January 2003 - Vol. 46 No. 1

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Features

Opinion Editorial pointers Jan 1 2003

Editorial Pointers

We enter the new year exploring the burgeoning partnership of computer information science and government information service. This once-improbable pairing of researchers…

Diane Crawford

Computing Applications

News News tracks Jan 1 2003

The world’s smallest logic circuit ever created has been developed by IBM scientists at the Almaden Research Center in San Jose, CA. The entire circuit is less than…

Robert Fox

Computing Applications

Opinion Forum Jan 1 2003

Pamela Samuelson’s “Legally Speaking” column (“Reverse Engineering Under Siege,” Oct. 2002) does a masterful job of explaining how a…

Diane Crawford

Computing Applications

Opinion Staying connected Jan 1 2003

Hibernating During Telecom Winter

Somewhere along the way, hyperbole took over and exaggerations about telecom changing the world didn't live up to expectations.

Meg McGinity

Computing Applications

Opinion Security watch Jan 1 2003

On Auditing Audit Trails

It is incumbent upon us to examine our own auditing practices for their intrinsic vulnerabilities.

Rebecca T. Mercuri

Computing Applications

Opinion Viewpoint Jan 1 2003

Making Money Selling Content that Others Are Giving Away

Attempts to protect existing business models will only serve to delay, or even prevent, the arrival of new content-delivery approaches.

Alan H. Karp

Computing Applications

Research and Advances Digital government Jan 1 2003

Information technologies are being applied vigorously by governmental units at national, regional, and local levels around the world. The application of IT to government…

Gary Marchionini, Hanan Samet, and Larry Brandt

Computing Applications

Research and Advances Digital government Jan 1 2003

Coplink: Managing Law Enforcement Data and Knowledge

In response to the September 11 terrorist attacks, major government efforts to modernize federal law enforcement authorities' intelligence collection and processing…

Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning

Research and Advances Digital government Jan 1 2003

Geospatial Decision Support For Drought Risk Management

Drought affects virtually all regions of the world and results in significant economic, social, and environmental impacts. The Federal Emergency Management Agency…

Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning

Research and Advances Digital government Jan 1 2003

Harvesting Information to Sustain Forests

We are building a Web-based system to provide easy access to documents for use by natural resource managers, scientists, and other interested parties in the Pacific…

Lois Delcambre, Timothy Tolle, and The Forest Project Team

Computing Applications

Research and Advances Digital government Jan 1 2003

-Understanding New Models of Collaboration For Delivering Government Services

In the last decade, countries all over the globe have sought to deliver public services through new working relationships among governments and private and nonprofit…

Sharon S. Dawes and Lise Préfontaine

Computing Applications

Research and Advances Digital government Jan 1 2003

Prospects For Improving the Regulatory Process -sing E-Rulemaking

U.S. citizens participate directly in rulemaking---a deliberate agenda-setting process designed to elicit, sort, and clarify fact and opinion from a wide variety of…

Jane E. Fountain

Computing Applications

Research and Advances Digital government Jan 1 2003

Geospatial It For Mobile Field Data Collection

Federal statistical agencies generate critical data about the nation's population, economy, and natural resources. This data is gathered largely by mobile field data…

Sarah Nusser, Leslie Miller, Keith Clarke, and Michael Goodchild

Computing Applications

Research and Advances Digital government Jan 1 2003

Using an Ontology to Simplify Data Access

When we turn to government for information, we expect it to be timely, thorough, and above all accurate. However, we also demand that government be split in many…

Eduard Hovy

Computing Applications

Research and Advances Digital government Jan 1 2003

Bistro: a Scalable and Secure Data Transfer Service For Digital Government Applications

Government at all levels is a major collector and provider of data.Our project focuses on the collection of data over wide-area networks (WANs) and addresses the…

Architecture and Hardware

Research and Advances Digital government Jan 1 2003

Supporting Statistical Electronic Table Usage By Citizens

Over 70 agencies at the federal level are charged with collecting data and producing and disseminating statistics. These statistics are used to inform government policy,…

Carol A. Hert, Elizabeth D. Liddy, Ben Shneiderman, and Gary Marchionini

Computing Applications

Research and Advances Digital government Jan 1 2003

Fedstats: the Gateway to Federal Statistics

FedStats.gov is an award-winning portal to a distributed digital library of statistical information compiled by more than 70 federal agencies. The challenges in simply…

Cathryn Dippo

Computing Applications

Research and Advances Digital government Jan 1 2003

Table Servers Protect Confidentiality in Tabular Data Releases

Federal statistical agencies must balance concern over confidentiality of data with their obligation to report information to the public. Advances in IT threaten privacy,…

Alan F. Karr, Adrian Dobra, and Ashish P. Sanil

Computing Applications

Research and Advances Digital government Jan 1 2003

Supporting Visual Analysis of Federal Geospatial Statistics

Federal government agencies generate, summarize, and disseminate a large and growing volume of statistical data that can be linked through common geospatial referencing.…

Alan M. MacEachren, Frank Hardisty, Xiping Dai, and Linda Pickle

Computing Applications

Research and Advances Digital government Jan 1 2003

-se of the Sand Spatial Browser For Digital Government Applications

Numerous federal agencies produce official statistics made accessible to ordinary citizens for searching and data retrieval. This is frequently done via the Internet…

Computing Applications

Research and Advances Digital government Jan 1 2003

Efficient Summarization of Spatiotemporal Events

Raster datasets at discrete temporal instances capture a variety of spatiotemporal phenomena. These phenomena and the respective datasets that capture them may span…

Peggy Agouris and Anthony Stefanidis

Computing Applications

Research and Advances Digital government Jan 1 2003

It Research, Innovation, and E-Government

Over the past few years, the basic outline of an e-government vision has emerged, and government has taken promising steps to deploy e-government services. Much remains…

William L. Scherlis and Jon Eisenberg

Computing Applications

Research and Advances Digital government Jan 1 2003

A Personal History of the Nsf Digital Government Program

The NSF Digital Government Program has its roots (circa 1993) in the NSF High-Performance Computing and Communications Program, and NSF's National Center for…

Melvyn Ciment

Computing Applications

Research and Advances Jan 1 2003

The Decay and Failures of Web References

Attempting to determine how quickly archival information becomes outdated.

Diomidis Spinellis

Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning

Research and Advances Jan 1 2003

Where Now For Development Methodologies?

The current swirl of diversity could signal a return to the days of ad hoc systems development, lack of formalmethodology, and consequent increase in failure.

David E. Avison and Guy Fitzgerald

Computing Applications

Research and Advances Jan 1 2003

How to Identify New High-Payoff Information Systems For the Organization

Viewing users as partners and their personal knowledge of the organization as a strategic asset helps CIOs justify project proposals with the greatest promise for…

Ken Peffers and Charles E. Gengler

Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning

Research and Advances Jan 1 2003

The Knowledge Grid

Designing, building, and implementing an architecture for distributed knowledge discovery.

Mario Cannataro and Domenico Talia

Computing Applications

Research and Advances Jan 1 2003

Organic Data Memory -sing the Dna Approach

For very long-term storage and retrieval, encode information as artificial DNA strands and insert into living hosts. As vectors, bacteria, even some bugs and weeds, might…

Pak Chung Wong, Kwong-kwok Wong, and Harlan Foote

Computing Applications

Opinion Technical opinion Jan 1 2003

Barriers to Effective use of Knowledge Management Systems in Software Engineering

An organization must recognize that information technology is only one means to foster knowledge.

Kevin C. Desouza

Computing Applications

Opinion Inside risks Jan 1 2003

The Mindset of Dependability

Computer software is legendary for its production time and cost overruns, and for its fragility after it is written. The U.S. government failed trying to procure…

Michael Lesk

Computing Applications

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