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Ray, John
University of Tennessee
Knoxville, Tennessee
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  Can information and communications technology applications contribute to poverty reduction? Lessons from rural India
Cecchini S., Scott C. Information Technology for Development 10(2): 73-84, 2003.  Type: Article

Cecchini, of the United Nations, and Scott, of the London School of Economics, make the case that information and communications technology (ICT) can reduce poverty, by improving poor people’s access to education, health, gov...

Oct 26 2004  
  Intellectual property law for engineers and scientists
Rockman H., Wiley-IEEE Computer Society Pr, 2004.  Type: Book (9780471449980)

This book addresses material pertaining to the protection afforded by the law to the ideas, creations, and inventions of engineers, scientists, and others covered by the umbrella term “technology professionals.” The...

Oct 5 2004  
  Never threaten to eat your co-workers: best of blogs
Graham A., Burton B., APress, LP, Berkeley, CA, 2004. 255 pp.  Type: Book (9781590593219)

A weblog (blog) is a journaled Web site composed of personal observations, often with excerpts from additional Web sites. Blogs are sometimes associated with online journals or diaries, but are quickly evolving to encompass and suit th...

Jul 15 2004  
  Performer: an instrument for multidisciplinary courseware teams to share knowledge and experiences
van Aalst J., van der Mast C. Computers & Education 41(1): 39-48, 2003.  Type: Article

The authors note that traditionally, one of the difficult problems in courseware development is a lack of communication and cooperation among various disciplines in the project teams working on a courseware product. Only recently has r...

Feb 6 2004  
  Creating remotely accessible "virtual networks" on a single PC to teach computer networking and operating systems
Stockman M.  Information technology education (Proceeding of the 4th conference on information technology curriculum, Lafayette, Indiana, USA, Oct 16-18, 2003) 67-71, 2003.  Type: Proceedings

Stockman, in his abstract, notes that instruction in the area of computer networking (specifically in systems administration) can be cumbersome and ineffective, and is almost always an expensive prospect when it comes to instructional ...

Dec 22 2003  
  The role of IT in successful knowledge management initiatives
Kankanhalli A., Tanudidjaja F., Sutanto J., Tan B. Communications of the ACM 46(9): 69-73, 2003.  Type: Article

Knowledge management (KM) initiatives have emerged in the business arena as the importance of knowledge as a critical business resource has grown. Advances in information technology (IT) have made it easier to acquire, store, and disse...

Nov 4 2003  
  The virtual web-based supply chain
Chandrashekar A., Schary P. In Managing virtual web organizations in the 21st century. Hershey, PA: Idea Group Publishing, 2002.  Type: Book Chapter

Chandrashekar and Schary state that the virtual Web-based supply chain is emerging as a new form of industrial organization. They present the concept as a juncture of the virtual organization, Web-based communication, and the applicati...

Oct 10 2003  
  How CIOs manage their superiors’ expectations
Potter R. Communications of the ACM 46(8): 74-79, 2003.  Type: Article

Ways to survive and progress for strategic executives and agents of change are covered in this article. This study is based on structured interviews from 15 chief information officers (CIOs) in the Chicago area. Questions of technique,...

Sep 2 2003  
  Modeling the information-seeking behavior of social scientists: Ellis’s study revisited
Meho L., Tibbo H. Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology 54(6): 570-587, 2003.  Type: Article

The social scientists model for information seeking is revisited in this paper. The original model used six features: starting, chaining, browsing, differentiating, monitoring, and extracting....

Aug 5 2003  
  Payments and banking with mobile personal devices
Herzberg A. Communications of the ACM 46(5): 53-58, 2003.  Type: Article

Herzbergs article, Payments and banking with mobile personnel devices, discusses some of the challenges and opportunities involved in using such devices for making secure payments and other banking transactions. The author notes that s...

Jun 30 2003  
 
 
 
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