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ACM: Ubiquity - Distributed Denial-of-Service Attacks
Article by M. E. Kabay about the effect of DDoS attacks on major e-commerce sites, and the legal ramifications thereof.
http://www.acm.org/ubiquity/views/m_kabay_1.html
Top/Computers/Internet/Abuse/Denial_of_Service

From Wartime Tool to the Fish Cam
Scott Ruthfield explores the beginnings of the Internet, development of IMPs and packet-switching, ARPAnet, TCP/IP, and NSFNet, with references.
http://www.acm.org/crossroads/xrds2-1/inet-history.html
Top/Computers/Internet/History

Web Review: The W3C Web Site
This is a review of the World Wide Web Consortium web site, from the ACM Crossroads Winter 1999 issue.
http://www.acm.org/crossroads/xrds6-2/w3site.html
Top/Computers/Internet/Organizations

Foundations of the Internet Protocol
ACM Crossroads magazine article explains network protocol concepts, IP packets, and IP addressing.
http://www.acm.org/crossroads/columns/connector/july2000.html
Top/Computers/Internet/Protocols/IP

Association for Computing Machinery
Society advancing leading-edge computing knowledge as a science and a profession through publications, conferences, and career resources.
http://www.acm.org/
Top/Computers/Internet/Resources/Research

OCELOT: A System for Summarizing Web Pages
By Adam L. Berger, Carnegie Mellon University, and Vibhu O. Mittal, Just Research, Pittsburgh, USA. In: Proceedings of the 23rd Annual International ACM SIGIR Conference, 2000. Probabilistic models are used to select and order words into a gist. The pap
http://portal.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=345565&dl=ACM&coll=portal
Top/Computers/Internet/Searching/Directories/Open_Directory_Project/Research_Papers

Macromedia Director as a Prototyping and Usability Testing Tool
Tutorial in ACM Crossroads magazine.
http://www.acm.org/crossroads/xrds6-5/macromedia.html
Top/Computers/Multimedia/Software/Adobe_Director

ACM Crossroads
The student magazine of the Association for Computing Machinery; contains career advice, C++ and Java programming columns, and information on a variety of computer science topics.
http://www.acm.org/crossroads/
Top/Computers/News_and_Media/Magazines_and_E-zines/Magazines

Ubiquity
An ACM IT-Magazine. Lists the articles in the current issue and provides discussion-forums.
http://www.acm.org/ubiquity/
Top/Computers/News_and_Media/Magazines_and_E-zines/Magazines

Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)
Educational and scientific computing society, provides a forum for the exchange of information, ideas, and discoveries.
http://www.acm.org/
Top/Computers/Organizations/Professional