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DEPARTMENT: Editorial pointers

Editorial Pointers

Diane Crawford

Page 5

DEPARTMENT: News track

CACM Staff

Pages 9-10

DEPARTMENT: Forum

Diane Crawford

Pages 11-13

COLUMN: Security watch

Superscaled Security

Exponential increases in computational speed, memory capacity, and bandwidth impose futuristic security demands and challenges.

Rebecca T. Mercuri

Pages 15-18

DEPARTMENT: ACM fellows

CACM Staff

Pages 19-20

COLUMN: The business of software

Beware of Counting Loc

Seeking a better method for estimating system size in an attempt to measure knowledge content.

Phillip G. Armour

Pages 21-24

COLUMN: Technology strategy and management

Who Is Liable For Bugs and Security Flaws in Software?

Attempting to determine fault and responsibility based on available evidence.

Michael A. Cusumano

Pages 25-27

COLUMN: Viewpoint

How Computer Games Affect CS (and Other) Students' School Performance

Compulsive game playing, especially of the role-playing variety, risks failing grades and withdrawal of financial support from tuition-paying parents.

John G. Messerly

Pages 29-31

SPECIAL ISSUE: Emerging technologies for homeland security

John Yen

Pages 32-35

Countering Terrorism Through Information Technology

Developing the information-analysis tools for an effective multi-agency information-sharing effort.

Robert Popp, Thomas Armour, Ted Senator, Kristen Numrych

Pages 36-43

Graph-Based Technologies For Intelligence Analysis

Enhancing traditional algorithmic techniques for improved pattern analysis.

Thayne Coffman, Seth Greenblatt, Sherry Marcus

Pages 45-47

Proactive Information Gathering For Homeland Security Teams

Supporting counterterrorism analysts with software agents that dynamically anticipate their information requirements.

Paul Kogut, John Yen, Yui Leung, Shuang Sun, Rui Wang, Ted Mielczarek, Ben Hellar

Pages 48-50

Cyber Defense: Art to Science

Seeking the knowledge and means to more methodically detect, defend against, and better understand attacks on networked computer resources.

O. Sami Saydjari

Pages 52-57

Cyber Defense Technology Networking and Evaluation

Creating an experimental infrastructure for developing next-generation information security technologies.

R. Bajcsy, T. Benzel, M. Bishop, B. Braden, C. Brodley, S. Fahmy, S. Floyd, W. Hardaker, A. Joseph, G. Kesidis, K. Levitt, B. Lindell, P. Liu, D. Miller, R. Mundy, C. Neuman, R. Ostrenga, V. Paxson, P. Porras, C. Rosenberg, J. D. Tygar, S. Sastry, D. Sterne, S. F. Wu

Pages 58-61

Mobility and the First Responder

Supporting secure wireless access to databases via public telecommunications infrastructure.

Steve Sawyer, Andrea Tapia, Leonard Pesheck, John Davenport

Pages 62-65

Rescue Robotics For Homeland Security

Applying hard-earned lessons to improve human-robot interaction and information gathering.

Robin R. Murphy

Pages 66-68

Automatically Detecting Deceptive Criminal Identities

The criminal mind is no match for some of the latest technology designed to determine fact from fiction in suspect identities.

Gang Wang, Hsinchun Chen, Homa Atabakhsh

Pages 70-76

Questioning Lawful Access to Traffic Data

The path to technology-neutral policy is fraught with danger as more legislation is updated to deal with new communications infrastructures.

Alberto Escudero-Pascual, Ian Hosein

Pages 77-82

Toward an Integrated Framework For Modeling Enterprise Processes

Enterprise process modeling is the most important element in the design of next-generation ERP systems.

Nikunj P. Dalal, Manjunath Kamath, William J. Kolarik, Eswar Sivaraman

Pages 83-87

How to Manage Your Software Product Life Cycle with Maui

MAUI monitors multiple software engineering metrics and milestones to analyze a software product's development life cycle in real time.

Luigi Suardi

Pages 89-94

The Role of Personality in Web-Based Distance Education Courses

Before investing in a Web-based education program, managers should consider how effective it will be when paired with employee personality traits.

Eyong B. Kim, Marc J. Schniederjans

Pages 95-98

What Causes Stress in Information System Professionals?

Job stress can lead to burnout and turnover, costing IT organizations countless dollars in replacement costs, and making methods for measuring and minimizing stress a business benefit.

Vikram Sethi, Ruth C. King, James Campbell Quick

Pages 99-102

COLUMN: Inside risks

Risks of Monoculture

Mark Stamp

Page 120