WE made it. The ride may not have been as smooth as we hoped, or as scary as we feared, but we made it, and no doubt thanks to the efforts of the very people who read this magazine. We enter 2000 with a solid mix of articles that depict daily life in today’s e-virons. […]
January 2000 - Vol. 43 No. 1
Features
Engineers and network experts are extending the Internet into deep space, adapting Net architecture to space-based communications with the lofty goal of establishing an interplanetary Internet backbone, reports MSNBC. NASA and the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency’s Next Generation Internet Project are funding the Interplanetary Net (IPN). With the growth of wireless networking and the […]
This letter is in response to Rachid Guerraoui and Mohamed Fayad’s "Thinking Objectively" column (Aug. 1999, p. 125). Although the discussion gives a clear, if somewhat abbreviated, description of OO design principles, there are a number of issues I have found troubling in attempting to apply these principles in practical situations. I am somewhat in […]
Electronic frontier: bugging out: Y2K fallout or business as usual?
Pondering the end of the world before it happens.
Log on Education: K-12 and the Internet
The Internet as a learning tool has its highs and lows, its positive and negative aspects. But wherever you stand on the bumpy ride, the Net uniquely supports learning.
On Site: Creating Lifelike Characters in Pixar Movies
Lifelike means convincing the audience an animated character has intelligence, personality, and emotion while inhabiting a physical world.
From the President: Building Big Brother
"It seemed to him that he knew exactly what it felt like to sit in a room like this, in an armchair beside an open fire with your feet in the fender and a kettle on the hob, utterly alone, utterly secure, with nobody watching you, no voice pursuing you, no sound except the singing of the kettle and the friendly ticking of the clock." —George Orwell, 1984.
The Implications of Online Investing
Millions more individual investors, lower commissions, Web-based interfaces, new e-brokerages and e-trading systems. ... Along with an unobservable market structure and hidden transaction costs.
Engaging Girls with Computers Through Software Games
The market is ripe, the time is now, for tapping into the potential gold mine that surrounds computer games for girls.
Radio’s Lessons For the Internet
Will the government's inevitable regulation reflect the Net's historic egalitarian, democratic, all-welcoming view of information?
Reexamining Organizational Memory
Reconceptualizing how an interpersonal memory—particularly one including people and technology—may be defined.
Diary as Dialogue in Papermill Process Control
Papermills are gigantic and complex machines, incorporating state-of-the-art technology. As part of a larger project a papermill in Finland was used to provide support for factory floor workers in process industries [1, 5]. Paper diaries were substituted with electronic diaries on one production line employing 35 workers. After a year of voluntary use, 3,500 entries […]
Information systems (IS) are quickly emerging as critical resources to be leveraged for organizational productivity in many business, social, and economic enterprises. The explosive growth in information technology (IT) can be broadly attributed to the emerging novel linkages of IS/IT with several base disciplines, extending the reach of IS/IT to application domains never previously considered. […]
Case Deployment in IS Organizations
Assessing the impact of software engineering development tools with an innovative set of measures for implementation.
Academic Directions of Multimedia Education
Ask for a definition of "multimedia," and you'll likely never hear the same description twice. So, how do we go about teaching it?
Inside Risks: Risks of PKI: Secure Email
Public-key infrastructure (PKI), usually meaning digital certificates from a commercial or corporate certificate authority (CA), is touted as the current cure-all for security problems. Certificates provide an attractive business model. They cost almost nothing to manufacture, and you can dream of selling one per year to everyone on the Internet. Given that much potential income […]
