Sex on the Internet -- A Problem for American Society
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A 7 page essay on the problem of what to do about sexually explicit material on the Internet. The writer examines the issue from the perspective of what to do to limit access by minors as well as the overall question of censorship of pornographic materials for adults. Bibliography lists 7 sources.
Filename: Netsex.rtf

The Implausibility Censorship On The Internet
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This 5 page paper argues that even if lawmakers wanted to regulate pornography on the Internet, they would have difficulty doing so. This emerging topic in the telecommunications industry is important as not only does it touch on freedom of speech and child protection issues but it broaches on the very powerlessness of the governments around the world as they try to corral something that perhaps cannot be controlled. Bibliography lists 6 sources.
Filename: Censin.wps

U.S. v. Jake Baker
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A 5 page essay on the free speech implications (Internet) of the results of the pretrial hearing in this case. The writer argues that since the case did not go to trial, the court's findings were supportive of First Amendment rights. These rights are discussed in light of the three points of proof raised by Judge Cohn at the pretrial hearing. Bibliography lists 1 source.
Filename: Comdecy.wps

Domestic and Global Project Management
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An 8 page paper discussing the virtual project team and considerations specific to geographically-dispersed project team members. There have been myriad management fads and gimmicks come and go over the years, but the virtual project team is unlikely to be relegated to that category. It is far too valuable a practice for organizations to be abandoning it. It appears to be a management tool that is here to stay; it is quickly becoming an accepted standard rather than a corporate oddity. Bibliography lists 9 sources.
Filename: KSprojMgGlob.rtf

Early Industry and Recent Technology
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A 7 page paper comparing the effects of the industrial revolution and the digital age. The industrial revolution was a true 'revolution,' the likes of which had never before been seen. Such is not the case with the Internet, however. There are aspects of the Internet that can be said to be revolutionary, and of course nothing technologically like it has existed before. There are many parallels with the industrial revolution; both fit into a pattern of development that began even before the industrial revolution. Bibliography lists 9 sources.
Filename: KSindRevTo.wps

Academic Innovation & The World Wide Web
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A 10 page paper that provides an overview of the current application of technology, especially the World Wide Web, in schools, colleges and universities. Bibliography lists 8 sources.
Filename: Schoolww.wps

Distance Learning
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This 10 page research paper examines the pros and cons of distance learning. Bibliography lists 10 sources.
Filename: Distance.wps

Distance Learning And On-line University Classes: Start-up, Licensing And Establishment Issues In Germany
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This 5 page paper considers the increasing prevalence of on-line distance learning created by American Universities and the issues related to offering on-line courses to students in foreign countries. This paper considers the problems related to establishing these business, franchising and the possible government involvement in these projects related specifically to issues in Germany. Bibliography lists 4 sources.
Filename: Germdist.wps

Distance Learning and The Internet
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15 pages in length. In this thorough examination of the 'distance learning' phenomenon, the writer begins with a review of the literature that reveals a wide-spread interest in using the Internet for education-from-home purposes. Older methods appear to be eclipsed by the exciting possibilities offered by the abundant information available on the Internet. Also discussed : How programs are proliferating at all levels of education, but are not yet available in all schools because of a lack of funding, equipment, structured programs and trained teachers. The technology is defined, explained, and government agencies involved in helping the 'movement' are discussed in detail. Bibliography lists 15+ sources-- many from the World Wide Web !
Filename: Learnint.wps

Distance Learning History
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A short 4 page research paper documenting the history of distance learning, some relevant programs, and its outlook for the future. Bibliography lists 5 sources.
Filename: Distlea2.wps

Education and the Internet
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A thoroughly-researched 20 page paper on education and The Internet. The writer examines on-line degree programs, on-line academic assistance, Internet research, the Home Education Resource Network (HOMER), and more. Bibliography lists 10 sources.
Filename: Intntedu.wps

Education, Computers, & The Future
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A 10 page report on 'education in the future.' Sub-topics include the role of the Internet, distance learning, knowledge-based systems, interactive multimedia, and several case studies. Excellent for those studying education or technology. Bibliography lists 10+ sources.
Filename: Educfutu.wps

Learning Theories & The Domain Of Computers
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A 6 page paper discussing learning and associated theories, concepts, and domains. Two learning theories are examined; constructivism and mastery learning. Their concepts are then applied to appropriate model of instruction within the broad-based domain of computer training and education. Bibliography lists ten sources.
Filename: Domain.doc

The Gorgon Medusa And The Perseus Project Web Site
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This 6 page report the Perseus Project Website (www/perseus/tufts.edu) along with the information found there about the gorgon Medusa. The information found at the site is detailed as well as other information about the gorgon Medusa and the different stories relating to the myth. Bibliography lists 5 sources.
Filename: Gorgon2.wps

The Use Of The Web & Internet In Higher Education
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A 15 page paper that provides an overview of the emergence of the use of the Internet and Web-based educational formats and services as a means of enhancing higher education. Bibliography lists 15 sources.
Filename: Webed.doc

Virtual Universities / Classes & Colleges ?
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A 20 page overview covering background and socio-economic issues surrouding students, faculty, institutions, virtual university corporations and a smattering of the viewpoint from international educators. Includes humor, in quotes, and the viewpoint from a professor that probably shocked the educational establishment. Bibliography lists 10 sources.
Filename: Virtualu.doc

Electronic Commerce
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A 5 page paper which discusses electronic commerce in businesses today. The two large companies that are illustrated are 3M and GE, both of which are, and have been, very actively involved in electronic commerce. GE has learned that electronic commerce has saved their company a large sum of money, as has 3M. The difference between the two is that 3M is beginning to realize it may not be advantageous for them to reach individual customers with electronic commerce. But, while 3M may not be financially successful with their small customers, other businesses may rely on the fact that electronic commerce enables their small home business to reach many more people than would be possible otherwise. No sources cited.
Filename: RA3m.wps

Electronic Commerce's Impact
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A 5 page paper discussing the growing importance of Internet commerce. By the early 1990s it had become apparent that the growing Internet held great promise for those companies that wished to sell their wares to a larger potential market than they had previously been able to address. There were dreams of consumers purchasing nearly all their routine goods online, from groceries to clothing. To date, that early vision has not materialized. Internet commerce has not grown into the virtual mall that early marketers had hoped, but it has become increasingly important in the financial futures of thousands of companies all around the world. Bibliography lists 12 sources. E-Commrc.wps
Filename: E-Commrc.wps

Internet Commerce
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A 10 page paper discussing Internet commerce and digital economy technologies such as encryption technologies and secure-site technologies. Bibliography lists 8 sources.
Filename: Intcomm.wps

Online Investing
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A 9 page paper looking at the reinvention of at least one of the financial wheels of our society. Ettorre says, 'At intermittent junctures in history, such earth-shattering and revolutionary advances occur that they wipe out what has gone before or change it so profoundly that the world is never the same again. Once our ancestors dimly realized that it was easier to roll something than to drag it we humans were on our way.' It would appear that the same magnitude of change is occurring in investment habits. Bibliography lists 7 sources.
Filename: Investon.wps

Site Selection For A New High-Tech Company
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This 5 page report discusses the possibilities, problems, and decisions to be made for the best location for an up-and- coming software company. Three possible sites are considered and the process involved in making the decision is outlined. Bibliography lists 5 sources.
Filename: Sitesele.wps

The Internet & Electronic Commerce
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A 6 page, definitive overview of electronic commerce and the role the Internet in plays in facilitating faster banking and other transactions. Predictions of the National Institute of Standards & Technology (NIST) are examined as are the views of other leading financial authorities. Bibliography lists 7 sources.
Filename: Interncm.wps

The Internet; A Case Concerning Contract Law, Passwords, Employment Law and Issues of Domain Registration
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This well written 16 page paper considers the following case; Jez, subscribes to an Internet magazine site. After paying his subscription fee, he is required to agree to the terms of use Jez does read them, but and proceeds to click on The “I agree to the terms of use”. Rob, a work colleague, discovers Jez's username and accesses the site without Jez's permission. Rob spams members of the chat room advertising his services as a freelance artist. The magazine wish to end the contract, the users of the chat room are not happy and he employers are also unhappy. The paper advises Jez, Rob, the magazine, the chat room users and the employers. The paper then considers a second issue where a company with a similar name wish to set up a domain and take action against the magazine company who have a very similar domain name. The case is written with reference to English law and cases are cited throughout. The bibliography cites 10 sources.
Filename: TEIntcase1.rtf

INFORMATION SYSTEMS AND COMMUNICATIONS TECHNOLOGY
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This 6-page paper ties the relationship between information systems and communications technology. The essay touches on the challenge -- which is the lack of integration between IS and CT, then describes how certain industries are working to link the two for efficient business organization. Bibliography lists 8 sources.
Filename: MTinsyco.rtf

Nortel Networks
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This 6 page paper discusses Nortel Networks, a giant in telephony, data, wireless and wireline solutions for the Internet. Topics discussed include: a critique of Nortel's Web site, their involvement with the Internet, their innovations, including what they call the four pillars of high performance Internet services. Also discussed: the long history of the company, acquisitions, partnerships, and overview of fiscal data for the last three years, and activities in which they are involved. Bibliography lists 10 sources. 1 table is included.
Filename: PGnortel.rtf

Real Estate Agents Need Personal Web Page
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This 15 page paper discusses the need for a personal Web page. Although focusing on real estate agents, the comments could apply to any business person who offers a product or a service. The writer reports the demographics and trends of Internet users, new technologies that will further expand the numbers and kinds of users, both current and forecasted revenue from e-commerce, rationale for doing business on the Net and tips for developing Web pages. Internet users are doubling every 100 days. Purchases made on the Internet are increasing at exponential rates. One graph and one table are included. Bibliography lists 11 sources.
Filename: PGrelest.msw

The Internet
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An 18 page paper which examines many aspects of the Internet. History of the Internet is discussed in depth. In addition the paper provides information on the number of users and user habits. Electronic commerce and business is also discussed. Bibliography lists 12 sources.
Filename: RAhisinter.wps

Two Companies' Use of the Internet
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A 5 page paper discussing two companies that heavily participate in Internet commerce, Gateway 2000 and DLJ Direct. Overall, the promise of great success through Internet marketing has not been realized in most areas of sales, but personal computer sales and online brokerage services have been exceptions. Both are wonderfully suited to Internet commerce: Gateway's customers obviously are computer literate; DLJ Direct's customers have come to rely on the ease and rapidity of stock trading using an Internet service. Though the Internet has not reached its full potential as a sales tool, it is heading resolutely in that direction, and to the point that those companies not offering extensive online options to their existing customers may lose those customers to businesses that do. Bibliography lists 6 sources.
Filename: Twocos.doc

The Bias of Communication; Technology that Monopolizes Space and Communication that Monopolizes Time
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This 6 page paper considers the perspectives of Harold Innis, one of the best noted theorists regarding modern communications, and assesses his view that 'the media of communications has an important influence on the dissemination of knowledge over space and time. This paper considers the views of Innis as they can be applied to an assessment of the Vietnam War Memorial as a communication bias of time and the Internet as a bias of communication of space. Bibliography lists 5 sources.
Filename: MHinnis_

Symbolic Artifical Intelligence - Java, Search Applications, and Complexity
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This 10 page report discusses a number of issues associated with symbolic artificial intelligence, particularly in regard to the programming language of Java. The report is divided into four specific areas - functionality, Java as a suitable programming language for AI, virtual representation, and measuring the complexity of a search application. Bibliography lists 12 sources.
Filename: BWjava.rtf

The Harrison-Ruzzo-Ullman (HRU) Model
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This 5 page paper looks at the The Harrison-Ruzzo-Ullman (HRU) model of information security. The model is defined and its positive and negative features are highlighted. Bibliography lists 5 sources.
Filename: SA208HRU.rtf

“Blogging” as a Tool in Education
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An 8 page paper discussing Weblogs’ applicability to education. Weblogs can be highly useful in a variety of educational settings, either as being supplemental to course content or as providing a launching pad for further learning and discussion. They can diminish the anonymity factor inherent in many Internet-based communications, while yet giving a greater voice to those less likely to contribute in the physical setting. Weblogs can be formal outgrowths of administrative function or provide an informal gathering place antithetical to traditional classroom structure. In short, the benefits possible from the use of Weblogs are immense, and can add great value to education, both in function and in outcome. Bibliography lists 12 sources.
Filename: KSWeblogs.rtf

“Citing Internet sources”
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A paper which looks at the various forms of reference material available on the Internet and the Web, such as online journals, websites and e-texts, and describes the ways in which such material should be cited in order to provide as a full and accurate a reference as is possible.
Filename: JLcites.wps

“E-Buisness and E-Commerce Management” by Dave Chaffey
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This 49 page paper is a summary of the book “E-Buisness and E-Commerce Management” by Dave Chaffey. The book is a good overview on all aspects of e-business; including management of the infrastructure, the e-environment, e-business strategy, supply chain management, e-procurement, internet marketing, customer relationship management change management, design implementation and maintenance. The paper takes each chapter and summarizes the contents of each chapter. The bibliography cites 1 source.
Filename: TEebuschaffey.rtf

“Financial institutions and security on the Internet
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A six page paper which considers some of the problems faced by financial institutions and large corporations in terms of the security issues surrounding Internet communication and transactions, and some of the ways in which these problems are currently being addressed. Bibliography lists 2 sources.
Filename: JLNetsecure.rtf

“Internet recruitment”
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A paper which looks at the increasing tendency for employers to recruit potential candidates via the Internet, and the ways in which this has streamlined and facilitated the recruitment and selection process, as well as greatly broadening the recruitment market as a whole.
Filename: JL2netjobs.wps

“Interpersonal global communication”
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A paper which looks at the way in which cultural exchange takes place at a significantly increased level as a result of the advent of global communication, and considers whether or not the machinery for a genuine ideological exchange is in place, or whether the inequalities inherent in technological advances between richer and poorer nations is having a negative impact on the potential offered by such communication. Bibliography lists 3 sources.
Filename: JLglobcomm1.wps

“Recruiting on the Internet”
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A six page paper which looks at the ways in which the Internet has revolutionised the processes of job application and selection, from the perspective of both companies and prospective employees, and the potential for international employment which the Internet offers. Bibliography lists 7 sources.
Filename: JLnetjobs.wps

“Regulating the Internet”
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A fourteen page paper which looks at the difficulties of imposing external regulations on the Internet, in terms of the responsibility accorded to national and international legislative bodies, ISPs and individual users. Bibliography lists 10 sources
Filename: JLnetreg.wps

“Report on School Drop-outs in Silicon Valley”
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A report in the style of a journalistic article, detailing the way in which teenagers and young people in Silicon Valley are rejecting formal systems of education and opting instead for high salaries in the world of computer technology in preference to working through college in the traditional manner. Bibliography lists 5 sources
Filename: JLsilvalley.wps