Communications of the ACM
COLUMN: Editorial pointers
DEPARTMENT: News Track
DEPARTMENT: Forum
COLUMN: Log on education
COLUMN: Digital village
COLUMN: On site
COLUMN: Viewpoint
COLUMN: Thinking objectively
COLUMN: Inside Risks
SPECIAL ISSUE: Virtual extension
Editorial Pointers
DEPARTMENT: News Track
News Track
DEPARTMENT: Forum
Forum
COLUMN: Log on education
Teaching the Nintendo Generation to Program
Preparing a new strategy for teaching introductory computer programming.COLUMN: Digital village
Hijacking the Web
Cookies revisited: Continuing the dialogue on personal security and underlying privacy issues.COLUMN: On site
Past and Future Emergency Response Information Systems
Past and future objectives remain the same in crises, providing relevant communities collaborative knowledge systems to exchange information.COLUMN: Viewpoint
Anonymity on the Internet: Why the Price May Be Too High
By allowing anonymous Net communication, the fabric of our society is at risk.Introduction
The terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon last September shocked us all. Many reached for the telephone to contact loved ones and watched TV or listened to the radio for news in the days directly following …Social Translucence: Designing Social Infrastructures that Make Collective Activity Visible
Making social cues visible and persistent helps online groups govern their activities.A Semantic Approach to Visualizing Online Conversations
Visualizing patterns in online conversations give participants a better grasp of their cyber environment and their fellow inhabitants.Tools For Navigating Large Social Cyberspaces
The Netscan project helps online participants form cooperative relationships by offering a better sense of the other players involved.What Makes Learning Networks Effective?
Asynchronous Learning Networks are providing a strong online option to the learning process. Effective ALNs promote student-instructor interaction, emphasize student-to-student collaboration, and generate active participation …The Future of E-Learning Communities
The learning potential of Internet technology can come from the most familiar sources---peers and elders.Audience-Specific Online Community Design
Not all people are easily drawn to the virtual community. Research indicates people of a certain age and lifestyle are indeed reluctant to interact online under any circumstances.-Understanding the Benefit and Costs of Communities of Practice
Promoting healthy collaboration in communities of practice takes management support at all levels. And management, of course, wants and needs to comprehend what the firm gets for that investment.Managing Risks in Enterprise Systems Implementations
What determines if a system implementation will be successful?The Professional Development Challenge For It Professionals
If IT professional development is good for overall corporate performance, as well as for IT professionals' employment prospects, security, self-esteem, and climbing the corporate ladder, why don't more of them do it?Integrating Communication and Information Through Contactmap
Visualizing personal social networks, the system allows users to model and arrange their own in maps of individual contacts and groups, along with the relationships among them.Integrated It Management Tool Kit
The tools track IT assets, performance, budgets, and resources, managing system development and deployment in the interests of the organization's strategic goals.Enabling Crypto: How Radical Innovations Occur
Examining the key factors and influences in the development of cryptography.COLUMN: Thinking objectively
How to Deal with Software Stability
All that exist are heuristics for determining an EBT, a BO, or an industrial object.COLUMN: Inside Risks
Digital Evidence
SPECIAL ISSUE: Virtual extension
