Editorial Pointers
Diane Crawford
Page 5
News Track
Robert Fox
Pages 9-10
Forum
Pages 11-14
Legally Speaking: Libel and Slander on the Internet
The Internet adds a new dimension to the power of words, challenging our freedom of speech as we know it.
Anthony M. Townsend, Robert J. Aalberts, Steven A. Gibson
Pages 15-17
Electronic Frontier: Bad Moon Rising
We might be in for some nasty weather with the marriage of content providers and cable companies.
Brock N. Meeks
Pages 19-21
Log on Education: Teachers and Technology: Easing the Way
As technology professionals, parents, and community members, how can we help grade school teachers integrate technology into the classroom?
Elliot Soloway, Henry J. Becker, Cathleen Norris, Neal Topp
Pages 23-26
Viewpoint: Why We Must Fight -UCITA
If UCITA is adopted, it will threaten the free software community with disaster.
Richard Stallman
Pages 27-28
Viewpoint: The Internet Patent Land Grab
Tim O'Reilly
Pages 29-31
Information System Integration
Wilhelm Hasselbring
Pages 32-38
Interoperation Support For Electronic Business
Integrated value chains that consist of business alliance partners compete as single entities for customers.
Jian Yang, Mike P. Papazoglou
Pages 39-47
The SI Challenge in Health Care
The inability to share information across systems and between care organizations is just one of the major impediments in the health care business's progress toward efficiency and cost-effectiveness.
Jane Grimson, William Grimson, Wilhelm Hasselbring
Pages 48-55
Maintaining Data Warehouses Over Changing Information Sources
Tomorrow's Web applications need a robust, efficient data warehouse system to succeed in dynamic Web-based environments.
Elke A. Rundensteiner, Andreas Koeller, Xin Zhang
Pages 57-62
SI in Digital Libraries
Scaling on an international level requires integrating independently evolved systems.
Nabil R. Adam, Vijayalakshmi Atluri, Igg Adiwijaya
Pages 64-72
Emerging Mobile and Wireless Networks
Wireless and mobile networks are quickly becoming the networks of choice, not only because of large bandwidth, but due to the flexibility and freedom they offer.
Upkar Varshney, Ron Vetter
Pages 73-81
Multivalent Documents
The MVD architecture heralds a document model supporting deep extension to novel and arbitrary aspects of document functionality, even distributed in situ annotation.
Thomas A. Phelps, Robert Wilensky
Pages 82-90
Is Telemedicine a Practical Reality?
The behemoths of managed health care and the digital age are converging as quickly as the technology allows.
Terry L. Huston, Janis L. Huston
Pages 91-95
Integrated Internet Marketing
Companies worldwide may recognize the marketing potential of the Internet, but using it to its full potential is often ignored.
Richard T. Watson, George M. Zinkhan, Leyland F. Pitt
Pages 97-102
A Paradigm Shift in the Distribution of Multimedia
RWANDA, a dynamic transport protocol, puts the "active" in interactive multimedia.
Gerard Parr, Kevin Curran
Pages 103-109
Technical Opinion: The Real Challenges of Mobile Agents
Detlef Schoder, Torsten Eymann
Pages 111-112
Inside Risks: Risks of Internet Voting
Lauren Weinstein
Page 128