Communications of the ACM (CACM), Volume 51, 2008

Volume 51, Number 1, January 2008 (EE)

Editorial pointers

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  Diane Crawford:
  Editorial pointers. 5

Forum

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  Diane Crawford:
  Forum. 7-9

The Business of software

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  Phillip G. Armour:
  Digging CACM. 13-15

Staying connected

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  Meg McGinity Shannon:
  Happy anniversary, CACM. 17-19

Viewpoint

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  Peter A. Freeman:
  Back to experimentation. 21-22

President's letter

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  Stuart I. Feldman:
  Fifty years and still growing. 23

50 Years CACM - From the Editor's Desk

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  Diane Crawford:
  Introduction. 24-26
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  Calvin C. Gotlieb:
  A time to retrospect and prospect. 26-29
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  M. Stuart Lynn:
  The battle of the covers. 30-32
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  Robert L. Ashenhurst:
  The battle behind the scenes. 33-34
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  Peter J. Denning:
  Déjà vu all over again. 35-39
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  Jacques Cohen:
  From academia to the editorship. 41-43
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  Moshe Y. Vardi:
  CACM: past, present, and future. 44-48

Voices

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  Andrew Rosenbloom:
  Introduction. 50-51
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  Jon Louis Bentley:
  In the realm of insight and creativity. 52-54
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  Whitfield Diffie:
  Information security: 50 years behind, 50 years ahead. 55-57
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  Jeannette M. Wing:
  Five deep questions in computing. 58-60
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  Eugene H. Spafford:
  Inspiration and trust. 61-62
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  Rodney A. Brooks:
  The next 50 years. 63-64
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  Pamela Samuelson:
  Hacking intellectual property law. 65-67
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  Stephen B. Jenkins:
  Ode to code. 67
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  Gul Agha:
  Computing in pervasive cyberspace. 68-70
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  Gregory J. Conti:
  Could googling take down a president? 71-73
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  Jon Crowcroft:
  Toward a network architecture that does everything. 74-77
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  Peter G. Neumann:
  Reflections on computer-related risks. 78-80
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  Jason Leigh, Maxine D. Brown:
  Cyber-commons: merging real and virtual worlds. 82-85

Articles

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  Gordon Bell:
  Bell's law for the birth and death of computer classes. 86-94
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  Greta L. Polites, Richard T. Watson:
  The centrality and prestige of CACM. 95-100

Breakthrough research: a preview of things to come

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  Diane Crawford:
  Introduction. 104
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  David A. Patterson:
  Technical perspective: the data center is the computer. 105
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  Jeffrey Dean, Sanjay Ghemawat:
  MapReduce: simplified data processing on large clusters. 107-113
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  Bernard Chazelle:
  Technical perspective: finding a good neighbor, near and fast. 115
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  Alexandr Andoni, Piotr Indyk:
  Near-optimal hashing algorithms for approximate nearest neighbor in high dimensions. 117-122

Inside risks

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  Leonard S. Zegans:
  The psychology of risks. 152

Volume 51, Number 2, February 2008 (EE)

Editorial pointers

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  Diane Crawford:
  Editorial pointers. 5-6

News track

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  News track. 7-8

Forum

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  Diane Crawford:
  Forum. 9-11

SIG election candidates

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  Diane Crawford:
  SIGs announce candidates for election. 14

Technology strategy and management

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  Michael A. Cusumano:
  Managing software development in globally distributed teams. 15-17

Viewpoint

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  Andy Oram:
  Peer to patent needs your expertise. 19-20

Legally speaking

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  Pamela Samuelson, Jerome Reichman, Graeme Dinwoodie:
  How to achieve (some) balance in anti-circumvention laws. 21-25

ACM annual report for FY07

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  Stuart I. Feldman:
  ACM annual report for FY07. 27-34

Alternate Reality Gaming

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  Jeffrey Y. Kim, Jonathan P. Allen, Elan Lee:
  Alternate reality gaming. 36-42
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  Eric Chuan-Fong Shih, Kenneth L. Kraemer, Jason L. Dedrick:
  IT diffusion in developing countries. 43-48
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  Mark T. Keane, Maeve O'Brien, Barry Smyth:
  Are people biased in their use of search engines? 49-52
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  Nolan J. Taylor, Eleanor T. Loiacono, Richard T. Watson:
  Alternative scenarios to the "banner" years. 53-58
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  Peter V. Marks, Peter Polak, Scott McCoy, Dennis F. Galletta:
  Sharing knowledge. 60-65
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  Alfred Loo:
  The myths and truths of wireless security. 66-71
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  Munir Mandviwalla, Abhijit Jain, Julie Fesenmaier, Jeff Smith, Paul Weinberg, Greg Meyers:
  Municipal broadband wireless networks. 72-80
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  Vicki R. McKinney, Darryl D. Wilson, Nita Brooks, Anne O'Leary-Kelly, Bill C. Hardgrave:
  Women and men in the IT profession. 81-84
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  Bing Liu, Alexander Tuzhilin:
  Managing large collections of data mining models. 85-89

Technical opinion

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  Min-Yen Kan, Yee Fan Tan:
  Record matching in digital library metadata. 91-94

Inside risks

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  Pascal Meunier:
  Software transparency and purity. 104

Volume 51, Number 3, March 2008 (EE)

Editorial pointers

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  Diane Crawford:
  Editorial pointers. 5-6

News track

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  News track. 7-8

The business of software

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  Phillip G. Armour:
  The inaccurate conception. 13-16

Practical programmer

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  Robert L. Glass:
  Managing for innovation. 17-18

Viewpoint

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  Chenglie Hu:
  Just say 'A Class Defines a Data Type'. 19-21

ACM fellows

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  ACM fellows. 22-23

Urban sensing

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  Dana Cuff, Mark H. Hansen, Jerry Kang:
  Urban sensing: out of the woods. 24-33
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  Jason O. B. Soh, Bernard C. Y. Tan:
  Mobile gaming. 35-39
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  Liping Zhao:
  Patterns, symmetry, and symmetry breaking. 40-46
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  Robert E. Pinsker, Shaomin Li:
  Costs and benefits of XBRL adoption: early evidence. 47-50
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  Bernd Carsten Stahl, Carole Brooke:
  The contribution of critical IS research. 51-55
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  David Wright, Michael Friedewald, Wim Schreurs, Michiel Verlinden, Serge Gutwirth, Yves Punie, Ioannis Maghiros, Elena Vildjiounaite, Petteri Alahuhta:
  The illusion of security. 56-63
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  Iris A. Junglas, Richard T. Watson:
  Location-based services. 65-69
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  Robert LaRose, Nora J. Rifon, Richard J. Enbody:
  Promoting personal responsibility for internet safety. 71-76
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  Frank R. Safayeni, P. Robert Duimering, Kimberley Zheng, Natalia Derbentseva, Christopher Poile, Bing Ran:
  Requirements engineering in new product development. 77-82
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  Kwangsu Cho, Tingting (Rachel) Chung, William R. King, Christian D. Schunn:
  Peer-based computer-supported knowledge refinement: an empirical investigation. 83-88

Technical opinion

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  Dinesh K. Gauri, Amit Bhatnagar, H. Raghav Rao:
  Role of word of mouth in online store loyalty. 89-91

Inside risks

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  Xiaoming Lu, George Ledin Jr.:
  Wireless sensor networks and the risks of vigilance. 104

Volume 51, Number 4, April 2008 (EE)

Editorial pointers

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  Diane Crawford:
  Editorial pointers. 5-6

Forum

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  Diane Crawford:
  Forum. 10

News track

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  News track. 11-12

Digital village

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  Hal Berghel:
  Faith-based security. 13-17

The profession of IT

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  Peter J. Denning, Peter Yaholkovsky:
  Getting to "we". 19-24

Call for nominations

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  Call for nominations for advanced member grades in the ACM. 25-26

ACM honors

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  ACM honors distinguished and senior members. 27-30

Viewpoint

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  Daniel Kunkle, Gene Cooperman:
  Solving Rubik's Cube: disk is the new RAM. 31-33

The psychology of security

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  Ryan West:
  The psychology of security. 34-40
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  Richard T. Watson, Marie-Claude Boudreau, Paul T. York, Martina E. Greiner, Donald E. Wynn Jr.:
  The business of open source. 41-46
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  Ziqi Liao, Michael Tow Cheung:
  Measuring consumer satisfaction in internet banking: a core framework. 47-51
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  Luc Moreau, Paul Groth, Simon Miles, Javier Vázquez-Salceda, John Ibbotson, Sheng Jiang, Steve Munroe, Omer F. Rana, Andreas Schreiber, Victor Tan, László Z. Varga:
  The provenance of electronic data. 52-58
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  Hsiu-Ping Yueh, Shihkuan Hsu:
  Designing a learning management system to support instruction. 59-63
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  Lawrence D. Bodin, Lawrence A. Gordon, Martin P. Loeb:
  Information security and risk management. 64-68
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  Dawn G. Gregg, Judy E. Scott:
  A typology of complaints about eBay sellers. 69-74
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  Ilan Oshri, Julia Kotlarsky, Leslie P. Willcocks:
  Missing links: building critical social ties for global collaborative teamwork. 76-81
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  Ivy Chan, Chee-Kwong Chao:
  Knowledge management in small and medium-sized enterprises. 83-88
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  Mohamed Khalifa, Kathy Ning Shen:
  Demographic changes in IS research productivity and impact. 89-94
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  Pamela Whitten, Deirdre Mylod, Goran Gavran, Howard Sypher:
  "Most Wired Hospitals" rate patient satisfaction. 96-102

Technical opinion

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  Chuck Litecky, Bipin Prabhakar, Kirk P. Arnett:
  The size of the IT job market. 107-109

Inside risks

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  Lauren Weinstein:
  A current affair. 112

Volume 51, Number 5, May 2008 (EE)

Editorial pointers

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  Diane Crawford:
  Editorial pointers. 5-6

News track

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  News track. 7-8

Forum

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  Diane Crawford:
  Forum. 9-11

ACM A.M. Turing Award nominations solicited

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  ACM A.M. Turing Award nominations solicited. 14

Viewpoint

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  Jacques Cohen:
  The crucial role of CS in systems and synthetic biology. 15-18

Staying connected

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  Meg McGinity Shannon:
  This menu has changed. 19-21
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  2008 ACM Elections. 22-31

Web searching in a multilingual world

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  Wingyan Chung:
  Web searching in a multilingual world. 32-40
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  Irit Hadar, Uri Leron:
  How intuitive is object-oriented design? 41-46
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  Dov Dori:
  Words from pictures for dual-channel processing. 47-52
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  Silvana Trimi, Hong Sheng:
  Emerging trends in M-government. 53-58
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  Kannan Mohan, Peng Xu, Balasubramaniam Ramesh:
  Improving the change-management process. 59-64
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  Rui Chen, Raj Sharman, H. Raghav Rao, Shambhu J. Upadhyaya:
  Coordination in emergency response management. 66-73
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  Alessandro Garcia, Carlos José Pereira de Lucena:
  Taming heterogeneous agent architectures. 75-81
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  Oded Nov, Bharat Rao:
  Technology-facilitated 'Give According to Your Abilities, Receive According to Your Needs'. 83-87
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  Bezalel Gavish, Christopher Tucci:
  Reducing internet auction fraud. 89-97

Technical opinion

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  Edgar A. Whitley, Ian Hosein:
  Departmental influences on policy design. 98-100

Inside risks

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  Steven M. Bellovin:
  The physical world and the real world. 104

Volume 51, Number 6, June 2008 (EE)

Editorial pointers

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  Diane Crawford:
  Editorial pointers. 5-6

News track

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  News track. 7-8

Forum

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  Diane Crawford:
  Forum. 9-11

Digital village

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  Hal Berghel:
  BRAP forensics. 15-20

Practical programmer

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  Robert L. Glass:
  Software design and the monkey's brain. 21-22

Viewpoint

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  Arik Ragowsky, Paul S. Licker, David Gefen:
  Give me information, not technology. 23-25

Organic user interfaces

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  Roel Vertegaal, Ivan Poupyrev:
  Introduction. 26-30
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  Hiroshi Ishii:
  The tangible user interface and its evolution. 32-36
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  Jun Rekimoto:
  Organic interaction technologies: from stone to skin. 38-44
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  Elise Co, Nikita Pashenkov:
  Emerging display technologies for organic user interfaces. 45-47
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  David Holman, Roel Vertegaal:
  Organic user interfaces: designing computers in any way, shape, or form. 48-55
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  Eli Blevis:
  Sustainability implications of organic user interface technologies: an inky problem. 56-57
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  Amanda J. Parkes, Ivan Poupyrev, Hiroshi Ishii:
  Designing kinetic interactions for organic user interfaces. 58-65
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  Carsten Schwesig:
  What makes an interface feel organic? 67-69
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  Kas Oosterhuis, Nimish Biloria:
  Interactions with proactive architectural spaces: the muscle projects. 70-78
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  Sachiko Kodama:
  Dynamic ferrofluid sculpture: organic shape-changing art forms. 79-81

Inside risks

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  Jim Horning, Peter G. Neumann:
  Risks of neglecting infrastructure. 112
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  Daniel J. Weitzner, Harold Abelson, Tim Berners-Lee, Joan Feigenbaum, James A. Hendler, Gerald J. Sussman:
  Information accountability. 82-87
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  Charalambos L. Iacovou, Robbie T. Nakatsu:
  A risk profile of offshore-outsourced development projects. 89-94
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  Chon Abraham, Richard T. Watson, Marie-Claude Boudreau:
  Ubiquitous access: on the front lines of patient care and safety. 95-99
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  Wayne Wei Huang, Jonathon Greene, John Day:
  Outsourcing and the decrease of IS program enrollment. 101-104

Volume 51, Number 7, July 2008 (EE)

Editor's letter

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