IEEE Computer, Volume 32, 1999

Volume 32, Number 1, January 1999

Editor's Message

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  James H. Aylor:
  Computer for the 21st Century. 4-6

President's Message

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  Leonard L. Tripp:
  Lengthening Our Stride: Our 1999 Plan. 7-8

Industry Trends

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  John Charles:
  Neural Interfaces Link the Mind and the Machine. 16-18

Technology News

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  John Edwards:
  Employment in 1999: Oportunities Amid Challenges. 19-22

Cover Feature: Outlook

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  Krishna M. Kavi, James C. Browne, Anand Tripathi:
  Computer Systems Research: The Pressure Is On. 30-39
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  Jonathan M. Smith:
  Programmable Networks: Selected Challenges in Computer Networking. 40-42
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  Scott Hamilton:
  Semiconductor Research Corporation: Taking Moore's Law Into the Next Century. 43-48
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  Howard A. Rubin:
  Diary of a Consultant: Bracing for the Millennium. 51-56
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  Mark Billinghurst, Thad Starner:
  Wearable Devices: New Ways to Manage Information. 57-64
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  Bill N. Schilit, Morgan N. Price, Gene Golovchinsky, Kei Tanaka, Catherine C. Marshall:
  As We May Read: The Reading Appliance Revolution. 65-73

Technical Activities Forum

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  Jeffrey M. Voas:
  The Future of Computer Assurance. 76-77

Standards

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  Charles R. Severance:
  Posix: A Model for Future Computing. 131-132

Internet Watch

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  Soon-Yong Choi, Andrew B. Whinston:
  The Future of E-Commerce: Integrate and Customize. 133-134

Management

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  Barry W. Boehm, Chris Abts:
  COTS Integration: Plug and Pray? 135-138

Compunent and Object Technology

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  Bertrand Meyer:
  On To Components. 139-140

Binary Critic

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  Ted G. Lewis, Benjamin C. Fuller:
  Fast-Lane Browsers Put the Web on Wheels. 141-144

Volume 32, Number 2, February 1999

Industry Trends

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  Sixto Ortiz Jr.:
  New Chips Move Networking onto Silicon. 7-9

Technology News

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  George Lawton:
  Vendors Battle over Mobile-OS Market. 13-15

Computing Practices

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  Savitha Srinivasan:
  Design Patterns in Object-Oriented Frameworks. 24-32

Cybersquare

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  Thomas P. Hughes, Jerry R. Sheehan:
  What Has Influenced Computing Innovation? 33-43

Cover Feature:

Digital Libraries

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  Bruce R. Schatz, Hsinchun Chen:
  Digital Libraries: Technological Advances and Social Impacts (Guest Editors' Introduction). 45-50
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  Bruce R. Schatz, William H. Mischo, Timothy W. Cole, Ann Peterson Bishop, Susan Harum, Eric H. Johnson, Laura J. Neumann, Hsinchun Chen, Tobun Dorbin Ng:
  Federated Search of Scientific Literature. 51-59
• 
  Spencer W. Thomas, Ken Alexander, Kevin M. Guthrie:
  Technology Choices for the JSTOR Online Archive. 60-65
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  Howard D. Wactlar, Michael G. Christel, Yihong Gong, Alexander G. Hauptmann:
  Lessons Learned from Building a Terabyte Digital Video Library. 66-73
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  Ian H. Witten, Rodger J. McNab, Steve Jones, Mark D. Apperley, David Bainbridge, Sally Jo Cunningham:
  Managing Complexity in a Distributed Digital Library. 74-79
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  Andreas Paepcke, Michelle Q. Wang Baldonado, Kevin Chen-Chuan Chang, Steve B. Cousins, Hector Garcia-Molina:
  Using Distributed Objects to Build the Stanford Digital Library Infobus. 80-87

Internet Watch

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  Gary C. Kessler, Ken Rosenblad, Steven D. Shepard:
  The Web Can Be Suitable for Learning. 114-115

Integrated Engineering

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  Josef Fleischmann, Klaus Buchenrieder:
  Prototyping Networked Embedded Systems. 116-119

Software Realities

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  James Bach:
  Reframing Requirements Analysis. 120-122

Open Channel

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  Thomas W. Williams:
  IEEE-USA and the Issue of Member Choice. 123-124

Binary Critic

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  Ted G. Lewis:
  The Open Source Acid Test. 125-128

Volume 32, Number 3, March 1999

Industry Trends

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  George Lawton:
  New Technologies Take the Network Home. 11-14

Technology News

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  Neal Leavitt:
  Will 1999 Be the Year of IP Telephony? 15-17

Cybersquare

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  Marina Krol:
  Have We Witnessed a Real-Life Turing Test? 27-30

Computing Practices

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  Hemant K. Bhargava, Suresh Sridhar, Craig Herrick:
  Beyond Spreadsheets: Tools for Building Decision Support Systems. 31-39

Information Technology

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  Girish Pathak, Shri K. Goyal:
  Transforming Business Through Information Technology - Guest Editors' Introduction. 40-41
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  Krishnamurthy Srinivasan, Sundaresan Jayaraman:
  The Changing Role of Information Technology in Manufacturing. 42-49
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  Richard Brandau, Tony Confrey, Alin D'Silva, Christopher J. Matheus, Robert Weihmayer:
  Reinventing GTE with Information Technology. 50-58
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  Mark Norris, Paul Muschamp, Steve Sim:
  The BT Intranet: Information by Design. 59-66
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  Dawn N. Jutla, Peter Bodorik, Catherine Hajnal, Charles Davis:
  Making Business Sense of Electronic Commerce. 67-75

Internet Watch

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  Bruce Schneier:
  Cryptography: The Importance of Not Being Different. 108-109

Standards

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  Harold W. Lawson:
  Defining Stakeholders Relationships. 110-112

Management

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  Barry W. Boehm:
  Making RAD Work for Your Project. 113-114, 117

Component and Object Technology

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  Paul F. Dubois:
  Scientific Components Are Coming. 115-116

Binary Critic

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  Ted G. Lewis:
  Innovation in the Small. 118-120

Volume 32, Number 4, April 1999

Industry Trends

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  Lee Garber:
  Steve Deering on IP Next Generation. 11-13

Technology News

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  Ilan Greenberg:
  Facing Up to New Interfaces. 14-16

Cybersquare

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  Kenneth Nichols:
  The Age of Software Patents. 25-31

Active Networks

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  Jonathan M. Smith, Kenneth L. Calvert, Sandra L. Murphy, Hilarie K. Orman, Larry L. Peterson:
  Activating Networks: A Progress Report. 32-41
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  David Wetherall, John V. Guttag, David L. Tennenhouse:
  ANTS: Network Services Without the Red Tape. 42-48
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  John H. Hartman, Peter A. Bigot, Patrick G. Bridges, Allen Brady Montz, Rob Piltz, Oliver Spatscheck, Todd A. Proebsting, Larry L. Peterson, Andy C. Bavier:
  Joust: A Platform for Liquid Software. 50-56

Research Features

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  Sushil Jajodia, Paul Ammann, Catherine D. McCollum:
  Surviving Information Warfare Attacks. 57-63
• 
  Ming Fan, Jan Stallaert, Andrew B. Whinston:
  A Web-Based Financial Trading System. 64-70

Internet Watch

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  Hal Burch, Bill Cheswick:
  Mapping the Internet. 97-98

Integrated Engineering

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  Piotr Czapiewski, Rajaraman Ganesan, Dean Volkert, Bruce Weber:
  Integrated Computer-Aided Order Fulfillment. 99-102

Software Realities

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  Gary McGraw:
  Software Assurence for Security. 103-105

Open Channel

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  Paul J. Kostek:
  IEEE-USE and Technical Professionalism. 106-107

Binary Critic

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  Ted G. Lewis:
  Asbestos Paajamas: An Open Source Dialogue. 108-112

Volume 32, Number 5, May 1999

Industry Trends

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  John Edwards:
  Convergence Reshapes the Networking Industry. 14-16

Technology News

• 
  John Charles:
  Middleware Moves to the Forefront. 17-19

Computing Practices

• 
  Andrew S. Grimshaw, Adam Ferrari, Frederick Knabe, Marty Humphrey:
  Wide-Area Computing: Resource Sharing on a Large Scale. 29-37
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  Jerry Gao, Chris Chen, Yasufumi Toyoshima, David K. Leung:
  Engineering on the Internet for Global Software Production. 38-47

The Software [R]evolution

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  Kirk L. Kroeker:
  Software [R]evolution: A Roundtable - Introduction. 48
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  Larry Wall:
  On Ongoing Revolution. Computer 32(5): 48-49 (1999)
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  David A. Taylor:
  Programming for Everyone. 50-51
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  Chris Horn:
  Making Software Work Together. 51-52
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  Paul Bassett:
  Extracting Useful Patterns. 52
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  John K. Ousterhout:
  Integration: A New Style of Programming. 53
• 
  Martin L. Griss:
  Domain Engineering And Reuse. 53-54
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  Richard Mark Soley:
  Throught Converging. 54-55
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  Jim Waldo:
  Portability Is Key. 55-56
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  Charles Simonyi:
  The Future Is Intentional. 56-57
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  Daniel E. Cooke, Joseph E. Urban, Scott Hamilton, Ken Thompson:
  Unix and Beyond: An Interview with Ken Thompson. 58-64

Research Features

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  James M. Boyle, R. Daniel Resler, Victor L. Winter:
  Do You Trust Your Compiler? 65-73
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  Sudha Ram, Jinsoo Park, George L. Ball:
  Semantic-Model Support for Geographic Information Systems. 74-81

Technical Activities Forum

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  Daniel P. Siewiorek:
  Wearable Computing Comes of Age. 82-83

Standards

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  Joe Throop:
  OpenMP: Shared-Memory Parallelism From the Ashes. 108-109

Management

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  Ware Myers:
  Early Communication: Key to Software Project Success. 110-111

Internet Watch

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  Ronald J. Vetter:
  Web-Based Enterprise Computing. 112-113

Component and Object technology

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  Jon Siegel:
  A Preview of CORBA 3. 114-116

Open Channel

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  Darren Dalcher:
  Simplicity and Power: When More Means Less. 117

Binary Critic

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  Ted G. Lewis:
  Something for Nothing. 118-120

Volume 32, Number 6, June 1999

Presidents' Message

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  Leonard L. Tripp, Thomas J. Plevyak:
  Technology Convergence: A Wider Landscape. 4

Industry Trends

• 
  Sixto Ortiz Jr.:
  The Battle over Real-Time Java. 13-15

Technology News

• 
  Lee Garber:
  Melissa Virus Creates a New Type of Threat. 16-19

Cybersquare

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  John A. Stankovic, Sang Hyuk Son, Jörgen Hansson:
  Misconceptions About Real-Time Databases. 29-36

Computing Practices

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  Gary Lauterbach:
  Vying for the Lead in High-Performance Processors (Interview). 38-41

Systems on a Chip

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  Mark Birnbaum, Howard Sachs:
  How VSIA Answers the SOC Dilemma. 42-50
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  Yervant Zorian, Erik Jan Marinissen, Sujit Dey:
  Testing Embedded-Core-Based System Chips. 52-60
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  Gary Silcott, Janet Wilson, Neil Peterson, William Peisel, Kirk L. Kroeker:
  SOCs Drive New Product Development. 61-66

Research Features

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  Steve Lawrence, C. Lee Giles, Kurt D. Bollacker:
  Digital Libraries and Autonomous Citation Indexing. 67-71
• 
  Fredrik Dahlgren, Josep Torrellas:
  Cache-Only Memory Architectures. 72-79
• 
  Shlomo Weiss, Ehud Finkelstein:
  Extending PCI Performance Beyond the Desktop. 80-87

Internet Watch

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  Brian E. Carpenter:
  What's All the Fuss About Differentiated Services? 111-112

Software Realities

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  James Bach:
  Risk and Requirements-Based Testing. 113-114

Integrated Engineering

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  Marco Aurélio de Figueiredo, Patrick H. Stakem, Thomas P. Flatley, Tonjua M. Hines:
  Extending NASA's Data Processing to Spacecraft. 115-118

Binary Critic

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  Ted G. Lewis:
  Jump-Starting the Global Vending Machine. 118-120

Volume 32, Number 7, July 1999

Technology News

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  Neal Leavitt:
  Online 3D: Still Waiting After All These Years. 4-7

Cybersquare

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  Moshe Sipper:
  The Emergence of Cellular Computing. 18-26

Computing Practices

• 
  Matt Reilly:
  Designing an Alpha Microprocessor. 27-34

Software Components

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  Bertrand Meyer, Christine Mingins:
  Component-Based Development: From Buzz to Spark - Guest Editors' Entroduction. 35-37
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  Antoine Beugnard, Jean-Marc Jézéquel, Noël Plouzeau:
  Making Components Contract Aware. 38-45
• 
  Cynthia Della Torre Cicalese, Shmuel Rotenstreich:
  Behavioral Specification of Distributed Software Component Interfaces. 46-53
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  Robert Stets, Galen C. Hunt, Michael L. Scott:
  Component-Based APIs for Versioning and Distributed Applications. 54-61
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  Priya Narasimhan, Louise E. Moser, P. M. Melliar-Smith:
  Using Interceptors to Enhance CORBA. 62-68
• 
  Guijun Wang, Liz Ungar, Dan Klawitter:
  Component Assembly for OO Distributed Systems. 71-78

Technical Activities Forum

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  Mark Baker, Rajkumar Buyya, Daniel C. Hyde:
  Cluster Computing: A High-Performance Contender. 79-80

Internet Watch

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  Stefan Knight:
  The Role of ADSL in Internet Access. 103

Component and Object Technology

• 
  Guy Eddon:
  COM+: The Evolution of Component Services. 104-106

Management

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  Lynn Carrier:
  Managing at Light Speed. 107-109

Binary Critic

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  Michael R. Macedonia, Ted G. Lewis:
  Sony Versus Wintel: Mortal Combar. 109-112

Volume 32, Number 8, August 1999

Industry Trends

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  Ilan Greenberg, Lee Garber:
  Searching for New Search Technologies. 4

Technoloy News

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  David Clark:
  Preparing for a New Generation of Wireless Data. 8-11

Cybersquare

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  Robert D. Silverman:
  Exposing the Mythical MIPS Year. 22-26
• 
  John L. Hennessy:
  The Future of Systems Research. 27-33

Data Mining

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  Naren Ramakrishnan, Ananth Grama:
  Data Mining: From Serendipity to Science - Guest Editors' Introduction. 34-37
• 
  Venkatesh Ganti, Johannes Gehrke, Raghu Ramakrishnan:
  Mining Very Large Databases. 38-45
• 
  Jiawei Han, Laks V. S. Lakshmanan, Raymond T. Ng:
  Constraint-Based Multidimensional Data Mining. 46-50
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  Joseph M. Hellerstein, Ron Avnur, Andy Chou, Christian Hidber, Chris Olston, Vijayshankar Raman, Tali Roth, Peter J. Haas:
  Interactive data Analysis: The Control Project. 51-59
• 
  Soumen Chakrabarti, Byron Dom, Ravi Kumar, Prabhakar Raghavan, Sridhar Rajagopalan, Andrew Tomkins, David Gibson, Jon M. Kleinberg:
  Mining the Web's Link Structure. 60-67
• 
  George Karypis, Eui-Hong Han, Vipin Kumar:
  Chameleon: Hierarchical Clustering Using Dynamic Modeling. 68-75

Internet Watch

• 
  Terry Ritter:
  Cryptography: Is Staying with the Herd Really Best? 94-95

Integrated Engineering

• 
  Oz Levia:
  Programming System Architectures with Java. 96-98

Software Realities

• 
  Jonathan Bach:
  Playing the Expert Game. 99-101

Binary Critic

• 
  Ted G. Lewis:
  Mainframes Are Dead, Long Live Mainframes. 102-104

Volume 32, Number 9, September 1999

Industry Trends

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  Sixto Ortiz Jr.:
  Appliances Challenge the Server Market. 11-13

Technoloy News

• 
  John Charles:
  Interplanetary Network Aims for the Stars. 16-18

Computing Practices

• 
  Pierfrancesco Bellini, Fabrizio Fioravanti, Paolo Nesi:
  Managing Music in Orchestras. 26-34

Cybersquare

• 
  W. Neville Holmes:
  The Myth of the Educational Computer. 36-42

Web-Based Learning and Collaboration

• 
  Linda Harasim:
  A Framework for Online Learning: The Virtual-U. 44-49
• 
  Jeremy Roschelle, Chris DiGiano, Manolis Koutlis, Alexander Repenning, Jonathan Phillips, Nickolas Jackiw, Daniel D. Suthers:
  Developing Educational Software Components. 50-58
• 
  Junichi Suzuki, Yoshikazu Yamamoto:
  Leveraging Distributed Software Development. 59-65
• 
  Jay F. Nunamaker Jr.:
  Collaborative Computing: The Next Millennium (Interview). 66-71

Internet Watch

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  Andrew P. Snow:
  Internet Implications of Telephone Access. 108-110

Management

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  Barry W. Boehm:
  Managing Software Productivity and Reuse. 111-113

Component and Object Technology

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  Diomidis Spinellis:
  Explore, Excogitate, Exploit: Component Mining. 114-116

Binary Critic

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  Ted G. Lewis:
  Fast, Expensive, and Horribly Complex. 118-120

Volume 32, Number 10, October 1999

Industry Trends

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  Neal Leavitt:
  Domain Name Solution Causes New Problems. 11-15

Computing Practices

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  Karen W. Markus, Kaigham J. Gabriel:
  MEMS: The Systems Function Revolution. 25-31

Cybersquare

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  Shari Lawrence Pfleeger:
  Albert Einstein and Empirical Software Engineering. 32-37

Software Engineering in the Small

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  Deependra Moitra:
  Software Engineering in the Small - Guest Editor's Introduction. 39-40
• 
  Declan P. Kelly, Bill Culleton:
  Process Improvement for Small Organizations. 41-47
• 
  Stuart Woodward:
  Evolutionary Project Management. 49-57
• 
  Michael A. Cusumano, David B. Yoffie:
  Software Development on Internet Time. 61-68
• 
  Kent L. Beck:
  Embracing Change with Extreme Programming. 70-77

Research Features

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  James D. Arthur, Markus K. Gröner, Kelly J. Hayhurst, C. Michael Holloway:
  Evaluating the Effectiveness of Independendent Verification and Validation. 79-83

Internet Watch

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  Sourav Bhattacharya, Jeffrey M. Capone, Kevin J. Dooley, Srihari Palangala, H.-S. Yang, W. Baumann, J. Fritsch:
  The Network Maturity Model for Internet Development. 117-118

Software Realities

• 
  James Bullock:
  Improving the Development System Model. 119-120

Integrated Engineering

• 
  Sung-Hee Do, Nam P. Suh:
  Systematic OO Programming with Axiomatic Design. 121-124

Binary Critic

• 
  Ted G. Lewis:
  UbiNet: The Ubiquitous Internet Will Be Wireless. 126-128

Volume 32, Number 11, November 1999

Industry Trends

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  George Lawton:
  Storage Technology Takes Center Sstage. 10-12

Cybersquare

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  Dennis Sylvester, Kurt Keutzer:
  Rethinking Deep-Submicron Circuit Design. 25-33

Feature

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  Bruce D. Shriver, Peter Capek:
  Just Curious: An Interview with John Cocke. 34-41

Design and Test Go Nanometer

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  Rohit Kapur, Thomas W. Williams:
  Tough Challenges as Design and Test Go Nanometer - Guest Editors' Introduction. 42-45
• 
  Robert C. Aitken:
  Nanometer Technology Effects on Fault Models for IC Testing. 46-51
• 
  Wayne M. Needham:
  Nanometer Technology Challenges for Test and Test Equipment. 52-57
• 
  Kwang-Ting Cheng, Angela Krstic:
  Current Directions in Automatic Test-Pattern Generation. 58-64
• 
  Kenneth D. Wagner:
  Robust Scan-Based Logic Test in VDSM Technologies. 66-74

Internet Watch

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  Philip M. Marden Jr., Ethan V. Munson:
  Today's Style Sheet Standards: The Gread Vision Blinded. 123-125

Standards

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  Charles R. Severance:
  IEEE 802.11: Wireless Is Coming Home. 126-127

Management

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  Donald J. Reifer:
  A Tale of Three Developers. 128-130

Component and Object Technology

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  Bertrand Meyer:
  Every Little Bit Counts: Toward More Reliable Software. 131-133

Binary Critic

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  Ted G. Lewis:
  Where the Smart Money Is? 134-136

Volume 32, Number 12, December 1999

Industry Trends

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  Reed Hellman:
  A Semantic Approach Adds Meaning to the Web. 13-16

Computing Practices

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  Shreekant S. Thakkar, Thomas Huff:
  Internet Streaming SIMD Extensions. 26-34

Scientific Visualization

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  Ian T. Foster, Joseph A. Insley, Gregor von Laszewski, Carl Kesselman, Marcus Thiébaux:
  Distance Visualization: Data Exploration on the Grid. 36-43
• 
  Eric Shaffer, Daniel A. Reed, Shannon Whitmore, Benjamin Schaeffer:
  Virtue: Performance Visualization of Parallel and Distributed Applications. 44-51
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  Gabrielle Allen, Tom Goodale, Gerd Lanfermann, Thomas Radke, Edward Seidel, Werner Benger, Hans-Christian Hege, André Merzky, Joan Massó, John Shalf:
  Solving Einstein's Equations on Supercomputers. 52-58
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  Christopher R. Johnson, Steven G. Parker, Charles D. Hansen, Gordon L. Kindlmann, Yarden Livnat:
  Interactive Simulation and Visualization. 59-65
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  Jason Leigh, Andrew E. Johnson, Maxine D. Brown, Daniel J. Sandin, Thomas A. DeFanti:
  Visualization in Teleimmersive Environments. 66-73

Internew Watch

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  David W. Chadwick:
  Smart Cards Aren't Always the Smart Choice. 142-143

Component and Object Technology

• 
  Bertrand Meyer:
  A Really Good Idea. 144-147

Software Realities

• 
  James Bach:
  What Software Reality Is Really About. 148-149

Binary Critic

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  Ted G. Lewis:
  Directories Don't Get No Respect. 150-152