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Views - Volume 9:
Issue 1 (January 8, 2008 - January 14, 2008):
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Professors Sanjay Kumar Pal (NSHM Business School, India) and Anindya Jyoti Pal (Heritage Institute of Technology, India) say that no two plans for evaluating an Enterprise Resource Planning System (ERP) will be the same but that all will share the same basic concepts. They strongly recommend that you develop such a plan for your organization.
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Paul Thompson of Michigan State asks and answers the question "Is the GMO Controversy Relevant to Computer Ethics?" Our associate editor Arun Tripathi writes, "Dr. Thompson, who is a self-made pragmatist like Paul Durbin, argues that my kind of pragmatism is particularly relevant with respect to problems in which technological artifacts, technically complex machinery or systems, and scientifically advanced forms of expertise figure prominently. Dr. Thompson is the PI on a National Science Foundation project to examine ethical issues associated with the development of nanotechnologies in agriculture and food."
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Serial Port Data Communication using MODBUS Protocol
Serial communication is the process of sending data sequentially one bit at a time, over a communication channel or computer bus. RS-232 is a standard for serial binary data transfer between a data terminal equipment (DTE) and a data circuit-terminating equipment (DCE), commonly used in computer serial ports. In this week’s Ubiquity, S. Naskar, K. Basuli, and S.S. Sarma of the the Department of Computer Science and Engineering of the University of Calcutta offer a basic technical discussion of serial port data communication using the MODBUS protocol.
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John Stuckey, Ubiquity’s ace correspondent in Egypt, has written us two letters, and grapples with two of the most important questions we can think of:
1. Is Phil Yaffe right about English as a common language?
Read John's thoughts in About English: On the Other Hand
2. How many Americans does it take to change a light bulb?
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End Laptop Serfdom
Ubiquity associate editor and champion of computing sanity, Espen Andersen, beseeches us all to end laptop serfdom. It seems like a reasonable request, so let's do what he says.
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Understanding Software Testing Concepts
Goutam Kumar Saha offers a brief primer on a huge topic: software testing.
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* Whatever Happened to Cybernetics?
Ross Gagliano and John Gehl wonder whatever happened to Cybernetics.
* Renovation of Minimum Spanning Tree Algorithms of Weighted Graph
Sanjay Kumar Pal provides a technical analysis of the renovation of minimum spanning tree algorithms.
* Collective Intelligence - Include the Disabled for Success
Bill Tifton of Hewlett-Packard Services urges that we include the disabled to achieve success in building information systems.
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* information Enframing
Rafael Capurro, Professor Information Management at Stuttgart Media University, says that "the key issue in today's knowledge society is our relation to what we do not know in and through what we believe we know."
* Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP)
Sanjay Kumar Pal discusses some of the criteria that allow us to identify and select the solution that will meet these expectations.
* Linear Responsibility Chart
Consultant/strategist Tom Clark of ProjectSuccessInc discusses project operating procedures for multiple organization projects.
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* "Is a worldwide common language just over the horizon?"
Phil Yaffe who meditates on this question.
* Mind Map and Ontology Building Tools for Knowledge Management
Biplab Sarker and colleagues Peter Wallace and Will Gill examine.
* "Why Track Actual Costs and Resource Usage on Projects?"
Consultant and author Tom Clark asks and answers the question.
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* Use of Genetic Algorithms for Indian Music Mixing
Preeti Bhargava and her colleagues at Delhi College of Engineering in India offer a very interesting article on music mixing and show how to use the power of genetic algorithms to simulate creativity and learn to personalize music in different ways.
* Generation of a Random Simple Graph And Its Graphical Presentation
Saptarshi Naskar and Krishendu Basuli of the University of Calcutta will show you how to generate a random simple graph and its graphical presentation.
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* Arrogance or Efficiency? A Discussion of the Microsoft Office Fluent User Interface
Ubiquity associate editor M.E. Kabay examines this question.
* Centers of Excellence (CoE)
Sunil Tadwalkar of Satyam Corp. explains the concepts of this approach.
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* Outsourcing and Offshoring
Sunil Tadwalkar, a principal consultant with the Satyam Corporation in India, gives his thoughts and discusses the problems & opportunities.
* Visual Aids Need To Be Less Visual
Marketing communications consultant Phil Yaffe gives us a lesson that Web page designers may want to think about.
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* Time to get serious about the paperless office
Espen Andersen, associate professor of strategy at the Norwegian School of Management, and the European research director of BSG Concours Group says it's time to get serious about the paperless office.
* "Resource Overloads"
Tom Clark focuses on the resource that is of greatest concern to most organizations – personnel.
* Avoiding Disaster When Your Hard Drive Fails
Donna Barron writes a short and practical article on how to avoid disaster when your hard drive fails.
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* Smart Phones: A Tutorial
Ramesh Singh of the National Informatics Center in New Delhi with his colleagues Preeti Bhargava and Samta Kain from the Delhi College of Engineering have prepared a generic but highly useful tutorial on smart phones, platforms used, architectural frameworks employed for smart phone applications and some selected smart phones applications.
* The Rise and Fall of a Good Programmer
Suthikshn Kumar of MCNC, Department of ISE in Bangalore, offers us a very interesting article providing answers to such questions as who are good programmers, what are their characteristics, and how can all programmers become good.
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* Knowledge Mechanics and Its Temporal Nature
Ramesh Singh, Senior Technical Director of India's National Informatics Center in Delhi, with student colleague Sharad Jain, have been studying the differences between explicit knowledge, which has been or can be articulated, codified and stored in certain media, and tacit knowledge.
* Are you using slides the way you should?
Our old friend Phil Yaffe, one of our most popular authors, explains how to use presentation slides to best effect.
* A Fuzzy Modeling Approach to Evaluate Faculty Performance
One of our wonderful associate editors, Goutam Kumar Saha, was able to find this fine paper by A.Neogi, A.C. Mondal, and S.K. Mandal, and it's really good.
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* Employee Retention: By Way of Management Control Systems
Drs. Vinay K Srivastava and Shailesh Rastogi provide us with a vision for using management control systems (MCS) to improve employee retention in large corporations.
* On Degree Sequence
In a technical paper called "On Degree Sequence," authors S. Naskar, K. Basuli, S.S. Sarma, and K.N. Dey of the Department of Computer Science and Engineering, University of Calcutta, give us a chance to refresh our mathematical and programming skills so that we'll continue to be relevant in the 21st Century.
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* Triple Level Data Security
Swarnendu Mukerjee, Swarnendu Bhattacharya, and Amlan Chaudhury of the Heritage Institute of Technology in Kolkata, India propose an algorithmic approach to data security in which. along with the combination of cryptography and steganography (taken as security layers), an extra layer of security is imposed in between them to obtain a completely secured data transmission scheme.
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* Software - Implemented Fault Detection Approaches
Goutam Kumar Saha talks about softwareimplemented fault detection approaches.
* A Prototype Design for DRM based Credit Card Transaction in E-Commerce
Sanjay Banerjee and Sunil Karforma describe a prototype design for DRM-based credit card transactions in E-Commerce.
* New Technique for Fixing an Ethernet IPv6 Address Using the Fedoracore Operating System
A.AAroud and colleagues A. Jamali and N. Najib explain a new technique for fixing an Ethernet IPv6 address using the Fedoracore operating system.
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* The Non-Autonomy of the Virtual: Philosophical Reflections on Contemporary Virtuality
Jeff Malpas does a reality check (a philosophical and virtual reality check, to boot) on the concept of virtual worlds.
* Ubiquity Associate Editor Arun Tripathi’s insightful Preface
The Malpas piece is accompanied by Ubiquity Associate Editor Arun Tripathi’s insightful Preface.
* What can a bumbling, inarticulate Los Angeles cop teach us about effective communication?
Philip Yaffe asks this about the old TV detective-show Columbo. Well, that cop can teach us plenty. If you give presentations or write proposals, this little article is something you need to read.