Communications of the ACM
DEPARTMENT: Editorial pointers
DEPARTMENT: News track
DEPARTMENT: Forum
COLUMN: Technology strategy and management
COLUMN: The profession of IT
COLUMN: Viewpoint
SPECIAL ISSUE: A game experience in every application
COLUMN: Technical opinion
COLUMN: Inside risks
Editorial Pointers
DEPARTMENT: News track
News Track
DEPARTMENT: Forum
Forum
COLUMN: Technology strategy and management
Beware the Lure of the Horizontal
The correct choice of market segmentation can determine product success and help a company rise above the competition.COLUMN: The profession of IT
Accomplishment
Language-action philosophy uncovers the truth about effective coordination and accomplishment.COLUMN: Viewpoint
From Terabytes to Insights
For scientists and engineers tapping the NSF's high-performance cyberinfrastructure, the path to wisdom follows a route both miraculous and familiar.SPECIAL ISSUE: A game experience in every application
Introduction
Playful yet powerful 3D computer graphics and natural interaction make possible a new generation of non-entertainment applications.Making a Game of System Design
The pleasures and wonders of gameplay, as well as their deeper lessons, are being applied in fields beyond entertainment as diverse as psychological therapy, experience-based education, and design prototyping.Making Virtual Environments Compelling
Delivering a compelling user experience and ensuring application success both depend on the fidelity of the user's sensory immersion.Experiential Computing
Seeking insight from data, users experience, explore, and experiment, no longer limited to just generating lists of possible answers to simplistic queries.Game-Like Navigation and Responsiveness in Non-Game Applications
Real-time response and interactive narrative provide a game-like experience in two systems: Boom Chameleon for evaluating virtual models and StyleCam for developing online product marketing and advertising.Tracking Contact and Free Gesture Across Large Interactive Surfaces
Built into store windows, museum exhibits, and other communal spaces, these surfaces entice even casual passersby to playfully interact with information---and each other---by knocking on the glass.Full-Size Projection Keyboard For Handheld Devices
A keyboard made entirely of light projected onto desktops, airplane tray tables, even kitchen counters functions, feels, and sounds like its mechanical counterpart. Next: perhaps on laps and in the air.Interactive Robot Theatre
Engaging a human audience through sight, sound, scent, and touch while following a loosely constrained storyline, the Public Anemone and fellow autonomous characters are let loose to entertain---sociably.Siren Songs and Swan Songs Debugging with Music
Program execution behavior can be mapped to a structured musical framework that helps locate and diagnose software errors.Knowledge Management with Patterns
Developing techniques to improve the process of converting information to knowledge.Pfires: a Policy Framework For Information Security
Creating and maintaining effective security strategy and policy for software applications.Digital Music and Online Sharing: Software Piracy 2.0?
Considering the similarities and unique characteristics of online file sharing and software piracy.E-Speak E-Xplained
HP's e-speak is an open software platform designed to simplify Internet-based e-services by making it easier for unrelated Web sites to work together.The Telecommunication Industry Revisited: the Changing Pattern of Partnerships
The flourishing number of partnerships in the telecom arena tell a fascinating story of forging new business strategies in a frail economy. They also demonstrate how some joint ventures may be stronger than others.Mobile Agents in Distributed Network Management
By helping to disperse centralized network management tasks to subnet hosts, mobile agent technology helps conserve network bandwidth and improves management efficiency by decreasing network traffic.Insight Into Mental Models of Novice Internet Searchers
Task knowledge structures can be adapted to determine the cognitive abilities of Net newbies and help create support systems to help shape their search experiences.Coping with Internet Channel Conflict
If you do not sell your products directly over the Internet, people will go to your competitors who do, while if you do sell your products directly, your distributors and dealers will desert you and only carry products from manufacturers …COLUMN: Technical opinion
Moving vs. Inviting Software Agents
What is the best strategy to adopt?COLUMN: Inside risks
