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Volume 1

Vint Cerf
Lessons in Life from the Net
(Issue 1 - February 21-27, 2000)

Gordon Bell
Dear Appy, How committed are you?
(Issue 1 - February 21-27, 2000)

Cathy Beise and Martha Myers
What IT Labor Shortage?
(Issue 1 - February 21-27, 2000)

Robert Tannenbaum and Joanna M. Badagliacco
Multimedia and Gender
(Issue 1 - February 21-27, 2000)

A Book Excerpt by Virginia Postrel
The Future and Its Enemies
(Issue 1 - February 21-27, 2000)

An Interview with John White
Building Community for the New Information Technology Professional
(Issue 2 - February 28 - March 5, 2000)

An essay by Michael Schrage
Mirrorware
(Issue 2 - February 28 - March 5, 2000)

M. E. Kabay
Distributed Denial-of- Service Attacks
(Issue 2 - February 28 - March 5, 2000)

A Book Excerpt by Simson Garfinkel
Database Nation
(Issue 2 - February 28 - March 5, 2000)

Talking with Richard Saul Wurman
Understanding in the Age of Also
(Issue 3 - March 6-12, 2000)

Don Tapscott, David Ticoll and Alex Lowy
The Rise of Business Webs
(Issue 3 - March 6-12, 2000)

Michael M. Roberts
Code and the Internet
(Issue 3 - March 6-12, 2000)

A Book Excerpt by Frederick Levine, Chris Locke, David Searls and David Weinberger
The Cluetrain Manifesto
(Issue 3 - March 6-12, 2000)

An Interview with Don Norman
New Tools, New Teaching . . . .
(Issue 4 - March 13-20, 2000)

Robert C. Heterick, Jr.
Through a Glass, Darkly
(Issue 4 - March 13-20, 2000)

Kenneth G. Robinson
The Benefits of Privacy Invasion
(Issue 4 - March 13-20, 2000)

An Interview with Peter Denning
The Future of the IT Profession
(Issue 5 - March 21-27, 2000)

William Paul Fiefer
Domain-Nation
(Issue 5 - March 21-27, 2000)

John C. Thomas
What is the Story of the 21st Century?
(Issue 5 - March 21- 27, 2000)

A Book Excerpt by John Seely Brown and Paul Duguid
The Social Life of Information
(Issue 5 - March 21-27, 2000)

Talking with Donna Hoffman
Dot to Dot-Com
(Issue 6 - March 28 - April 3, 2000)

Jeremy J. Shapiro
Acquiring Digital Wealth
(Issue 6 - March 28 - April 3, 2000)

William H. Graves
The Dot.xxx Challenge . . . .
(Issue 6 - March 28 - April 3, 2000)

An Interview with Peter Huber
Why 99.9 percent is not good enough
(Issue 7 - April 4-10, 2000)

Ubiquity reader
As A Man Grows Older
(Issue 7 - April 4-10, 2000)

Nancy M. Dixon
Common Knowledge: How Companies Thrive . .
(Issue 7 - April 4-10, 2000)

An Interview with Paul Duguid
Organizations and Technology
(Issue 8 - April 11-17, 2000)

Martin Raish
What About the Library?
(Issue 8 - April 11-17, 2000)

A Book Excerpt by James A. Anderson and Edward Rosenfeld
TALKING NETS: An Oral History . . .
(Issue 8 - April 11-17, 2000)

Ubiquity readers share their concerns about age discrimination
Readers Comments
(Issue 8 - April 11-17, 2000)

An Interview with Nancy Dixon
Common Knowledge
(Issue 9 - April 18-24, 2000)

R.W. Burniske
Arabia Online: Answering the Call . . .
(Issue 9 - April 18-24, 2000)

A Conversation with Eli Noam
Academia, tele-information, and . . . .
(Issue 10 - April 25 - May 1, 2000)

Joseph Newcomer
Deconstructing the Internet Paradox
(Issue 10 - April 25 - May 1, 2000)

Paula Hawthorn
Letter on Ageism
(Issue 10 - April 25 - May 1, 2000)

Gordon Bell
CyberAll: Everywhere and Forever
(Issue 11 - May 2-8, 2000)

R. Raghuraman
India: Is IT the future?
(Issue 11 - May 2-8, 2000)

A Book Excerpt by Jeff Johnson
GUI Bloopers: Don'ts and Do's . . . .
(Issue 11 - May 2-8, 2000)

Talking With Alan G. Merten
Education in the New Hi-Tech World
(Issue 12 - May 9-15, 2000)

Ephraim L. Michael, Esq.
Electronic Signature Legislation
(Issue 12 - May 9 - May 15, 2000)

R.W. Burniske
Literacy in the Cyber Age
(Issue 12 - May 9 - May 15, 2000)

By Peter G. Neumann
Risks in Our Information Infrastructures
(Issue 13 - May 16-22, 2000)

Marcia C. Linn
Partners in Learning
(Issue 13 - May 16 - May 22, 2000)

Don Tapscott, David Ticoll, and Alex Lowy
Digital Capital: Harnessing the Power of Business Webs
(Issue 13 - May 16 - May 22, 2000)

Re: Electronic Signature Legislation
Problems with Cyber-Signatures
(Issue 13 - May 16 - May 22, 2000)

Arthur Melmed
The Untried Approach
(Issue 14 - May 23-29, 2000)

Bill Joy
A Call for Early Intervention
(Issue 14 - May 23-29, 2000)

Jef Raskin
The Humane Interface
(Issue 14 - May 23-29, 2000)

Lewis J. Perelman
Stay Tuned for the "New" Economy
(Issue 15 - May 30 - June 5, 2000)

William Paul Fiefer
Heavy Rotation
(Issue 15 - May 30 - June 5, 2000)

Readers Comments
Finger Pointing in the Wrong Direction
(Issue 15 - May 30 - June 5, 2000)

Peter G. Neumann
Certitude and Rectitude
(Issue 16 - June 6-12, 2000)

Jamming with John Kao
Searching for the Sweet Spot
(Issue 16 - June 6-12, 2000)

Readers Comments
PGP Signatures for Electronic Documents?
(Issue 16 - June 6-12, 2000)

C. Celeste Creswell, Esq.
Arbitration Clauses in Online Agreements
(Issue 17 - June 13-19, 2000)

M. E. Kabay
A New Recruit Writes Home From Boot Camp
(Issue 17 - June 13-19, 2000)

Readers Comments
So-Called High Tech Solutions
(Issue 17 - June 13-19, 2000)

Marsha Woodbury
The Bout of the Century? Information Ethics vs. E-Commerce
(Issue 18 - June 20-26, 2000)

Talking with Sidney Karin
The Ongoing Evolution of Scientific Supercomputing
(Issue 18 - June 20-26, 2000)

Samuel Chong and Kecheng Liu
The Social Aspects Neglected in E-Commerce
(Issue 19 - June 27 - July 10, 2000)

Bob Metcalfe
Where Do We Go From Here?
(Issue 19 - June 27 - July 10, 2000)

Readers Comments
Will the Real MS Customer Please Stand Up?
(Issue 19 - June 27 - July 10, 2000)

Small talk with Ralph C. Merkle
Nanotechnology: Designs for the Future
(Issue 20 - July 11-17, 2000)

Readers Comments
Dear Beta Site User
(Issue 20 - July 11-17, 2000)

Carol Twigg
Distance Education: An Oxymoron?
(Issue 21 - July 18-24, 2000)

Bill Hanson
Internet Virus Protection
(Issue 21 - July 18-July 24, 2000)

Question Time
What Should Be Done About the "Digital Divide?"
(Issue 22 - July 25-31, 2000)

Question Time
Napster
(Issue 22 - July 25-31, 2000)

Bernard Goldbach
Just Turn Me Off
(Issue 23 - August 1-7, 2000)

Robert S. Tannenbaum
Theoretical Foundations of Multimedia
(Issue 23 - August 1-7, 2000)

Question Time
Organizational Shake-Ups
(Issue 23 - August 1-7, 2000)

Question Time
Online Privacy
(Issue 23 - August 1-7, 2000)

R. Raghuraman
Caught them, but how to hold them?
(Issue 24 - August 8-14, 2000)

Thomas H. Davenport and Lawrence Prusak
Working Knowledge: How Organizations Manage What They Know
(Issue 24 - August 8-14, 2000)

Question Time
True Leadership
(Issue 24 - August 8-14, 2000)

James A. Dewar
The Information Age and the Printing Press: Looking Backward to See Ahead
(Issue 25 - August 15-21, 2000)

M. E. Kabay
Monty Python's Flying Circus: Microsoft and the Aircraft Carriers
(Issue 25 - August 15-21, 2000)

Question Time
Global Village or Global Police Station?
(Issue 25 - August 15-21, 2000)

Question Time
True Leadership
(Issue 25 - August 15-21, 2000)

Reader Comments
Working Knowledge
(Issue 25 - August 15-21, 2000)

Jeanine L. Gibbs
The Digital Millennium Copyright Act
(Issue 26 - August 22-28, 2000)

A conversation with techno-security specialist Dorothy Denning
Hacktivism and Other Net Crimes (Issue 26 - August 22-28, 2000)

Question Time
Global Village or Global Police Station?
(Issue 26 - August 22-28, 2000)

Reader Comments
Knowledge management accelerates learning
(Issue 26 - August 22-28, 2000)

Ben Shneiderman
Universal Usability
(Issue 27 - August 29 - September 12, 2000)

Talking with inventor Bob Olodort
What's New?
(Issue 27 - August 29 - September 12, 2000)

Reader Comments:
Semantics aside, "knowledge" can be managed
(Issue 27 - August 29 - September 12, 2000)

M. E. Kabay
May the Power Be With You: A Design Philosophy for Software Engineers
(Issue 28 - September 12-18, 2000)

Talking with William A. Wulf
The Nature of Engineering, the Science of Humanities, and Godel's Theorem
(Issue 28 - September 12-18, 2000)

Reader Comments
Putting pretentious pontificators on notice
(Issue 28 - September 12-18, 2000)

Giovanna A. Avellis
The ERMES Approach to Software Evaluation
(Issue 29 - September 19-25, 2000)

Talking with Phil Smith
Collective Control
(Issue 29 - September 19-25, 2000)

Richard J. Cox
The Information Age and History: Looking Backward to See Us
(Issue 30 - September 26 - October 2, 2000)

Reader Comments
The Complete Computer Scientist
(Issue 30 - September 26 - October 2, 2000)

Shannon Jacobs
We, the Internet
(Issue 31 - October 2-9, 2000)

Ben Shneiderman
Credit for computer crashes? Creative solutions to usability problems can serve all users.
(Issue 31 - October 2-9, 2000)

Strategy guru Gary Hamel
Revolutionizing the Corporate Culture
(Issue 32 - October 10-16, 2000)

Richard T. Watson
U-Commerce: The Ultimate
(Issue 33 - October 17-23, 2000)

Dan Bricklin
The Software Police vs. the CD Lawyers
(Issue 33 - October 17-23, 2000)

Robert S. Tannenbaum
Multimedia Developers Can Learn from the History of Human Communication
(Issue 34 - October 24-30, 2000)

Doug Isenberg
Presidential Politics and Internet Issues in the 2000 Election
(Issue 34 - October 24-30, 2000)

Daniel Uhlfelder
Electronic Signatures and the New Economy
(Issue 35 - October 31 - November 13, 2000)

Robert C. Heterick, Jr.
Educational Mind Shift
(Issue 35 - October 31 - November 13, 2000)

Daniel Uhlfelder
UCITA: Coming to a Statehouse Near You
(Issue 36 - November 14-20, 2000)

Joseph M. Newcomer
Barriers to Mentoring
(Issue 36 - November 14 - November 20, 2000)

Virginia Postrel
There's No Going Back
(Issue 36 - November 14 - November 20, 2000)

Andrew Rafalski
The Road to Encryption
(Issue 37 - November 21 - 27, 2000)

Denise Caruso
Taking Stock of the Tech Industry
(Issue 37 - November 21 - 27, 2000)

David Curle
Making Matters Worse
(Issue 38 - November 28 - December 4, 2000)

M.O. Thirunarayanan
Cutting Down on Chat Confusion
(Issue 38 - November 28 - December 4, 2000)

Daniel W. Uhlfelder, Esq.
The New Economy: Are Rules Irrelevant?
(Issue 39 - December 5-11, 2000)

Patrick Walsh and Adamantios Koumpis
Managing Information Supply Chains
(Issue 39 - December 5-11, 2000)

Edmund B. (Pete) Burke
A Dialogue on Local Interests and National Commerce
(Issue 40 - December 12-18, 2000)

Mihai Nadin
Anticipatory Computing
(Issue 40 - December 12-18, 2000)

Greg Farman
Guide to the Internet
(Issue 41 - December 13-25, 2000)

Kerry Northrup
Tomorrow's News (Issue 41 - December 13-25, 2000)

Tim Burns
Effective Unit Testing
(Issue 42 - January 2-8, 2001)

A Book Review by James F. Doyle
Radical Innovation: How Mature Companies Can Outsmart Upstarts
(Issue 42 - January 2-8, 2001)

Donald J. Cohen
In Good Company: How Social Capital Makes Organizations Work
(Issue 42 - January 2-8, 2001)

R. Raghuraman
Now Hiring: Sciengineer
(Issue 43 - January 9-15, 2001)

William H. Graves
The New Challenges of E-Learning
(Issue 43 - January 9-15, 2001)

Jef Raskin
The Piper Cub Offense
(Issue 44 - January 16-22, 2001)

Talking with MIT Computer Lab's Michael Dertouzos
The Human-Centric Approach
(Issue 44 - January 16-22, 2001)

M.O. Thirunarayanan and Aixa Perez-Prado
Structured Chat
(Issue 45 - January 23-29, 2001)

Mihai Nadin
The Civilization of Illiteracy
(Issue 45 - January 23-29, 2001)

Shannon Jacobs
Sam Spam the Flimflam Man
(Issue 46 - January 30 - February 5, 2001)

Patricia Duhart McNair
Controlling Risk
(Issue 46 - January 30 - February 5, 2001)

Mary J. Cronin
Unchained Value: The New Logic of Digital Business
(Issue 46 - January 30 - February 5, 2001)

Tony G. LeTrent-Jones and Jeremy J. Shapiro
In Good Company
(Issue 47 - February 6-12, 2001)

Richard Leifer
Richard Leifer on Radical Innovation
(Issue 47 - February 6-12, 2001)

Lorrie Faith Cranor
Voting After Florida: No Easy Answers
(Issue 48 - February 13-19, 2001) cstable
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(Issue 48 - February 13-19, 2001)

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