Editorial Pointers

Diane Crawford

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CACM Staff

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Diane Crawford

Rfid: Is This Game of Tag Fair Play?

Tracking the circuitous tradeoffs of potential consumer benefit versus marketer intrusiveness.

Meg McGinity

When Executives Code

Corporate executives are realizing that not only is managing software important, it is the essence of what they do.

Phillip Armour

ACM Annual Report For Fy03

CACM Staff

Introduction

Sharon Oviatt, Trevor Darrell, Myron Flickner

Multibiometric Systems

The latest research indicates using a combination of biometric avenues for human identification is more effective, and far more challenging.

Anil K. Jain, Arun Ross

Tangible Multimodal Interfaces For Safety-Critical Applications

Designing effective digital systems in safety-critical arenas takes interfaces inspired by, or included in, the physical world.

Philip R. Cohen, David R. McGee

Multimodal Conversational Systems For Automobiles

Roberto Pieraccini, Krishna Dayanidhi, Jonathan Bloom, Jean-Gui Dahan, Michael Phillips, Bryan R. Goodman, K. Venkatesh Prasad

Multimodal Processing By Finding Common Cause

Commonalities help answer many context-aware questions that arise in human-computer interaction.

Harriet J. Nock, Giridharan Iyengar, Chalapathy Neti

Guidelines For Multimodal -ser Interface Design

Leah M. Reeves, Jennifer Lai, James A. Larson, Sharon Oviatt, T. S. Balaji, Stéphanie Buisine, Penny Collings, Phil Cohen, Ben Kraal, Jean-Claude Martin, Michael McTear, TV Raman, Kay M. Stanney, Hui Su, Qian Ying Wang

Computer Vision in the Interface

There are still obstacles to achieving general, robust, high-performance computer vision systems. The last decade, however, has seen significant progress in vision technologies for human-computer interaction.

Matthew Turk

Challenges in Adopting Speech Recognition

Although progress has been impressive, there are still several hurdles that speech recognition technology must clear before ubiquitous adoption can be realized. R&D in spontaneous and free-flowing speech style is critical to …

Li Deng, Xuedong Huang

Managing Conflict in Software Testing

Conflict between software testers and developers is inevitable, but mindful managers minimize its effect on development projects through communication, mutual respect, even social interaction.

Cynthia F. Cohen, Stanley J. Birkin, Monica J. Garfield, Harold W. Webb

Effective Practices For It Skills Staffing

How to identify, hire, and keep prized IT professionals with the skills companies need most to compete in uncertain technological and business times.

Albert B. Schwarzkopf, Roberto J. Mejias, `Jon (Sean) Jasperson, Carol S. Saunders, Hermann Gruenwald

Understanding Meteor Burst Communications Technologies

Seeking to realize the potential of a reemergent communications capability.

B. Craig Cumberland, Joseph S. Valacich, Leonard M. Jessup

Network and Computing Research Infrastructure: Back to the Future

Return to the historical ARPANET and NSFNET model to support simultaneous application, computational, middleware, storage, and network research on the same experimental infrastructure.

Robert J. Aiken, Javad Boroumand, Stephen Wolff

Programming Languages and Gender

Comparing differences and similarities in programming language usage according to programmer gender.

Ronald Dattero, Stuart D. Galup

Global Software Piracy Revisited

Determining why the roots of the disparity in national piracy levels lie beyond economics.

Seung Kyoon Shin, Ram D. Gopal, G. Lawrence Sanders, Andrew B. Whinston

Trust-Building Measures: a Review of Consumer Health Portals

Health Web sites are employ a medley of trust-building approaches. But does a definitive formula exist for winning consumer trust?

Wenhong Luo, Mohammad Najdawi

Believing in Myths

Marcus J. Ranum