ACM

Diane Crawford
Page 5

News track

Robert Fox
Pages 9-10

China's new Internet regulations: two steps forward, one step back

Zixiang Alex Tan, Milton Mueller, Will Foster
Pages 11-16

How best to provide the services IS programmers need

Robert L. Glass
Pages 17-19

Lessons learned during requirements acquisition for COTS systems

Neil A. M. Maiden, Cornelius Ncube, Andrew Moore
Pages 21-25

Forum: Cobol in question

Diane Crawford
Pages 27-29

Visual information management

Ramesh Jain
Pages 30-32

In search of information in visual media

Amarnath Gupta, Simone Santini, Ramesh Jain
Pages 34-42

Retrieving and visualizing video

Boon-Lock Yeo, Minerva M. Yeung
Pages 43-52

Video abstracting

Rainer Lienhart, Silvia Pfeiffer, Wolfgang Effelsberg
Pages 54-62

Visual information retrieval from large distributed online repositories

Shih-Fu Chang, John R. Smith, Mandis Beigi, Ana Benitez
Pages 63-71

Managing multimedia information in database systems

William I. Grosky
Pages 72-80

A nation of strangers?

James E. Katz, Philip Aspden
Pages 81-86

Slim binaries

Michael Franz, Thomas Kistler
Pages 87-94

A formal specifications maturity model

Martin D. Fraser, Vijay K. Vaishnavi
Pages 95-103

Using objects for systems analysis

Jeffrey Parsons, Yair Wand
Pages 104-110

ACM'S computing classification system reflects changing times

Neal Coulter
Pages 111-112

Programming as a discipline?

Nigel Ward
Pages 113-114

Inside risks: system development woes

Peter G. Neumann
Page 160

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