IEEE Computer, Volume 33, 2000

Volume 33, Number 1, January 2000

Industry Trends

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  John Edwards:
  Redefining IT Career Paths for the New Millennium. 16-20

Technology News

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  Sixto Ortiz Jr.:
  E-mail Protection Advances with New Technologies. 21-23

Cover

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  Jonathan Vos Post, Kirk L. Kroeker:
  Writing the Future: Computers in Science Fiction. 29-37
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  Andrew M. Steane, Eleanor Gilbert Rieffel:
  Beyond Bits: The Future of Quantum Information Processing. 38-45
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  Christine Peterson:
  Taking Technology to the Molecular Level. 46-53
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  Lucas D. Introna, Helen Nissenbaum:
  Defining the Web: The Politics of Search Engines. 54-62
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  Daniel E. Cooke, Scott Hamilton:
  New Directions at NASA Ames Research Center. 63-71
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  Janet Wilson:
  Toward Things That Think. 72-76

Internet Watch

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  Lawrence G. Roberts:
  Beyond Moore's Law: Internet Growth Trends. 117-119

Integrated Engineering

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  Moshe Sipper, Eduardo Sanchez:
  Configurable Chips Meld Software and Hardware. 120-121

Software Management

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  Barry W. Boehm:
  The Art of Expectations Management. 122-124

Binary Critic

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  Ted G. Lewis:
  Service: The Next Inflection Point. 126-128

Volume 33, Number 2, February 2000

Industry Trends

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  George Lawton:
  Intellectual-Property Protection Opens Path for E-commerce. 14-17

Technology News

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  David Clark:
  Shopbots Become Agents for Business Change. 18-21

Perspectives

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  Emilie O'Connell, Hossein Saiedian:
  Can You Trust Software Capability Evaluations? 28-35

Computing Practices

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  Michael S. Schlansker, B. Ramakrishna Rau:
  EPIC: Explicititly Parallel Instruction Computing. 37-45

Biometrics

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  Sharath Pankanti, Ruud M. Bolle, Anil K. Jain:
  Biometrics: The Future of Identification - Guest Editors' Introduction. 46-49
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  Alex Pentland, Tanzeem Choudhury:
  Face Recognition for Smart Environments. 50-55
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  P. Jonathon Phillips, Alvin F. Martin, Charles L. Wilson, Mark A. Przybocki:
  An Introduction to Evaluating Biometric Systems. 56-63
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  Robert Frischholz, Ulrich Dieckmann:
  BioID: A Multimodal Biometric Identification System. 64-68
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  Michael Negin, Thomas A. Chmielewski Jr., Theodure A. Camus, Ulf M. Cahn von Seelen, Péter L. Venetianer, Guanghua G. Zhang:
  An Iris Biometric System for Public and Personal Use. 70-75
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  James L. Wayman:
  Federal Biometric Technology Legislation. 76-80

Research Feature

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  Giacomo Cabri, Letizia Leonardi, Franco Zambonelli:
  Mobile-Agent Coordination Models for Internet Applications. 82-89

Entertainment Computing

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  Michael R. Macedonia:
  Why Digital Entertainment Drives the Need for Speed. 124-127

Internet Watch

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  Lee W. McKnight, Jahangir Boroumand:
  Pricing Internet Services: Approaches and Challenges. 128-129

Standards

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  Catherine J. Tilton:
  An Emerging Biometric API Industry Standard. 130-132

Binary Critic

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  Ted G. Lewis:
  Tracking the 'Anywhere, Anytime' Inflection Point. 134-136

Volume 33, Number 3, March 2000

Editor-in-Chief Message

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  James H. Aylor:
  New Computer Departments Reflect our Changing Industry. 4-6

Industry Trends

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  Sixto Ortiz Jr.:
  Embedded Databases Come out of Hiding. 16-19

Technology News

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  John Edwards:
  Buidling the Optical-Networking Infrastructure. 20-23

Perspectives

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  W. Neville Holmes:
  The Evitability of Software Patents. 30-34

Computing Practices

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  Roy Ladner, Mahdi Abdelguerfi, Kevin Shaw:
  3D Mapping of an Interactive Synthetic Environment. 35-39

Binary Translation

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  Erik R. Altman, David R. Kaeli, Yaron Sheffer:
  Welcome to the Opportunities of Binary Translation. 40-45
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  Cindy Zheng, Carol L. Thompson:
  PA-RISC to IA-64: Transparent Execution, No Recompilation. 47-52
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  Michael Gschwind, Erik R. Altman, Sumedh W. Sathaye, Paul Ledak, David Appenzeller:
  Dynamic and Transparent Binary Translation. 54-59
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  Cristina Cifuentes, Mike Van Emmerik:
  UQBT: Adaptive Binary Translation at Low Cost. 60-66

Research Features

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  Jean Bacon, Ken Moody, John Bates, Richard Hayton, Chaoying Ma, Andrew McNeil, Oliver Seidel, Mark D. Spiteri:
  Generic Support for Distributed Applications. 68-76
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  Rob C. van Ommering, Frank van der Linden, Jeff Kramer, Jeff Magee:
  The Koala Component Model for Consumer Electronics Software. 78-85

Internet Watch

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  Lee W. McKnight, Jahangir Boroumand:
  Pricing Internet Services: Proposed Improvements. 108-109

Integrated Engineering

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  Hessam S. Sarjoughian, Bernard P. Zeigler, Daryl R. Hild:
  A Codesign Approach for Distributed Systems. 110-113

Software Management

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  Barry W. Boehm:
  Unifying Software Engineering and Systems Engineering. 114-116

Binary Critic

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  Ted G. Lewis:
  AOL, Time Warner, and the Crash of 2000. 118-120

Volume 33, Number 4, April 2000

Technology News

• 
  Lee Garber:
  Denial-of-Service Attacks Rip the Internet. 12-17

Perspectives

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  Bashar Nuseibeh, Steve M. Easterbrook, Alessandra Russo:
  Leveraging Inconsistency in Software Development. 24-29

Computing Practices

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  Roger T. Alexander, James M. Bieman, John Viega:
  Coping with Java Programming Stress. 30-38

Configurable Computing

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  Ranga Vemuri, Randolph E. Harr:
  Configurable Computing: Technology and Applications - Guest Editors' Introduction. 39-40
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  André DeHon:
  The Density Advantage of Configurable Computing. 41-49
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  Simon D. Haynes, John Stone, Peter Y. K. Cheung, Wayne Luk:
  Video Image Processing with the Sonic Architecture. 50-57
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  Marco Platzner:
  Reconfigurable Accelerators for Combinatorial Problems. 58-60
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  Timothy J. Callahan, John R. Hauser, John Wawrzynek:
  The Garp Architecture and C Compiler. 62-69
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  Seth Copen Goldstein, Herman Schmit, Mihai Budiu, Srihari Cadambi, Matthew Moe, R. Reed Taylor:
  PipeRench: A Reconfigurable Architecture and Compiler. 70-77

Communications

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  Upkar Varshney:
  Recent Advances in Wired Networking. 107-109

Entertainment Computing

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  Michael R. Macedonia:
  Using Technology and Innovations to Simulate Daily Life. 110-112

Standards

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  Peter Flynn, Richard Wiggins:
  XML: An Interview with Peter Flynn. 113-114

Software Technologies

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  Michael J. Lutz:
  Fundamental Ideas and Change. 115-116

Binary Critic

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  Ted G. Lewis:
  When Atoms and Bit Collide: Detroit Goes Digital. 118-120

Volume 33, Number 5, May 2000

Industry Trends

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  Reed Hellman:
  The Future of the OS for Internet Applications. 12-15

Technology News

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  Neal Leavitt:
  Will WAP Deliver the Wireless Internet? 16-20

Perspectives

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  Barry W. Boehm, Victor R. Basili:
  Gaining Intellectual Control of Software Development. 27-33

Cover

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  Gilda Pour, Martin L. Griss, Michael J. Lutz:
  The Push to Make Software Engineering Respectable. 35-43
• 
  Timothy Lethbridge:
  What Knowledge Is Important to a Software Professional? 44-50

Research

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  Brian E. Brewington, George Cybenko:
  Keeping Up with the Changing Web. 52-58
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  Lee Breslau, Deborah Estrin, Kevin R. Fall, Sally Floyd, John S. Heidemann, Ahmed Helmy, Polly Huang, Steven McCanne, Kannan Varadhan, Ya Xu, Haobo Yu:
  Advances in Network Simulation. 59-67
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  Jørgen Staunstrup, Henrik Reif Andersen, Henrik Hulgaard, Jørn Lind-Nielsen, Kim Guldstrand Larsen, Gerd Behrmann, Kåre J. Kristoffersen, Arne Skou, Henrik Leerberg, Niels Bo Theilgaard:
  Practical Verification of Embedded Software. 68-75

Internet Watch

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  Anitesh Barua, Andrew B. Whinston, Fang Yin:
  Value and Productivity in the Internet Economy. 102-105

Integrated Engineering

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  Jonathan R. Agre, Loren P. Clare:
  An Integrated Architecture for Cooperative Sensing Networks. 106-108

Binary Critic

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  Ted G. Lewis:
  Why Funny Money Will Have the Last Laugh. 110-112

Volume 33, Number 6, June 2000

Industry Trends

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  David Clark:
  Are Too Many Programmers Too Narrowly Trained? 12-15

Technology News

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  George Lawton:
  Distributed Net Applications Create Virtual Supercomputers. 16-20

Perspectives

• 
  Peter M. Maurer:
  Components: What If They Gave a Revolution and Nobody Came? 28-34

Computing Practices

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  Robert S. Oshana:
  Winning Teams: Performance Engineering during Development. 36-44

Real-Time Distributed Object Computing

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  Eltefaat Shokri, Phillip C.-Y. Sheu:
  Guest Editors' Introduction - Real-Time Distributed Object Computing: An Emerging Field. 45-46
• 
  Gregory Bollella, James Gosling:
  The Real-Time Specification for Java. 47-54
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  Douglas C. Schmidt, Fred Kuhns:
  An Overview of the Real-Time CORBA Specification. 56-63
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  Bran Selic:
  A Generic Framework for Modeling Resources with UML. 64-69
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  K. H. Kim:
  APIs for Real-Time Distributed Object Programming. 72-80

Communications

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  Upkar Varshney:
  Recent Advances in Wireless Networking. 100-103

Entertainment Computing

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  Michael R. Macedonia:
  The Empire Strikes Back ... with the X-Box. 104-106

Software Technologies

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  Jim Waldo:
  Alive and Well: Jini Technology Today. 107-109

Binary Critic

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  Ted G. Lewis:
  The End of Research as We Know It? 110-112

Volume 33, Number 7, July 2000

Industry Trends

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  George Lawton:
  Video Streams into the Mainstream. 12-17

Technology News

• 
  Sixto Ortiz Jr.:
  Broadband Fixed Wireless Travels the Last Mile. 18-21

Computing Practices

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  John L. Henning:
  SPEC CPU2000: Measuring CPU Performance in the New Millennium. 28-35

Perspectives

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  David J. Goodman:
  The Wireless Internet: Promises and Challenges. 36-41

Cover

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  Jan M. Rabaey, M. Josie Ammer, Julio Leao da Silva Jr., Danny Patel, Shad Roundy:
  PicoRadio Supports Ad Hoc Ultra-Low Power Wireless Networking. 42-48
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  Andrew P. Snow, Upkar Varshney, Alisha D. Malloy:
  Reliability and Survivability of Wireless and Mobile Networks. 49-55

Research Features

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  Thomas Ball, James R. Larus:
  Using Paths to Measure, Explain, and Enhance Program Behavior. 57-65
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  Václav Rajlich, Keith H. Bennett:
  A Staged Model for the Software Life Cycle. 66-71
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  Forrest Shull, Ioana Rus, Victor R. Basili:
  How Perspective-Based Reading Can Improve Requirements Inspections. 73-79

The Profession

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  W. Neville Holmes:
  Fashioning a Foundation for the Computing Profession. 97-98

Software Management

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  Barry W. Boehm:
  Requirements that Handle IKIWISI, COTS, and Rapid Change. 99-102

Integrated Engineering

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  Veljko M. Milutinovic, Predrag Knezevic, Bozidar Radunovic, Steve Casselman, John Schewel:
  Obelix Searches Internet Using Customer Data. 104-107

Internet Watch

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  John R. Michener, Tolga Acar:
  Managing System and Active-Content Integrity. 108-110

Binary Critic

• 
  Ted G. Lewis:
  The Web Fosters a Rust-Belt Renaissance. 110-112

Volume 33, Number 8, August 2000

Industry Trends

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  Neal Leavitt:
  Whatever Happened to Object-Oriented Databases? 16-19

Technology News

• 
  David Clark:
  Encryption Advances to Meet Internet Challenges. 20-24

Perspectives

• 
  Jeffrey M. Voas:
  Developing a Usage-Based Software Certification Process. 32-37

Cover

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  Anita K. Jones:
  The Challenge of Building Survivable Information-Intensive Systems - Guest Editor's Introduction. 39-43
• 
  Massoud Amin:
  Toward Self-Healing Infrastructure Systems. 44-53
• 
  Kenneth P. Birman:
  The Next-Generation Internet: Unsafe at Any Speed? 54-60
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  Jay J. Wylie, Michael W. Bigrigg, John D. Strunk, Gregory R. Ganger, Han Kiliççöte, Pradeep K. Khosla:
  Survivable Information Storage Systems. 61-68
• 
  Donald E. Brown, Louise F. Gunderson, Marc H. Evans:
  Interactive Analysis of Computer Crimes. 69-77

Entertainment Computing

• 
  Michael R. Macedonia:
  Distributed File Sharing: Barbarians at the Gates? 99-101

Communications

• 
  Richard Hay:
  Comparing POS and ATM Interfaces. 102-103

Software Technologies

• 
  Peter J. Danielsen:
  The Promise of a Voice-Enabled Web. 104-106

Standards

• 
  David Chadwick:
  Windows 2000: A Threat to Internet Diversity and Open Standards? 107-109

Binary Critic

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  Ted G. Lewis:
  Why WAP May Never Get off the Ground. 110-112

Volume 33, Number 9, September 2000

Industry Trends

• 
  George Lawton:
  The Wild World of 3D Graphics Chips. 12-16

Perspectives

• 
  Edward A. Lee:
  What's Ahead for Embedded Software? 18-26

Cover

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  Michael A. Olson:
  Selecting and Implementing an Embedded Database System. 27-34
• 
  Rodger Lea, Simon Gibbs, Alec Dara-Abrams, Edward Eytchison:
  Networking Home Entertainment Devices with HAVi. 35-43

Research Feature

• 
  Domenico Talia:
  Cellular Processing Tools for High-Performance Simulation. 44-52

The Profession

• 
  W. Neville Holmes:
  Olympic Games Reform: A Study in System Engineering. 91-93

Software Management Project

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  Barry W. Boehm:
  Termination Doesn't Equal Project Failure. 94-96

Internet Watch

• 
  Edmund M. A. Ronald, Moshe Sipper:
  The Challenge of Tamperproof Internet Computing. 98-99

Binary Critic

• 
  Ted G. Lewis:
  XM and Sirius Get Serious about Broadcast Satellite Radio. 102-104

Volume 33, Number 10, October 2000

Industry Trends

• 
  Linda Dailey Paulson:
  Exploring the Wireless LANscape. 12-16

Computing Practices

• 
  Lutz Prechelt:
  An Empirical Comparison of Seven Programming Languages. 23-29

E-Commerce

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  Alfred C. Weaver, Ronald J. Vetter, Andrew B. Whinston, Kathleen M. Swigger:
  Guest Editors' Introduction: The Future of E-Commerce. 30-31
• 
  Upkar Varshney, Ronald J. Vetter, Ravi Kalakota:
  Mobile Commerce: A New Frontier. 32-38
• 
  Simon S. Y. Shim, Vishnu S. Pendyala, Meera Sundaram, Jerry Z. Gao:
  Business-to-Business E-Commerce Frameworks. 40-47
• 
  Wenli Wang, Zoltán Hidvégi, Andrew D. Bailey Jr., Andrew B. Whinston:
  E-Process Design and Assurance Using Model Checking. 48-53
• 
  Tim Ebringer, Peter Thorne, Yuliang Zheng:
  Parasitic Authentication To Protect Your E-Wallet. 54-60

Entertainment Computing

• 
  Gerald Lui-Kwan:
  In-Flight Entertainment: The Sky's the Limit. 98-101

Standards

• 
  Jim Isaak:
  New Laws and Technologies Morph Web Page Best Practices. 102-103

Software Technologies

• 
  David G. Stork:
  Using Open Data Collection for Intelligent Software. 104-106

Communications

• 
  Joseph Samaha, Ayman I. Kayssi, Ralph Achkar, Mark Azar:
  G3 Integrates Three System Technologies. 107-110

Binary Critic

• 
  Ted G. Lewis:
  Innovation Equals Risk Reduction. 111-112

Volume 33, Number 11, November 2000

Industry Trends

• 
  David Clark:
  Handhelds Drive Mixed-Signal Chip Development. 12-15

Computing Practices

• 
  Nisha Talagala, Satoshi Asami, David A. Patterson, Bob Futernick, Dakin Hart:
  The Art of Massive Storage: A Web Image Archive. 22-28

Information Retrieval

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  Udo Hahn, Inderjeet Mani:
  The Challenges of Automatic Summarization. 29-36
• 
  Nivio Ziviani, Edleno Silva de Moura, Gonzalo Navarro, Ricardo A. Baeza-Yates:
  Compression: A Key for Next-Generation Text Retrieval Systems. 37-44
• 
  Michael S. Lew:
  Next-Generation Web Searches for Visual Content. 46-53

Research

• 
  Pearl Brereton, David Budgen:
  Component-Based Systems: A Classification of Issues. 54-62
• 
  Deborah Estrin, Mark Handley, John S. Heidemann, Steven McCanne, Ya Xu, Haobo Yu:
  Network Visualization with Nam, the VINT Network Animator. 63-68

Internet Watch

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  Veljko M. Milutinovic, Dragana Cvetkovic, Jelena Mirkovic:
  Genetic Search Based on Multiple Mutations. 118-119

Software Management

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  Barry W. Boehm, Daniel Port, Mohammed Al-Said:
  Avoiding the Software Model-Clash Spiderweb. 120-122

Integrated Engineering

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  Gaetano Borriello:
  The Challenges to Invisible Computing. 123-125

The Profession

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  W. Neville Holmes:
  Some Comments on the Coding of Programs. 126-128

Volume 33, Number 12, December 2000

Industry Trends

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  Sixto Ortiz Jr.:
  Will PKI Become a Key to Online Security? 13-15

Technology News

• 
  Neal Leavitt:
  Malicious Code Moves to Mobile Devices. 16-19

Special Feature

• 
  T. Michael Elliott:
  Reflections on 18 Years of Change at the Computer Society. 26-29

Computing Practices

• 
  Morgan Björkander:
  Graphical Programming Using UML and SDL. 30-35

Perspectives

• 
  James A. Whittaker, Jeffrey M. Voas:
  Toward a More Reliable Theory of Software Reliability. 36-42

Cover

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  Thomas A. Longstaff, Clyde Chittister, Rich Pethia, Yacov Y. Haimes:
  Are We Forgetting the Risks of Information Technology? 43-51
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  William A. Arbaugh, William L. Fithen, John McHugh:
  Windows of Vulnerability: A Case Study Analysis. 52-59

Research

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  Randy Butler, Von Welch, Douglas Engert, Ian T. Foster, Steven Tuecke, John Volmer, Carl Kesselman:
  A National-Scale Authentication Infrastructur. 60-66
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  Trishul M. Chilimbi, Mark D. Hill, James R. Larus:
  Making Pointer-Based Data Structures Cache Conscious. 67-74

Communications

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  James A. Senn:
  The Emergence of M-Commerce. 148-150

Standards

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  Harry Mason:
  SCSI, the Industry Workhorse, Is Still Working Hard. 152-153

Entertainment Computing

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  Theresa-Marie Rhyne:
  Computer Games' Influence on Scientific and Information Visualization. 154-156

The Profession

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  W. Neville Holmes:
  Why Johnny Can't Program. 158-160