ACM Queue, Volume 2

Volume 2, Number 1, March 2004

DSPs: Digitizing the Analog World Departments

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  Richard F. Lyon:
  From the Editors: DSP 4 You. 6
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  Letters. 7
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  News 2.0. 8
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  Alexander Wolfe:
  Toolkit: Get Your Graphics On: OpenGL Advances with the Times. 10-13
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  Robert Broderson:
  Interview: A Conversation with Teresa Meng. 14-21
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  Book Reviews. 92
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  Calendar. 94
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  Stan Kelly-Bootle:
  Curmudgeon: Damnéd Digits. 95-96

Queue Focus: DSP

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  Gene Frantz, Ray Simar:
  Of Processors and Processing. 22-30
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  Homayoun Shahri:
  On Mapping Alogrithms to DSP Architectures. 32-41
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  W. Patrick Hays:
  DSPs: Back to the Future. 42-51
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  William J. Dally, Ujval J. Kapasi, Brucek Khailany, Jung Ho Ahn, Abhishek Das:
  Stream Processors: Progammability and Efficiency. 52-62
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  Boris Murmann, Bernhard E. Boser:
  Digitally Assisted Analog Integrated Circuits. 64-71

Features

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  Alex E. Bell:
  Death by UML Fever. 72-80
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  Laury Verner:
  BPM: The Promise and the Challenge. 82-91

Volume 2, Number 2, April 2004

Searching vs. Finding Departments

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  Edward Grossman:
  From the Editors: Search - An Enterprising Affair. 6
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  Letters. 8
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  News 2.0. 9
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  Jef Raskin:
  Opinion: Voting Machine Hell. 10-11
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  Alexander Wolfe:
  Toolkit: Intel's Heavy-Duty Dev Tools. 12-17
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  Steve Kirsch:
  Interview: A Conversation with Matt Wells. 18-24
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  Book Reviews. 81
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  Calendar. 82
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  David J. Brown:
  Curmudgeon: Search Hurts. 84-83

Queue Focus: Search

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  William A. Woods:
  Searching vs. Finding. 26-35
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  Rajat Mukherjee, Jianchang Mao:
  Enterprise Search: Tough Stuff. 36-46
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  Anna Patterson:
  Why Writing Your Own Search Engine Is Hard. 48-53
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  Michael J. Cafarella, Douglas R. Cutting:
  Building Nutch: Open Source Search. 54-61

Features

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  Nick Porcino:
  Gaming Graphics: The Road to Revolution. 62-71
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  John Stone, Sarah Merrion:
  Instant Messaging or Instant Headache? 72-80

Volume 2, Number 3, May 2004

Open Source Grows Up Departments

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  Eric Allman, Marshall K. McKusick:
  From the Editors: Open Source Revisited. 8-9
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  Letters. 10
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  News 2.0. 11
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  Rodney Bates:
  Opinion: Buffer Overrun Madness. 12-14
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  James Russell:
  Interview: Sam Leffler. 16-22
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  Book Reviews. 74
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  Calendar. 76
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  Josh Coates:
  Curmudgeon: A Bigot by Any Other Name... 80-78

Queue Focus

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  Jordan Hubbard:
  Open Source to the Core. 24-31
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  David Ascher:
  Is OS Right for You? (A Fictional Case Study). 32-38
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  Jay Michaelson:
  There's No Such Thing as a Free (Software) Lunch. 40-47
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  Bart Decrem:
  Desktop Linux: Where Art Thou? 48-56

Features

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  Andy Currid:
  TCP Offload to the Rescue. 58-65
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  Ramana Rao:
  From IR to Search, and Beyond. 66-73

Volume 2, Number 4, June 2004

Surviving Network Attacks Departments

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  Edward Grossman:
  From the Editors: The New Screen of Death. 8
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  Letters. 10
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  News 2.0. 12
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  Phillip A. Laplante:
  Opinion: First, Do No Harm: A Hippocratic Oath for Software Developers? 14-18
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  Alexander Wolfe:
  Toolkit: Grid Tools: Coming to a Cluster Near You. 20-23
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  Stuart I. Feldman:
  Interview: Brewster Kahle. 24-33
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  Book Reviews. 76
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  Calendar. 78
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  Stan Kelly-Bootle:
  Curmudgeon: From This Moment On. 80-79

Queue Focus

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  Jim Morrison:
  Blaster Revisited. 34-43
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  Marcus J. Ranum:
  Security: The root of the Problem. 44-49
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  Ben Laurie:
  Network Forensics. 50-56
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  Herbert H. Thompson, Richard Ford:
  Perfect Storm: The Insider, Naivety, and Hostility. 58-65

Features

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  Kenneth N. Lodding:
  The Hitchhiker's Guide to Biomorphic Software. 66-75

Volume 2, Number 5, July/August 2004

The Reincarnation of Virtual Machines Departments

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  Edward Grossman:
  From the Editors: Virtually Yours. 8
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  Letters. 10
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  News 2.0. 12
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  Jef Raskin:
  Opinion: For Want of a Comma, the Meaning Was Lost. 14-16
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  Alexander Wolfe:
  Toolkit: Samba Does Windows-to-Linux Dance. 18-21
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  What's on Your Hard Drive? 22
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  Eric Allman:
  Interview: James Gosling. 24-33
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  Book Reviews. 76
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  Calendar. 78
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  Stan Kelly-Bootle:
  Curmudgeon: Without a NULL That String Would Never End. 80-79

Queue Focus

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  Mendel Rosenblum:
  The Reincarnation of Virtual Machines. 34-40
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  Poul-Henning Kamp, Robert Watson:
  Building Systems to Be Shared, Securely. 42-51
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  Bob Supnik:
  Simulators: Virtual Machines of the Past (and Future). 52-58

Features

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  John Viega, Matt Messier:
  Security is Harder than You Think. 60-65
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  Douglas C. Schmidt, Aniruddha S. Gokhale, Balachandran Natarajan:
  Leveraging Application Frameworks. 66-75

Volume 2, Number 6, September 2004

Riding the VoIP Wave Departments

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  Edward Grossman:
  From the Editors. 8
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  Letters. 10
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  News 2.0. 11
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  Rodney Bates:
  Opinion: Schizoid Classes. 12-15
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  Alexander Wolfe:
  Toolkit: Longhorn Ties Platform Apps to Core Operating System. 16-19
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  What's on Your Hard Drive? 20
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  Book Reviews. 76
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  Calendar. 78
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  Stan Kelly-Bootle:
  Curmudgeon: Vote Early, Vote Often. 80-79

Feature

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  Lucy Sanders:
  Interview: Donald Peterson. 22-29
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  Gordon Bell:
  A Time and a Place for Standards. 66-74

Queue Focus: Voice Over IP

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  Phil Sherburne, Cary Fitzgerald:
  You Don't Know Jack About VoIP. 30-38
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  James E. Coffman:
  Not Your Father's PBX? 40-47
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  Sudhir R. Ahuja, J. Robert Ensor:
  VoIP: What is it Good for? 48-55
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  Douglas C. Sicker, Tom D. Lookabaugh:
  VoIP Security: Not an Afterthought. 56-64

Volume 2, Number 7, October 2004

RFID: threat or promise? From the editors

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  Edward Grossman:
  RFID isn't science fiction. 10

Letters

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  Edward Grossman:
  Letters. 12

News 2.0

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  Edward Grossman:
  News 2.0. 13

Reader files

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  Edward Grossman:
  What's on your hard drive? 14

Kode vicious

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  George V. Neville-Neil:
  Kode vicious. 16-18

Opinion

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  Barbara B. Simons:
  Electronic voting systems: the good, the bad, and the stupid. 20-26

Toolkit

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  Alexander Wolfe:
  There's still some life left in Ada. 28-31

Interview

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  George V. Neville-Neil:
  A conversation with Mike Deliman. 32-39

Q Focus: RFID

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  Roy Want:
  The magic of RFID. 40-48
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  Sanjay E. Sarma:
  Integrating RFID. 50-57

Features

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  Marshall K. McKusick, George V. Neville-Neil:
  Thread scheduling in FreeBSD 5.2. 58-64
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  Kang Su Gatlin:
  Trials and tribulations of debugging concurrency. 66-73

Reviews

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  Arun Ektare:
  Review of "Dynamic Reconfiguration: Architectures and Algorithms by Ramachandran Vaidyanathan and Jerry L. Trahan". 74
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  Alladin Ayesh:
  Review of "Immunity-based systems by Yoshiteru Ishida". 74

Calendar

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  Edward Grossman:
  Calendar. 76

Soundoff

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  Phillip A. Laplante:
  The burning bag of dung: and other environmental antipatterns. 80-

Volume 2, Number 8, November 2004

Oops! System errors happen. Deal with it. From the editors

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  Edward Grossman:
  The guru code. 10

Letters

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  Edward Grossman:
  Letters. 12

News 2.0

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  John Stanik:
  News 2.0. 14

Reader files

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  Edward Grossman:
  What's on your hard drive? 16

Kode vicious

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  George V. Neville-Neil:
  Kode vicious strikes again. 18-21

Interview

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  Stephen R. Bourne:
  A conversation with Bruce Lindsay. 22-33

Q Focus: Error recovery

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  Aaron B. Brown:
  Oops! Coping with human error in IT systems. 34-41
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  Brendan Murphy:
  Automating software failure reporting. 42-48
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  Paul P. Maglio, Eser Kandogan:
  Error messages: what's the problem? 50-55

Features

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  Adam Kolawa:
  Outsourcing: devising a game plan. 56-62
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  Vijay Gill:
  Lack of priority queuing considered harmful. 64-69

REVIEWS

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  Rita Puzmanova:
  Review of "Wi-Foo: The Secrets of Wireless Hacking by Andrew Vladimirov, Konstantin V. Gravrilenko, and Andrei A. Mikhailovsky". 70
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  Bayard Kohlhepp:
  Review of "Network Distributed Computing: Fitscapes and Fallacies by Max K. Goff". 70

Calendar

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  Edward Grossman:
  Calendar. 72

Careers

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  Edward Grossman:
  Careers. 74-77

Curmedgeon

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  Rodney Bates:
  Programming in Franglais. 80-

Volume 2, Number 9, December 2004/January 2005

The big programming languages issue of objects, components, and web services: extensible programming languages From the editors

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  Edward Grossman:
  The big programming languages issue. 10

Letters

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  Edward Grossman:
  Letters. 12

News 2.0

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  John Stanik:
  News 2.0. 13

Reader files

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  Edward Grossman:
  What's on your hard drive? 14

Kode vicious

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  George V. Neville-Neil:
  Kode vicious: the return. 16-18

Interview

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  Stuart I. Feldman, Alan C. Kay:
  A conversation with Alan Kay. 20-30

Q focus: programming languages

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  John R. Mashey:
  Languages, levels, libraries, and longevity. 32-38
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  Roger Sessions:
  Fuzzy boundaries: objects, components, and web services. 40-47
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  Gregory V. Wilson:
  Extensible programming for the 21st century. 48-57
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  Donn Seeley:
  How not to write Fortran in any language. 58-65

Features

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  Michael W. Shapiro:
  Self-healing in modern operating systems. 66-75

Reviews

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  Mike S. Joy:
  Review of "Eclipse by Steve Holzner". O'Reilly & Associates, 2004, Isbn 0-596-00641-1. 76
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  Thomas Portele:
  Review of "Spoken Dialogue Technology by Michael F. McTear". 76

Calendar

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  Edward Grossman:
  Calendar. 77

Curmedgeon

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  Stan Kelly-Bootle:
  Linguae Francae. 80-