January 2002 - Vol. 45 No. 1

Features

Opinion Editorial pointers Jan 1 2002

Today’s newspaper proved a keen barometer for the timeliness of this issue. In the news section, the Associated Press reports that courts often favor employers who…

Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning

News News track Jan 1 2002

News Track

So, you thought walking away from your desk is all it takes to leave your work behind. Sorry. Researchers at AT&T Laboratories in Cambridge, England have created a…

Robert Fox

Architecture and Hardware

Opinion The business of software Jan 1 2002

The Spiritual Life of Projects

The human factor in software development is the ingredient that ultimately gives a project team its soul.

Phillip G. Armour

Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning

Opinion From Washington Jan 1 2002

Too Much of a Good Thing

The contested balance of civil liberties vs. police power was never more apparent than on September 11.

Neil Munro

Computing Applications

News On site Jan 1 2002

A Practical Approach For Implementing E-Commerce Programs in Business Schools

Ignoring the `e' component in business education does a great disservice to students preparing for a career in business.

Lloyd W. Bartholome and David H. Olsen

Computing Applications

Opinion Viewpoint Jan 1 2002

Meeting the Virtual Work Imperative

How collaborative technologies can facilitate face-to-face meetings without the need to even be in the same room.

Anthony M. Townsend, Anthony R. Hendrickson, and Samuel M. DeMarie

Computing Applications

Research and Advances Game engines in scientific research Jan 1 2002

Introduction

Serious computational results are derived from computer-based games.

Michael Lewis and Jeffrey Jacobson

Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning

Research and Advances Game engines in scientific research Jan 1 2002

The New Cards

The most significant recent development in gaming and graphics-intensive computing has been the availability of supercomputer-level graphics on commodity-priced graphics…

Michael Lewis

Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning

Research and Advances Game engines in scientific research Jan 1 2002

Research in Human-Level AI Using Computer Games

The goal of my research group is to understand what is required for human-level artificial intelligence. A key component of our methodology is developing AI systems that…

John E. Laird

Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning

Research and Advances Game engines in scientific research Jan 1 2002

ARQuake: The Outdoor Augmented Reality Gaming System

With the advent of commercially available affordable wearable computers and head-mounted displays (HMDs), it is possible to develop augmented reality entertainment…

Wayne Piekarski and Bruce Thomas

Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning

Research and Advances Game engines in scientific research Jan 1 2002

Unreal Tournament For Immersive Interactive Theater

CaveUT is a set of modifications to Unreal Tournament that allows it to display in panoramic (wide field of view) theaters. The result is a useful tool for educational…

Jeffrey Jacobson and Zimmy Hwang

Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning

Research and Advances Game engines in scientific research Jan 1 2002

Gamebots: A Flexible Test Bed For Multiagent Team Research

GameBots [1] is a virtual reality platform that allows the creation and evaluation of intelligent agents that interact with a rich 3D continuous dynamic environment. As…

Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning

Research and Advances Game engines in scientific research Jan 1 2002

Testing and Demonstrating Context-Aware Services with Quake III Arena

Testing and demonstrating context-aware services can be extremely difficult. Context-aware services inherently need information such as the position of their users, but…

Markus Bylund and Fredrik Espinoza

Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning

News Jan 1 2002

The ACM Annual Report FY01

It’s an extraordinary time to be a part of the information technology field. Advances in wireless and embedded technologies are making more of our work invisible;…

CACM Staff

Computing Applications