DEPARTMENT: Editorial pointers
Diane Crawford
Page 5
DEPARTMENT: News track
Robert Fox
Pages 9-10
DEPARTMENT: Forum
Diane Crawford
Pages 11-13
COLUMN: The business of software
Blurring the lines of distinction between team roles is often necessary to adapt to a changing environment.
Phillip Armour
Pages 15-19
COLUMN: Practical programmer
Old saying: "The more things change, the more they remain the same" …or do they?
Robert L. Glass
Pages 21-23
COLUMN: Viewpoint
The technology, Internet, bandwidth, and content bubbles all burst, scattering not only broken dreams but new seeds of innovation and enterprise.
Dennis Tsichritzis
Pages 25-27
SPECIAL ISSUE: Wireless networking security
In the time span of just a few years, wireless local area networking went from being a novelty to revolutionizing the way many organizations connect their computers. Visit any major department store, hospital, or office building …
Aviel D. Rubin
Pages 28-30
Assessing inherent wireless network security deficiencies and seeking solutions.
Russ Housley, William Arbaugh
Pages 31-34
Understanding the difficulties in security protocol design and attempting to relocate the struggle between hacker and defender to a different protocol layer.
Nancy Cam-Winget, Russ Housley, David Wagner, Jesse Walker
Pages 35-39
Considering some of the practical issues encountered when finding and mapping wireless network access points.
Simon Byers, Dave Kormann
Pages 41-46
As the telecommunications industry wavers, a global grassroots movement is building the next-generation wireless network.
Terry Schmidt, Anthony Townsend
Pages 47-52
Mobile devices enable secure, convenient authorization of e-banking, retail payment, brokerage, and other types of transactions.
Amir Herzberg
Pages 53-58
XRML explicates the rules implicitly embedded in Web pages, enabling software agents to process the rules automatically.
Jae Kyu Lee, Mye M. Sohn
Pages 59-64
The ideas of Darwinian evolution can illuminate the niches in which systems can flourish in today's tumultuous IT environment---and help identify the inevitable evolutionary changes.
Julie Smith David, William E. McCarthy, Brian S. Sommer
Pages 65-69
Students use the Net as a primary source of information, usually with little or no regard as to the accuracy of that information.
Leah Graham, Panagiotis Takis Metaxas
Pages 70-75
Adapting the social paradigm of face-to-face human communication, they promote ad hoc knowledge exchange among peers, leveraging individual expertise at the periphery of the network.
Amrit Tiwana
Pages 76-80
Hailing a taxi in Singapore now employs the latest positioning technology for matching passengers with the nearest available cabs, thus achieving greater productivity and customer satisfaction.
Ziqi Liao
Pages 81-83
To achieve complex solutions in the rapidly changing world of e-commerce, it is impossible to go it alone. This explains the latest trend in IT outsourcing---global and partner-based alliances. But where do we go from here?
Jae-Nam Lee, Minh Q. Huynh, Ron Chi-Wai Kwok, Shih-Ming Pi
Pages 84-89
COLUMN: Technical opinion
Techniques for choosing seeds for social and scientific applications of random number generators.
George Marsaglia
Pages 90-93
COLUMN: Inside risks
Peter G. Neumann
Page 104