Don't turn the page. This is not yet-another article on how great the World-Wide Web is, and how fast it is growing. By now you must have read many of those, and surfed the Web a bit. But, the Internet is not television—are you …
Larry Press
Pages 17-23
David Heckerman, Abe Mamdani, Michael P. Wellman
Pages 24-26
This brief tutorial on Bayesian networks serves to introduce readers to some of the concepts, terminology, and notation employed by articles in this special section. In a Bayesian network, a variable takes on values from a collection …
David Heckerman, Michael P. Wellman
Pages 27-30
Software errors abound in the world of computing. Sophisticated computer programs rank high on the list of the most complex systems ever created by humankind. The complexity of a program or a set of interacting programs makes …
Lisa Burnell, Eric Horvitz
Pages 31-ff.
Information retrieval (IR) is the identification of documents or other units of information in a collection that are relevant to a particular information need. An information need is a set of questions to which someone wouldTimes …
Robert Fung, Brendan Del Favero
Pages 42-ff.
You have just finished typing that big report into your word processor. It is formatted correctly and looks beautiful on the screen. You hit print, go to the printer—and nothing is there. Your try again—still nothing. The report …
David Heckerman, John S. Breese, Koos Rommelse
Pages 49-57
Ever since the days of Shannon's proposal for a chess-playing algorithm [12] and Samuel's checkers-learning program [10] the domain of complex board games such as Go, chess, checkers, Othello, and backgammon has been widely regarded …
Gerald Tesauro
Pages 58-68
Since its inception, the software industry has been in crisis. As Blazer noted 20 years ago, “[Software] is unreliable, delivered late, unresponsive to change, inefficient, and expensive … and has been for the past 20 years”
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Robert E. Kraut, Lynn A. Streeter
Pages 69-81
Although blacks have gained entry to the information systems (IS) field and various managerial positions, they continue to experience more restricted career advancement prospects than whites. They have found it difficult to advance …
Magid Igbaria, Wayne M. Wormley
Pages 82-92
Kent A. Walstrom, Bill C. Hardgrave, Rick L. Wilson
Pages 93-107
The rapid growth of the Internet means there is more email traffic now than ever before, and there will be still more in years to come. There was a time when only hard-core hackers had to deal with significant amounts of email …
Andrew Arensburger, Azriel Rosenfeld
Pages 108-109
This month we summarize the main issues relating to the increasing use of cryptography in the world—for example, in enhancing confidentiality, integrity, and authenticity in computers and communications. Earlier columns have
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Peter G. Neumann
Page 138
