Communications of the ACM
COLUMN: Editorial pointers
DEPARTMENT: News track
DEPARTMENT: Forum
COLUMN: The profession of IT
COLUMN: Staying connected
COLUMN: Viewpoint
SPECIAL ISSUE: Adaptive middleware
COLUMN: Technical opinion
COLUMN: Inside risks
Editorial Pointers
DEPARTMENT: News track
News Track
DEPARTMENT: Forum
Weighing in on the Notion of 'dumbing Up'
COLUMN: The profession of IT
Flatlined
Our propensity to create linear scales between opposing alternatives creates false dichotomies that hamper our thinking and limit our action.COLUMN: Staying connected
Broadband to Go
Providers know once customers go broadband, they'll never go back to the dark days of dialup.COLUMN: Viewpoint
Rebirth of the Computer Industry
What types of products are required and who will provide them?SPECIAL ISSUE: Adaptive middleware
Introduction
Customization, policy management, coordination, and other services are available for distributed, mobile, embedded systems, increasingly assembled on the fly through the Web.The Case For Reflective Middleware
It's flexible and reconfigurable yet simple for programmers to use, notably for building dynamic distributed applications operating on the Net.Challenges Designing Next-Generation Middleware Systems
This framework promises new classes of service, especially in terms of security, for policy-based development of distributed and collaborative applications.Middleware For Real-Time and Embedded Systems
Off-the-shelf middleware technology is being adapted for such mission-critical dynamic domains as online financial trading, distributed process control, even submarine information systems, avionics mission computing, radar processing …Safe 'composability' of Middleware Services
Look to composable middleware frameworks to ensure safe middleware interactions for ubiquitous computing applications.Systematic Aid For Developing Middleware Architectures
This development environment enables the specification, automated composition, and quality analysis of flexible, configurable middleware architectures, notably in distributed systems.Toward Open, Secure, Widely Distributed Services
The OASIS open architecture controls the interoperation of independent services in distributed environments, including the constant monitoring of security conditions, as illustrated by a U.K. application in health-record management …ACM Fellows
timely Financial Reporting at Corporate Web Sites?
Considering the competitive advantage of having current financial information available online, it's curious how few institutions actually succeed in this regard.Classifying Digital Products
A framework for classifying digital products is essential for devising successful e-commerce strategies.Wanted:project Teams with a Blend of Is Professional Orientations
Desired qualities include a strong technical orientation, end-user empathy, and organizational awareness.Extreme Collaboration
For engineers comfortable with the noise and distraction of working closely together, a technology "war room" at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory is the perfect environment for speeding delivery of space mission design proposals …Improving Education and Training with It
Findings from the review of previous empirical studies set the foundation for a conceptual model demonstrating how IT supports learning and group communications.Capacity and Performance Analysis of Distributed Enterprise Systems
Analytic and simulation models enhance the reengineering and tuning of large client/server distributed systems.COLUMN: Technical opinion
Power Play
There will always be a need for power … but at what cost?COLUMN: Inside risks
