May 2005 - Vol. 48 No. 5

Features

Opinion Editorial pointers May 1 2005

IT has truly been the technological savior of the mundane. Over the decades we have handed over countless routine tasks to systems and services at home and at work…

Computing Applications

News News track May 1 2005

News Track

Harvard Business School rejected 119 applicants who accessed a portion of a Web site to learn whether they were accepted to the elite school before official notifications…

CACM Staff

Computing Applications

Opinion Forum May 1 2005

Forum

The public’s disregard for privacy seals will lead them to a more accurate understanding of the privacy of their data than they could get from the careful study…

Computing Applications

Opinion Security watch May 1 2005

Trusting in Transparency

In providing security assurances, transparency and trust are inherently intertwined concepts, but their relationship is not well understood.

Rebecca T. Mercuri

Computing Applications

Opinion Hot links May 1 2005

Top 10 Downloads from Acm’s Digital Library

Communications of the ACM Volume 48, Number 5 (2005), Pages 21-22 Hot links: Top 10 downloads from ACM’s digital library Diane Crawford Table of Contents Tables…

Computing Applications

Opinion Staying connected May 1 2005

It’s the FCC on the Line

Indecency is just one channel of a post-Powell FCC show.

Meg McGinity Shannon

Computing Applications

Opinion President's letter May 1 2005

Recognizing Individual Excellence Helps US All

In addition to honoring individuals who have advanced our field, recognizing technical excellence enhances the image of our profession and helps attract the best and…

David A. Patterson

Computing Applications

Opinion Viewpoint May 1 2005

How to Prepare Tomorrow’s Technologists For Global Networks of Innovation

University curricula must prepare them to be able to recognize and embrace technologies, components, markets, and customers wherever in the world they happen to be.

Satish Nambisan

Computing Applications

Research and Advances Adaptive complex enterprises May 1 2005

Introduction

It is common knowledge that individuals, the communities in which we live, and the organizations we create adapt over time and changing conditions. It is also generally…

Anand Desai

Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning

Research and Advances Adaptive complex enterprises May 1 2005

Health Care and Services Delivery Systems as Complex Adaptive Systems

Alan Turing and John von Neumann pioneered the study of complex systems. In analyzing feedback processes, they were interested in how complex interacting systems can…

Joseph Tan, H. Joseph Wen, and Neveen Awad

Computing Applications

Research and Advances Adaptive complex enterprises May 1 2005

Test Beds For Complex Systems

Global competition requires major manufacturers to increase productivity, quality, and responsiveness while simultaneously decreasing costs and time to market. To achieve…

Albert Jones and Abhijit Deshmukh

Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning

Research and Advances Adaptive complex enterprises May 1 2005

Fractal Architecture For the Adaptive Complex Enterprise

Today's businesses must continuously adapt to external conditions in accelerated time frames. This requires businesses to shift from strategies that eliminate variation…

Jay Ramanathan

Computing Applications

Research and Advances Adaptive complex enterprises May 1 2005

It-Enabled Sense-and-Respond Strategies in Complex Public Organizations

City governments face difficult challenges in serving their increasingly Net-connected constituencies in an environment of change, uncertain demand, and reduced budgets.…

Rajiv Ramnath and David Landsbergen

Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning

Research and Advances May 1 2005

Designing Sticky Knowledge Networks

Much of any organization's experience and expertise remains underused and underexploited simply because it resides not in databases, repositories, or manuals but in the…

Ashley A. Bush and Amrit Tiwana

Architecture and Hardware

Research and Advances May 1 2005

Challenges of Migrating to Agile Methodologies

Software development methodologies are constantly evolving due to changing technologies and new demands from users. Today's dynamic business environment has given rise to…

Sridhar Nerur, RadhaKanta Mahapatra, and George Mangalaraj

Computing Applications

Research and Advances May 1 2005

Business Types, E-Strategies, and Performance

Of the multitude of dot-coms in existence in the 1990s, only a fraction survived the crash of the e-commerce (EC) market in the summer of 2000. These companies must now…

Vincent S. Lai and Bo K. Wong

Computing Applications

Careers May 1 2005

The (gradually) Changing Face of State It Jobs

Working for the state once meant long hours, low pay, and lots of red tape. That picture has certainly changed in recent years, as state governments plan to compete with…

Suzanne D. Pawlowski, Pratim Datta, and Andrea L. Houston

Computing Applications

Research and Advances May 1 2005

A Covenant with Transparency: Opening the Black Box of Models

One important ethical aspect of the use of models for decision making is the relative power of the various actors involved in decision support: the modelers, the clients,…

Kenneth R. Fleischmann and William A. Wallace

Computing Applications

Research and Advances May 1 2005

Scale-Free Geometry in Oo Programs

Though conventional OO design suggests programs should be built from many small objects, like Lego bricks, they are instead built from objects that are scale-free, like…

Alex Potanin, James Noble, Marcus Frean, and Robert Biddle

Architecture and Hardware

Research and Advances May 1 2005

Information Dissemination via Wireless Broadcast

Unrestricted mobility adds a new dimension to data access methodology--- one that must be addressed before true ubiquity can be realized.

Baihua Zheng and Dik Lun Lee

Architecture and Hardware

Research and Advances May 1 2005

The Lowell Database Research Self-Assessment

Database needs are changing, driven by the Internet and increasing amounts of scientific and sensor data. In this article, the authors propose research into several…

Computing Applications

Opinion Technical opinion May 1 2005

Potential Pitfalls in Packaged Software Adoption

Numerous organizational considerations influence packaged software purchasing.

Ben Light

Computing Applications

Opinion Inside risks May 1 2005

Risks of Third-Party Data

Recent reports of personal information theft are coming in torrents. Criminals are known to have downloaded the personal credit information of over 145,000 individuals…

Bruce Schneier

Computing Applications

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