At a time when we tend to search for new solutions for each and every technical problem, it’s refreshing to discover that sometimes the right answer has been there…
January 1999 - Vol. 42 No. 1
Features
Even though the gap continues to narrow between U.S. high school boys and girls in math and science, girls make up a smaller percentage of students in computer science…
Legally Speaking: The Communications Decency Act Is Not as Dead as You Think
When the Communications Decency Act was originally signed into law in 1996, there was a abundance of media coverage, particularly among media within the IS community. The…
Digital Village: Value-Added Publishing
Without question, electronic publishing is one of the hottest topics in computing. Groups worldwide want to know how to do it well, how to advertise it effectively, how…
Viewpoint: The COPA Battle and the Future of Free Speech
The very future of free speech jurisprudence may be at stake.
From the President: Starr Wars
You’ve got to hand it to the U.S. Congress. It sure got the Starr Report posted promptly on the Internet. But the report, which answered some questions many of us…
Modeling is a complex activity of abstracting information and knowledge from a particular domain in order to achieve a model containing the essentials from the…
From Object-Oriented to Goal-Oriented Requirements Analysis
Goal-oriented and object-oriented analysis should be seen as complementary, the former focusing on the early stages of requirements analysis ...the latter on late stages.
Connecting the Design of Software to the Design
When the software's preference contradicts good user work practice the power of computing quickly becomes an electronic bureaucrat—frustrating productivity while…
Scenarios have become key artifacts in systems engineering but their management is poorly understood.
Integrating Development of Task and Object Models
Interleaved analysis of user and object interaction scenarios promotes the understanding of reciprocal opportunities and constraints.
Embedding Formal Knowledge Models in Active Documents
Creating problem-solving documents.
User Interface Directions For the Web
If you think it's crowded now, just wait! The Web is heading toward its own year-end calamity unless some skillful maneuvering is applied—quickly.
Enhancing Data Quality in Data Warehouse Environments
Nothing is more likely to undermine the performance and business value of a data warehouse than inappropriate, misunderstood, or ignored data quality.
How the Internet Helps Build Collaborative Multimedia Applications
Start with the Internet itself for freely available software technologies, then add some custom software.
The Role of Knowledge in Software Development
Before the program can be written, humans have to describe and organize the knowledge it represents according to specific knowledge structures.
To make academic research relevant, researchers should try out their theories with practitioners in real situations and real organizations.
Technical Opinion: Roadblocks to Web Technology Adoption?
Despite the hype associated with Web technology, it is becoming clear that adoption of this technology is not as smooth sailing, as many business organizations assumed it…
Inside Risks: Evolving Telephone Networks
The U.S. public telephone network (PTN) is changing—partly in response to changes in technology and partly due to deregulation. Some changes are for the better:…
