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Volume 21 Number 2
Summer 2002
Summer 2002 Issue

Departments

3   Opinion - Engineering and Terrorism

5  Call for Papers - Special Issue of T&S Magazine on Women and Minorities in Information Technology

6  Book Reviews


Features

    8  Learning From Failure: Terrorism and Ethics in Engineering Education*
    Everything changed on September 11, 2001. For engineeers, an outcome may be a reassessment of definitions of "failure."
    Sarah K.A. Pfatteicher

    13   Helping Computing Students Develop a Personal Ethical Framework*
    Exposure to ethical theory gives students tools to analyze and resolve ethical dilemmas, both professional and personal.
    Lorraine J. Staehr

    22 Law Enforcement Surveillance in the Network Society*
    Policy makers must take a broader view of law enforcement surveillance and do more to ensure individual privacy.
    Serena Chan and L. Jean Camp

    31 Vail versus Morgan: Control of the Start-Up Bell System*
    The author explores Theodore Vail's role, between 1907 and 1913, as AT&T shifted corporate policy and direction away from being a predatory monopoly.
    Richard F. Bellaver

    36 Software Technology Issues for a U.S. National Missile Defense System*
    Plans for U.S. National Missile Defense are being revived, but serious questions remain about whether such a system could ever be made to work reliably.
    William Yurcik and David Doss

     

    * Refereed Articles.

    Cover Image: Eyewire