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Editorial Pointers

Page 5

News Track

Robert Fox

Pages 9-10

Forum

Pages 11-15

Personal Computing: from P-Books to E-Books

As better technology becomes available, books in the electronic age are taking on a whole new look and feel.

Larry Press

Pages 17-21

Digital Village: Predatory Disintermediation

When cutting out the middleman means stifling the competition.

Hal Berghel

Pages 23-29

From the President: to DVD or Not to DVD

The current legal DVD battle between the movie industry and the free/open software communities over DVD is a microcosm of an ongoing intellectual property war.

Barbara Simons

Pages 31-32

Viewpoint: Existential Education in the Era of Personal Cybernetics

Steve Mann

Pages 33-36

Embedding the Internet: Introduction

Add reliable wireless communications and sensing functions to the billions of physically embedded computing devices around the world for a new universe of ubiquitous networked computing.

Deborah Estrin, Ramesh Govindan, John Heidemann

Pages 38-41

Proactive Computing

Human-in-the-loop computing has its limits. What must we do differently to prepare for the networking of thousands of embedded processors per person? And how do we move from human-centered to human-supervised computing?

David Tennenhouse

Pages 43-50

Wireless Integrated Network Sensors

For pervasive computing performance, exploit the physical limits of these densely distributed networks of embedded sensors, controls, and processors.

G. J. Pottie, W. J. Kaiser

Pages 51-58

Embedded Computation Meets the World Wide Web

An infinitely accessible Web-linked physical environment united by a multitude of tiny servers could mean a life of information ease.

Gaetano Borriello, Roy Want

Pages 59-66

Amorphous Computing

For coherent behavior from vast numbers of unreliable microsensors, actuators, and communication devices interconnected in unknown ways, apply the lessons of cellular cooperation in biological organisms.

Harold Abelson, Don Allen, Daniel Coore, Chris Hanson, George Homsy, Thomas F. Knight, Radhika Nagpal, Erik Rauch, Gerald Jay Sussman, Ron Weiss

Pages 74-82

-Universal -Usability

Pushing human-computer interaction research to empower every citizen.

Ben Shneiderman

Pages 84-91

Web-Based E-Catalog Systems in B2B Procurement

Web-based catalogs provide the main entry point for B2B e-commerce and will fundamentally transform supply-chain relationships.

John P. Baron, Michael J. Shaw, Andrew D. Bailey

Pages 93-100

Enduring Business Themes

System adaptability is critical in today's rapidly changing business culture. Now, new approaches offer ways to specify, design, and implement adaptable apps.

Marshall Cline, Mike Girou

Pages 101-106

All I Really Need to Know About Pair Programming I Learned in Kindergarten

When it comes to programming practices, studies show two heads are almost always better than one.

Laurie A. Williams, Robert R. Kessler

Pages 108-114

Technical Opinion: Designing Cryptography For the New Century

Susan Landau

Pages 115-120

Inside Risks: Internet Risks

Lauren Weinstein, Peter G. Neumann

Page 144

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