DEPARTMENT: Editorial pointers
Diane Crawford
Page 5
DEPARTMENT: News track
CACM Staff
Pages 9-10
DEPARTMENT: ACM A.M. Turing Award nominations solicited
CACM Staff
Page 14
COLUMN: The business of software
The cost of risk on software projects.
Phillip G. Armour
Pages 15-18
COLUMN: Viewpoint
Without a threat model and a system model, voting standards cannot ensure the integrity or accuracy of the voting process.
Earl Barr, Matt Bishop, Mark Gondree
Pages 19-24
DEPARTMENT: SIGs announce candidates for election
CACM Staff
Page 25
DEPARTMENT: ACM fellows
CACM Staff
Pages 26-27
SPECIAL SECTION: Emergency response information systems: emerging trends and technologies
Bartel Van de Walle, Murray Turoff
Pages 29-31
Building the computer as part of the emergency management team ensures that people continue to do the things they do well, supported by the technology, not driven by it.
Liz Carver, Murray Turoff
Pages 33-38
Simon French, Murray Turoff
Pages 39-40
Frank Fiedrich, Paul Burghardt
Pages 41-42
Using the emergent interoperability approach to address unanticipated contingencies during emergency response.
David Mendonça, Theresa Jefferson, John Harrald
Pages 44-49
B.S. Manoj, Alexandra Hubenko Baker
Pages 51-53
"When danger arises, the rule in normal situations is for people to help those next to them before they help themselves."
Leysia Palen, Starr Roxanne Hiltz, Sophia B. Liu
Pages 54-58
Art Botterell, Ronja Addams-Moring
Pages 59-60
Evaluating how the Sahana disaster information system coordinates disparate institutional and technical resources in the wake of the Indian Ocean tsunami.
Paul Currion, Chamindra de Silva, Bartel Van de Walle
Pages 61-65
What do CEOs expect from technology? What do they expect from their technology leaders? How should technology leaders "brand" themselves? Today'stechnology leaders would do best to learn the specific leadership skills required …
Stephen J. Andriole
Pages 66-72
Emergency medical services have never been more ready for the implementation of time-critical interorganizational information services for the public good.
Thomas A. Horan, Benjamin L. Schooley
Pages 73-78
The traditional goal of optimization and control is making way for learning and innovation.
Sridhar Nerur, VenuGopal Balijepally
Pages 79-83
Consumers' first impressions (and loyalties) are made in the opening moments of a Web site visit and the degree to which that visit may be intruded by pop-ups, pop-unders, and banner ads.
Scott McCoy, Andrea Everard, Peter Polak, Dennis F. Galletta
Pages 84-88
Users and businesses alike get to turn their raw data into new science, technology, and money.
Ning Zhong, Jiming Liu, Yiyu Yao
Pages 89-94
Until they are certain that outsourcing IT management is the best possible option, firms would do well to maintain and invest in their own in-house IT assets.
James A. Hall, Stephen L. Liedtka
Pages 95-100
DEPARTMENT: Hot links
Pages 101-102
COLUMN: Technical opinion
Providing a general calculator for students to compare where they are likely to get accepted for graduate school.
Nigel Ward
Pages 104-106
COLUMN: Inside risks
Donn B. Parker
Page 120