Who Runs This Meeting, Anyway?

Who Reads This Stuff Anyway?

I DON’T THINK anything in our industry would get done without deadlines. We have that block of code to write by next month, a presentation to complete for a staff meeting next Friday, and that paper to write by the ITC due date. “Schedules are for slipping,” said a manager in Tracy Kidder’s Soul of a New Machine, but a slip just means a new deadline. I had a manager who required a date for each...

Who Uses Virtual Worlds Anyway?

Virtual worlds have grown tremendously in recent years yet little is known about individuals that are working within these worlds. A study of several virtual worlds reveals that members are hesitant to reveal personal information which complicates investigations of such environments. We investigated the role of sex and computer self efficacy on users’ intentions to use Second Life (a popular vi...

Who wrote this paper anyway?The new Vancouver Group statement refines the definition of authorship.

What Is This, Anyway: Automatic Hypernym Discovery

Can a system that “learns from reading” figure out on it’s own the semantic classes of arbitrary noun phrases? This is essential for text understanding, given the limited coverage of proper nouns in lexical resources such as WordNet. Previous methods that use lexical patterns to discover hypernyms suffer from limited precision and recall. We present methods based on lexical patterns that find h...

Identity Theft: Who Are You Anyway?

I N F O R M A T I O N S Y S T E M S S E C U R I T Y RALPH SPENCER POORE, CISSP, CISA, CFE, is the Chief Technology Officer of Privacy Infrastructure, Inc. and a long-time contributor to the Journal. Please feel free to provide feedback to him at [email protected]. When farmer Jones walked into the general store in town, the storeowner — or one of his employees — would greet him personall...