Privacy was a sensitive issue long before the advent of computers. Concerns have been magnified, however, by the existence and wide- spread use of large computer…
Public confidence in matters of online privacy seemingly lessens as the Internet grows. Indeed, there is mounting evidence the necessary remedy may be a protective…
Even though the gap continues to narrow between U.S. high school boys and girls in math and science, girls make up a smaller percentage of students in computer science…
When the Communications Decency Act was originally signed into law in 1996, there was a abundance of media coverage, particularly among media within the IS community. The…
The U.S. public telephone network (PTN) is changing—partly in response to changes in technology and partly due to deregulation. Some changes are for the better:…
At a time when we tend to search for new solutions for each and every technical problem, it’s refreshing to discover that sometimes the right answer has been there…
You’ve got to hand it to the U.S. Congress. It sure got the Starr Report posted promptly on the Internet. But the report, which answered some questions many of us…
Without question, electronic publishing is one of the hottest topics in computing. Groups worldwide want to know how to do it well, how to advertise it effectively, how…
Despite the hype associated with Web technology, it is becoming clear that adoption of this technology is not as smooth sailing, as many business organizations assumed it…
Modeling is a complex activity of abstracting information and knowledge from a particular domain in order to achieve a model containing the essentials from the…
Goal-oriented and object-oriented analysis should be seen as complementary, the former focusing on the early stages of requirements analysis ...the latter on late stages.
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