February 2002 - Vol. 45 No. 2

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Opinion Editorial pointers Feb 1 2002

Editorial Pointers

Early philosophers spoke of ontology as "the science of being." The nature of existence; the notion of presence, if you will. We all recognize the concept of a fish, for example (and for cover purposes), but the image we conjure up as we read the word "fish" is anything but similar. If people and computers—and […]

Architecture and Hardware

News News track Feb 1 2002

IT professionals who (so far) escaped the layoffs and corporate downsizing can expect workloads to increase dramatically in coming years with salary increases slight. A new 2001 IT Market Compensation Study survey by Gartner Consulting’s People3 group found that IT departments should expect workloads to increase 50% in the next four years. Meanwhile, median salaries […]

Robert Fox

Computing Applications

Opinion Forum Feb 1 2002

`Hello, World' Gets Mixed Greetings

Computing Applications

Opinion Legally speaking Feb 1 2002

Why the Digital Millennium Copyright Act Is a Failure of Reason

What technologists consider speech, lawyers and courts consider hardware. Therein lies the problem with building effective legislation around code.

Andrew Grosso

Computing Applications

Practice Practical programmer Feb 1 2002

Stodgy By Design, and the Notion of `dumbing -p’

Depending on your career roots, it seems editorial preferences may focus less on what is said and more on how it's said.

Robert L. Glass

Computing Applications

Opinion Viewpoint Feb 1 2002

Ontological Computing

Ontologies help us represent information in different ways, but we need to look much deeper for a sharper picture.

Felipe Castel

Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning

Opinion Viewpoint Feb 1 2002

Acm’s Computing Professionals Face New Challenges

Technologists can make a difference on so many critical fronts.

Ben Shneiderman

Computing Applications

News On site Feb 1 2002

Creating E-Commerce Courses with Regional Intent

How one university in China created and incorporated e-commerce courses with due speed and native reference tools.

Qing Bian Zhang and Patrick Y. K. Chau

Computing Applications

Research and Advances Ontology applications and design Feb 1 2002

Twenty years ago, most academics would have said ontology refers to an esoteric field in philosophy that studies being—what there is in the world. Today, a Web search engine will return over 64,000 pages given “ontology” as the keyword. Among the sites appearing on the first few pages are phrases such as “enabling virtual business,” […]

Michael Gruninger and Jintae Lee

Architecture and Hardware

Research and Advances Ontology applications and design Feb 1 2002

A Collaborative Approach to Ontology Design

Creating a general ontology characterizing the conduct of knowledge management.

Clyde W. Holsapple and K. D. Joshi

Architecture and Hardware

Research and Advances Ontology applications and design Feb 1 2002

Predicting How Ontologies For the Semantic Web Will Evolve

The first phase in the evolution of the semantic Web may be the development of decentralized, adaptive ontologies for software specification.

Henry Kim

Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning

Research and Advances Ontology applications and design Feb 1 2002

Making Ontologies Work For Resolving Redundancies Across Documents

Producing normalized representations from different ways of expressing the same idea.

Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning

Research and Advances Ontology applications and design Feb 1 2002

Evaluating Ontological Decisions with Ontoclean

Explosing common misuses of the subsumption relationship and the formal basis for why they are wrong.

Nicola Guarino and Christopher Welty

Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning

Research and Advances Feb 1 2002

Who Is an Open Source Software Developer?

Profiling a community of Linux developers.

Bert J. Dempsey, Debra Weiss, Paul Jones, and Jane Greenberg

Computing Applications

Research and Advances Feb 1 2002

How to Turn Around `turnover Culture’ in It

To stem the flight of valued IT professionals, recognize how the social contagion of changing jobs to overcome workplace dissatisfaction can infect even the most loyal and productive IT employees. Then listen.

Jo Ellen Moore and Lisa A. Burke

Computing Applications

Research and Advances Feb 1 2002

-Understanding the Is–ser Divide in It Innovation

To resolve turf wars and speed implementation, the traditional IS function and increasingly self-reliant end users need to spell out one another's responsibilities while focusing on common organizational benefits.

William J. Kettinger and Choong C. Lee

Computing Applications

Practice Feb 1 2002

A Wider View of Business Process Reengineering

Technology alone does not enable organizational change.

Delvin Grant

Computing Applications

Research and Advances Feb 1 2002

What’s Next in High-Performance Computing?

We can trace the evolution from Crays, to clusters, to supercomputing centers. But where does it go from here?

Gordon Bell and Jim Gray

Architecture and Hardware

News Rights and responsibilities in ACM publishing Feb 1 2002

Rights and Responsibilities in ACM Publishing

Progress on ACM's Becoming the Preferred Publisher

Richard Thomas Snodgrass

Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning

Opinion Technical opinion Feb 1 2002

Some Problems with the Notion of Context-Aware Computing

Ask not for whom the cell phone tolls.

Thomas Erickson

Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning

Opinion Inside risks Feb 1 2002

The Homograph Attack

Old-timers remember crossing zeros (Ø) in program listings to avoid confusing them with the letter O. This has long been obsoleted by advances in editing tools and font differentiation. However, the underlying problem of character resemblance remains, and has now emerged as a security problem. On April 7, 2000, an anonymous site published a bogus […]

Evgeniy Gabrilovich and Alex Gontmakher

Computing Applications

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