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Commentaries

2003

  • Port wars
    In the not-too-distant-future, firewalls spark a battle over port regulation and ownership
  • The aeffability of knowledge management
    The Aeffability of Knowledge Management [1] The challenge of knowledge management, and hence of online learning, is to make it work with the complexity and richness of actual human communication.
  • Is child internet access a questionable risk?
    The unlimited and pervasive use of the Internet by young people raises many concerns about child safety. What solutions are available and why aren't they being used?
  • Commercial computational grids: a road map
    A consideration of the state of computational grids with respect to standards, current uses, and a road map for commercial benefit beyond their common applications
  • Learning by redoing
    The availability of components that do a myriad of tasks could lead programmer complacency