomputers to build a "synthetic" model of the U.S. […]

Robert Fox

Computing Applications

Opinion Forum Dec 1 2002

Forum

Thanks for Robert Glass’s delightfully written history ("The Proof of Correctness Wars," "Practical Programmer," Aug. 2002). As a mathematician and a computer scientist, I have always been saddened that proof-of-correctness methodology never worked out, but as a practical programmer I understand why. I remember discussing the proof-of-correctness effort to verify the correctness of the INMOS […]

Diane Crawford

Computing Applications

Opinion International perspectives Dec 1 2002

Cyberspace Across Sub-Saharan Africa

Moving from technological desert toward emergent sustainable growth.

Victor Mbarika, Mike Jensen, and Peter Meso

Architecture and Hardware

News On site Dec 1 2002

Teaching Reviewing to Graduate Students

Incorporating the principles and practices of formal review into a Ph.D. education, smoothly and inexpensively, as part of the existing coursework.

Jens Palsberg and Scott J. Baxter

Computing Applications

Opinion Viewpoint Dec 1 2002

Theory, Theory on the Wall

Could it be that computing itself is just too unwieldy a field for any theory of substance?

Felipe Castel

Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning

Research and Advances Dec 1 2002

Multicast Over Wireless Networks

How to ensure the participation of mobile users (no matter how disruptive the circumstances), especially for mobile commerce applications distributed over multiple networks.

Upkar Varshney

Architecture and Hardware

Research and Advances Dec 1 2002

Security Considerations For Remote Electronic Voting

Introducing state-of-the art technology into the election process implies new risks that may not be worth taking.

Aviel D. Rubin

Computing Applications

Research and Advances Dec 1 2002

The Value of Seller Trustworthiness in C2c Online Markets

Trust has value in online markets, and individual and company actions can improve or impair how trustworthy they are perceived in these markets.

Troy J. Strader and Sridhar N. Ramaswami

Computing Applications

Research and Advances Dec 1 2002

Emergent Patterns of Integration in Electronic Channel Systems

What should producers and consumers alike make of the emerging class of middlemen and intermediaries in electronic channels?

Christoph Schlueter-Langdon and Michael J. Shaw

Computing Applications

Research and Advances Dec 1 2002

Strategic It Applications in Health Care

Information technology plays an increasingly central role in the U.S. health care industry. A survey by Sheldon I. Dorenfest & Associates of Chicago estimated IT spending on health care in 2002 would be $21.6 billion [9]. Further exponential growth can be expected as the industry implements further large-scale electronic medical record keeping; provides remote diagnostics […]

Wullianallur Raghupathi and Joseph Tan

Computing Applications