COLUMN:
Staying connected
Rfid: Is This Game of Tag Fair Play?
Tracking the circuitous tradeoffs of potential consumer benefit versus marketer intrusiveness.
Meg McGinity
Pages 15-18
COLUMN:
The business of software
When Executives Code
Corporate executives are realizing that not only is managing software important, it is the essence of what they do.
Phillip Armour
Pages 19-22
ACM Annual Report For Fy03
CACM Staff
Pages 23-29
SPECIAL ISSUE:
Multimodal interfaces that flex, adapt, and persist
Introduction
Sharon Oviatt, Trevor Darrell, Myron Flickner
Pages 30-33
Multimodal Conversational Systems For Automobiles
Roberto Pieraccini, Krishna Dayanidhi, Jonathan Bloom, Jean-Gui Dahan, Michael Phillips, Bryan R. Goodman, K. Venkatesh Prasad
Pages 47-49
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
Pages 51-56
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
Pages 57-59
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
Pages 76-81
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
Pages 83-88
Understanding Meteor Burst Communications Technologies
Seeking to realize the potential of a reemergent communications capability.
B. Craig Cumberland, Joseph S. Valacich, Leonard M. Jessup
Pages 89-92
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
Pages 103-107