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Magazine: August 2000 - Late Summer Edition | Volume 6, No. 5

August 2000 - Late Summer Edition | Volume 6, No. 5

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Introduction

By Lynellen D. S. Perry, Jessica Ledbetter

HTML | In the Digital Library
Tags: Documentation, Surveys and overviews

Objective ViewPoint: distributed computation with Java remote method invocation

By Kevin Henry

HTML | In the Digital Library
Tags: Design, Distributed architectures, Distributed systems organizing principles, Documentation, Language types, Languages

Connector: the Internet protocol, part one

By Shvetima Gulati

HTML | In the Digital Library
Tags: Computing standards, RFCs and guidelines, Documentation, Network protocols, Networks, Standardization

Book review: information storage and retrieval systems

By Robert Korfhage

HTML | In the Digital Library
Tags: Algorithms, Documentation, Information retrieval, Information storage systems, Reference works, Theory

Book Review: foundations of computing

By Jozef Gruska

HTML | In the Digital Library
Tags: Computing industry, Documentation, History of computing theory, Reference works

ACM internation collegiate programming contest 2000

By Lynellen D. S. Perry

HTML | In the Digital Library
Tags: Computing occupations, Human Factors

Macromedia director as a prototyping and usability testing tool

By Stephanie Ludi

HTML | In the Digital Library
Tags: Design, Human Factors, Interface design prototyping, Performance, Software design techniques, Software development process management

Getting started with PGP

By Kevin Henry

HTML | In the Digital Library
Tags: Authentication, Computing standards, RFCs and guidelines, Human Factors, Human and societal aspects of security and privacy, Privacy policies, Public key (asymmetric) techniques, Reliability, Security, Standardization

ACM awards banquet 2000, vicariously

By Lynellen D. S. Perry

HTML | In the Digital Library
Tags: Historical people, History of hardware, Human Factors