Communications of the ACM (CACM), Volume 50, 2007

Volume 50, Number 1, January 2007

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  Diane Crawford:
  Editorial pointers. 5
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  News track. 9-10
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  Forum. 11-12

The business of software

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  Phillip G. Armour:
  Agile ... and offshore. 13-16

Staying connected

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  Meg McGinity Shannon:
  Shannon's eleven. 17-20

Viewpoint

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  Russell Beale:
  Slanty design. 21-24
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  ACM Annual Report for FY06. 25-32
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  Patricia S. Abril, Robert Plant:
  The patent holder's dilemma: buy, sell, or troll? 36-44
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  Huimin Zhao:
  Semantic matching across heterogeneous data sources. 45-50
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  Markus Biehl:
  Success factors for implementing global information systems. 52-58
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  Nitin Singh, Kee-hung Lai, T. C. Edwin Cheng:
  Intra-organizational perspectives on IT-enabled supply chains. 59-65
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  Sharon McDonald, Helen M. Edwards:
  Who should test whom? 66-71
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  Sami Surakka:
  What subjects and skills are important for software developers? 73-78
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  Jaap-Henk Hoepman, Bart Jacobs:
  Increased security through open source. 79-83
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  Peter Naur:
  Computing versus human thinking. 85-94

Hot links

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  Top 10 Downloads from ACM's Digital Library. 95-96

Inside risks

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  Lauren Weinstein:
  Ma Bell's revenge: the battle for network neutrality. 128

Volume 50, Number 2, February 2007

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  Diane Crawford:
  Editorial pointers. 5
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  News track. 9-10
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  Forum. 11-13
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  Student de-charter notice. 14

Technology strategy and management

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  Michael A. Cusumano:
  What road ahead for Microsoft the company? 15-18

Legally speaking

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  Pamela Samuelson:
  Patent reform through the courts. 19-23

Articles

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  Joshua Goodman, Gordon V. Cormack, David Heckerman:
  Spam and the ongoing battle for the inbox. 24-33
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  Rakesh Agrawal, Tyrone Grandison, Christopher M. Johnson, Jerry Kiernan:
  Enabling the 21st century health care information technology revolution. 34-42
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  Grant A. Jacoby, Luqi:
  Intranet model and metrics. 43-50
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  Bonnie Glassberg, Jeffrey W. Merhout:
  : Electronic markets hypothesis redux: where are we now? 51-55
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  Galen A. Grimes:
  Compliance with the CAN-SPAM Act of 2003. 56-62
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  Ranieri Baraglia, Fabrizio Silvestri:
  Dynamic personalization of web sites without user intervention. 63-67
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  Joon Koh, Young-Gul Kim, Brian Butler, Gee-Woo Bock:
  Encouraging participation in virtual communities. 68-73
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  Dongsong Zhang:
  Web content adaptation for mobile handheld devices. 75-79
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  SIGs Announce Candidates for Election. 80
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  Rafae Bhatti, Elisa Bertino, Arif Ghafoor:
  An integrated approach to federated identity and privilege management in open systems. 81-87
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  Benjamin B. M. Shao, Julie Smith David:
  The impact of offshore outsourcing on IT workers in developed countries. 89-94

Technical opinion

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  Rolf Oppliger:
  IT security: in search of the Holy Grail. 96-98

Hot links

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  Top 10 downloads from ACM's digital library. 99-100

Inside risks

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  Peter G. Neumann:
  Widespread network failures. 112

Volume 50, Number 3, March 2007

Emergency response information systems: emerging trends and technologies Editorial pointers

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  Diane Crawford:
  Editorial pointers. 5

News track

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  News track. 9-10

Forum

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  Forum. 11-13

ACM A.M. Turing Award nominations solicited

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  ACM A.M. Turing Award nominations solicited. 14

The business of software

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  Phillip G. Armour:
  Mortality play. 15-18

Viewpoint

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  Earl T. Barr, Matt Bishop, Mark A. Gondree:
  Fixing federal e-voting standards. 19-24

SIGs announce candidates for election

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  SIGs announce candidates for election. 25

ACM fellows

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  ACM fellows. 26-27

Emergency response information systems: emerging trends and technologies

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  Bartel A. Van de Walle, Murray Turoff:
  Introduction. 29-31
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  Liz Carver, Murray Turoff:
  Human-computer interaction: the human and computer as a team in emergency management information systems. 33-38
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  Simon French, Murray Turoff:
  Decision support systems. 39-40
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  Frank Fiedrich, Paul Burghardt:
  Agent-based systems for disaster management. 41-42
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  David Mendonça, Theresa I. Jefferson, John R. Harrald:
  Collaborative adhocracies and mix-and-match technologies in emergency management. 44-49
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  B. S. Manoj, Alexandra Hubenko Baker:
  Communication challenges in emergency response. 51-53
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  Leysia Palen, Starr Roxanne Hiltz, Sophia B. Liu:
  Online forums supporting grassroots participation in emergency preparedness and response. 54-58
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  Art Botterell, Ronja Addams-Moring:
  Public warning in the networked age: open standards to the rescue? 59-60
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  Paul Currion, Chamindra de Silva, Bartel A. Van de Walle:
  Open source software for disaster management. 61-65
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  Stephen J. Andriole:
  The 7 habits of highly effective technology leaders. 66-72
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  Thomas A. Horan, Benjamin L. Schooley:
  Time-critical information services. 73-78
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  Sridhar P. Nerur, Venugopal Balijepally:
  Theoretical reflections on agile development methodologies. 79-83
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  Scott McCoy, Andrea Everard, Peter Polak, Dennis F. Galletta:
  The effects of online advertising. 84-88
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  Ning Zhong, Jiming Liu, Yiyu Yao:
  Envisioning intelligent information technologies through the prism of web intelligence. 89-94
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  James A. Hall, Stephen L. Liedtka:
  The Sarbanes-Oxley Act: implications for large-scale IT outsourcing. 95-100

Hot links

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  Top 10 downloads from ACM's Digital Library. 101-102

Technical opinion

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  Nigel G. Ward:
  The (un)predictability of computer science graduate school admissions. 104-106

Inside risks

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  Donn B. Parker:
  Risks of risk-based security. 120

Volume 50, Number 4, April 2007

Editorial pointers

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  Diane Crawford:
  Editorial pointers. 5

Forum

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  Diane Crawford:
  Stop chasing the AI illusion. 7-9

News track

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  News track. 13-14

Digital village

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  Hal Berghel:
  Hiding data, forensics, and anti-forensics. 15-20

The profession of IT

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  Peter J. Denning:
  Mastering the mess. 21-25

ACM honors distinguished members

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  ACM honors distinguished members. 26-27

Call for nominations for advanced member grades in ACM

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  Call for nominations for advanced member grades in ACM. 28-29
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  Proposal to dissolve SIGAPL. 29

Viewpoint

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  Jenova Chen:
  Flow in games (and everything else). 31-34
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  Jeff Kramer:
  Is abstraction the key to computing? 36-42
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  Dorit Nevo, Michael R. Wade:
  How to avoid disappointment by design. 43-48
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  Levent V. Orman:
  Consumer support systems. 49-54
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  Stefano Ceri, Maristella Matera, Francesca Rizzo, Vera Demaldé:
  Designing data-intensive web applications for content accessibility using web marts. 55-61
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  Ido Green, Tzvi Raz, Moshe Zviran:
  Analysis of active intrusion prevention data for predicting hostile activity in computer networks. 63-68
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  Sachidanandam Sakthivel:
  Managing risk in offshore systems development. 69-75
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  Jeffrey A. Stone, Elinor M. Madigan:
  Inconsistencies and disconnects. 76-79
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  Dianne J. Hall, David B. Paradice:
  Investigating value-based decision bias and mediation: do you do as you think? 81-85
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  Michael Chau, Xiao Fang, Olivia R. Liu Sheng:
  What are people searching on government web sites? 87-92

Hot links

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  Top 10 downloads from ACM's digital library. 93-94

Technical opinion

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  E. Sonny Butler, Cheryl Aasheim, Susan R. Williams:
  Does telecommuting improve productivity? 101-103

Inside risks

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  Jim Horning:
  Risks of virtual professionalism. 104

Volume 50, Number 5, May 2007

ACM at sixty: a look back in time Editorial pointers

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  Diane Crawford:
  Editorial pointers. 5-6

Forum

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  Forum. 7

President's letter

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  Stuart I. Feldman:
  ACM's past helps steer its future. 10

News track

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  News track. 11-12

Staying connected

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  Meg McGinity Shannon:
  The pearly gates of Internet TV. 13-15

Viewpoint

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  Stephen B. Jenkins:
  The rime of the ancyent programmer. 17-20

Practical programmer

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  Robert L. Glass:
  One man's quest for the state of software engineering's practice. 21-23

ACM at 60: a look back in time

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  David S. Wise:
  Introduction. 24-26
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  Bernadette Longo:
  ACM established to develop communication about computing. 27-29
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  Atsushi Akera:
  Edmund Berkeley and the origins of ACM. 30-35
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  Thomas Haigh:
  Sources for ACM history: what, where, why. 36-41
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  Charles Care:
  Not only digital: a review of ACM's early involvement with analog computing technology. 42-45
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  David Hemmendinger:
  The ACM and IEEE-CS guidelines for undergraduate CS education. 46-53
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  Judy Brown, Steve Cunningham:
  A history of ACM SIGGRAPH. 54-61
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  Chris Edmondson-Yurkanan:
  SIGCOMM's archaeological journey into networking's past. 63-68
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  Thomas J. Bergin:
  A history of the history of programming languages. 69-74
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  Matthew R. McBride:
  The software architect. 75-81
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  Zeljko Obrenovic, Julio Abascal, Dusan Starcevic:
  Universal accessibility as a multimodal design issue. 83-88
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  Michael L. Harris, Kris Aebischer, Tim Klaus:
  The whitewater process: software product development in small IT businesses. 89-93
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  Bin He, Mitesh Patel, Zhen Zhang, Kevin Chen-Chuan Chang:
  Accessing the deep web. 94-101
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  Viviane Torres da Silva, Carlos José Pereira de Lucena:
  Modeling multi-agent systems. 103-108
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  Alessandra Devito Da Cunha, David Greathead:
  Does personality matter?: an analysis of code-review ability. 109-112

Technical opinion

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  Geoffrey Goodell, Paul F. Syverson:
  The right place at the right time. 113-117

Hot links

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  Top 10 downloads from ACM's digital library. 124-125

Inside risks

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  Bruce Schneier:
  The psychology of security. 128

Volume 50, Number 6, June 2007

Editorial pointers

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  Diane Crawford:
  Editorial pointers. 5

Forum

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  Forum. 7-9

News track

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  News track. 13-14

Legally speaking

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  Pamela Samuelson:
  Software patents and the metaphysics of Section 271(f). 15-19

The business of software

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  Phillip G. Armour:
  Twenty percent. 21-23

Viewpoint

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  Ben Shneiderman:
  Web science: a provocative invitation to computer science. 25-27
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  Eric van Heck, Peter Vervest:
  Smart business networks: how the network wins. 28-37
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  Sasha Dekleva, Jung P. Shim, Upkar Varshney, Geoffrey Knoerzer:
  Evolution and emerging issues in mobile wireless networks. 38-43
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  Amy Friedlander, Allison Mankin, W. Douglas Maughan, Stephen D. Crocker:
  DNSSEC: a protocol toward securing the internet infrastructure. 44-50
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  Ioanna D. Constantiou, Jan Damsgaard, Lars Andreas Knutsen:
  The four incremental steps toward advanced mobile service adoption. 51-55
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  Mark J. Cotteleer, Christopher A. Cotteleer, Andrew Prochnow:
  Cutting checks: challenges and choices in B2B e-payments. 56-61
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  Anand Jeyaraj, Vicki L. Sauter:
  An empirical investigation of the effectiveness of systems modeling and verification tools. 62-67
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  David E. Avison, Terry Young:
  Time to rethink health care and ICT? 69-74
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  Kary Främling, Timo Ala-Risku, Mikko Kärkkäinen, Jan Holmström:
  Design patterns for managing product life cycle information. 75-79
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  Jie Ren, Richard N. Taylor:
  Automatic and versatile publications ranking for research institutions and scholars. 81-85

Hot links

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  Top 10 downloads from ACM's digital library. 86-87

Technical opinion

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  Mihail Cocosila, Ofir Turel, Norman P. Archer, Yufei Yuan:
  Perceived health risks of 3G cell phones: do users care? 89-92

Inside risks

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  Peter A. Freeman:
  Risks are your responsibility. 104

Volume 50, Number 7, July 2007

Editorial pointers

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  Diane Crawford:
  Editorial pointers. 5

News track

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  News track. 7-8

The profession of IT

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  Peter J. Denning:
  Computing is a natural science. 13-18

Technology strategy and management

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  Michael A. Cusumano:
  The changing labyrinth of software pricing. 19-22

Viewpoint

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