Commentaries
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Digital Economy: Opening Statement: The past, present, and future of the digital economy
by Maja Vuković, Kemal Delic
February 2023Over time economies advanced from the initial barter exchange of goods and services to the invention of money and rise of the industrial age, morphing into today's modern, web-intensive economy. We are witnessing the rise of the digital economy (DE), where digital technologies are creating, adapting, and consuming goods and services. Entire industries are under pressure to transform and adapt to DE circumstances. In this symposium, authors present an overview of the evolution of digital economy, as well as emerging trends and challenges.
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Ubiquity and your future: (from the editor)
by Peter J. Denning
November 2019A perspective on how Ubiquity prepares readers to navigate and shape the future rather than forecasting the future.
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P2P networks are inherently unstable
by Ted G. Lewis
June 2018The P2P technology underlying file-sharing systems like Gnutella and distributed autonomous organizations like blockchain are inherently unstable because of self-organizing processes akin to Gause's competitive exclusion principle, and preferential attachment. To maintain an egalitarian P2P organization it is necessary to conserve the original network's entropy, defined as the random structure of the network and actions among peers.
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Resurrecting the bullet point: the return of an old and valued friend
by Philip Yaffe
April 2011PowerPoint has come under attack in recent years. Well known figures such as Edward Tufte have castigated PowerPoint for corrupting minds and numbing thought. Some sociologists have condemned it for luring people away from listening to each other and communicating effectively. Scott Adams (author of Dilbert) often depicts PowerPoint as a facilitator of office dysfunction. From all this, you might think PowerPoint has badly wounded us and our society with its barrage of bullet points.
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The New Ubiquity
by Peter J. Denning
October 2010Ubiquity's new site will launch this month, marking a new editorial direction. Ubiquity is now a peer-reviewed online publication of ACM dedicated to the future of computing and the people who are creating it.
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How to Generate Reader Interest in What You Write
by Philip Yaffe
June 2009Who has not discovered to their dismay that no one wants to read their most carefully crafted, meritorious, compelling, and passionate writings? Think of all the proposals you have written that no one is interested in. Or the web pages, the blog posts, or the company brochures. Chances are, your failures are linked to an inability to connect with what your readers would be interested in reading. Our intrepid writer about writing, Phil Yaffe, offers some valuable insight into how to get people to read your stuff. He says you need to adopt the "expository writing challenge": that no one is interested in what you are inclined to write, therefore you must discover what they want to read. Only then you can get started, and only then you can succeed.
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Is Design the Preeminent Protagonist in User Experience?
by Phillip Tobias, Daniel S. Spiegel
May 2009We are gradually learning that "user experience" is a critical factor in customer satisfaction and loyalty. A positive experience means a happy customer who returns again. Designers of software systems and web services have been digging deeply into how they might generate a positive user experience. They are moving beyond anecdotes about excellent examples of user experiences and are developing design principles. Phillip Tobias gives us a fascinating account of the emerging design principles that will generate satisfied and loyal users.
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Mind Hygiene for All: A Concept Map
by Goutam Kumar Saha
April 2009Maintaining mental sharpness and clarity is important to most everyone, and doing so is valuable for maintaining our professional edge. But we are under assault from many directions with challenges that can interfere with mental sharpness. Some of the challenges are familiar; others hide in the background. What are these challenges and what can we do about them? Goutam Saha has a very concise summary of everything contributing to mental hygiene, including the challenges and actions to meet them. He expresses this with mind maps, which themselves contribute to mental clarity.
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How to Rapidly Improve Speaking Skills
by Philip Yaffe
March 2009Even as written communication is important, spoken communication has been assuming an increasing role. We are called on to speak in such media as videos, teleconferences, and podcasts. Our ability to speak clearly is as important as our ability to formulate our arguments concisely and clearly. Phil Yaffe, who has provided advice to Ubiquity readers on how to write clearly and concisely, offers advice on how to speak clearly.
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The Fallacy of Premature Optimization
by Randall Hyde
February 2009Moore's Law makes it seem as if resource limitations are always a minor consideration. If there will be twice as much memory for the same price in 18 months, why bother to squeeze a factor of 2 from an application's memory requirements? If the CPU will be twice as fast by then, why bother to shave some running time from a program? In other words, why bother to optimize programs? Isn't it better to just get them running and let Moore's Law take us off the hook when resources are constrained? Randall Hyde argues that optimization is important even when memory and processor double regularly. Trying to do the optimization too early can be a futile time-waster.
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How Crafty Word Order Can Instantly Improve Your Writing
by Philip Yaffe
January 2009I am usually very reticent about offering writing tips. Unless they are linked to the absolute, inescapable fundamental principles of good writing, such tips are too often poorly applied or misapplied. There is really only a handful of fundamental writing principles. Before this extraordinary tip can be properly revealed, we need to review three of them: 1) clarity, 2) conciseness, and 3) density.
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Long Live the .250 Hitter
by Elena R. Strange
December 2008The dearth of women in computing is very much on everyone's mind. Elena Strange offers a new perspective on this. She observes that the solid, utility hitters (and players) are the backbone of every baseball team. In playing on her computing teams she has no aspirations for MVP awards and strives for personal excellence in the things she does. She asks her male colleagues to value her as a .250 hitter without holding her to the standard of a .314 hitter. This simple change could open the gates to a flood of women in computing. Elena holds Grace Hopper as the equivalent of the legendary .314 hitter in computing. Hopper told her friends that she was never aspiring to be a legendary leader, but only to do the best possible job with the tasks that were before her. Be personally excellent and interact with people from your heart, said Hopper, and all the rest will take care of itself. You can see in Elena's story the seeds that Grace Hopper planted.
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The Power of Dispositions
by John Seely Brown, Doug Thomas
November 2008Many people have been trying to come to grips with the new ways of learning that are supported by networked tools in recent years. These new ways feature distributed social networks at their core and are proving to be much more popular and often more effective than traditional schooling. Science communities such as faulkes-telescope.com and labrats.org, and massive multiplayer games such as World of Warcraft, are in the vanguard. John Seely Brown and Doug Thomas make an important contribution to understanding what makes these networks so powerful. They use the term disposition to refer to an attitude or stance toward the world that inclines the person toward effective practice. They find that a "questing disposition", which has always been important for inquiry and learning, is encouraged and supported in these vanguard social learning networks. Their work will reward your time and attention. --Peter Denning, Editor
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Presidential Politics and Internet Issues in the 2000 Election
by Doug Isenberg
October 2008As with the US election of 2000, the US election of 2008 features two slates and four new faces running for the top offices. While many of the issues concerning the electorate are different in 2008 than in 2000, remarkably some issues are the same. We thought you might be amused at Doug Isenberg's resurrected reflections on the 2000 election. You can see what has changed and what has not.
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Mirrorware
by Michael Schrage
October 2008As we use and design computing systems, Michael Schrage asks us to reflect on what these systems reveal of ourselves and not just what they reveal to others. We may find many surprises about design and privacy. In 1892, the newspapers published a series of editorials of leading thinkers about what the world would be like in 1992. (See Dave Walter, TODAY THEN, Am Geographical Union, 1992.) Collectively, they were almost 100 percent wrong. Their reflections revealed more about how they saw themselves than about the future. This is exactly what Michael Schrage is warning us about.
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Why Does Time Go Faster As We Get Older?
by Philip Yaffe
October 2008Persons in every age group wonder why time seems to move so much faster than it did in their pasts. It seems as if there is never enough time to get everything done and that the situation only gets worse. Many explanations have been offered for this, but few seem to hit the target as well as Phil Yaffe's explanation. We hope you enjoy and find it provocative. Phil has been a writer and journalist for over four decades and is able to write eloquently about his personal experience with accelerating time.
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The Three Acid Tests of Persuasive Writing
by Philip Yaffe
September 2008If there are still scientists toiling away with little regard for what others may think of their efforts, it's time to drag them kicking and screaming into the 21st century. In today's interconnected world, what scientists do is of vital concern to the wider public. And vice versa. Just consider the controversies surrounding nuclear energy, genetic engineering, telephone antennas, global warming -- and even the effects of computers on education and individual liberty (surveillance society).
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My Problem with Design
by Chauncey Bell
September 2008I was reminded today of the things I find troubling about our modern notions of design and designing. Hundreds of years ago, if one wanted to become a designer, one would first have become a master craftsperson. We learned how to construct distinctive artifacts (and worlds of artifacts) and then we began to innovate in that tradition. To say one was a designer without that background would have been Harry Potteresque: ridiculous.
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Information, DNA, and Change Through the Prism of a Great City
by John Stuckey
August 2008After retiring from a career in academic/IT management at Carnegie-Mellon, Northeastern, and Washington and Lee Universities, John Stuckey is serving as Acting Chief Technology Officer at the American University in Cairo. This is the third of his reports to Ubiquity from Egypt.
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Wot do U think? (What Do You Think?)
by M. O. Thirunarayanan
July 2008(NOTE TO READERS: Out of sheer curiosity I used a website that allowed me to translate text from English to the language used by those who send and receive text messages. The second part of this article contains a copy of the entire text that was thus translated.)
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Technological Transformation of Human Experience
by Arun Kumar Tripathi
July 2008This article was inspired by Don Ihde's work on the experience of technology in human-machine relations. (See Don Ihde. "The Experience of Technology," Cultural Hermeneutics, Vol. 2, 1974, pp. 267-279.)
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Can Learning Languages Help You Better Understand Science and Technology?
by Philip Yaffe
July 2008"I was 24 years old when I first began thinking and speaking in a foreign language. It was like being released from prison. I saw my cell door swinging open and my mind flying free. That was over 40 years ago, but the picture is as fresh now as if it had just happened."
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Thoughts on the Nature of the Virtual
by Charalambos Tsekeris
July 2008This article seeks to formulate some brief sociological and philosophical thoughts on the radically problematic nature and character of the virtual. These ultimately aim to critically challenge and reinvent the complex interrelations of contemporary virtuality to the real and the political. In such a context, new media studies acquire a normative impetus.
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A Farewell Message from Ubiquity Editor-in-Chief
by John Gehl
June 2008As Ubiquity's editor-in-chief John Gehl leaves his post, he shares some parting words.
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Dimension of Philosophy of Technologies: Critical Theory and Democratization of Technologies
by Arun Kumar Tripathi
June 2008Philosophy of technology promises the possibility of an understanding of technology that may be important not only to public policy but also in helping to conceptualise intellectual approaches to the study of technology and, indeed, to shaping new fields of knowledge and research. Philosophy of technology may also have a role to play in relation not only to structuring a largely disparate and inchoate field but also more directly in teaching and learning about technology (Peters, et. al 2008).
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Information technology as an ethical challenge
by Rafael Capurro
June 2008Information technology has an ambiguous impact on society. This situation calls for a two-level ethical analysis. On the one hand the issues of power and control must be reconsidered under the viewpoint of institutional structures, i.e., of living norms. On the other hand, the technological shaping of society, taking the character of power, oppression, verbosity and dogmatic belief, should be at the same time reconsidered under the viewpoint of a plurality of living forms, i.e., within a framework of deliberation and dissent. This paper presents briefly both issues, taking into account Michel Foucault's concept of "technologies of the self."
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21st Century Information Technology Revolution
by Sanjay Kumar Pal
June 2008The computing power in the few micro processors that are now in a Ford Motor Car is much more than all the computing power that was put in the space vehicle that landed the first men on the moon and brought them back. In today's do-more-with-less business environment, with increasing demands from customers, shareholders, and regulators, the IT organization is not only asked to work harder and smarter, but is being asked to take on the role of assuring the business.
Humanity has progressed from agricultural revolution to the industrial revolution and is now moving to an information revolution. It is this awesome computing power at continuously falling prices and the computers being networked over global telecom highways that is leading to the use of Information Technology in every sector of human activity be it communication, banking, trading, learning and teaching, entertainment, socializing, government, management and librarying. Just as machines have extended man's mechanical power and his convenience and comfort, Information Technology as commonly picturized by computers, is extending man's mind or brain or intellectual power. The term information technology has ballooned to encompass many aspects of computing and technology, and the term is more recognizable than ever before.
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Mathematics by Jannat
by Jannat Jannat
June 2008Arrgh!!! Well! If this is your reaction upon hearing the word MATH, you are not alone. You too are part of that ever increasing family which loves to hate it.
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Technology based outsourcing K-12 mathematics and science teaching
by M. O. Thirunarayanan
May 2008The author suggests that the teaching of mathematics and science in K-12 schools be outsourced to teachers in other countries whose students achieve better in mathematics and science. He outlines the advantages of using telecommunications technologies to outsource the teaching of mathematics and science.
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Making sense of nonsense: writing advice from Lewis Carroll and the Jabberwocky
by Philip Yaffe
May 2008The absolute, unalterable, incontestable hallmark of a good expository (non-fiction) text is its clarity. Whatever other attributes it may have, if it isn't clear, it isn't good, Likewise, if it isn't good, it isn't clear.
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Scarce resources in computing
by Espen Andersen
May 2008How we organize computing - and innovate with it - is shaped by what at any time is the most scarce resource. In the early days of computing, processing (and, to a certain extent, storage, which up to a point is a substitute for processing) was the main scarce resource. Computers were expensive and weak, so you had to organize what you did with them to make as much out of the processing capacity as possible. Hence, with the early computers, much time was spent making sure the process was fully used, by meticulously allocating time for users on the machine - first with scheduled batch processing, then with time-sharing operating systems that rationed processing resources to users based on need and budget.
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SC08 broader engagement offers mentoring and travel assistance grants
by Kathryn L. Kelley
May 2008Austin, TX Interested in understanding what supercomputing means? Want to learn how next-generation computing, networking and storage technologies help to solve our worlds challenges and problems? Do you want to be in a place that brings together scientists, engineers, researchers, educators, programmers, system administrators and managers to discuss, discover and innovate the path forward for computing? If so, the SC08 Broader Engagement initiative might just be for you.
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Software Columbo: What can a bumbling, inarticulate Los Angeles cop teach us about effective communication?
by Philip Yaffe
May 2008Decade after decade, perhaps the most popular type of television program has been the detective story, the traditional "who dun it?", presumably because people enjoy being held in suspense. It is therefore instructive to note that one of the most popular TV detective shows of all time has no suspense to it whatsoever.
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The non-autonomy of the virtual: philosophical reflections on contemporary virtuality
by Jeff Malpas
May 2008Much contemporary talk of virtual 'worlds' proceeds as if the virtual could somehow be considered as in competition with or as an alternative to the world of the 'nonvirtual' or the 'everyday'. This paper argues that such a contrast is fundamentally mistaken, and that the virtual is not autonomous with respect to the everyday, but is rather embedded within it, and an extension of it.
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Preface by Arun Tripathi to Jeff Malpas' 'The Non-Autonomy of the Virtual'
by Arun Tripathi
May 2008Australian philosopher Jeff Malpas, author of Place and Experience, argues in his Ubiquity paper The non-autonomy of the virtual: philosophical reflections on contemporary virtuality that the virtual is not autonomous with respect to the everyday, but is rather embedded within it, and an extension of it. Within philosophy, Professor Malpas is perhaps best known as one of a small number of philosophers who work across the analytic-continental divide, publishing one of the first books that drew attention to convergences in the thinking of the key twentieth century American philosopher Donald Davidson and the phenomenological and hermeneutic traditions, as exemplified in the work of Heidegger and Gadamer.
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Employee retention: By way of management control systems
by Vinay K. Srivastava, Shailesh Rastogi
April 2008Loyalty is passé in the modern time and professionalism is the buzzword in the contemporary corporate world. The reasons of employee attrition are also changing. Now-a-days employee leaves an organization for many reasons. Some leave for growth, some leave for some family problems but majority of people switchover jobs due to only one reason that is DISSATISFACTION. Undoubtedly satisfaction and dissatisfaction sort of things have different meaning for different people but having majority of people satisfied is pretty germane for sustainable growth and high level of productivity in any organization. A threadbare analysis of attrition brings some major concerns like not having objectivity in job allocation, employee recognition and fairness in career advancements for consideration. They are also important causes of dissatisfaction for employees in organizations. This dissatisfaction finally gets a vent in the form of changing the job. This subjectivity in the issues of employee handling is the key for dissatisfaction. Management Control System is fully capable of bringing objectivity in the organization and managing this dissatisfaction which would finally be translated into high employee retention, and better productivity and better organizations.
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How to use presentation slides to best effect
by Philip Yaffe
April 2008How often have you attended a presentation where great attention apparently went into designing the slides - and apparently none into how they were used? Or the speaker played with the slides as if to entertain rather than edify?
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The rise and fall of a good programmer
by Suthikshn Kumar
April 2008Of all the sayings I dislike, the most vapid is one I have heard as long as I have been working with IT: We will have the paperless toilet before we have a paperless office. Normally uttered with a dry cackle and a finger pointed towards my office, which does not lack for paper.
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Time to get serious about the paperless office
by Espen Andersen
April 2008Of all the sayings I dislike, the most vapid is one I have heard as long as I have been working with IT: We will have the paperless toilet before we have a paperless office. Normally uttered with a dry cackle and a finger pointed towards my office, which does not lack for paper.
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Anticipating and resolving resource overloads
by Tom Clark
April 2008The Concept of a Project Resource In the context of project management, a resource is any entity that contributes to the accomplishment of project activities. Most project resources perform work and include such entities as personnel, equipment and contractors. However, the concept of a resource (and the techniques of resource management presented in this paper) can also be applied to entities that do not perform work, but which must be available in order for work to be performed. Examples include materials, cash, and workspace. This paper focuses on the resource that is of greatest concern to most organizations personnel. In a project management system, personnel resources may be identified as individuals by name or as functional groups, such as computer programmers.
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Why visual aids need to be less visual
by Philip Yaffe
March 2008I was recently invited to a presentation by an accomplished speaker. Needless to say, his speech was well structured, his manner relaxed and confident, his eye contact and body language excellent, etc. He normally spoke without slides, but this time he felt they would reinforce and illuminate his message. They didnt. In fact, they were more of a hindrance than a help.
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Out sourcing-off shoring: how will you derive the value?
by Sunil V. Tadwalkar
March 2008The equations of global economies are changing fast due to Industry consolidation, merging, acquisitions and on account of industries hunger for global hunt and race of scaling-up higher and higher there by creating stiff competition among their rivals. The business houses are deeply evolved in looking at techno commercially viable IT solutions to grow at faster speed, support the business effectively and provide competitive advantage by using the latest emerging technologies.
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Arrogance or efficiency? a discussion of the Microsoft office fluent user interface
by M. E. Kabay
March 20081 Introduction I was writing an e-mail message the other day using Microsoft Office Outlook 2007 and clicked on the button for adding one of my signature blocks. Presto! Most of my message disappeared! Investigation and testing showed that the behavior was unpredictable; sometimes, only the existing default signature was replaced by the new signature but occasionally the program became confused and wiped out portions of the text as well.
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Is a worldwide common language just over the horizon?
by Philip Yaffe
March 2008I am an American living in Belgium since 1974. Ever since arriving here, I have been hearing the mantra To be a good European, you should learn several languages. Almost from the very beginning, I suggested going the other way: To be a good European, everyone should learn a single common language.
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Why track actual costs and resource usage on projects?
by Tom Clark
March 2008The importance of tracking actual costs and resource usage in projects depends upon the project situation. For some projects, tracking actuals is unnecessary or is not worth the effort required. In other cases, however, tracking actual costs and resource usage is an essential aspect of the project control function. In such cases, a system must be put into place to support the tracking process, and the collection/recording of the potentially voluminous quantity of data requires strong organizational discipline. Why then is tracking actual costs and resource usage on a project ever worth the effort required to accomplish it?
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ERP system replacement criteria
by Sanjay Kumar Pal
February 2008An ERP system is our information backbone and reaches into all areas of our business and value-chain. Replacing it can open unlimited business opportunities. The cornerstone of this effort is finding the right partner and specialist. Our long-term business strategy will form the basis of the criteria for our selection of an ERP system replacement. Our ERP provider must be part of our vision. It is the duty of a software provider to help us to get there by doing their part to make sure our next system will be our last ERP system replacement. Some of the criteria that allow us to identify and select the solution that will meet these expectations.
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Hermeneutics facing the
by Rafael Capurro
February 2008The origin of this paper goes back to the International Conference "Phenomenology and Technology" held at the Philosophy and Technology Studies Center, Polytechnic University (New York), October 2- 4, 1986 which was organized by Wolfgang Schirmacher and Carl Mitcham. After thirteen years, obviously, things have changed and I have done some further work too. My book Hermeneutik der Fachinformation was published in 1986 and since then I have written some articles on this subject as well as another book Leben im Informationszeitalter (Capurro 1995). Some of the articles as well as a list of publications can be found in my homepage (http://www.capurro.de). The present text is an enriched version of the original one. I have added some later insights without changing the basic ideas which I still think are valuable and can also be of help when reflecting, for instance, about the nature of communicating and searching for information in the Internet.
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Whatever happened to cybernetics?
by Ross Gagliano, John Gehl
February 2008Has the discipline of cybernetics been unable to recognize and respond to appropriate "midcourse corrections" and in the process had its destiny imposed by external "turning points"? (A mid-course correction is an endogenously determined action as in the classical "sense-processact" sequence, whereas a turning point is simply a reaction to that which is exogenously imposed; i.e., "being overcome by events."
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Collective intelligence: include the disabled for success
by Bill Tipton
February 2008Are you looking for new ideas to leverage your IT to allow your workforce to collectively be more efficient at solving complex problems? Want to transform your corporation so that it can reach new heights?
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End laptop serfdom
by Espen Andersen
February 2008Time to end personal technology serfdom! I hate company-specific technology standards, at least those that specify technology in terms other than file formats, access protocols and application programming interfaces. In most companies I am in touch with, employees get a laptop and a cell phone and are required to use a set of standard capabilities of some sort. More often than not these are unnecessarily complicated, old-fashioned, expensive and singularly uninspiring. This is often for good reasons: The IT department wants to make things manageable for themselves and for the organization, and employees need to have a standard frame of reference and a compatible set of tools for work. The helpdesk can figure out which keys to press and the employees can see the same screens. Well and good, but the users are beginning to rebel at the lack of options especially those they have on their own or former computers.
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About english: On the other hand
by John Stuckey
January 2008I read Philip Yaffe's two recent Ubiquity pieces with interest, all the more so because I myself have plunged back into an international experience after sampling the delights of retirement for a year.
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How many Americans does it take to change a light bulb?
by John Stuckey
January 2008I changed a light bulb yesterday. Or, rather, I had the thing changed. I told an Egyptian friend I had a couple of bulbs burnt out and was assuming I could pick some up at one of the larger new supermarkets. He looked at me with barely concealed pity for my ignorance. No, he said. They don't carry light bulbs in a market. Later, in e-mail, he would spell it "light pulp," which is an image I find quite intriguing. Where's Einstein when you need him? Might light pulp be what glows inside the glass, I wonder?
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Is the GMO controversy relevant to computer ethics?
by Paul B. Thompson
January 2008Computing and information technology professionals have exhibited high standards of engagement with ethical issues relating to privacy, information security and abuse of the technical capabilities they have been responsible for developing. But one can argue that computing capability is implicated in ethical controversies that receive relatively little discussion within the IT community. Stem cell research, nanotechnologies and other controversial areas of science would be impossible without the computational capacity of information processing. In many instances, the downstream applications of computer technology are deeply involved in the issues surrounding contested technologies.
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An approach for conducting enterprise resource planning assessment
by Sanjay Kumar Pal, Anindya Jyoti Pal
January 2008The failure to plan will lead to results that fall short of expectations. The same thing can be said of companies and their search for a new Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) system. All companies undertake the search for a new system because they believe there is an opportunity to improve the organization, either by improving the revenue, decreasing costs or both.
But far too often, companies undertake this effort without having a plan on how to select a new ERP system. They fall victim selecting the product with the best sales presentation or the best cost proposal. There is not quantitative evidence that this new system will actually achieve the goals of improving the revenue or decreasing the cost.
So put an evaluation plan in place. No two plans will be the same but all should have the same basic concepts.
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Should English be declared the world's official common language?
by Philip Yaffe
December 2007
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Techniques of persuasive communication: old wisdom in a new package
by Philip Yaffe
December 2007What you are about to read will probably sound familiar. Indeed, it has been said many times before. However, I believe this formulation is original and may help you better apply it in your marketing communication. I immodestly call it Yaffes Law.
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Technology transfer and modernization: what can philosophers of technology contribute?
by Bernhard Irrgang
December 2007Technique- or technology-transfer is based in many ways on technological and economic paths that were often created by European colonization and have been intensified by Industrialization and Globalization. On the one hand, the modern age is a constantly developing planetary truth, a truth that impacts every society in the world. On the other hand, societies in third world countries have not produced this condition themselves because modernity is an external imposition. This means the modern age turns to be an unavoidable destiny for them. Traditional modernization and technology transfer abstract from almost all contextual factors. That is why technological development and modernization are being compared across continents and assessed with more or less value, not considering the cultural and social contextual circumstances. This supposes on one hand that the western way into the modern age has a model character, is normative and there are no alternatives to it. Also, it is supposed that the modern age is a desirable objective and that compensation leads to equal final situations.
A requirement for technological standards and for technology transfer are innovations which constantly promise new development paths and stable institutional settings that can be monitored over a long period. These setting have to be ensured by the cultural system, especially by their social-economical dimensions. Also, the religious dimension is a part of this setting, and in Africa and South-east Asia is closely connected to the form and style of life and to culture. Secularization comparable to the western world only takes place in major cities, as they are islands of modernization. For thousands of years, technological process innovations such as technology transfer have been digested by cultural embedding and not through modernization. This might vary from place to place but in general it shows the same development. Heteronomous transfers meet culturally motivated resistance or are ignored, whereas the circumstances of technology transfer are a bit different. It is not being identified with culture transfer and does not automatically lead to a broad modernization but to a form of development with a speed of cultural adjustment - for sure slower than required by modernization. But this development can mostly be digested with the help of the embedding-paradigm. It is our task to generate forms of modernization with consideration for cultural embedding and traditions.
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Understanding dependable computing concepts
by Goutam Kumar Saha
November 2007This work aims to visually describe the important concepts of a dependable computing system and the relationships between the concepts. The concept map here for dependable computing system concepts would help us for easier and meaningful understanding of this emerging important research topic of computer science and engineering. Readers here won't feel tired of reading long text horizontally lines after lines for conceptualizing this much research and interesting topic.
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Philosophy, activism, and computer and information specialists
by Paul T. Durbin
November 2007
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Economic recognition of innovation
by Balkrishna C. Rao
October 2007Globalization has benefited the economies of member countries of the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) by helping their businesses stay profitable through cost-effective outsourcing of mostly garden-variety tasks and some knowledge-based activities. With time, the latter will account for the lion's share of work outsourced and emerging export houses will also tend to cater more to their own domestic markets because of their expanding infrastructure and growing manpower possessing advanced skills. This will result in a leveled playing field coaxing developed countries to adopt widespread innovations to maintain their high perch in the economic pecking order. Such large-scale creativity can be managed better if it could be gauged with an appropriate measure. This work propounds a new economic measure called the Gross Domestic Innovation (GDI) to quantify innovations in OECD countries. It will supplement universal measures such as the Gross Domestic Product (GDP), productivity and numbers concerning employment. Apart from the methodology for its estimation, the impact of GDI on the various facets of a vibrant economy is discussed and inter alia, the role of GDI in fighting inflation and alleviating the negative influences of globalization is stressed. Also, a tentative analysis on the economies of U.S., Japan, Germany and China is presented to illustrate the concept.
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Fast-tracking foreign languages: how to meet the linguistic challenges of working abroad
by Philip Yaffe
September 2007
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Technology as politics
by Charalambos Tsekeris
September 2007
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How to improve your writing by standing on your head
by Philip Yaffe
August 2007
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Why the heck does higher ED need chief information/technology officers?
by John Stuckey
August 2007
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Newspapers and the new paradigm
by Babu K. Mohan
August 2007
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The Indian perspective on the offshore outsourcing scene: The good, the bad, and the ugly
by K. V. K. K. Prasad
July 2007
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Why the audio CD is dying... ...and what will replace it
by Andreas Pfeiffer
May 2007
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Code and composition
by Luke Ferndez
May 2007
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'Innovation DNA': what are you good at?
by Ali Alwattari
May 2007
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Five math courses to increase career options
by Ed Chang
May 2007
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The phenomenology of slowly-loading webpages
by Robert Rosenberger
April 2007
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The emergence of the post-digital media cloud
by Ubiquity staff
March 2007
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Visions of technology
by Bernhard Irrgang
March 2007
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Degrees that expire: an idea whose time has come
by M. O. Thirunarayanan
February 2007
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Cyberspace, cosmology, and the meaning of life
by Albert Borgmann
February 2007
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What if the experts are wrong?
by Denise Caruso
January 2007
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Publish and perish: why the current publication and review model is killing research and wasting your money
by Fabio Casati, Fausto Giunchiglia, Maurizio Marchese
January 2007
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A life with computers
by J. Richard Swenson
December 2006
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Fortran days
by John Stuckey
December 2006
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The next step: privacy invasions by biometrics and ICT implants
by Karsten Weber
November 2006
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User experience research
by Andreas Pfeiffer
November 2006
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Globalization and offshoring of software
by Babu K. Mohan
November 2006
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AI re-emerging as research in complex systems
by Kemal A. Delic
October 2006The history and the future of Artificial Intelligence could be summarized into three distinctive phases: embryonic, embedded and embodied. We briefly describe early efforts in AI aiming to mimic intelligent behavior, evolving later into a set of the useful, embedded and practical technologies. We project the possible future of embodied intelligent systems, able to model and understand the environment and learn from interactions, while learning and evolving in constantly changing circumstances. We conclude with the (heretical) thought that in the future, AI should re-emerge as research in complex systems. One particular embodiment of a complex system is the Intelligent Enterprise.
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Management information systems: thoughts on research outlets
by Jose L. Salmeron
October 2006
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Books without boundaries: a brief tour of the system-wide print book collection
by Brian F. Lavoie, Roger C. Schonfeld
September 2006
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It's a structure project, not an education project
by Michael de la Maza
August 2006
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Reflections on the philosophy of technology culture of technological reflection
by Arun Kumar Tripathi
August 2006"Philosophers point out the liabilities, what happens when technology moves beyond lifting genuine burdens and starts freeing us from burdens that we should not want to be rid of." (Albert Borgmann)"The unintended consequences and dangers of technologization are real, and they deserve reflections and replies. Meanwhile the deeper danger of cultural and moral devastation goes unnoticed and is to some extent eclipsed by attention to the overt dangers (which, to repeat, need to be addressed forthwith)." (Albert Borgmann)
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The elusive promise of AI
by Jeff Riley
July 2006
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Coping with innovative technology: Albert Borgmann on how does technology change learning and teaching in formal and informal education
by Arun Kumar Tripathi
June 2006
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The ultimate technology
by George Maney
June 2006
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The fallacy of premature optimization
by Randall Hyde
June 2006
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The waning importance of categorization
by Espen Andersen
May 2006The mobile phone has caused us to plan less and communicate more. The Internet causes us to categorize less and search more - and media's increasing Internet nervousness is driven not just by fear of diminishing revenues but from the fear of a loss of importance of categorization. When everybody can find everything and networked computers determine what is relevant, media companies lose their ability to create agendas. To maintain their influence, they will need to let the Internet shape their main products, not desperately try to keep the world as it is.
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Critical thinking for the google generation
by John Stuckey
May 2006
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The net neutrality debate
by M. E. Kabay
May 2006
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Why you should choose math in high school
by Espen Andersen
March 2006
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On the emerging future of complexity sciences
by Kemal A. Delic, Ralph Dum
March 2006
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Kite: resolution of programming and data distinction
by Garth Wolfendale
February 2006
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Why features don't matter anymore: the new laws of digital technology
by Andreas Pfeiffer
February 2006
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Taking software requirements creation from folklore to analysis
by Larry Bernstein
February 2006
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Racist attacks on call center workers
by Bhumika Ghimire
January 2006
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"Reading-glasses" of the future
by M. O. Thirunarayanan
December 2005
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On dependability of corporate grids
by Kemal A. Delic
December 2005
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From characters to web services: to internationalization is everywhere
by Felix Sasaki
December 2005
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'Build or Buy' Your Next Porsche?: Thinking Clearly About the Component Approach to Development
by Rob Meyer
November 2005Rob Meyer, CEO of the Numerical Algorithms Group, wants you to be thinking clearly when you consider the component approach to development.
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Why people don't read online and what to do about it
by Michelle Cameron
November 2005
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Artificial and Biological Intelligence
by Subhash Kak, Donald C., Elaine T. Delaune, C. Donald
November 2005Subhash Kak of Louisiana State University says that "humans will eventually create silicon machines with minds that will slowly spread all over the world, and the entire universe will eventually become a conscious machine."
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Mailbag
by Ubiquity staff
November 2005In his article 'Artificial and Biological Intelligence,' Subhash Kak of Louisiana State University asks if 'humans will eventually create silicon machines with minds that will slowly spread all over the world, and the entire universe will eventually become a conscious machine?' These are some comments on his paper.
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A Three-Dimensional Model for Evaluating Software Development Projects
by K. V. K. K. Prasad
October 2005In this model created by Dr. K.V.K.K. Prasad, software development is viewed in two dimensions (despite the title), based on the answer to the questions: 1) Is it inspired by considerations of utility and value? 2) Does it advance software technology?
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INDUS: A New Platform for Ubiquitous Computing
by Kallol Borah
October 2005Kallol Borah began development of the Indus project at the Indian Institute of Technology Madras in 2002. Indus demonstrates how general purpose object oriented programming languages can be extended to enable ubiquitous computing applications.
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1965: Voting rights, communications & the FCC
by Kenneth G. Robinson
September 2005
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Mastering a master's degree: and your professional career
by M. E. Kabay
September 2005
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Some notes on malware
by M. E. Kabay
August 2005
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The cucumber season: reflections on the nature of information when there isn't any
by Espen Andersen
August 2005Epsen Andersen asks, "How does the nature of information change when there is little of it?"
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IT job outsourcing
by Bhumika Ghimire
August 2005Bhumika Ghimire, who is from Nepal, is a graduate of Schiller University, where he studied IT Management and where outsourcing was his special field of interest. Here, he asks, "How do we define outsourcing?"
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The reliability of GRE scores in predicting graduate school success: a meta-analytic, cross-functional, regressive, unilateral, post-kantian, hyper-empirical, quadruple blind, verbiage-intensive and hemorrhoid-inducing study
by John Orlando
June 2005
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Why do current graphical user interfaces not work naturally & how they can be fixed?
by Warren M. Myers
July 2005
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Software architecture axiom 1: No moving parts
by Francis Hsu
July 2005
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The S-curves of sinks, and technology
by Espen Andersen
June 2005
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Remote from reality: the out-of-box home experience
by Aaron Marcus
May 2005You cannot even begin to imagine the pain of achieving high-definition pleasure.
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Frameworks to execute offshored projects
by Babu K. Mohan
May 2005
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Reflections on challenges to the goal of invisible computing
by Arun Kumar Tripathi
May 2005"Technology becomes subordinate to values through economics, government, or the professions. Our biggest problem is learning to recognize that we do have options, albeit often limited ones. Our tendency is to just create more technology rather than ask why." (Carl Mitcham, as he articulates the thesis of Albert Borgmann on the relationship between contemporary technologies and human values)
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Francis Hsu: "Plato as software designer"
by Francis Hsu
April 2005"Plato's Ideal Types helps explain not only how our minds work, but perhaps also how computer software should work
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In defense of cheating
by Donald A. Norman
April 2005
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Manpower retention in IT: an oxymoron?
by Sunil Tadwalkar, Manjira Sen
April 2005Retention of people should be considered a business goal rather than a damage control measure.
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Just right: rethinking the how and why of technology instruction
by Mary Burns
March 2005Instruction should go well beyond a skill focus to one that connects technology use with the actual aims of curriculum and learning outcomes
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Science and Engineering of Large-Scale Complex Systems
by Kemal A. Delic
March 2005The world's economy can be seen as a an excellent playing field for the multiple, multi-faceted scientific disciplines and scientists. But for various reasons and causes, they are or disregarded or sometimes even carefully avoided. Kemal Delic, a lab scientist with Hewlett-Packard's R&D operations and a senior enterprise architect, explains.
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PCs in the classroom & open book exams
by Evan Golub
March 2005What are the motivations behind giving an open-book/open-notes exam? Does giving free access to all of the resources of the Internet conflict with these motivations?
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A Concise Guide to the Major Internet Bodies
by Alex Simonelis
February 2005The bodies responsible for the Internet's protocols and parameters can be said to steer the Internet in a significant sense. This document, by Alex Simonelis of Dawson College in Montreal, is a summary of those bodies and their most important characteristics.
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The Visions of Technics
by Bernhard Irrgang
January 2005
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What makes users unhappy: share-point team services web server security
by Avi Rushinek, Sara Rushinek
January 2005Computer & Internet Security is very important but sometimes it is so confusing and frustrating that it makes users very unhappy to a point where the system is so secure that it cannot be used by its most legitimate users, like system administrators
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Reflections on the Limits of Artificial Intelligence
by Alexandru Tugui
December 2004Nature 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.
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Computing or Humanities?
by Martyn Jessop
December 2004The application of computing to research problems in the humanities is not new...
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Technology footnotes: international time line
by Muhammad Abad al-Hameed
November 2004In the days of hot type, magazine content was set in film. This writer offered "intriguing" suggestions for making publications more appealing to international audiences.
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An alternative proposal for privatization of Pakistan Telecommunication Co
by Muhammad Abd al-Hameed
September 2004How the Government can start receiving immediate cash proceeds from the privatization of its telecommunication monopoly without waiting for a foreign strategic buyer
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Interfaces for staying in the flow
by Benjamin B. Bederson
September 2004Psychologists 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.
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Reflecting on the profession: who is the IT professional?
by Su-Ting Yong
September 2004Sure, 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.
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Adaptation in large-scale enterprise systems: research & challenges
by Kemal A. Delic, Umeshwar Dayal
August 2004Deep analytics technologies and the rise of the intelligent enterprise
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Has the microsoft of today become the IBM of the late '80s?
by Espen Andersen
July 2004Microsoft 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.
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Why are you stealing that software: piracy in South East Asia
by Louis Jezsik
July 2004
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Protecting intellectual property rights through information policy
by Karthik Raman
June 2004In 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.
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Ubiquitous conversations
by Ubiquity staff
May 2004
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Norwich university graduate portal: establishing community for online students
by M. E. Kabay
May 2004
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On writing in a graduate program
by M. E. Kabay
April 2004Say what you mean, mean what you say, and always respect your interlocutors
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Your (un)reasonable expectations for privacy
by Eric Salveggio
April 2004While law enforcement adapts to the challenges of the electronic era, expectations of privacy diminish
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The neural approach to pattern recognition
by John Peter Jesan
April 2004Artificial neural networks could surpass the capabilities of conventional computer-based pattern recognition systems.
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Technology benefiting humanity
by Jim Fruchterman
March 2004Memo to the new generation of tech philanthropists: Apply the same intellect and discipline to your philanthropy as you employ in business.
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Calm technologies in a multimedia world
by Alexandru Tugui
March 2004In 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.
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The death of the art of writing: myth or reality?
by Victor Tiong Kung Ming
March 2004When it comes to writing, the next generation is all thumbs.
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It is not what you do, it is whom you do it with
by Espen Andersen
February 2004Telecom strategy 101: In network markets, use network marketing
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Epistemologically multiple actor-centered systems: or, EMACS at work!
by Yuwei Lin
February 2004History shows how communal sharing and problem-solving strengthen software functionality and innovation
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Emotional design
by Donald A. Norman
January 2004Beauty and brains, pleasure and usability go hand-in-hand in good design.
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2004, The turning point
by Stephen Downes
January 2004An overview of some of the issues that will change the way we use the Internet
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The case for open source software in the library market
by David Dorman
January 2004Solutions based on freely distributed software will give libraries another choice for obtaining the support services that best meet the needs of their users.
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Human brain and neural network behavior: a comparison
by John Peter Jesan, Donald M. Lauro
November 2003On the matter of memory, there is no comparision. Neural networks are potentially faster and more accurate than humans.
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IT services = People + Tools + processes
by Kemal A. Delic
November 2003People add the power to a simple equation for enlightened decision-making in the IT service industry
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Cellular number portability: really such a big deal?
by Kenneth G. Robinson
November 2003The FCC ruling on number portability may have little effect on an already competitive market.
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The aeffability of knowledge management
by Stephen Downes
October 2003The 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.
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Port wars
by William Paul Fiefer
October 2003In the not-too-distant-future, firewalls spark a battle over port regulation and ownership
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Is child internet access a questionable risk?
by Charles Adetokunbo Shoniregun, Andrew Anderson
September 2003The 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?
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Ethical and social aspects of biotechnology Ethical and social aspects of biotechnology
by Bernhard Irrgang
September 2003The globalisation of biotechnology brings not only new economic prospects but also new risks. The development of international bio-safety guidelines is essential.
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Towards dependable grid and web services
by Geoffrey Fox, Shrideep Pallickara, Marlon Pierce, David Walker
August 2003
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Falling water, crashing windows: making computers more school friendly
by Mary Burns
July 2003
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Economies and diseconomies of scale in the information society
by Adamantios Koumpis, Bob Roberts
July 2003
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From postgrad to professional
by Sam Lubbe
June 2003Useful tips for choosing and executing a doctoral thesis.
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Hasta Luego, Mi Amiga
by Trevis J. Rothwell
June 2003Looking back fondly on an old friend
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From thinkers to clickers: the world wide web and the transformation of the essence of being human
by M. O. Thirunarayanan
May 2003Tick-tock, time clicking away
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Commercial computational grids: a road map
by Bryan MacKinnon
May 2003A consideration of the state of computational grids with respect to standards, current uses, and a road map for commercial benefit beyond their common applications
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Staffing the data center
by M. E. Kabay
May 2003Good staff can make a success of IS operations. Choose wisely.
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Is E-learning really the future or a risk?
by Charles A. Shoniregun, Sarah-Jane Gray
April 2003Can e-learning investment decisions be justifiable with the rate in which technology evolves?
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Reflections on the user centered design (UCD) perspective in research on wireless applications
by Michele Visciola
April 2003In order to play an influential role in research and practice, UCD communities should implement new methods and tools into current practices and advance the boundaries of the field.
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Genesis of an anthill: wireless technology and self-organizing systems
by Espen Andersen
February 2003The future belongs to small, connected devices that will wirelessly allow the user -- and the technology -- to self-organize, creating something smart out of many small and simple nodes and connections.
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Intellectual property rights of multimedia enriched websites
by Charles Adetokunbo Shoniregun
January 2003Can original print and music survive the multimedia technology hoax?
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Communications policy and information technology
by Lorrie Faith Cranor, Shane Greenstein
January 2003Policy analysis involves tempering enthusiasm with a sobering dose of reality.
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Learning by redoing
by Trevis J. Rothwell
January 2003The availability of components that do a myriad of tasks could lead programmer complacency
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Squeeze it in or spread it out?
by Rick Duley
December 2002The conundrum of content and context
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Demographic profiling: a euphemism for corporate spying
by John Hudson
December 2002Hands-on adoption of a multi-agent production planning technology in the manufacturing industry.
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Teaching the history of computer science
by Trevis J. Rothwell
December 2002Students who are truly interested in computer science would enjoy learning about those programmers who went before them, and how they overcame their difficulties.
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The rise of the intelligent enterprise
by Kemal A. Delic, Umeshwar Dayal
December 2002Mother Nature knows best -- How engineered organizations of the future will resemble natural-born systems.
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Points of learning and teaching systems (POLTS), part II
by M. O. Thirunarayanan
December 2002Proposed teaching system will reflect a learner's cognitive skills
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Internet access for African countries
by Fred Kofi de Heer-Menlah
November 2002Exploring the factors that hinder and help the development of Internet access in Africa
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E-commerce security measures: are they worth it?
by Avi Rushinek, Sara Rushinek
November 2002Cost benefits of the security and systems management of electronic publishing Internet Web server subscription services and e-commerce.
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Digital promises
by Arun Kumar Tripathi
October 2002The prospect of living our lives online may not be so attractive after all
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Channeling innovation
by James L. Fahey
October 2002Despite its importance to business, innovation can be a confusing distraction. An effective process for managing innovation allows organizations to respond to markets while remaining focused on business objectives.
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The future of internet security
by Charles Adetokunbo Shoniregun
October 2002Should common security technologies be blended with biometrics for accuracy and reliability?
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Points of learning and teaching systems (POLTS)
by M. O. Thirunarayanan
October 2002Educators can take a lesson from the business world's use of dedicated computer systems.
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The perils of the extrapolated technologist, or, the advantages of a contrarian career investment strategy
by Espen Andersen
October 2002Contrary to what you think, now is the time to study IT. Just make sure you are interested in the content of the field rather than its future trappings.
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Collaborative commerce
by Scott Kownslar
October 2002The next phase of the Internet's impact on business
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Architecting durable things
by Kemal A. Delic
October 2002Enterprise design should be more like the B-52.
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Stamp out technology virginity
by Espen Andersen
September 2002Technology virginity and technology virgins are everywhere -- and more influential than you might like. Time to go on the offensive.
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Beyond numbers
by Ubiquity staff
September 2002Martha Amram on the current economics of technology investment.
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The somatic engineer
by Peter J. Denning
September 2002Engineers trained in value skills will be superior professionals and designers.
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Nowhere to hide
by Espen Andersen
August 2002Companies will need to make themselves components of their customers' lives rather than trying to make customers a component of their organizations. To do this, they need to stop kidding themselves when it comes to electronic integration.
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Intel's inside track
by Ubiquity staff
August 2002Annabelle Gawer on the surprising sources of leadership in interdependent environments.
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Children of the information age: a reversal of roles
by Edna Aphek
August 2002Understanding the unique characteristics of the high-tech, digital generation.
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View from Bangladesh: the new literacy
by Mir Lutful Kabir Saadi
July 2002How communications technology will bridge the Divide
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Enterprise models, strategic transformations and possible solutions
by Kemal A. Delic
July 2002A simple three-layer model may foster better understanding of enterprise architecture.
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Are you tough enough?
by K. V. K. K. Prasad
July 2002
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View from Israel: the intergeneration project
by Edna Aphek
July 2002
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The answer is out there
by Espen Andersen
July 2002Distributed problem solving on the cheap
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Digital resources in education
by Arun Kumar Tripathi
June 2002How does technology change learning and teaching in formal and informal education?
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Infrastrcture: the things we take for granted
by Espen Andersen
June 2002
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Is your software process staying with you?
by Sunil Tadwalkar
June 2002It takes a village to build a process-oriented culture within an organization.
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Airport security lessons
by M. E. Kabay
May 2002False alarms, loose lips and trash bin data mines
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Crying Klez: maybe the sky IS falling
by Robert Slade
May 2002
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Reestablishing the value of content
by Gerry McGovern
May 2002
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Attendre le suitcase...
by Espen Andersen
April 2002
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The privacy paradox
by Jennifer Carlisle
April 2002A national biometric database in place of our current flawed identification systems could prevent the loss of liberty and autonomy.
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Lessons from the trenches of e-gov: part 2
by Gordon Jenkins
March 2002
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Lightweight and agile software development
by Ed Carroll
March 2002
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Freedom to think and speak
by Seth Johnson
January 2002Under Microsoft's Digital Rights Management operating system, the ability to use information freely will be policed at the most intricate level.
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Enterprise IT complexity
by Kemal A. Delic
January 2002
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WWW: service provider
by S. Sadagopan
January 2002
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Observations from the trenches of electronic government
by Gord Jenkins
January 2002
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The money of invention: how venture capital creates new wealth
by Paul A. Gompers, Josh Lerner
January 2002Ninety percent of new entrepreneurial businesses that don't attract venture capital fail within three years.
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Software message terminology
by Kersasp D. Shekhdar
January 2002
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Personal technology architecture
by Espen Andersen
December 2001
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Product language in electronic media design
by Steffen Klein
December 2001Communication follows function: How products communicate to users and why designers should care.
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Knowledge management for life: make the world a better place
by Joseph Rubenfeld
December 2001
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Corporate leadership in a volatile networked world
by Don Tapscott
November 2001When transparency reigns, corporations have nowhere to hide.
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The European IST ExPlanTech project
by Adamantios Koumpis
November 2001Hands-on adoption of a multi-agent production planning technology in the manufacturing industry.
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Optimizing bandwidth
by Geoffrey Fox, Shrideep Pallickara
November 2001An approach to high performance distributed Web brokering.
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What is software engineering?
by Bill Curran
October 2001The name implies scientific rigor, and opens software engineering to the charge that it is a pseudo-science flying under false colors.
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Perfect choice
by Richard T. Watson
October 2001
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What would Justice Brandeis say?
by Robert C. Heterick
October 2001
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Minimizing the digitial divide and the inter-generation gap
by Edna Aphek
September 2001
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The seekers
by M. O. Thirunarayanan
September 2001
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No boundaries for the journeys of the mind
by Arun Kumar Tripathi
September 2001
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Unleashing human capital to drive the next wave of growth
by Britton Manasco
September 2001
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Unclear on concept: anarchy and the Internet
by M. E. Kabay
August 2001
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Altitude vs. airspeed
by Jamie Myers
July 2001
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Perspectives on privacy in Campus IT
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July 2001
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The technology is the message
by Mat Kaplan
July 2001
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Collective education
by George Dvorak
July 2001
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On the next killer app
by Ron A. Zajac
June 2001
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EDA software: quality is not optional
by R. Raghuraman
June 2001
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The Information Producers Initiative
by Seth Johnson
May 2001
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Time for industry to support academic INFOSEC
by M. E. Kabay
May 2001
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Tracking the competition
by Carol A. Twigg
May 2001
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Is M.I.T giving away the store?
by Robert C. Heterick
May 2001
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Work in the coming age
by John Gray
April 2001
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The impending McMorphosis of the global professor
by M. O. Thirunarayanan
April 2001
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Viruses and worms: more than a technical problem
by M. E. Kabay
March 2001
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Business computing and the excitement of history
by Michael C. Potter
March 2001
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Digital technology and its impact on black genealogical research
by Jeremy E. White
March 2001
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The rise and fall of corporate electronic mail
by Sylvia Lanz
March 2001
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Voting after Florida: no easy answers
by Lorrie Faith Cranor
February 2001
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Effective unit testing
by Tim Burns
January 2001
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Controlling risk
by Patricia Duhart McNair
January 2001
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Sam Spam the flimflam man
by Shannon Jacobs
January 2001
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Now hiring: Sciengineer
by R. Raghuraman
January 2001
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The civilization of illiteracy
by Mihai Nadin
January 2001
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The Piper Cub Offense
by Jef Raskin
January 2001
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A grand role for IT
by Howie Jacobson
February 2001
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Learner interactivity and production complexity in computer-based instructional materials
by Robert S. Tannenbaum
February 2001
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Tomorrow's news
by Kerry Northrup
December 2000What will the news be like in the continuing evolving age of information? Ifra, an international association of newspaper organizations, has created a 10-minute video to provide a peek into the future of the newsroom while highlighting issues that present-day newsrooms must face in making the transition to the new publishing industry. Although early prototypes of the Daily Me have proven disappointing, "it cannot be ignored that the news industry, like most industries, is moving from a product-based business model to a service model under pressure of the Information Economy," writes Ifra's Kerry Northrup. "And good service requires some degree of personalization. The publisher of Tomorrow's News has profiled its readers, listeners, viewers and users sufficiently that it knows their collective interests and even individually where they work." Northrup, who plays a prominent role in Ifra's work as a worldwide leader in publishing strategies and technology, here provides Ubiquity a summary description of what lies ahead for the newspaper industry in the 21st Century.
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Guide to the internet
by Greg Farman
December 2000No matter where on earth, it isn't hard to find creative individuals who see the advantages that technology can confer.
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Managing information supply chains
by Patrick Walsh, Adamantios Koumpis
December 2000
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The new economy: are rules irrelevant?
by Daniel W. Uhlfelder
December 2000
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Anticipatory computing
by Mihai Nadin
December 2000
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The road to encryption: smart card ID: But can it remember my passwords?
by Andrew Rafalski
November 2000
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Making matters worse: what problem is ICANN trying to solve?
by David Curle
November 2000
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Cutting down on chat confusion: a proposal for managing instructor-controlled chat systems
by M. O. Thirunarayanan
November 2000
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Barriers to mentoring
by Joseph M. Newcomer
November 2000
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The software police vs. the CD lawyers
by Dan Bricklin
October 2000
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Electronic signatures and the new economy
by Daniel Uhlfelder
October 2000
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Presidential politics and internet issues in the 2000 election
by Doug Isenberg
October 2000
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Multimedia developers can learn from the history of human communication
by Robert S. Tannenbaum
October 2000
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U-commerce: the ultimate
by Richard T. Watson
October 2000
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We, the Internet
by Shannon Jacobs
October 2000
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Collective control
by Phil Smith
September 2000
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The information age and history: looking backward to see us
by Richard J. Cox
September 2000
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May the power be with you: a design philosophy for software engineers
by M. E. Kabay
September 2000
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The ERMES approach to software evaluation
by Giovanna A. Avellis
September 2000
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Question time: true leadership
by John Gehl, Suzanne Douglas, Peter J. Denning, Robin Perry
August 2000
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Question time: true leadership
by Craig E. Ward, Alan Lawson
August 2000
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Question time: online privacy
by Leon Rogson, Mary Forsht-Tucker, Gene Sheppard
August 2000
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Theoretical foundations of multimedia
by Robert S. Tannenbaum
August 2000
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Just turn me off
by Bernard Goldbach
August 2000
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The information age and the printing press: looking backward to see ahead
by James A. Dewar
August 2000
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Monty Python's flying circus: Microsoft and the aircraft carriers
by M. E. Kabay
August 2000
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Universal Usability
by Ben Shneiderman
August 2000
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Question time: organizational shake-ups
by Louis V. Gerstner
August 2000
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Question time?: global village or global police station?
by M. Grundy
August 2000
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Caught them, but how to hold them?
by R. Raghuraman
August 2000
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Question time: global village or global police station?
by M. Grundy
August 2000
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Internet virus protection
by Bill Hanson
July 2000
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Question time: what should be done about the 'digital divide'?
by UBIQUITY
July 2000
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Question time: online privacy
by UBIQUITY
July 2000
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Distance education: an oxymoron?
by Carol Twigg
July 2000
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Question time: Napster
by John Gehl
July 2000
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A new recruit writes home from boot camp
by M. E. Kabay
June 2000
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Arbitration clauses in online agreements
by C. Celeste Creswell
June 2000
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The bout of the century?: information ethics vs. E-commerce
by Marsha Woodbury
June 2000
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Certitude and rectitude
by Peter G. Neumann
June 2000
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The social aspects neglected in e-commerce
by Samuel Chong, Kecheng Liu
June 2000
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The humane interface (book excerpt)
by Jef Raskin
May 2000
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India: is IT the future?
by R. Raghuraman
May 2000
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The untried approach
by Arthur Melmed
May 2000
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Risks in our information infrastructures
by Peter G. Neumann
May 2000
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Electronic signature legislation
by Ephraim L. Michael
May 2000
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Partners in learning
by Marcia C. Linn
May 2000
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Stay tuned for the “new” economy
by Lewis J. Perelman
May 2000
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Heavy rotation
by William Paul Fiefer
May 2000
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Arabia online: answering the call of the holy land
by R. W. Burniske
April 2000
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Deconstructing the Internet paradox
by Joseph M. Newcomer
April 2000
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The benefits of privacy invasion
by Kenneth G. Robinson
March 2000
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Code and the Internet
by Michael M. Roberts
March 2000
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What is the story of the 21st century?
by John C. Thomas
March 2000
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The dot.xxx challenge to education and training
by William H. Graves
March 2000
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Acquiring digital wealth - the underlying cultural principles
by Jeremy J. Shapiro
March 2000
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Domain-nation
by William Paul Fiefer
March 2000
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Through a glass, darkly
by Robert C. Heterick
March 2000
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The rise of business webs
by Don Tapscott, David Ticoll, Alex Lowy
March 2000
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Mirrorware
by Michael Schrage
February 2000
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Dear Appy, how committed are you? Signed, lost and forgotten data
by Gordon Bell
February 2000
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What IT labor shortage?: redefining the IT in 'IT professional'
by Cathy Beise, Martha Myers
February 2000
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Distributed denial-of-service attacks, contributory negligence and downstream liability
by M. E. Kabay
February 2000
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Multimedia and gender
by Robert Tannenbaum, Joanna M. Badagliacco
February 2000