Communications of the ACM
The blog archive provides access to past blog postings from Communications of the ACM and other sources by date.
November 2008
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
Game-Changing Advances from Computing Research
In a November 4 post, we asked your help in identifying game-changing advances from computing research conducted in the past 20 years.
From U.S. Public Policy Committee of the ACM
USACM Chair Spafford Addresses Information Security Curricula
USACM Chair Eugene Spafford recently made predictions about information security curriculua in American higher education for CSO Magazine. You can read his comments online.
According to Spafford, information security is like…From Wild WebMink
Link Roundup for November 22-26
Like London buses, you go for ages without seeing a story you want to link and then a load come along at once.
Lifestreaming in ObamalandDan Farber notes how Obama's team is taking the initiative on even the trivia in the reportage…From Wild WebMink
Link roundup for November 19-22
From U.S. Public Policy Committee of the ACM
Final E-Verify Rule Announced for Contractors
Under a final rule published November 14, certain federal contractors and subcontractors will be required to use e-Verify, an electronic employment verification system, starting early next year. The regulation applies to certain…
From Wild WebMink
Link roundup for November 19
HDCP Sucks: New MacBooks Have HDCP, Gives iTunes Purchases Less Freedom "Because copyright protection is all about inconveniencing those who actually bought their stuff legally." -- One more reason to buy fewer movies, and where…
From U.S. Public Policy Committee of the ACM
Election 2008: E-Voting Poses Problems, But No Meltdown
While some federal races remain too close to call, or are headed to runoffs, the 2008 election is notable for the lack of a dispute over election machines that may affect the outcome of an election. USACM members and ACM staff…
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
Multi-core and Parallel Programming: Is the Sky Falling?
In previous posts on this blog, Berkeley’s David Patterson, Intel’s Andrew Chien, and Microsoft’s Dan Reed presented their views on why research advances are needed to overcome the problems posed by multicore processors. In this…
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
Computer Science Outside The Box
One of the great things about computing research is that, despite our incredible track record of game-changing advances, we
From Springenwerk Blog
Links for 2008-11-10 [del.icio.us]
- Developer Forums Beta: HTTP Post request with post variables ... http post upload with iPhone SDK
From Springenwerk Blog
Links for 2008-11-09 [del.icio.us]
- Developer Forums Beta: HTTP Post request with post variables ... http post upload with iPhone SDK
From U.S. Public Policy Committee of the ACM
Computers, Freedom and Privacy Conference 2009
The Computers, Freedom and Privacy (CFP) Conference recently issued the call for proposals for its 19th conference, slated for June 1-4, 2009 in the Washington, D.C. area. Proposals are due December 19, 2008. The conference…
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
Game-Changing Advances from Computing Research
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From Wild WebMink
Public Procurement and FOSS
I gave an interview to a journalist last week in response to the research that the European Commission's Open Source Observatory publicised in Malaga last week and the corresponding draft procurement guidelines (thanks to Roberto…
From Springenwerk Blog
Links for 2008-11-02 [del.icio.us]
- Simple Localization in Rails 2.2 - almost effortless i18n tutorial