DEPARTMENT: Editorial pointers
Diane Crawford
Pages 5-6
DEPARTMENT: Forum
Page 10
DEPARTMENT: News track
CACM Staff
Pages 11-12
COLUMN: Digital village
A tongue-in-cheek look at serious security issues.
Hal Berghel
Pages 13-17
COLUMN: The profession of IT
Solidarity, not software, generates collaboration.
Peter J. Denning, Peter Yaholkovsky
Pages 19-24
DEPARTMENT: Call for nominations
CACM Staff
Pages 25-26
DEPARTMENT: ACM honors
CACM Staff
Pages 27-30
COLUMN: Viewpoint
Substituting disk for RAM, disk-based computation is a way to increase working memory and achieve results that are not otherwise economical.
Daniel Kunkle, Gene Cooperman
Pages 31-33
Why do good users make bad decisions?
Ryan West
Pages 34-40
New products, new markets, and new forms of production impel the creative destruction of free enterprise. Open source software appears to be creative destruction …
Richard T. Watson, Marie-Claude Boudreau, Paul T. York, Martina E. Greiner, Donald Wynn
Pages 41-46
What service-quality attributes must Internet banks offer to induce consumers to switch to online transactions and keep using them?
Ziqi Liao, Michael Tow Cheung
Pages 47-51
It would include details of the processes that produced electronic data as far back as the beginning of time or at least the epoch of provenance awareness.
Luc Moreau, Paul Groth, Simon Miles, Javier Vazquez-Salceda, John Ibbotson, Sheng Jiang, Steve Munroe, Omer Rana, Andreas Schreiber, Victor Tan, Laszlo Varga
Pages 52-58
The goal of an LMS, devised by a growing number of universities, is to offer faculty instructional support. The actual use of these programs, however, suggests thatsupport is elusive. An experience at National Taiwan University …
Hsiu-Ping Yueh, Shihkuan Hsu
Pages 59-63
Use the new PCR risk metric to find ways to enhance security, avoiding one-dimensional metrics like ALE that could risk an organization's survivability.
Lawrence D. Bodin, Lawrence A. Gordon, Martin P. Loeb
Pages 64-68
More could be done to reduce rising online fraud rates.
Dawn G. Gregg, Judy E. Scott
Pages 69-74
Face-to-face meetings may be invaluable, but they are not a panacea for the challenges facing teams spread around the globe---managers must also prioritize activities before and after these meetings to help team members stay …
Ilan Oshri, Julia Kotlarsky, Leslie Willcocks
Pages 76-81
A balanced combination of management support, technology, and organizational structural factors is necessary for successful knowledge management program implementation.
Ivy Chan, Chee-Kwong Chao
Pages 83-88
Always considered an area dominated by North American institutions, there are signs afoot that the globalization of IS research productivity is making moves, particularly in Asia and Europe.
Mohamed Khalifa, Kathy Ning
Pages 89-94
Considering the role of IT as a variable in health care institution quality assessment.
Pamela Whitten, Deirdre Mylod, Goran Gavran, Howard Sypher
Pages 96-102
COLUMN: Technical opinion
Comparing the U.S. IT job markets of the 1990s and 2000s.
Chuck Litecky, Bipin Prabhakar, Kirk Arnett
Pages 107-109
COLUMN: Inside risks
Lauren Weinstein
Page 112