Communications of the ACM (CACM), Volume 41, 1998

Volume 41, Number 1, January 1998

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  Robert Fox:
  News Track. 9-10

Sharing Standards

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  Roy Rada:
  Corporate Shortcut to Standardization. 11-15

From Washington

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  Neil Munro:
  Access Charges under Scrutiny. 17-19

Viewpoint

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  Nora H. Sabelli:
  We Are No Longer A Priesthood. 20-21

Computers Across Campus

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  Jennifer Burg, Stan J. Thomas:
  Computers Across Campus - Introduction. 22-25
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  David G. Brown, Jennifer Burg, Jay L. Dominick:
  A Strategic Plan for Ubiquitous Laptop Computing. 26-31
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  Glenn MacDougall:
  Acadia University's "Sandbox". 32-33
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  Alan Candiotti, Neil Clarke:
  Combining Universal Access with Faculty Development and Academic Facilities. 36-41
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  Mark Weiser:
  The Future of Ubiquitous Computing on Campus. 41-42
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  Janice Biros:
  Changes in Computer Purchase, Distribution, and Maintenance. 43-44
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  Lynn Kiaer, David Mutchler, Jeffrey Froyd:
  Laptop Computers in an Integrated First-Year Curriculum. 45-49
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  Carolyn R. Watters, Marshall Conley, Cynthia Alexander:
  The Digital Agora: Using Technolgy for Learning in the Social Sciences. 50-57
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  Ann Deden:
  Computers and Systemic Change in Higher Education. 58-63
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  Richard J. LeBlanc, Steven L. Teal:
  Hardware and Software Choices for Student Computer Initiatives. 64-69
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  Samuel L. Grier, Larry W. Bryant:
  The Case for Desktops. 70-71

Articles

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  Ho Geun Lee:
  Do Electronic Marketplaces Lower the Price of Goods? 73-80
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  Sonya Freeman Cohen:
  Quest for Java. 81-83

Inside Risks

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  Peter G. Neumann:
  Protecting the Infrastructures. 128

Volume 41, Number 2, February 1998

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  Robert Fox:
  News Track. 9-10

Log on Education

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  Elliot Soloway:
  No One Is Making Money In Educational Software. 11-15

Electronic Frontier

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  Brock N. Meeks:
  No Justice, No Peace. 17-19

On Site

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  Jan Guynes Clark, Vincent S. Lai:
  Internet Comes to Morocco. 21-23

Articles

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  Brian C. Behrens, Reuven R. Levary:
  Practical Legal Aspects of Software Reverse Engineering. 27-29
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  Leon A. Kappelman, Darla Fent, Kellie B. Keeling, Victor Prybutok:
  Calculating the Cost of Year-2000 Compliance. 30-39
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  Varun Grover, James T. C. Teng, Kirk D. Fiedler:
  IS Investment Priorities in Contemporary Organizations. 40-48
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  Philip M. Johnson:
  Reengineering Inspection. 49-52

Examining Data Quality

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  Giri Kumar Tayi, Donald P. Ballou:
  Examining Data Quality - Introduction. 54-57
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  Richard Y. Wang:
  A Product Perspective on Total Data Quality Management. 58-65
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  Ken Orr:
  Data Quality and System Theory. 66-71
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  David Kaplan, Ramayya Krishnan, Rema Padman, James Peters:
  Assessing Data Quality in Accouting Information Systems. 72-78
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  Thomas C. Redman:
  the Impact of Poor Data Quality on the Typical Enterprise. 79-82

Thinking Objectively

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  Mauri Laitinen, Mohamed Fayad:
  Surviving a Process Performance Crash. 83-86

Inside Risks

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  Peter G. Neumann:
  Internet Gambling. 112

Volume 41, Number 3, March 1998

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  Robert Fox:
  News Track. 9-11

Digital Village

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  Hal Berghel:
  The Year-2000 Problem and the New Riddle of Induction. 13-17

International Perspectives

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  Grey E. Burkhart, Seymour E. Goodman:
  The Internet Gains Acceptance in the Persian Gulf. 19-25

Forum

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  Diane Crawford:
  Praises Come With a Hitch. 26-29

President's Letter

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  Charles H. House:
  It's Time for a Change. 31

Marketing and the Internet

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  H. Raghav Rao, Al Farooq Salam, Brian DosSantos:
  Marketing and the Internet - Introduction. 32-34
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  P. K. Kannan, Ai-Mei Chang, Andrew B. Whinston:
  Marketing Information on the I-Way: Data Junkyard or Information Gold Mine? 35-43
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  Jonathan W. Palmer, David A. Griffith:
  An Emerging Model of Web Site Design for Marketing. 44-51
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  Lauren B. Eder, Marvin E. Darter:
  Physicians in Cyberspace. 52-54
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  Greg Elofson, William N. Robinson:
  Creating a Custom Mass-Production Channel on the Internet. 56-62
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  Huaiqing Wang, Matthew K. O. Lee, Chen Wang:
  Consumer Privacy Concerns about Internet Marketing. 63-70
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  Robert M. O'Keefe, Tim McEachern:
  Web-based Customer Decision Support Systems. 71-78
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  Al Farooq Salam, H. Raghav Rao, C. Carl Pegels:
  Content of Corporate Web Pages as Advertising Media. 76-77

Articles

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  Mark Bohr:
  Silicon Trends and Limits for Advanced Microprocessors. 80-87
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  Robert J. Hall:
  How to Avoid Unwanted Email. 88-95
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  Bonnie A. Nardi, James R. Miller, David J. Wright:
  Collaborative, Programmable Intelligent Agents. 96-104

Technical Opinion

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  John T. Nosek:
  The Case for Collaborative Programming. 105-108

Inside Risks

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  Peter G. Neumann:
  Are Computers Addictive? 128

Volume 41, Number 4, April 1998

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  Robert Fox:
  News Track. 11-12

Legally Speaking

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  Pamela Samuelson:
  Encoding the Law into Digital Libraries. 13-18

Viewpoint

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  Nathaniel S. Borenstein:
  Whose Net Is It Anyway? 19-21

Toward a Worldwide Digital Library

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  Edward A. Fox, Gary Marchionini:
  Toward a Worldwide Digital Library - Introduction. 28-32
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  Andreas Paepcke, Kevin Chen-Chuan Chang, Hector Garcia-Molina, Terry Winograd:
  Interoperability for Digital Libraries Worldwide. 33-43
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  William E. Moen:
  Accessing Distributed Cultural Heritage Information. 44-48
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  H. M. Gladney, Fred Mintzer, Fabio Schiattarella, Julián Bescós, Martin Treu:
  Digital Access to Antiques. 49-57
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  Cathryn S. Dippo:
  FedStats Promotes Statistical Literacy. 58-60
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  Donald D. Cowan, Colin I. Mayfield, Frank Wm. Tompa, W. Gasparini:
  New Role for Community Networks. 61-63
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  Akira Maeda, Myriam Dartois, Takehisa Fujita, Tetsuo Sakaguchi, Shigeo Sugimoto, Koichi Tabata:
  Viewing Multilingual Documents on Your Local Web Browser. 64-65
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  M. K. Leong, Ling Cao, Ying Lu:
  Distributed Chinese Bibliographic Searching. 66-68
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  Judith Klavans, Peter Schäuble:
  NSF-EU Multilingual Information Access. 69
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  Ian H. Witten, Craig G. Nevill-Manning, Rodger J. McNab, Sally Jo Cunningham:
  A Public Library Based on Full-text Retrieval. 71-75
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  Albert Endres, Norbert Fuhr:
  Students Access Books and Journals through MeDoc. 76-77
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  László Kovács:
  Discovery of Resources within a Distributed Library System. 78-79
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  Marcos André Gonçalves, Claudia Bauzer Medeiros:
  Initiatives That Center on Scientific Dissemination. 80-81
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  Sung-Hyun Myaeng:
  R&D for a Nationwide General-Purpose System. 82-85
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  Cliff McKnight:
  Many Projects That Depend on Collaboration. 86-87
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  Andrew E. Treloar:
  Libraries' New Role in Electronic Scholary Publishing. 88-89
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  Annelise Mark Pejtersen:
  Semantic Information Retrieval. 90-92
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  Sanna Talja, Rami Heinisuo, Eija-Liisa Kasesniemi, Harri Kemppainen, Sinikka Luukkainen, Kirsi Pispa, Kalervo Järvelin:
  Discourse Analysis of User Request. 93-94
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  Ben Shneiderman, Donald Byrd, W. Bruce Croft:
  Sorting Out Searching: A User-Interface Framework for Text Searches. 95-98

Articles

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  Iris Vessey, Robert L. Glass:
  Strong Vs. Weak Approaches to Systems Development. 99-102
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  Angela Sodan:
  Yin and Yang in Computer Science. 103-111

Inside Risks

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  Fred B. Schneider:
  On Concurrent Programming. 128

Volume 41, Number 5, May 1998

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  Robert Fox:
  News Track. 9-11

Electronic Frontier

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  Brock N. Meeks:
  Don't Shoot Me, I'm Famous. 13-15

Practical Programmer

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  Robert L. Glass:
  Everything Old Is New Again. 17-20

On Site

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  Bruce H. Barnes:
  Assessing Computer Technology in Europe. 29-32

Distributed Dynamic Systems

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  James Veitch, Robert Laddaga:
  Distributed Dynamic Systems - Introduction. 34-36
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  Narinder Singh:
  Unifying Heterogeneous Information Models. 37-44
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  Jeffrey P. Morrill:
  Distributed Recognition of Patterns in Time Series Data. 45-51
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  James Veitch:
  A Conversation with Paul Graham. 52-54
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  David N. Gray, John Hotchkiss, Seth LaForge, Andrew Shalit, Toby Weinberg:
  Modern Languages and Microsoft's Component Object Model. 55-65
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  Janos Sztipanovits, Gabor Karsai, Ted Bapty:
  Self-Adaptive Software for Signal Processing. 66-73

Articles

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  Vicky Hardman, Martina Angela Sasse, Isidor Kouvelas:
  Successful Multiparty Audio Communication over the Internet. 74-80
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  Akira K. Onoma, Wei-Tek Tsai, Mustafa H. Poonawala, Hiroshi Suganuma:
  Regression Testing in an Industrial Environment. 81-86
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  Peter Duchessi, InduShobha N. Chengalur-Smith:
  Client/Server Benefits, Problems, Best Practices. 87-94
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  William N. Robinson, Vecheslav Volkov:
  Supporting the Negotiation Life Cycle. 95-102

Thinking Objectively

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  Mohamed E. Fayad:
  The Art of Managing Mutiple Processes. 103-105

Inside Risks

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  Rebecca Mercuri:
  In Search of Academic Integrity. 136

Virtual Extension

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  David Alan Grier:
  Politics, Control, and Computer Networks: The Chinese Student Lobby of 1989. 137-145
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  Michel Keable, Maurice Landry, Claude Banville:
  The Legitimacy Gap Between IS Professionals and Users. 146-156
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  Albert A. Angehrn, Soumitra Dutta:
  Case-Based Decision Support. 157-165
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  Christine Parent, Stefano Spaccapietra:
  Issues and Approaches of Database Integration. 166-178
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  Uma G. Gupta:
  Automatic Tools for Testing Expert Systems. 179-184
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  Jay K. Joiner, Wei-Tek Tsai:
  Re-Engineering Legacy Cobol Programs. 185-197
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  Takashi Nishiyama, Junji Nomura, Ryoji Nakajima, Tetsuji Miyanoh:
  A Semi-Autonomous Security Robot Employing Telepresence. 198-205
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  Arun Sen:
  From DSS to DSP: A Taxonomic Retrospective. 206-216

Volume 41, Number 6, June 1998

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  Robert Fox:
  News Track. 9-10

International Perspectives

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  Stephen J. Lukasik, Lawrence T. Greenberg, Seymour E. Goodman:
  Protecting an Invaluable and Ever-Widening Infrastructure. 11-16

Personal Computing

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  Larry Press:
  Low-Cost Estimation of Travel Trade-offs. 17-20

Viewpoint

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  Wayne Madsen:
  Internet Malcontents of the World - Unite! 27-28

On Site

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  Christopher Morgan:
  Building an Informational Bridge to China. 29-30

The Java Factor

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  Sandeep K. Singhal, Binh Q. Nguyen:
  The Java Factor - Introduction. 34-37
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  Paul Týma:
  Why Are We Using Java Again? 38-42
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  Kathy Bohrer, Verlyn M. Johnson, Anders Nilsson, Bradley Rubin:
  Business Process Components for Distributed Object Applications. 43-48
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  Kelvin D. Nilsen:
  Adding Real-Time Capabilities to Java. 49-56
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  Donald P. Brutzman:
  The Virtual Reality Modeling Language and Java. 57-64
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  James W. Cooper:
  Using Design Patterns. 65-68

Articles

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  Annie Chabert, Ed Grossman, Larry S. Jackson, Stephen Pietrowicz, Chris Seguin:
  Java Object-Sharing in Habanero. 69-76
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  Soumitra Dutta, Luk N. Van Wassenhove, Selvan Kulandaiswamy:
  Benchmarking European Software Management Practices. 77-86
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  Larry Wos:
  Programs That Offer Fast, Flawless, Logical Reasoning. 87-95
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  James T. C. Teng, Seung Ryul Jeong, Varun Grover:
  Profiling Successful Reengineering Projects. 96-102

Inside Risks

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  Harold W. Lawson:
  Infrastructure Risk Reduction. 120

Volume 41, Number 7, July 1998

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  Robert Fox:
  News Track. 9-11

Practical Programmer

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  Robert L. Glass:
  Short-Term and Long-term Remedies for Runaway Projects. 13-15

Sharing Standards

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  Roy Rada, Carl Cargill, John Klensin:
  Consensus and the Web. 17-22

Viewpoint

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  Roger C. Schank:
  Horses For Courses. 23-25

Digital Watermarking

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  Minerva M. Yeung:
  Digital Watermarking - Introduction. 30-33
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  Nasir D. Memon, Ping Wah Wong:
  Protecting Digital Media Content. 34-43
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  Scott Craver, Boon-Lock Yeo, Minerva M. Yeung:
  Technical Trials and Legal Tribulations. 44-54
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  Fred Mintzer, Gordon W. Braudaway, Alan E. Bell:
  Opportunities for Watermarking Standards. 56-64
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  Jian Zhao, Eckhard Koch, Chenghui Luo:
  In Business Today and Tomorrow. 66-72
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  John M. Acken:
  How Watermarking Adds Value to Digital Content. 74-77

Web Information Systems

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  Tomás Isakowitz, Michael Bieber, Fabio Vitali:
  Web Information Systems - Introduction. 78-80
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  Gerald L. Lohse, Peter Spiller:
  Electronic Shopping. 81-88
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  Jay M. Tenenbaum:
  WISs and Electronic Commerce. 89-90
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  Ajit Kambil, Mark Ginsburg:
  Public Access Web Information Systems: Lessons from the Internet EDGAR Project. 91-97
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  Albert L. Lederer, Dinesh A. Mirchandani, Kenneth Sims:
  Using WISs to enhance Competitiveness. Commun. ACM 41(7): 94-95 (1998)
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  Harri Oinas-Kukkonen:
  What is Inside a Link? 98
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  Eric van Heck, Peter Vervest:
  How Should CIOs Deal With Web-Based Auctions? 99-100
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  Gustavo O. Arocena, Alberto O. Mendelzon:
  Viewing WISs as Database Applications. 101-102
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  Kenji Takahashi:
  Metalevel Links: More Power to Your Links. 103-105
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  V. Balasubramanian, Alf Bashian:
  Document Management and Web Technologies: Alice Marries the Mad Hatter. 107-115
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  Alan R. Dennis:
  Lessons from Three Years of Web Development. 112-113
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  Hermann A. Maurer:
  Modern WISs. 114-115
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  Murray Turoff, Starr Roxanne Hiltz:
  Superconnectivity. 116
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  James A. Senn:
  WISs at Federal Express. 117-118

Inside Risks

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  Peter G. Neumann:
  Laptops in Congress? 128

Volume 41, Number 8, August 1998

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  Robert Fox:
  News Track. 9-10

Log on Education

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