Issue 2 (February 27 - March 5, 2001): Learner Interactivity and Production Complexity in Computer-Based Instructional Materials By Robert S. Tannenbaum Instead of "throwing technology" at educational problems, consider a systematic approach to evaluating effectiveness and cost/benefit ratios. A Grand Role for IT By Howie Jacobson Feedback: It's just information. Issue 3 (March 6-12, 2001): Viruses and Worms: More Than a Technical Problem By M. E. Kabay The importance of teaching kids the ethical use of computers. Issue 4 (March 13-19, 2001): Digital Technology and its Impact on Black Genealogical Research By Jeremy E. White How the Digital Divide affects the case for reparations. The Rise and Fall of Corporate Electronic Mail By Sylvia Lanz Too much of a good thing confounds company communications. Issue 7 (April 3-9, 2001): The Impending McMorphosis of the Global Professor By M.O. Thirunarayanan, "What Would You Like to Learn Today?" and "Would You Like Some Fries With That?" Issue 10 (April 24-30, 2001): Work in the Coming Age By John Gray, "The entrepreneurial approach to working life: Spontaneous, varied, and open to new challenges" Issue 11 (May 1-7, 2001): Technology and Degree Inflation By M.O. Thirunarayanan. As distance education proliferates, students will invent more ways to obtain their degrees in the shortest possible time with the least amounts of effort and work. The Information Producers Initiative By Seth Johnson. A strategy for protecting our interests as the nature of information access and production evolves. Issue 13 (May 15-21, 2001): Robert C. Heterick and Carol A. Twigg are forceful proponents for the transformation of education through the use of information technology, as evidenced by the following thought-pieces. Is M.I.T. Giving Away the Store? By Robert C. Heterick. Tracking the Competition By Carol A. Twigg. Issue 15 (May 29 - June 4, 2001): Time for Industry to Support Academic INFOSEC By M.E. Kabay. Low faculty salaries contribute to the shortage of trained security specialists. Issue 16 (June 5-11, 2001): On the Next Killer App By Ron A. Zajac. Why video telephony failed in a market dominated by visual content -- and what can be learned from the experience. EDA Software: Quality is Not Optional By R. Raghuraman. Software managers and developers give lip service to quality while customers grow accustomed to buggy software. Issue 16 (July 10-16, 2001): Collective Education By George Dvorak. Open source projects provide real world experience to fledgling developers. The Technology is the Message By Mat Kaplan. Change happens. Let's hope it's for the better. Issue 20 (July 17-23, 2001): Altitude vs. Airspeed By Jamie Myers. There's no such thing as a free lunch, and there's no such thing as being flexible without compromising some other attribute. Issue 23 (July 31 - August 6, 2001): Perspectives on Privacy in Campus IT By Thomas Warger. How much information "noise" can we endure and still have room for instruction, study and thinking? Issue 24 (August 7-20, 2001): Unclear on Concept: Anarchy and the Internet By M. E. Kabay. Responsibility and accountability in an uncontrolled environment. Issue 27 (September 11-17, 2001): Unleashing Human Capital to Drive the Next Wave of Growth By Britton Manasco. Smart companies will treat the economic downturn as an opportunity to focus on attracting and keeping highly skilled people. The Seekers By M.O. Thirunarayanan. Today's students are more likely to be looking for certification and degrees than for knowledge. Issue 28 (September 18-24, 2001): No Boundaries for the Journeys of the Mind By Arun Kumar Tripathi. What makes the Internet more than just the latest in a long chain of technological innovations that have fallen short of inflated expectations in the realm of advanced learning? Issue 29 (September 25 - October 1, 2001): Minimizing the Digital Divide and the Inter-Generation Gap By Edna Aphek. Children tutor seniors at computer and Internet skills and get a lesson in history. Issue 32 (October 16-22, 2001): What Would Justice Brandeis Say? By Robert C. Heterick. Institutions of higher education should help define technology limits and avoid further shrinking the realm of privacy. Perfect Choice By Richard T. Watson. Information age consumers are more interested in perfect choice than perfect competition. They want a wide product selection, choice in how they buy, and customization of products and services to fit their preferences. Issue 33 (October 23-29, 2001): What is Software Engineering? By Bill Curran. The name implies scientific rigor, and opens software engineering to the charge that it is a pseudo-science flying under false colors. Issue 34 (October 30 - November 5, 2001): ANNOUNCEMENT! Digital Horizons Issue 36 (November 13-19, 2001): The European IST ExPlanTech Project By Adamantios Koumpis. Hands-on adoption of a multi-agent production planning technology in the manufacturing industry. Corporate Leadership in a Volatile Networked World By Don Tapscott. When transparency reigns, corporations have nowhere to hide. Issue 38 (November 27 - December 3, 2001): Optimizing Bandwidth By Geoffrey Fox and Shrideep Pallickara. An approach to high performance distributed Web brokering. Issue 39 (December 4-10, 2001): Product Language in Electronic Media Design By Steffen Klein Communication follows function: How products communicate to users and why designers should care. Issue 40 (December 11-17, 2001): Personal Technology Architecture By Espen Andersen Companies looking to use mobile technology to deliver new services must consider how the devices impact the personal architecture of the user. Issue 41 (December 18-24, 2001): Knowledge Management for Life: Make the World a Better Place By Joseph Rubenfeld Why shouldn't we have a repository of knowledge for improving life's problems and opportunities? Issue 42 (January 8-14, 2002): Freedom to Think and Speak By Seth Johnson Under Microsoft's Digital Rights Management operating system, the ability to use information freely will be policed at the most intricate level. Issue 43 (January 15-21, 2002): The Money of Invention: How Venture Capital Creates New Wealth By Paul A. Gompers and Josh Lerner Ninety percent of new entrepreneurial businesses that don't attract venture capital fail within three years. Issue 44 (January 22-28, 2002): Observations From the Trenches of Electronic Government By Gord Jenkins Infrastructure, political mandate, and internal organization influence how a country manages e-government. One author discovered seven common themes among five different e-government implementations. Software Message Terminology By Kersasp D. Shekhdar Even IT managers can sometimes have problems distinguishing between a request, a notification and an event. This article reveals the differences and similarities among software messages. Issue 45 (January 29 - February 4, 2002): WWW: Service Provider By S. Sadagopan Using the Web to deliver IT infrastructure, application development, application hosting, application maintenance and user-end software Enterprise IT Complexity By Kemal A. Delic The best way to fight complexity is to strive for simplicity, which leads to functionality and longevity.

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