October 2005 - Vol. 48 No. 10

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Features

Opinion Editorial pointers Oct 1 2005

Editorial Pointers

Advanced information technology has tapped our imaginations to the core; its effects on our lives and livelihoods simply too profound to even digest. Indeed, the social…

Diane Crawford

Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning

News News track Oct 1 2005

Medical professionals have long agreed that electronic patient records are the future, but the vast majority continue to balk at making the financial and time commitment…

CACM Staff

Computing Applications

Opinion Forum Oct 1 2005

Peter J. Denning’s "The Profession of IT" column ("The Locality Principle," July 2005) invoked an anthropomorphic explanation for the prevalence…

Architecture and Hardware

Opinion President's letter Oct 1 2005

The New Professional Development Centre Boasts 1,000 Courses, O’Reilly Books, and CS Classics

ACM is expanding the PDC along three axes: Doubling the number of online courses, adding 500 books from Safari (including O'Reilly's library), and classic…

David A. Patterson

Computing Applications

Opinion Hot links Oct 1 2005

Top 10 Downloads from ACM’s Digital Library

Communications of the ACM Volume 48, Number 10 (2005), Pages 17-18 Hot links: Top 10 downloads from ACM’s digital library Diane Crawford Table of Contents Tables…

Computing Applications

Opinion Legally speaking Oct 1 2005

Did MGM Really Win the Grokster Case?

The Sony safe harbor survived a tough challenge before the Supreme Court.

Pamela Samuelson

Computing Applications

Opinion Technology strategy and management Oct 1 2005

Software in Ireland: A Balance of Entrepreneurship And...Lifestyle Management?

A unique set of circumstances contributes to the recent success of the Irish software industry.

Michael A. Cusumano

Computing Applications

Opinion Viewpoint Oct 1 2005

Academic Dishonesty and the Internet

The Internet provides new opportunities for cheating on computer science class projects.

Kenneth A. Ross

Computing Applications

Research and Advances The digital society Oct 1 2005

This special section presents views of a society changing under the influence of advanced information technology. Computers have been around for about half a century and…

Abbe Mowshowitz and Murray Turoff

Computing Applications

Research and Advances The digital society Oct 1 2005

The Growth of Information Workers in the -U.S. Economy

Using decennial census data to trace the increase in U.S. information workers from 1950--2000 and examining the role of subtitutional and compositional effects.

Edward N. Wolff

Computing Applications

Research and Advances The digital society Oct 1 2005

Digital Aids For an Aging Society

As a result of 20th-century advances in medicine and standard of living there is a dramatic increase in the number of older people in the U.S. and most developed…

Sara J. Czaja and Starr Roxanne Hiltz

Computing Applications

Research and Advances The digital society Oct 1 2005

Consumer Power in the Digital Society

A shift in the balance of power brings with it increased potential for influence.

Elia Zureik and Abbe Mowshowitz

Computing Applications

Research and Advances The digital society Oct 1 2005

Community: From Neighborhood to Network

Communities are networks of interpersonal ties that provide sociability, support, information, a sense of belonging, and social identity. Well into the 20th century,…

Barry Wellman

Computing Applications

Research and Advances The digital society Oct 1 2005

Why the Internet Is Bad For Democracy

The Internet is not simply a set of interconnected links and protocols---it is also a construct of the imagination, an inkblot test into which everyone projects their…

Eli M. Noam

Computing Applications

Research and Advances The digital society Oct 1 2005

Education Goes Digital: The Evolution of Online Learning and the Revolution in Higher Education

Studying the transformation of education and its changing role in society.

Starr Roxanne Hiltz and Murray Turoff

Computing Applications

Research and Advances The digital society Oct 1 2005

-niversal Access to Information

In 2003, the world produced about 800MB of information for each man, woman, and child on earth [2]. Much of this information, such as supermarket scanner data and the…

Hal R. Varian

Computing Applications

Research and Advances The digital society Oct 1 2005

HIT and MIS: Implications of Health Information Technology and Medical Information Systems

Evaluating the potential advantages and considering the risks associated with electronic health care records.

Peter G. Goldschmidt

Computing Applications

Research and Advances Oct 1 2005

From DQ to EQ: Understanding Data Quality in the Context of E-Business Systems

A fix for irrelevant information, cognitive overhead, and disorientation---common gremlins endured by every e-business system user.

Yong Jin Kim, Rajiv Kishore, and G. Lawrence Sanders

Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning

Research and Advances Oct 1 2005

Personalization Technologies: A Process-Oriented Perspective

By leveraging customer reactions to personalized products and services, companies continuously improve their personalization processes through an iterative feedback loop…

Gediminas Adomavicius and Alexander Tuzhilin

Computing Applications

Careers Oct 1 2005

IT Skills in a Tough Job Market

IT professionals know they must keep their skills up to date. But doing so requires knowing what skills are in demand.

Bipin Prabhakar, Charles R. Litecky, and Kirk Arnett

Computing Applications

Research and Advances Oct 1 2005

NewsInEssence: Summarizing Online News Topics

A news delivery and summarization system, acting as a user's agent, gathers and recaps news items based on specifications and interests.

Dragomir Radev, Jahna Otterbacher, Adam Winkel, and Sasha Blair-Goldensohn

Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning

Research and Advances Oct 1 2005

Current Practices of Leading E-Government Countries

IT is transforming the way governments function and valuable lessons can be learned from the pioneering e-government programs that have led the charge.

Sang M. Lee, Xin Tan, and Silvana Trimi

Computing Applications

Research and Advances Oct 1 2005

Investigating Wireless Web Adoption Patterns in the U.S.

Wireless Web providers should roll out new services on an evolutionary rather than revolutionary track.

Arvind Malhotra and Albert H. Segars

Architecture and Hardware

Opinion Technical opinion Oct 1 2005

The Educational Productivity Paradox

Studying the effects of increased IT expenditures in educational institutions.

Alan R. Peslak

Computing Applications

Opinion Inside risks Oct 1 2005

The Best-Laid Plans: A Cautionary Tale For Developers

Once upon a time, Sony Computer Entertainment planned a new handheld device for gaming, music, and movies. Sony’s powerful new "PSP" (PlayStation…

Lauren Weinstein

Computing Applications

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