Bio of Dr. Clark: Dr. Andy Clark is a professor of philosophy and chair in logic and metaphysics at the University of Edinburgh in Scotland. Previously, he taught at Washington University at St. Louis and the University of Sussex in England. Clark is one of the founding members of the Contact collaborative research project, whose aim is to investigate the role environment plays in shaping the nature of conscious experience. Dr. Andy Clark research interests include philosophy of mind, artificial intelligence, including robotics, artificial life, embodied cognition, and mind, technology and culture. Dr. Clark's papers and books deal with the philosophy of mind and he is considered a leading scientist in mind extension. He has also written extensively on connectionism, robotics, and the role and nature of mental representation.

Associate editor Ross Gagliano offers four short reviews of current software engineering books of interest.

Associate Editor Ross Gagliano offers four Short Reviews of current Software Engineering books of interest.

I ndi got her BS in Computer Science from Cal Poly and began her master's at Colorado State. She then worked as a software engineer, later managing Web applications that focused on the user. Her concepts in mental models derive from attempting to bridge the developer-user gap. Her expertise ranges from structuring crossfunctional teams, to managing participant recruiting, and conducting user interviews, thereby creating effective tools for exchanging results.

Vossen is both an IS & CS Professor at the University of Muenster, and also served as European Editor-in-Chief for Elseviers international information systems journal. Hagemann is his PhD student whose area of research is Web technology.

In his review of Davis's book of essays, "Great Software Debates," Carl Bedingfield concludes: "The industry needs this book."

John Stuckey reviews the book 'Einstein's Dreams,' by Alan Lightman: Warner Books Edition, Pantheon Books, Random House, NYC, NY, 1994.

With new insights to a well-documented topic, this book offers an excellent incentive and useful tools for system designers to pursue activity-centered design.

Like it or not, as users of new technologies we are playing the telecommunication game by an increasingly complicated set of rules.

A compilation of issues, process and practice in design for connected interactive experiences.

Are you looking for a method for managing Web data in a useful and orderly format? Your search is over. This handbook is both a good introduction for the metadata neophyte and a useful reference for the semantically hip.

An overview of more than a decade of work on event systems, formal specification and temporal reasoning

Competition in the telecommunications industry has come at a tremendous cost

Mother Nature knows best--How engineered organizations of the future will resemble natural-born systems.

How scientists will use "metacomputational" facilities to solve complex problems.

When the going gets tough, the tough go portfolio.

Optimizing the user experience should be the ultimate aim of the Web usability designer.

Creating new business models may be as important an innovation as products themselves.

Life and learning on the Net through the eyes of a philosopher.

Two teachers chronicle their personal odyssey in finding a fitting role for technology in education.