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The methods for certifying software quality continue to multiply. Popular, process-based approaches-- such as ISO 9000 and SEI-CMM--make software publishers take oaths concerning which development standards and processes they will use. These approaches ...

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The Internet, computer networks, and the digital economy have increased the demand for reliable and disturbance-free electricity. Banking and finance depend on the robustness of electric power, cable, and wireless telecommunications. Links between the ...

Users who need to run mission-critical applications on the Internet will require functionality unlikely to be available in the Next-Generation Internet (NGI). Traditionally, critical networked applications have exploited physical or logical separation ...

As society increasingly relies on digitally stored and accessed information, supporting the availability, integrity, and confidentiality of this information is crucial. Systems need to help users securely store critical information, ensuring that it ...

Police departments and other law enforcement agencies continually analyze vast amounts of criminal incident data to better understand crime in their jurisdictions, to identify significant changes in crime levels, to plan community and neighborhood ...

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Will the MP3 format and Napster's distributed file sharing bankrupt music publishers or help them reach even more consumers? Given technology's relentless pace, a Palm X or Nokia 3G phone may become the ultimate MP3 platform of choice. The author is ...

Carrier-class Internet service providers (ISPs) must choose an appropriate interface for long-distance data transmissions. The two technologies they most often choose are packet-over-Sonet (POS) and asynchronous transfer mode (ATM). Vendor devices ...

Many computing professionals have heard of XML, and some use it to describe text, images and other data with rich structure. The author discusses an innovative use of XML, called VoiceXML, to support human-computer dialogs via spoken input and audio ...

Microsoft conceived Windows 2000 as the operating system for the Internet. This gave many people pause for thought, what with Microsoft's less-than-sterling reputation regarding cohabitation of competitors' software on their operating system. The ...