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Discusses the barriers affected by computer interfaces that prevent users from making proper use of the programme. Argues that a poorly designed interface can be fatal to any programme – especially a Campus Wide Information Service (CWIS). Examines the design of PNN (the Princeton News Network – Princeton University′s home grown CWIS). Discusses the problems associated with designers′ intuition and finally, the need to accommodate various concepts of what is intuitive.

Focuses on Townview Magnet Center which provides students from all ethnic and racial backgrounds academic programs using state‐of‐the‐art technology. Describes the campus‐wide local area network making this possible.

The national network connecting colleges, research institutions, and some businesses — the Internet is actually an amalgam of many smaller networks. Originally constituted by the government for its use (as ARPA‐net), the Internet connects state and regional networks together into one logical network. With the proper physical connections and software installed a mainframe, mini,or PC can be a node on this network.

This column is written by Howard Strauss, the manager of Advanced Applications at Princeton University. Advanced Applications is a small group that is charged with tracking current and emerging information technology and using it in innovative ways to build applications that improve the effectiveness of the University community. Recently Howard's group developed PNN ‐Princeton News Network, a CWIS (Campus Wide Information System) that has been distributed to nearly 200 colleges and universities around the world. Advanced Applications is involved in many other cutting‐edge applications ranging from an expert‐like system to allow unattended scanning to building an imaging system for the University library.

Considers a hypothetical law school library, L.A. Law Lib, and its bid to become a leader in library automation. Discusses key issues for implementing on‐line access to its extensive catalogue, and carefully considers the open nature of the Internet and its implications for law libraries. Details problem of resolving conflicts between the needs of end‐users of the system and system managers.

The purpose of this paper is to identify the primary executive leadership skills required to promote the effectiveness of Medicare Shared Savings Program Accountable Care Organizations (MSSP ACOs) and to create a new substantive theory describing these skills. The author identifies that MSSP ACO is a relatively new value-based care delivery (VBCD) structure in the USA that links clinicians’ compensation to their clinical outcomes. The research question concerns what primary executive leadership skills are essential in the VBCD era.

This single, embedded, exploratory case study is based on interviews, a focus group discussion and archival record data of MSSP ACO executives in the Northeast, Midwest, South and West of the USA.

The findings represented seven major categories or the primary executive leadership skills required to succeed in the VBCD environment. Each category or skill included five subcategories or concepts supporting the leadership skills essential for reaching VBCD goals. The categories and subcategories gave rise to a new substantive theory – the Accountable Healthcare Leadership Theory of Five Ps: promoting partnership between providers, patients and payers.

The empirical generalizability of the results was limited by its essence as a single, embedded, exploratory case study of 18 MSSP ACO executives in 4 regions of the USA. The strength of this study, however, lies in its potential for making analytic generalizations for identifying theoretically meaningful leadership skills essential for success in the VBCD era.

The author has developed and validated a new theory describing the primary executive leadership skills required to succeed in the VBCD environment.

Some time ago I was invited to be a judge at an elementary school science fair. Before the judging took place, the other judges and I had a chance to meet with the budding scientists, engineers, sociologists, and other fifth and sixth graders who were doing their best to convince us that their projects were Nobel Prize material. One student, skeptical of my qualifications as a judge of his project, asked me, “What's your job when you are not being a judge?” “Why,” I said, “I'm the manager of advanced applications at Princeton University,” knowing that this would have him cowering in awe at my exemplary qualifications to judge sixth‐grade science projects.

Looks at the prospects of implementing CWIS networks. Considers the issues of cost savings, staff reductions, improved scholarship, time savings, computer resource reductions, data policies, data sharing, and using e‐mail. Argues that the real benefit of CWIS is that it turns a computer from anadvanced scientific tool into something that users can relate to and enjoy.

What is this Thing Called CWIS? Once you're sure you need a CWIS, you might like to know just what it is you've decided you must have. In October 1989, I presented the paper “University‐Wide General‐Interest Online Information Systems That Work — And That You Can Afford” to the ACM SIGUCCS conference. The title of this paper is really a definition of an ideal CWIS. If you spot something that fits this definition, it is definitely a fine CWIS. Unfortunately there are many CWIS imposters that fit only a few parts of this definition. Don't be surprised when those CWISes fail to deliver all of the advantages of a CWIS.

For as long as I can remember, the year 2000 has been the threshold of the future. For those of us destined to spend much of our lives in the twentieth century — or any time in it at all — those years would, by definition, be spent in the past. The cars of the future would be coming in the year 2000 (the number being written out to make it seem even more amazing and futuristic).