article Free AccessInternational perspectives: From Via Maris to electronic highway: the Internet in Canaan Authors: Phillip Ein-Dor MIS at Tel Aviv University MIS at Tel Aviv UniversityView Profile , Seymour E. Goodman MIS at the University of Nebraska at Omaha MIS at the University of Nebraska at OmahaView Profile , Peter Wolcott International Affairs and Computing at the Georgia Institute of Technology International Affairs and Computing at the Georgia Institute of TechnologyView Profile Authors Info & Claims Communications of the ACMVolume 43Issue 7July 2000 pp 19–23https://doi.org/10.1145/341852.341873Published:01 July 2000Publication History 8citation762DownloadsMetricsTotal Citations8Total Downloads762Last 12 Months48Last 6 weeks6 Get Citation AlertsNew Citation Alert added!This alert has been successfully added and will be sent to:You will be notified whenever a record that you have chosen has been cited.To manage your alert preferences, click on the button below.Manage my AlertsNew Citation Alert!Please log in to your account Save to BinderSave to BinderCreate a New BinderNameCancelCreateExport CitationPublisher SiteView all FormatsPDF

article Free AccessThe Internet gains acceptance in the Persian Gulf Authors: Grey E. Burkhart Allied Communications Engineering in Fairfax, Va Allied Communications Engineering in Fairfax, VaView Profile , Seymour E. Goodman University of Arizona University of ArizonaView Profile Authors Info & Claims Communications of the ACMVolume 41Issue 3March 1998 pp 19–25https://doi.org/10.1145/272287.272290Published:01 March 1998Publication History 9citation1,137DownloadsMetricsTotal Citations9Total Downloads1,137Last 12 Months32Last 6 weeks5 Get Citation AlertsNew Citation Alert added!This alert has been successfully added and will be sent to:You will be notified whenever a record that you have chosen has been cited.To manage your alert preferences, click on the button below.Manage my AlertsNew Citation Alert!Please log in to your account Save to BinderSave to BinderCreate a New BinderNameCancelCreateExport CitationPublisher SiteeReaderPDF

Can information technology spark socioeconomic progress in a poor and developing country? With its recently approved national IT plan, Vietnam is hoping the answer is yes. One of the first challenges for IT vendors is to provide systematic and integrated solutions for processing the unique national language, whose writing system is based on the Latin script. Solving this problem through localized systems and software will effectively expand the customer base, which is now restricted to those who are comfortable with English or French. Just like other countries at a similar stage of development and with analogous language requirements in a rapidly advancing information age, Vietnam needs an effective national standards framework.

article Free Access Share on Israel: of swords and software plowshares Authors: G. Ariav View Profile , S. E. Goodman Univ. of Arizona, Tucson Univ. of Arizona, TucsonView Profile Authors Info & Claims Communications of the ACMVolume 37Issue 6June 1994pp 17–21https://doi.org/10.1145/175208.175220Published:01 June 1994Publication History 18citation315DownloadsMetricsTotal Citations18Total Downloads315Last 12 Months20Last 6 weeks4 Get Citation AlertsNew Citation Alert added!This alert has been successfully added and will be sent to:You will be notified whenever a record that you have chosen has been cited.To manage your alert preferences, click on the button below.Manage my AlertsNew Citation Alert!Please log in to your account Save to BinderSave to BinderCreate a New BinderNameCancelCreateExport CitationPublisher SiteeReaderPDF

article Free Access Share on Is big brother hanging by his bootstraps? Authors: L. T. Greenberg Stanford Univ., Stanford, CA Stanford Univ., Stanford, CAView Profile , S. E. Goodman Univ. of Arizona, Tucson Univ. of Arizona, TucsonView Profile Authors Info & Claims Communications of the ACMVolume 39Issue 7July 1996pp 11–16https://doi.org/10.1145/233977.233978Published:01 July 1996Publication History 1citation682DownloadsMetricsTotal Citations1Total Downloads682Last 12 Months15Last 6 weeks5 Get Citation AlertsNew Citation Alert added!This alert has been successfully added and will be sent to:You will be notified whenever a record that you have chosen has been cited.To manage your alert preferences, click on the button below.Manage my AlertsNew Citation Alert!Please log in to your account Save to BinderSave to BinderCreate a New BinderNameCancelCreateExport CitationPublisher SiteeReaderPDF

article Free Access Share on War, information technologies, and international asymmetries Author: S. E. Goodman CISAC 320 Galvez, Stanford University, Stanford, CA CISAC 320 Galvez, Stanford University, Stanford, CAView Profile Authors Info & Claims Communications of the ACMVolume 39Issue 12Dec. 1996 pp 11–15https://doi.org/10.1145/240483.240485Published:01 December 1996Publication History 4citation354DownloadsMetricsTotal Citations4Total Downloads354Last 12 Months23Last 6 weeks6 Get Citation AlertsNew Citation Alert added!This alert has been successfully added and will be sent to:You will be notified whenever a record that you have chosen has been cited.To manage your alert preferences, click on the button below.Manage my Alerts New Citation Alert!Please log in to your account Save to BinderSave to BinderCreate a New BinderNameCancelCreateExport CitationPublisher SiteeReaderPDF

Spanning 7.2 million square kilometers from the Atlantic Ocean to the Red Sea, and encompassing the Great Saharan Desert and Nile River Valley, North Africa embraces Mauritania, Western Sahara, Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia, Libya, and Egypt. Charting the development of information technology (IT) is as challenging as traversing the souks, the labyrinthine ancient marketplaces.

article Free Access Share on Computing in Chile: the jaguar of the Pacific Rim? Authors: R. A. Baeza-Yates Dept. of computer science at the Universidad de Chile Dept. of computer science at the Universidad de ChileView Profile , D. A. Fuller Dept. of computer science at the Pontificia Universidad Catolica de Chile Dept. of computer science at the Pontificia Universidad Catolica de ChileView Profile , J. A. Pino Dept. of computer science at the Universidad de Chile Dept. of computer science at the Universidad de ChileView Profile , S. E. Goodman University of Arizona University of ArizonaView Profile Authors Info & Claims Communications of the ACMVolume 38Issue 9Sept. 1995pp 23–28https://doi.org/10.1145/223248.223254Published:01 September 1995Publication History 11citation542DownloadsMetricsTotal Citations11Total Downloads542Last 12 Months18Last 6 weeks1 Get Citation AlertsNew Citation Alert added!This alert has been successfully added and will be sent to:You will be notified whenever a record that you have chosen has been cited.To manage your alert preferences, click on the button below.Manage my AlertsNew Citation Alert!Please log in to your account Save to BinderSave to BinderCreate a New BinderNameCancelCreateExport CitationPublisher SiteeReaderPDF

Nguyen Dinh Ngoc and Dang Huu were among the senior technology leaders at the Fourth Informatics Week conference and exhibition held in Ho Chi Minh City (HCMC) in August 1994, an event that swarmed with teenagers, young techies, and businessmen.

article Free AccessComputing in South Africa: an end to “apartness”? Author: S. E. Goodman Univ. of Arizona, Tucson Univ. of Arizona, TucsonView Profile Authors Info & Claims Communications of the ACMVolume 37Issue 2Feb. 1994 pp 21–25https://doi.org/10.1145/175235.175245Published:01 February 1994Publication History 10citation164DownloadsMetricsTotal Citations10Total Downloads164Last 12 Months12Last 6 weeks1 Get Citation AlertsNew Citation Alert added!This alert has been successfully added and will be sent to:You will be notified whenever a record that you have chosen has been cited.To manage your alert preferences, click on the button below.Manage my AlertsNew Citation Alert!Please log in to your account Save to BinderSave to BinderCreate a New BinderNameCancelCreateExport CitationPublisher SiteeReaderPDF

In this article, we study the life and work of Sergei Alekseevich Lebedev, one of the world's pioneers in digital computing. Lebedev, working in Kiev, built the MESM, the first Soviet electronic digital stored-program computer (1947-1951). In 1950, Lebedev moved to Moscow, where he soon became the director of the newly established institute of Precise Mechanics and Computer Technology. There he developed a long line of digital computers based on his work on the MESM. We examine in detail the first three of these machines: the BESM, the BESM-2, and the M-20. Lebedev achieved considerable success not only in the development of indigenous Soviet computers, but in the training of engineers, the founding of computer centers, and the establishment and nurturing of Soviet computing as a scientific discipline.

Development of South Africa's information technologies infrastructure has been skewed by apartheid and the constraints of past policies, but IT can be part of the solution. The authors consider how critical IT is to the process of change.< >

Our research attempted to identify the nature and causes of information management indeterminism in an online research environment and to propose solutions for alleviating this indeterminism. We conducted two empirical studies of information management activities. The first study identified the types and nature of information management indeterminism by evaluating archived texts. The second study focused on four sources of indeterminism: subject area knowledge, classification knowledge, system knowledge, and collaboration knowledge. A knowledge-based design for alleviating indeterminism, which contains a system-generated thesaurus and an inferencing engine, is also proposed in this article.

article Free Access Share on Under the stress of reform: high-performance computing in the former Soviet Union Authors: P. Wolcott View Profile , S. E. Goodman View Profile Authors Info & Claims Communications of the ACMVolume 36Issue 10Oct. 1993pp 25–29https://doi.org/10.1145/163430.164063Published:01 October 1993Publication History 3citation270DownloadsMetricsTotal Citations3Total Downloads270Last 12 Months22Last 6 weeks1 Get Citation AlertsNew Citation Alert added!This alert has been successfully added and will be sent to:You will be notified whenever a record that you have chosen has been cited.To manage your alert preferences, click on the button below.Manage my AlertsNew Citation Alert!Please log in to your account Save to BinderSave to BinderCreate a New BinderNameCancelCreateExport CitationPublisher SiteeReaderPDF

article Free Access Share on Computing in India: an Asian elephant learning to dance Authors: S. R. Nidumolu View Profile , S. E. Goodman View Profile Authors Info & Claims Communications of the ACMVolume 36Issue 6June 1993pp 15–22https://doi.org/10.1145/153571.163261Published:01 June 1993Publication History 28citation1,207DownloadsMetricsTotal Citations28Total Downloads1,207Last 12 Months43Last 6 weeks13 Get Citation AlertsNew Citation Alert added!This alert has been successfully added and will be sent to:You will be notified whenever a record that you have chosen has been cited.To manage your alert preferences, click on the button below.Manage my AlertsNew Citation Alert!Please log in to your account Save to BinderSave to BinderCreate a New BinderNameCancelCreateExport CitationPublisher SiteeReaderPDF

article Free Access Share on Computing in the Middle East Authors: S. E. Goodman MIS/BPA, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ MIS/BPA, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZView Profile , J. D. Green View Profile Authors Info & Claims Communications of the ACMVolume 35Issue 8Aug. 1992pp 21–24https://doi.org/10.1145/135226.135236Published:01 August 1992Publication History 44citation1,818DownloadsMetricsTotal Citations44Total Downloads1,818Last 12 Months64Last 6 weeks9 Get Citation AlertsNew Citation Alert added!This alert has been successfully added and will be sent to:You will be notified whenever a record that you have chosen has been cited.To manage your alert preferences, click on the button below.Manage my AlertsNew Citation Alert!Please log in to your account Save to BinderSave to BinderCreate a New BinderNameCancelCreateExport CitationPublisher SiteeReaderPDF

Excerpt from a Croation email ttl.3.sag.Z: " l-he use of the network for political and religious activities is forbidden. " But EARN has not yet discouraged the political activism discussed here. Excerpt from a Serbian email mes-sag.5 During the August 1991 attempted coup in the Soviet-(dis?)Union, the international email networks were used to send and redistribute many political messages. This was universally seen as a clear case of network use to help good fight evil. Evil was quickly defeated, and nobody protested its vilification in all those rmail messages. The Yugoslavian situation is not so clear-cut. As the preceding excerpts (and my own visit to several parts of that country) indicate, there is considerable disagreement on the locus of good and evil, truth and lies. In both cases, many highly charged and politicized messages passed through the networks. One senior Serbian computer scientist (no< the author of the quad meb-sage), unhappy that his side is usually portrayed as evil, formally protested that European Academic Research Network (EARN) has been inappropriately used for political purposes. Have the networks been inappropriately used? Dn or should the organizations running the networks have policies on this matter? At least two important network management organizations have policies that arguably apply. Corporation for Research and Educational Networking (CREN), which manages U.S. Bitnet and CSNet, has an " Acceptable Use Policy " (AUP). EARN has a " Code of Conduct " (CC). The AUP does not explicitly deal with political activity, but contains two statements that could be interpreted in this context: (1) " CREN networks are to facilitate the exchange of information consistent with the academic, educational and research purposes of its members " ; (2) " It is the responsibility of member representatives to contact the CREN Board, in writing, regarding questions of interpretation. Until such issues are resolved, questionable use should be considered 'not acceptable. " ' Political activity, however that may be seen in the eyes of different beholders, is arguably questionable under (1). The CC is explicit. It states that Should such use be condemned or discouraged? Why should it be, or why should the effort be made to do so unless it interferes with normal network use or other reasonable restrictions? Would it have been " right " to have forbidden colt leagues from Moscow or Tallinn or Dubrovnik or Belgrade! from using one of their few (or perhaps only) means …