Only a few years ago it was difficult to imagine that one day we would have the ability to access the latest news—instantly—about anything in the world from anywhere in the world. Today, it’s difficult to believe that having access to all this news is oftentimes too much of a good thing. In fact, what […]
February 2000 - Vol. 43 No. 2
Features
Professionals looking for IT-related jobs in the U.S. can expect starting salaries this year to increase an average of 6.8% over their 1999 levels, according to RHI Consulting, Menlo Park, Calif. Those specializing in systems integration will see the sharpest rise in base compensation, with starting salaries projected to increase more than 17% over 1999. […]
I found Vir Phoha’s "Viewpoint" (Sept. 1999, p. 29) on email instruction intelligent and of interest. I recently taught an informal, short email-based course in planning and staging a medieval feast. Normally, this course is taught as a two-hour lecture without practical exercises for six to 12 people. In this particular one, my class consisted […]
Identity Theft, Social Security Numbers, and the Web
Privacy is lost in the proliferation of technology's omnipresent accessibility.
Legally Speaking: the Promise and Problems of the No Electronic Theft Act
The information age has generated its fair share of new statutes, some of which may be considered criminal.
Viewpoint: Exploring Virtuality
Are we dealing with an autonomous virtual realm or merely with an aspect of the mental realm?
Viewpoint: Not Now, Not Like This
Why the ACM Council does not support the licensing of software engineers at this time.
Imagine waking in the morning, turning on your interactive TV, and being greeted by your intelligent news agent. Your agent has spent the night digitizing, segmenting, indexing, extracting, translating, and summarizing the world's news broadcasts. The agent, knowing your interests from your previous implicit and explicit interactions, selects the most relevant sources and topics and dynamically generates an interactive newscast personalized to your preferred format, length, language, and interests. Fantasy or reality?
Machine Learning of Event Segmentation For News on Demand
Deconstructing broadcast news using all sources of input from the multimedia stream.
Complementary Video and Audio Analysis For Broadcast News Archives
Increasing the usefulness of extracted information.
Integrated Technologies For Indexing Spoken Language
Transcribing speech and making it ready for browsing.
Maestro: Conductor of Multimedia Analysis Technologies
Combining technologies to achieve performance exceeding the sum of the parts.
Transcribing Broadcast News For Audio and Video Indexing
Automatically keeping up-to-date with rapidly changing news broadcasts.
Japanese Broadcast News Transcription and Information Extraction
Developing a system for close-captioning and automatic information extraction for Japanese broadcast news speech.
Measurements in Support of Research Accomplishments
How the National Institute of Standards and Technology provides a basis for evaluating these novel systems.
Partnerships in the U.S. Telecommunications Industry
Strategic motivations range from adding local access to long-distance services, to sewing up millions of new customers, to claiming a piece of a potentially hot new technology.
When it comes to working biometric identification technologies, it's not only our fingerprints that do the talking. Now, our eyes, hands, signature, speech, and even facial temperature can ID us.
The Myths and Realities of Information Technology Insourcing
IT managers commiserate over the challenges of convincing senior executives that, contrary to popular belief, outsourcing isn't always a money-saving option.
A Cost and Performance Model For Web Service Investment
Need to decide whether developing a Web site or service is worth the financial investment and the trouble? Use this model to calculate the payoff. And get in (at the right level) while you can.
Technical Opinion: Essential Business Object Design
In most business system developments, the information model is developed separately from the functional model. Information models or data models can only capture limited business semantics (see Figure 1), which include four entities: Customer, Account, Account type, and Transaction together with the cardinality of the relationship between them, such as “A customer may have many […]
Inside Risks: Risks of PKI: E-Commerce
Open any popular article on public-key infrastructure (PKI) and you’re likely to read that a PKI is desperately needed for e-commerce to flourish. Don’t believe it. E-commerce is flourishing, PKI or no PKI. Web sites are happy to take your order, even if you use a secure connection, or don’t have a certificate. Fortunately, you’re […]
