June 2005 - Vol. 48 No. 6

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Features

Opinion Editorial pointers Jun 1 2005

Editorial Pointers

Senior Editor Andrew Rosenbloom’s annual sojourn to SIGGRAPH always ends with a list of technological gems to editorially explore and ultimately share. Indeed,…

Diane Crawford

Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning

News News track Jun 1 2005

A disturbing increase in pharming—the latest online scam to lure potential identity-theft victims—has security experts apprehensive. While phishing uses email…

CACM Staff

Computing Applications

Opinion Forum Jun 1 2005

I must respond to Vinton G. Cerf’s Viewpoint "Spam, Spim, and Spit" (Apr. 2005) concerning the disadvantages of challenge/response (C/R) email systems.…

Computing Applications

Opinion The business of software Jun 1 2005

Sarbanes-Oxley and Software Projects

"If we managed finances in companies the way we manage software…somebody would go to prison."---Introduction to a workshop on configuration management conducted by…

Phillip G. Armour

Computing Applications

Opinion Hot links Jun 1 2005

Top 10 Downloads from Acm’s Digital Library

Communications of the ACM Volume 48, Number 6 (2005), Pages 19-20 Hot links: Top 10 downloads from ACM’s digital library Diane Crawford Table of Contents Tables…

Computing Applications

Opinion Legally speaking Jun 1 2005

The Supreme Court Revisits the sony Safe Harbor

What will the Supreme Court do in MGM v. Grokster? How will this decision affect you?

Pamela Samuelson

Computing Applications

Opinion President's letter Jun 1 2005

Created for computing professionals, Queue is an innovative, successful magazine available free to ACM members. If you are a professional and don't subscribe, what are…

David A. Patterson

Computing Applications

Opinion Viewpoint Jun 1 2005

-pdating Computer Science Education

Prepare tomorrow's practitioners to tap the growing volume of Web-available data and complex programs they cannot possibly redevelop from scratch.

Jacques Cohen

Computing Applications

Research and Advances 3d hard copy Jun 1 2005

The growing interest among the graphics, vision, and manufacturing communities in transmitting 3D computer-aided design (CAD) image files directly to inexpensive…

Andrew Rosenbloom

Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning

Research and Advances 3d hard copy Jun 1 2005

Rapid Prototyping in Consumer Product Design

Why are only certain consumer products the hot gifts to give and to get each holiday season? Last year the digital camera and the iPod portable music player (and its MP3…

Paul K. Wright

Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning

Research and Advances 3d hard copy Jun 1 2005

Layered Manufacturing For Scientific Visualization

From the moment we're born, we learn to use and depend on our sense of touch to gain knowledge and understanding of the world around us. Today, it can also be exploited…

Mike Bailey

Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning

Research and Advances 3d hard copy Jun 1 2005

Layered Manufacturing Technologies

From the holodeck in "Star Trek" to the slice-by-slice reconstruction of the alien Leeloo played by actress Milla Jovovich in the movie The Fifth Element, science fiction…

Sara McMains

Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning

Research and Advances 3d hard copy Jun 1 2005

Shape-Based Retrieval and Analysis of 3D Models

The number of 3D geometric models available in online repositories is growing dramatically. Examples include: the Protein Data Bank [1], which stores the 3D atomic…

Thomas Funkhouser, Michael Kazhdan, Patrick Min, and Philip Shilane

Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning

Research and Advances 3d hard copy Jun 1 2005

Rapid Prototyping: a 3D Visualization Tool Takes on Sculpture and Mathematical Forms

Many technical and scientific objects are far too complex to be properly understood through pictures. 3D representations that can be touched and physically manipulated by…

Carlo H. Séquin

Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning

Research and Advances 3d hard copy Jun 1 2005

Protecting 3D Graphics Content

The digital rights management problem of protecting data from theft and misuse has been addressed for many information types, including software code, digital images, and…

David Koller and Marc Levoy

Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning

Research and Advances Jun 1 2005

Creating Successful Entrepreneurial Ventures in It

Four critical success factors are evaluated and applied.

U.N. Umesh, Minh Q. Huynh, and Len Jessup

Computing Applications

Practice Jun 1 2005

It Professionals as Organizational Citizens

Are managers discouraging IT professionals from exhibiting behaviors the organization desperately needs?

Jo Ellen Moore and Mary Sue Love

Computing Applications

Research and Advances Jun 1 2005

An Incentive System For Reducing Malware Attacks

Providing hackers an environment---other than the Net---to test and exhibit theirmalware talents has its rewards.

James A. M. McHugh and Fadi P. Deek

Computing Applications

Research and Advances Jun 1 2005

Criminal Network Analysis and Visualization

A new generation of data mining tools and applications work to unearth hidden patterns in large volumes of crime data.

Jennifer Xu and Hsinchun Chen

Architecture and Hardware

Research and Advances Jun 1 2005

Agents in E-Supply Chains

Realizing the potential of intelligent infomediary-based e-marketplaces.

Rahul Singh, A. F. Salam, and Lakshmi Iyer

Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning

Research and Advances Jun 1 2005

Knowledge Management Mechanisms of Financial Service Sites

How can we effectively acquire, use, and manage knowledge via the Web?

Fiona Fui-Hoon Nah, Keng Siau, and Yuhong Tian

Computing Applications

Research and Advances Jun 1 2005

The Bible and Multilingual Optical Character Recognition

The Bible---an unlikely resource for language technology research---proves ideal for evaluating OCR techniques.

Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning

Opinion Technical opinion Jun 1 2005

The Can-Spam Act: a Silver Bullet Solution?

Several recommendations for improving the effectiveness of anti-spam legislation are presented.

Younghwa Lee

Computing Applications

Opinion Inside risks Jun 1 2005

What Lessons Are We Teaching?

Recently, the New Jersey Institute of Technology’s (NJIT’s) Homeland Security Technology Systems Center proposed "smart" cameras that would identify…

Susan Landau

Computing Applications

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