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2004

• Reflections on the Limits of Artificial Intelligence
  
  by Alexandru Tugui
  December 2004
  Nature is very simple and efficient in everything she makes, and is extremely obvious. We humans like to simulate in an extremely complicated manner what exists quite simply in nature, and what we succeed in simulating falls in the category of artificial intelligence. Artificial intelligence has limits of scope, but they fade away when compared with the performances of natural intelligence. In this study, we undertake to outline some limits of artificial intelligence compared to natural intelligence and some clear-cut differences that exist between the two.

• Computing or Humanities?
  
  by Martyn Jessop
  December 2004
  The application of computing to research problems in the humanities is not new...

• Technology footnotes: international time line
  
  by Muhammad Abad al-Hameed
  November 2004
  In the days of hot type, magazine content was set in film. This writer offered "intriguing" suggestions for making publications more appealing to international audiences.

• An alternative proposal for privatization of Pakistan Telecommunication Co
  
  by Muhammad Abd al-Hameed
  September 2004
  How the Government can start receiving immediate cash proceeds from the privatization of its telecommunication monopoly without waiting for a foreign strategic buyer

• Interfaces for staying in the flow
  
  by Benjamin B. Bederson
  September 2004
  Psychologists have studied "optimal human experience" for many years, often called "being in the flow". Through years of study, the basic characteristics of flow have been identified. This paper reviews the literature, and interprets the characteristics of flow within the context of interface design with the goal of understanding what kinds of interfaces are most conducive to supporting users being in the flow. Several examples to demonstrate the connection to flow are given.

• Reflecting on the profession: who is the IT professional?
  
  by Su-Ting Yong
  September 2004

  Sure, they can fix a computer or write a software program, but today's IT pros must be well schooled in more than the technology basics.

• Adaptation in large-scale enterprise systems: research & challenges
  
  by Kemal A. Delic, Umeshwar Dayal
  August 2004
  Deep analytics technologies and the rise of the intelligent enterprise

• Has the microsoft of today become the IBM of the late '80s?
  
  by Espen Andersen
  July 2004
  Microsoft is the chief target of accusations of unfair competition, buggy software, and general conspiracy theories. The company could learn a few tricks from an old dog like IBM.

• Why are you stealing that software: piracy in South East Asia
  
  by Louis Jezsik
  July 2004

• Protecting intellectual property rights through information policy
  
  by Karthik Raman
  June 2004
  In today's electronic world, an organization's intellectual property is sometimes its biggest asset. Much time and money can be saved, and frustration and litigation avoided if company policy dictates ownership and use of intellectual property.

• Ubiquitous conversations
  
  by Ubiquity staff
  May 2004

• Norwich university graduate portal: establishing community for online students
  
  by M. E. Kabay
  May 2004

• On writing in a graduate program
  
  by M. E. Kabay
  April 2004
  Say what you mean, mean what you say, and always respect your interlocutors

• Your (un)reasonable expectations for privacy
  
  by Eric Salveggio
  April 2004
  While law enforcement adapts to the challenges of the electronic era, expectations of privacy diminish

• The neural approach to pattern recognition
  
  by John Peter Jesan
  April 2004
  Artificial neural networks could surpass the capabilities of conventional computer-based pattern recognition systems.

• Technology benefiting humanity
  
  by Jim Fruchterman
  March 2004
  Memo to the new generation of tech philanthropists: Apply the same intellect and discipline to your philanthropy as you employ in business.

• Calm technologies in a multimedia world
  
  by Alexandru Tugui
  March 2004
  In an ideal world, computers will blend into the landscape, will inform but not overburden you with information, and make you aware of them only when you need them.

• The death of the art of writing: myth or reality?
  
  by Victor Tiong Kung Ming
  March 2004
  When it comes to writing, the next generation is all thumbs.

• It is not what you do, it is whom you do it with
  
  by Espen Andersen
  February 2004
  Telecom strategy 101: In network markets, use network marketing

• Epistemologically multiple actor-centered systems: or, EMACS at work!
  
  by Yuwei Lin
  February 2004
  History shows how communal sharing and problem-solving strengthen software functionality and innovation

• Emotional design
  
  by Donald A. Norman
  January 2004
  Beauty and brains, pleasure and usability go hand-in-hand in good design.

• 2004, The turning point
  
  by Stephen Downes
  January 2004
  An overview of some of the issues that will change the way we use the Internet

• The case for open source software in the library market
  
  by David Dorman
  January 2004
  Solutions based on freely distributed software will give libraries another choice for obtaining the support services that best meet the needs of their users.