Nguyen Dinh Ngoc and Dang Huu were among the senior technology leaders at the Fourth Informatics Week conference and exhibition held in Ho Chi Minh City (HCMC) in August 1994, an event that swarmed with teenagers, young techies …
S. E. Goodman, L. I. Press
Pages 11-16
The latest techie panacea for fixing education is to just connect all the students to the Internet; with all that information out there, surely they will learn. In Project Globe, Vice President Gore, the U.S.'s chief techie,
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Elliot Soloway
Pages 17-24
The world is changing and the demographics of the workforce are changing with it. At one time there was hope that our exciting new field of computer science would not only revolutionize the technical world in which we live, but …
Amy Pearl
Pages 26-28
Maria Klawe, Nancy Leveson
Pages 29-35
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Alison Adam
Page 43
Laura L. Downey
Pages 43-44
Elisabeth Freeman, Susanne Hupfer
Page 44
Denise W. Gürer
Pages 45-54
Kathleen Hemenway
Pages 55-62
Ellen Isaacs
Pages 58-59
Tracy Camp
Page 61
Shari Lawrence Pfleeger, Norma Mertz
Pages 63-73
Veronika Oechtering, Roswitha Behnke
Pages 75-82
Since the inception of computers, the software industry has searched for dramatic solutions to its systems development problems. In the latter half of the 1980s and into the 1990s, the search has focused on automated software …
Iris Vessey, Ajay Paul Sravanapudi
Pages 83-95
Combinatorial and geometric computing is a core area of computer science (CS). In fact, most CS curricula contain a course in data structures and algorithms. The area deals with objects such as graphs, sequences, dictionaries …
Kurt Mehlhorn, Stefan Näher
Pages 96-102
The physicist and Nobel laureate Ilya Prigogine states that “our understanding of nature is undergoing a radical change toward the multiple, the temporal, and the complex. Curiously, the unexpected complexity found in nature
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Jeffrey G. Long, Dorothy E. Denning
Pages 103-120
The study of highly unstable nonlinear dynamical systems—chaotic systems—has emerged recently as an area of major interest and applicability across the mathematical, physical and social sciences. This interest has been triggered …
Charles Herring, Julian I. Palmore
Pages 121-122
D. E. Ross
Pages 122-124
The opportunities are attractive, but some pavers of the Information Superhighway (ISH) are too eager to pour concrete. They risk making rough roads that will alienate the very users they seek. These technologically oriented
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Ben Shneiderman
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