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Diane Crawford

Page 5

Robert Fox

Pages 9-10

Anne Adams and Martina Angela Sasse, in their article about password selection, "Users Are Not the Enemy" (Dec. 1999, p. 41), don't mention how to compose passwords that are both easy to remember and difficult to crack.

Pages 11-12

ACM Fellows

Rosemary McGuinness

Pages 13-14

From Washington: A Patchwork of Legislation and Regulation

Corporations tout consumerism against citizenship.

Neil Munro

Pages 15-17

Staying Connected: Surfing the Turf

For a medium that holds anonymity in high regard, privacy is fast eroding.

Meg McGinity

Pages 19-21

Enterprise Resource Planning: Introduction

Kuldeep Kumar, Jos van Hillegersberg

Pages 22-26

Enterprise Resource Planning: ERP Adoption By European Midsize Companies

Searching for ERP systems offering a perfect fit.

Yvonne van Everdingen, Jos van Hillegersberg, Eric Waarts

Pages 27-31

Enterprise Resource Planning: The Role of the CIO and IT Function in ERP

Are some organizational decision-makers blind to the benefits of ERP?

Leslie P. Willcocks, Richard Sykes

Pages 32-38

Enterprise Resource Planning: Integrating ERP in the Business School Curriculum

Implementing ERP into business education is as challenging as it is rewarding—and necessary.

Irma Becerra-Fernandez, Kenneth E. Murphy, Steven J. Simon

Pages 39-41

Enterprise Resource Planning: Multisite ERP Implementations

The meanings of "enterprise" and "site" vary depending on unique organizational circumstances.

M. Lynne Markus, Cornelis Tanis, Paul C. van Fenema

Pages 42-46

Enterprise Resource Planning: Cultural Fits and Misfits: Is ERP a Universal Solution?

The universality of embedded business models of "industry best practices" is considered from an Asian perspective.

Christina Soh, Sia Siew Kien, Joanne Tay-Yap

Pages 47-51

Enterprise Resource Planning: ERP System Migrations

A provider's versus a customer's perspective.

Mark Kremers, Han van Dissel

Pages 53-56

Enterprise Resource Planning: Making ERP a Success

Using business process models to achieve positive results.

August-Wilhelm Scheer, Frank Habermann

Pages 57-61

Enterprise Resource Planning: Componentizing the Enterprise Application Packages

Tomorrow's customers will demand the ability to buy, reuse, and build their competitive-edge solutions: Can the package vendors adapt in time?

David Sprott

Pages 63-69

Embodied Conversational Interface Agents

More than another friendly face, Rea knows how to have a conversation with living, breathing human users with a wink, a nod, and a sidelong glance.

Justine Cassell

Pages 70-78

Ocean and Climate Modeling

Only the most advanced parallel computers are fast enough to produce high-quality ocean simulations and accurate global climate predictions of temperature and precipitation.

Albert Semtner

Pages 80-89

The Ethics of Safety-Critical Systems

There are many practices that should be avoided in order to enhance the safety features of software systems.

Jonathan Bowen

Pages 91-97

Intrusion Detection Systems and Multisensor Data Fusion

Creating a cyberspace situational awareness environment will take more sophisticated tools and network sensors.

Tim Bass

Pages 99-105

Technical Opinion: Deconstructing the 'Any' Key

Virtually all real programmers are insensitive. Not personal insensitivity, but technical insensitivity, the kind that results from viewing a problem solely from one's own perspective.

Munindar P. Singh, Mona Singh

Pages 107-108

Data Mining and Rough Set Theory

Jerzy W. Grzymala-Busse, Wojciech Ziarko

Pages 108-109

Abstract Class Hierarchies, Factories, and Stable Designs

Friedrich Steimann

Pages 109-111

Inside Risks: Denial-of-Service Attacks

Peter G. Neumann

Page 136

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