A Future Views™ Focused Research Project to provide knowledge agents in support of the ETS DesignShop® Event, October 16-18, 2000.

Items below were gathered from context gleaned from several e-mail messages and a discussion with Matt on 10.09.00. The items consist of articles, books and websites.

Articles:

Articles directly relating to ETS.

ETS Technologies and Question Mark to Provide Online Writing Feedback, ets.org, September 11, 2000.

Online GRE Flunks in Rating Some Students, by S. Carlson, The Chronicle of Higher Education, October 5, 2000.

Testing Firm Investigating TOEFL Scores From July 8th Make-Up Administration, ets.org, July 12, 2000.

TOEFL Testing Difficulaties in Some Asian Countries, ets.org, June 9, 2000.

Articles discussing current trends that are relevant to ETS.

Communicating Globally, Prospects Abound For Bilingual Techs, by C. Harrison, San Jose Mercury News, October 9, 2000.

Do You Guru?, by G. A. Poole, SANfrancisco, October, 2000.

The Gravitas of Spanglish, by I. Stavans, The Chronicle of Higher Education, October 13, 2000.

M.B.A. Boom Fades as Candidates Seek Instead the Rewards of the Internet, by D. Leonhardt, New York Times, November 28, 1999.

MANAGEMENT: Joy for Second-String M.B.A.'s; Elites and Internet Change Face of Campus Recruiting, by D. Leonhardt, New York Times, February 23, 2000.

Responding to Student Complaints, Harvard Law School Will Cut Class Sizes, by K. Mangan, The Chronicle of Higher Education, October 12, 2000.

The Transparent Society, by David Brin, WIRED, December, 1996.

UC Plan Offers Community College Alternative, Nudging the SAT Out of the Picture, by P. Schrag, San Jose Mercury News, October 1, 2000.

Visa Win for Foreign Workers?, by D. McCullagh, WIRED News, September 29, 2000.

Speech recognition software and hardware.

Drexel Tames the Dragon, by K. Dean, WIRED News, September 20, 2000.

Futuristic Technology Gets a New Voice, Red Herring, June 11, 1999.

He Said, She Said, Red Herring, July, 1998.

How To Sing to Your Computer, by L. Burke, WIRED News, October 5, 2000.

Superhuman Speech Machine, by L. Kahney, WIRED News, October 2, 1999.

Talking 'Bout a Computer Revolution, by J. Brown, Salon.com, October 29, 1999.

Voice Recognition: Still Trying, by L. Burke, WIRED News, October 5, 2000.

When Your Voice is All You Have, by. L. Burke, WIRED News, October 5, 2000.

Translators.

While the universal translator is still a ways off, web based translators such as Babel Fish are getting better and better. Will the arrival of the universal translator mean the end of TOEFL? Depending upon its implementation, the universal translator would significantly remove the incentive for people to learn English. The material here comes from the May 2000 issue of WIRED, and includes some nice graphics for the Knowledge Wall® display.

Articles include: Communication Breakdown, Talking to Strangers, MT's Past and Future, Universal Translators, and Say Anything.

Biometrics.

Clearly an important issue in testing, is making sure that the person you are testing is who they say they are. In the future, this verification will be done via biometric techniques.

ID Them By the Way They Walk, by K. Ellis, WIRED News, September 15, 2000.

Giving Amazon the Finger, by J. Gartner, WIRED News, June 29, 2000.

Your Eyes Are Windows to MS, WIRED News, May 2, 2000.

The Internet - current and near future implementation.

All Forms of Media Going Strong, CyberAtlas, July 11, 2000.

Bringing the Internet to the World, by D. Gillmor, San Jose Mercury News, July 23, 2000.

Broadband Still Making Converts in the US, CyberAtlas, October 10, 2000.

College Search, Prospective Students Uncover Flood of Information Plus a Serving of Spam, L. Guernsey, San Jose Mercury News, October 8, 2000.

E-commerce is Bringing Change to the Old-Line Industry, Funeral Homes Go Dot-Com, by E. Ackerman, San Jose Mercury News, October 10, 2000.

Farmer Reaps Rewards Sowed on Internet, by M. Dorgan, San Jose Mercury News, July 30, 2000.

Internet Access in America: Who's Got It, Who Needs It?, CyberAtlas, October 2, 2000.

Internet Access Rates Still Growing in Japan, CyberAtlas, October 11, 2000.

Internet Changing a Culture, by K. Platt, San Jose Mercury News, July 30, 2000.

The Language of the Web, CyberAtlas, July 6, 1999.

A New Calling, Yahoo Joins Race to Give Net Access Anywhere, Anytime, by J. L. Kwan, San Jose Mercury News, October 10, 2000.

Research Team Seeks Efficient Ways to Access the Internet, by E. Feldman, Heraldsphere, October 10, 2000.

Two-Thirds of Americans Online, CyberAtlas, May 10, 2000.

US College Students Use Net for Shopping, CyberAtlas, August 8, 2000.

Web Pages by Language, CyberAtlas, July 5, 2000.

The World's Online Populations, CyberAtlas, July 28, 2000.

The Internet - where it is going: peer to peer.

Issues Aside, How Napster Works is Really What Matters, by D. Gillmor, San Jose Mercury News, August 5, 2000.

Intel Says: Think Like Napster, by L. Kahney, WIRED News, August 24, 2000.

Protein Fiends Join the Fold, by A. Patrizio, WIRED News, September 26, 2000.

Putting Naptser's Technology to Other Uses, by D. Gillmor, San Jose Mercury News, August 8, 2000.

The Internet - where it is going: wireless.

The Big Picture, by B. Parks, WIRED, October 2000.

Carnegie Mellon Works to Make Computers Invisible and Pervasive, by. F. Olsen, Chronicle of Higher Education, October 12, 2000.

Free the Wireless Net!, by L. Kahney, WIRED News, September 19, 2000.

Internet Everywhere, by J. Adam, Technology Review, September/October 2000.

Internet Satellites Going Cheap, by L. Kahney, WIRED News, June 14, 2000.

SUNY's Morrisville Campus Sees Wirreless Computing as a Way to Create a Niche, by J. R. Young, Chronicle of Higher Education, October 10, 2000.

Universities Find Wireless Systems Bring Them Convenience and Savings, by S. Carlson, Chronicle of Higher Education, October 11, 2000.

The Wireless Revolution, by F. Olsen, Chronicle of Higher Education, October 9, 2000.

The Wireless Web, a Special Report from the October 2000 issue of Scientific American. Includes The Internet in Your Hands, The Promise and Perils of WAP, The Future is Here. Or Is It?, and The Third Generation Gap.

The Internet - security issues.

Excerpts from Secrets and Lies, Digital Security in a Networked World, by Bruce Schneier.

Ain't No Network Strong Enough, by B. I. Koerner, Salon.com, August 31, 2000.

Are Those Servers Really Safe?, by K. Mieszkowski, Salon.com, August 8, 2000.

Computer Security is No Sure Thing, by R. Thieme, Forbes, July 31, 2000.

Cracked! 'World's Toughest' Code Broken, by P. Majendie, ZDNet, October 12, 2000.

Cybersleuth, by M. Compton, Salon.com, March 26, 2000.

Debunking Virus Based Fixes, by B. Schneier, ZDNet, July 31, 2000.

How Robust is the Internet?, by Y. Tu, Nature, July 27, 2000. (click here for a pdf)

Security: No Blanket Solution, by E. Batista, WIRED News, May 9, 2000.

Security Software Still a Booming Biz, CyberAtlas, October 5, 2000.

Why Cryptography is Harder Than it Looks, by B. Schneier. (click here for a pdf)

Why E-Security is Hard to Tame, by K. Lillington, WIRED News, September 19, 2000.

World's Toughest Code Cracked, Reuters, WIRED News, October 12, 2000.

Distance education and the future of academia (near term).

Accreditation and Distance Education (letter to the editor), by B. Resnick, Chronicle of Higher Education, September 24, 1999.

Accrediting On-Line Institutions Diminishes Higher Education (opinion), by J. Perley and D. M. Tanguay, Chronicle of Higher Education, October 29, 1999.

Army Bombshell Rocks Distance Education, by S. Carr, Chronicle of Higher Education, August 18, 2000.

Canada and Its Education Ministers Create an Online-Learning Committee, by J. Paskey, Chronicle of Higher Education, August 7, 2000.

Company That Owns the U. of Phoenix Plans for a Major Foreign Expansion, by G. Blumenstyk, Chronicle of Higher Education, August 11, 2000.

DeVry Institutes Wins Accreditation for 2 Online Bachelor's Programs, by G. Blumenstyk, Chronicle of Higher Education, August 16, 2000.

A Digest of Recent Corporate News in Academic Information Technology, by J. Ludwig, Chronicle of Higher Education, August 4, 2000.

Dispatches From Distance Education, Where Class Is Always in Session, by J. R. Young, Chronicle of Higher Education, March 3, 2000.

Expanding Its Reach in Higher Education, Kaplan Buys Chain of Commercial Colleges, by G. Blumenstyk, Chronicle of Higher Education, July 7, 2000.

Federal Rules Stymie Growth of Distance Education, Commission Hears, by D. Carnevale, Chronicle of Higher Education, July 20, 2000.

The Future Arrives First in California, by R. C. Atkinson, Issues in Science and Technology, Winter 1999.

Hello, Out There: A Look at Distance Education in Alaska, by M. E. Reyes and C. Bradley, First Monday, Volume 5, No. 10, October 2, 2000.

Moving the Seminar Table to the Computer Screen, by J. R. Young, Chronicle of Higher Education, July 7, 2000.

New Data on Technology Spending Offer Benchmarks for College Administrators, by F. Olsen, Chronicle of Higher Education, October 13, 2000.

New Roles for the 21st-Century University, by J. J. Duderstadt, Issues in Science and Technology, Winter 1999.

Open U. of Israel Finds Many Students in the States of the Former Soviet Union, by H. Watzman, Chronicle of Higher Education, October 11, 2000.

Remaking the Academy in the Age of Information, by J. K. de Alva, Issues in Science and Technology, Winter 1999.

Software Billionaire Plans to Create a Free Online University, by V. Kiernan, Chronicle of Higher Education, March 16, 2000.

Survey Finds Accounting Professors Skeptical of Internet-Based Courses, Chronicle of Higher Education, January 28, 2000.

U. of Phoenix Reports 22% Rise in Enrollment, by S. Carlson, Chronicle of Higher Education, October 29, 1999.

U. of Phoenix Sells $70-Million Worth of Stock in Its Distance-Education Efforts, by G. Blumenstyk, Chronicle of Higher Education, October 13, 2000.

Universities Change, Core Values Should Not, by R. M. Rosenzweig, Issues in Science and Technology, Winter 1999.

U. S. Mulls Aid Changes for Distance Courses, by D. Carnevale, Chronicle of Higher Education, September 15, 2000.

Virtual Universities Can Meet High Standards (opinion), by S. Crow, Chronicle of Higher Education, October 29, 2000.

What Makes an Online Course Succeed? Not Everyone Agrees, a Study Finds, by D. Carnevale, Chronicle of Higher Education, October 12, 2000.

Distance education and the future of academia (long term).

(A series of essays published in Science looking back from the year 2050. These will be good for getting people to play 'Spoze.)

Agents and IPOs: A retrospective of my academic career (2000-2050), by S. H. Friedman, Science, (286) December 3, 1999.

In Touch at Last, by S. Shostak, Science, (286) December 3, 1999.

Wetware Performance Problems, by E. Bushman, Science, (286) December 3, 1999.

A Day in the World Science Alliance, by J. Trewhella and D. M. Parkin, Science, (286) December 10, 1999.

Address to the 40th Annual Convention of the U.N.A.A.S., by P. K. Wolber, Science, (286) December 10, 1999.

Dr. Cool, by D. R. Booth, Science, (286) December 10, 1999.

Technology Transfer, by R. Kohen, Science, (286) December 17, 1999.

Appointment as Expert Juror, by M. A. Krug, Science, (286) December 17, 1999.

Testing the Effects of Genetic Variations Using MINIME Technology, by J. T. Vogelstein, J. V. Vogelstein, and B. Vogelstein, Science, (286) December 17, 1999.

Address to the AAAS, E. McSweegan, Science, (286) December 24, 1999.

Traditional and Cybernetic Sciences Combine to Combat Human Viruses, by C. Morgan, Science, (286) December 24, 1999.

S(t)imulating Science, by M. M. Hingorani, Science, (286) December 24, 1999.

Recommended Books:

Cathedral and the Bazaar, by Eric S. Raymond

Code and Other Laws of Cyberspace, by Lawrence Lessig

Free For All, How Linux and the Free Software Movement Undercut the High Tech Titans, by Peter Wayner

From Gutenberg to the Global Information Infrastructure: Access to Information in the Networked World, by Christine Borgman

Secrets and Lies, Digital Security in a Networked World, by Bruce Schneier

The Robot in the Garden, Telerobotics and Telepistemology in the Age of the Internet, edited by Ken Goldberg

The Transparent Society, by David Brin

Trust and Risk in Internet Commerce, by L. Jean Camp

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