Communications of the ACM
DEPARTMENT: Editorial pointers
DEPARTMENT: News tracks
DEPARTMENT: Forum
COLUMN: Staying connected
COLUMN: Security watch
COLUMN: Viewpoint
SPECIAL ISSUE: Digital government
COLUMN: Technical opinion
COLUMN: Inside risks
Editorial Pointers
DEPARTMENT: News tracks
News Tracks
DEPARTMENT: Forum
Forum
COLUMN: Staying connected
Hibernating During Telecom Winter
Somewhere along the way, hyperbole took over and exaggerations about telecom changing the world didn't live up to expectations.COLUMN: Security watch
On Auditing Audit Trails
It is incumbent upon us to examine our own auditing practices for their intrinsic vulnerabilities.COLUMN: Viewpoint
Making Money Selling Content that Others Are Giving Away
Attempts to protect existing business models will only serve to delay, or even prevent, the arrival of new content-delivery approaches.SPECIAL ISSUE: Digital government
Introduction
Information technologies are being applied vigorously by governmental units at national, regional, and local levels around the world. The application of IT to government service is often termed "e-government" and the larger concept …Coplink: Managing Law Enforcement Data and Knowledge
In response to the September 11 terrorist attacks, major government efforts to modernize federal law enforcement authorities' intelligence collection and processing capabilities have been initiated. At the state and local levels …Geospatial Decision Support For Drought Risk Management
Drought affects virtually all regions of the world and results in significant economic, social, and environmental impacts. The Federal Emergency Management Agency estimates annual drought-related losses in the U.S. at $6--$8 …Harvesting Information to Sustain Forests
We are building a Web-based system to provide easy access to documents for use by natural resource managers, scientists, and other interested parties in the Pacific Northwest. Initially, we are focusing on the Adaptive Management …-Understanding New Models of Collaboration For Delivering Government Services
Prospects For Improving the Regulatory Process -sing E-Rulemaking
U.S. citizens participate directly in rulemaking---a deliberate agenda-setting process designed to elicit, sort, and clarify fact and opinion from a wide variety of interested parties. The rulemaking process offers a directness …Geospatial It For Mobile Field Data Collection
Federal statistical agencies generate critical data about the nation's population, economy, and natural resources. This data is gathered largely by mobile field data collection. Although geospatial information is an essential …Using an Ontology to Simplify Data Access
Bistro: a Scalable and Secure Data Transfer Service For Digital Government Applications
Government at all levels is a major collector and provider of data.Our project focuses on the collection of data over wide-area networks (WANs) and addresses the scalability issues that arise in the context of Internet-based …Supporting Statistical Electronic Table Usage By Citizens
Over 70 agencies at the federal level are charged with collecting data and producing and disseminating statistics. These statistics are used to inform government policy, shape health care initiatives, provide information on the …Fedstats: the Gateway to Federal Statistics
FedStats.gov is an award-winning portal to a distributed digital library of statistical information compiled by more than 70 federal agencies. The challenges in simply providing access are many---organizational, bureaucratic, …Table Servers Protect Confidentiality in Tabular Data Releases
Federal statistical agencies must balance concern over confidentiality of data with their obligation to report information to the public. Advances in IT threaten privacy, but new technologies can also protect confidentiality …Supporting Visual Analysis of Federal Geospatial Statistics
Federal government agencies generate, summarize, and disseminate a large and growing volume of statistical data that can be linked through common geospatial referencing. The potential of this data is often unrealized because …-se of the Sand Spatial Browser For Digital Government Applications
Numerous federal agencies produce official statistics made accessible to ordinary citizens for searching and data retrieval. This is frequently done via the Internet through a Web browser interface. If this data is presented …Efficient Summarization of Spatiotemporal Events
Raster datasets at discrete temporal instances capture a variety of spatiotemporal phenomena. These phenomena and the respective datasets that capture them may span various spatial and temporal scales, like a car's trajectory …It Research, Innovation, and E-Government
Over the past few years, the basic outline of an e-government vision has emerged, and government has taken promising steps to deploy e-government services. Much remains to be done, however, both in implementing e-government services …A Personal History of the Nsf Digital Government Program
The NSF Digital Government Program has its roots (circa 1993) in the NSF High-Performance Computing and Communications Program, and NSF's National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA) at the University of Illinois. It …The Decay and Failures of Web References
Attempting to determine how quickly archival information becomes outdated.Where Now For Development Methodologies?
The current swirl of diversity could signal a return to the days of ad hoc systems development, lack of formalmethodology, and consequent increase in failure.How to Identify New High-Payoff Information Systems For the Organization
Viewing users as partners and their personal knowledge of the organization as a strategic asset helps CIOs justify project proposals with the greatest promise for achieving organizational goals.The Knowledge Grid
Designing, building, and implementing an architecture for distributed knowledge discovery.Organic Data Memory -sing the Dna Approach
For very long-term storage and retrieval, encode information as artificial DNA strands and insert into living hosts. As vectors, bacteria, even some bugs and weeds, might be good for hundreds of millions of years.COLUMN: Technical opinion
Barriers to Effective use of Knowledge Management Systems in Software Engineering
An organization must recognize that information technology is only one means to foster knowledge.COLUMN: Inside risks
