Communications of the ACM

Editorial

Diane Crawford
Page 5

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News track

Robert Fox
Pages 9-10

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Does the Internet support student inquiry? Don't ask.

Elliot Soloway, Raven Wallace
Pages 11-16

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The never-ending struggle for balance

Pamela Samuelson
Pages 17-21

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Lessons from a cautionary tale

Abbe Mowshowitz
Pages 23-25

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Forum: the date crisis

Diane Crawford
Pages 26-30

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ACM 97: an event to remember

Charles H. House
Pages 31-34

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Dynamic object technology

Robert Laddaga, James Veitch
Pages 36-38

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Integrating legacy systems with modern corporate applications

Paul Robertson
Pages 39-46

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Countdown to success: dynamic objects, GBB, and RADARSAT-1

Daniel D. Corkill
Pages 48-58

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Dynamic objects for engineering automation

Robert E. Phillips
Pages 59-65

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Patching onto the Web: Common LISP hypermedia for the intranet

Byron Davies, Victoria Bryan Davies
Pages 66-69

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Visual information retrieval

Amarnath Gupta, Ramesh Jain
Pages 70-79

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Why interaction is more powerful than algorithms

Peter Wegner
Pages 80-91

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Internet security: firewalls and beyond

Rolf Oppliger
Pages 92-102

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Data quality in context

Diane M. Strong, Yang W. Lee, Richard Y. Wang
Pages 103-110

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Seven work plans for year-2000 upgrade projects

Dick Lefkon
Pages 111-113

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The year 2000

Georges Brigham
Pages 113-115

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Solving the date crisis

Robert A. Wagner
Pages 115-117

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The big picture

Peter G. Neumann
Page 136

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