Communications of the ACM (CACM), Volume 52, 2009

Volume 52, Number 1, January 2009 (EE)

Editor's letter

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  Moshe Y. Vardi:
  How are we doing? 5

Letters to the editor

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  True seeds of open source software. 6

CACM online

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  David Roman:
  Communications preps web-enhanced articles. 8

News

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  David Lindley:
  Calculating the future. 9-11
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  Jeff Kanipe:
  The universe in your computer. 12-14
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  Alex Wright:
  Get smart. 15-16
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  Michael Ross:
  A pioneer woman. 17

Viewpoints

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  Jonathan Zittrain:
  Law and technology: The end of the generative internet. 18-20
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  Alex E. Bell:
  From the front lines: Ground control to Architect Tom…. 21-22
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  Phillip G. Armour:
  The business of software: The ontology of paper. 23-24
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  Michael A. Cusumano:
  Technology strategy and management: The legacy of Bill Gates. 25-26
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  Jon Crowcroft, Srinivasan Keshav, Nick McKeown:
  Viewpoint: Scaling the academic publication process to internet scale. 27-30

ACM's FY08 annual report

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  Stuart I. Feldman:
  ACM's annual report. 33-37

Practice

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  Werner Vogels:
  Eventually consistent. 40-44
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  John R. Mashey:
  The long road to 64 bits. 45-53

Contributed articles

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  Tapan S. Parikh:
  Engineering rural development. 54-63
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  Dawn N. Jutla, Dimitri Kanevsky:
  wisePad services for vision-, hearing-, and speech-impaired users. 64-69

Review articles

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  Joan Feigenbaum, David C. Parkes, David M. Pennock:
  Computational challenges in e-commerce. 70-74

Research highlights

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  Harry Shum:
  Technical perspective: Customizing media to displays. 76
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  Ariel Shamir, Shai Avidan:
  Seam carving for media retargeting. 77-85
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  Jeffrey Heer, Fernanda B. Viégas, Martin Wattenberg:
  Voyagers and voyeurs: Supporting asynchronous collaborative visualization. 87-97

Last byte Virtual extension

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  Erik T. Mueller:
  Automating commonsense reasoning using the event calculus. 113-117
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  Nanda Kumar, Roumen Vragov:
  Active citizen participation using ICT tools. 118-121
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  Yogesh Kumar Dwivedi, Zahir Irani:
  Understanding the adopters and non-adopters of broadband. 122-125
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  Allen C. Johnston, Ron Hale:
  Improved security through information security governance. 126-129
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  Judith Gebauer, Mark Ginsburg:
  Exploring the black box of task-technology fit. 130-135
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  Hillol Bala, Viswanath Venkatesh, Srinivasan Venkatraman, Jack Bates, Steven H. Brown:
  Disaster response in health care: A design extension for enterprise data warehouse. 136-140
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  Parag C. Pendharkar, James A. Rodger:
  The relationship between software development team size and software development cost. 141-144
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  Carol Xiaojuan Ou, Robert M. Davison:
  Technical opinion: Why eBay lost to TaoBao in China: the global advantage. 145-148

Volume 52, Number 2, February 2009 (EE)

Policy letter

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  Eugene H. Spafford:
  USACM's policy role. 5

Letters to the editor

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  Seven principles for secure e-voting. 8-9

CACM online

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  David Roman:
  The dot-org difference. 10

News

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  Kirk L. Kroeker:
  Photography's bright future. 11-13
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  Alex Wright:
  Making sense of sensors. 14-15
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  Samuel Greengard:
  The first internet president. 16-18
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  Kirk L. Kroeker:
  SIGGRAPH debuts in Asia. 19

Viewpoints

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  Ashish Arora, Matej Drev, Chris Forman:
  Economic and business dimensions - The extent of globalization of software innovation. 20-22
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  George H. L. Fletcher, James J. Lu:
  Education - Human computing skills: rethinking the K-12 experience. 23-25
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  Kristina Irion:
  Privacy and security - International communications surveillance. 26-28
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  Peter G. Neumann:
  Inside risks - U.S. election after-math. 29
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  Barbara van Schewick, David Farber:
  Point/Counterpoint - Network neutrality nuances. 31-37

Practice

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  Ulrich Drepper:
  Parallel programming with transactional memory. 38-43
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  Tom Leighton:
  Improving performance on the internet. 44-51

Contributed articles

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  T. V. Raman:
  Toward 2^W, beyond web 2.0. 52-59
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  Mary W. Hall, David A. Padua, Keshav Pingali:
  Compiler research: the next 50 years. 60-67

Review articles

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  Maria M. Klawe, Telle Whitney, Caroline Simard:
  Women in computing - take 2. 68-76

Research highlights

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  Dan S. Wallach:
  Technical perspective - Tools for information to flow securely and Swift-ly. 78
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  Stephen Chong, Jed Liu, Andrew C. Myers, Xin Qi, K. Vikram, Lantian Zheng, Xin Zheng:
  Building secure web applications with automatic partitioning. 79-87
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  Ehud Kalai:
  Technical perspective - The complexity of computing Nash equilibrium. 88
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  Constantinos Daskalakis, Paul W. Goldberg, Christos H. Papadimitriou:
  The complexity of computing a Nash equilibrium. 89-97

Last byte

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  Peter Winkler:
  Puzzled - Will my algorithm terminate? 104

Virtual extension

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  Pamela E. Carter, Gina Green:
  Networks of contextualized data: a framework for cyberinfrastructure data management. 105-109
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  Xiao-Bai Li, Luvai F. Motiwalla:
  For sale by owner online: who gets the saved commission? 110-114
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  Ergin Elmacioglu, Dongwon Lee:
  Oracle, where shall I submit my papers? 115-118
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  Shlomo Argamon, Moshe Koppel, James W. Pennebaker, Jonathan Schler:
  Automatically profiling the author of an anonymous text. 119-123
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  Sandy Behrens:
  Shadow systems: the good, the bad and the ugly. 124-129
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  Arik Ragowsky, David Gefen:
  Why IS management is in trouble and how to save it: lessons learned in the automotive industry. 130-133
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  M. Eric Johnson, Dan McGuire, Nicholas D. Willey:
  Why file sharing networks are dangerous? 134-138
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  Raquel Benbunan-Fich, Gregory E. Truman:
  Technical opinion - Multitasking with laptops during meetings. 139-141

Volume 52, Number 3, March 2009 (EE)

Editor's letter

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  Moshe Y. Vardi:
  "Yes, it can be done". 5

Publisher's corner

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  Scott E. Delman:
  Communications' web site to launch in March. 7

Letters to the editor

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  Children's magic won't deliver the semantic web. 8-9

CACM online

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  David Roman:
  Prepare for launch. 12

News

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  Gregory Goth:
  Betting on ideas. 13-15
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  Leah Hoffmann:
  Crowd control. 16-17
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  Kirk L. Kroeker:
  The evolution of virtualization. 18-20
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  Karen A. Frenkel:
  A difficult, unforgettable idea. 21
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  ACM Fellows honored. 22

Viewpoints

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  Peter J. Denning, Richard D. Riehle:
  The profession of IT - Is software engineering engineering? 24-26
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  Pamela Samuelson:
  Legally speaking - When is a "license" really a sale? 27-29
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  David A. Patterson:
  Viewpoint - Your students are your legacy. 30-33
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  Jeffrey D. Ullman:
  Viewpoint - Advising students for success. 34-37
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  Len Shustek:
  Interview - An interview with C.A.R. Hoare. 38-41

Practice

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  Walker M. White, Christoph Koch, Johannes Gehrke, Alan J. Demers:
  Better scripts, better games. 42-47
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  Jim Larson:
  Erlang for concurrent programming. 48-56

Contributed articles

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  Abigail Sellen, Yvonne Rogers, Richard H. R. Harper, Tom Rodden:
  Reflecting human values in the digital age. 58-66
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  David Harel:
  Statecharts in the making: a personal account. 67-75

Review articles

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  Madhu Sudan:
  Probabilistically checkable proofs. 76-84

Research highlights

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  Daniel A. Spielman:
  Technical perspective - The beauty of error-correcting codes. 86
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  Venkatesan Guruswami, Atri Rudra:
  Error correction up to the information-theoretic limit. 87-95
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  Bud Mishra:
  Technical perspective - Where biology meets computing. 96
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  Radu Grosu, Scott A. Smolka, Flavio Corradini, Anita Wasilewska, Emilia Entcheva, Ezio Bartocci:
  Learning and detecting emergent behavior in networks of cardiac myocytes. 97-105

Last byte

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  Peter Winkler:
  Puzzled - Solutions and sources. 111
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  Joel Garreau:
  Future tense - Radical evolution. 112-

Virtual extension

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  Alexandre Sacchi, Emerson Giannini, Regiane Bochic, Nicolau Reinhard, Alexandre B. Lopes:
  Digital inclusion with the McInternet: would you like fries with that? 113-116
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  Clyde W. Holsapple:
  A new map for knowledge dissemination channels. 117-125
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  Mary J. Culnan, Thomas J. Carlin:
  Online privacy practices in higher education: making the grade? 126-130
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  Kenneth R. Fleischmann, William A. Wallace:
  Ensuring transparency in computational modeling. 131-134
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  Florian Mann, Benedikt von Walter, Thomas Hess, Rolf T. Wigand:
  Open access publishing in science. 135-139
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  Greg Linden, Kenneth L. Kraemer, Jason L. Dedrick:
  Who captures value in a global innovation network?: the case of Apple's iPod. 140-144
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  Anna Formica:
  Concept similarity by evaluating information contents and feature vectors: a combined approach. 145-149
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  Alfred Loo:
  Technical opinion - Security threats of smart phones and Bluetooth. 150-152

Volume 52, Number 4, April 2009 (EE)

Education letter

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  Andrew D. McGettrick:
  Computing education matters. 5

Letters to the editor

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  What role for computer science in the war on terror? 9

CACM online

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  David Roman:
  An ongoing study in usability. 10

News

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  Graeme Stemp-Morlock:
  Learning more about active learning. 11-13
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  Alex Wright:
  Our sentiments, exactly. 14-15
• 
  David Essex:
  Did somebody say virtual colonoscopy? 16-18
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  Bob Violino:
  Time to reboot. 19
• 
  Alan Joch:
  IT ecosystem in peril. 20

Viewpoints

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  Richard Heeks:
  Emerging markets - IT and the world's "bottom billion". 22-24
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  George V. Neville-Neil:
  Kode vicious - System changes and side effects. 25-26
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  Michael A. Cusumano:
  Technology strategy and management - Strategies for difficult (and Darwinian) economic times. 27-28
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  Michael Buckley:
  Viewpoint - Computing as social science. 29-30
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  Bertrand Meyer, Christine Choppy, Jørgen Staunstrup, Jan van Leeuwen:
  Viewpoint - Research evaluation for computer science. 31-34

Practice

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  Mike Shapiro:
  Purpose-built languages. 36-41
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  Niels Provos, Moheeb Abu Rajab, Panayiotis Mavrommatis:
  Cybercrime 2.0: when the cloud turns dark. 42-47
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  Chris Richardson:
  ORM in dynamic languages. 48-55

Contributed articles

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  Gerhard Weikum, Gjergji Kasneci, Maya Ramanath, Fabian M. Suchanek:
  Database and information-retrieval methods for knowledge discovery. 56-64
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  Samuel Williams, Andrew Waterman, David A. Patterson:
  Roofline: an insightful visual performance model for multicore architectures. 65-76

Review articles

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  Daniel Jackson:
  A direct path to dependable software. 78-88

Research highlights

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  Arif Merchant:
  Technical perspective - Disk array models for automating storage management. 90
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  Michael P. Mesnier, Matthew Wachs, Raja R. Sambasivan, Alice X. Zheng, Gregory R. Ganger:
  Relative fitness modeling. 91-96
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  Goetz Graefe:
  Technical perspective - Integrating flash devices. 97
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  David Roberts, Taeho Kgil, Trevor N. Mudge:
  Integrating NAND flash devices onto servers. 98-103

Last byte

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  Leah Hofmann:
  Q&A - Our dame commander. 112-

Virtual extension

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  Jay F. Nunamaker Jr., Bruce A. Reinig, Robert O. Briggs:
  Principles for effective virtual teamwork. 113-117
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  Maris G. Martinsons, Robert M. Davison, Valdis Martinsons:
  How culture influences IT-enabled organizational change and information systems. 118-123
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  Gee-Woo Bock, Swee Ling Ho:
  Non-work related computing (NWRC). 124-128
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  Kevin P. Scheibe, James C. McElroy, Paula C. Morrow:
  Object language and impression management. 129-131
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  France Bélanger, Lemuria D. Carter:
  The impact of the digital divide on e-government use. 132-135
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  Zeinab Karake Shalhoub:
  Analysis of industry-specific concentration of CPOs in Fortune 500 companies. 136-141
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  Eusebio Scornavacca Jr., Sid L. Huff, Stephen Marshall:
  Mobile phones in the classroom: if you can't beat them, join them. 142-146
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  Paulo B. Góes, Yanbin Tu, Y. Alex Tung:
  Technical opinion - Online auctions hidden metrics. 147-149

Volume 52, Number 5, May 2009 (EE)

Editor's letter

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  Moshe Y. Vardi:
  Conferences vs. journals in computing research. 5

Letters to the editor

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  Logic of lemmings in compiler innovation. 7-9

blog@CACM

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  Recommendation algorithms, online privacy, and more. 10-11

CACM online

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  David Roman:
  The print-web partnership turns the page. 12

News

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  Kirk L. Kroeker:
  Rethinking signal processing. 13-15
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  David Essex:
  Matchmaker, matchmaker. 16-17
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  Samuel Greengard:
  Learning goes global. 18-19
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  Liskov wins Turing award. 21

Viewpoints

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  Pierre Larouche:
  Law and technology - The network neutrality debate hits Europe. 22-24
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  LeAnne Coder, Joshua L. Rosenbloom, Ronald A. Ash, Brandon R. Dupont:
  Economic and business dimensions - Increasing gender diversity in the IT work force. 25-27
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  Martin Campbell-Kelly:
  Historical reflections - The rise, fall, and resurrection of software as a service. 28-30
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  Mark Guzdial:
  Education - Teaching computing to everyone. 31-33
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