Diane Crawford
Page 5
Robert Fox
Pages 11-12
Pages 13-16
"You can see a lot just by observing" —Attributed to Yogi Berra
Robert L. Glass
Pages 17-19
Skill standards provide IT workers and students with clear benchmarks leading to skilled, high-paying jobs.
Roy Rada
Pages 21-26
Donald J. Bagert
Pages 27-29
As the new Executive Director and CEO of ACM, I am delighted to have this opportunity to share with you my excitement regarding some of the new initiatives and services ACM is launching this year. The organization has made major …
John White
Pages 30-31
Open source is a term that has recently gained currency as a way to describe the tradition of open standards, shared source code, and collaborative development behind software such as the Linux and FreeBSD operating systems, …
Tim O'Reilly
Pages 32-37
Linux today has millions of users, thousands of developers, and a growing market. It is used in embedded systems; it is used to control robotic devices; it has flown on the space shuttle. I'd like to say that I knew this would …
Linus Torvalds
Pages 38-39
Approximately 12 years ago, the Unix programming universe consisted of two linguistic cultures. You either programmed in C, or you programmed in the shell (for some value of shell). The two systems were good for different things …
Larry Wall
Pages 40-41
The Apache Project [
1] is a collaborative software development effort aimed at creating and maintaining a robust, secure, efficient, extensible, and open-source implementation of an HTTP (Web) server. The project is managed by …
Roy T. Fielding
Pages 42-43
Sooner or later, every successful open-source software package will have one or more profitable businesses associated with it. For example, the Linux operating system is supported by several companies including Red Hat and Caldera …
John Ousterhout
Pages 44-45
Evolvable hardware (EHW) refers to one particular type of hardware whose architecture, structure, and functions change dynamically and autonomously in order to improve its performance in performing certain tasks [
1]. The emergence …
Xin Yao
Pages 46-49
From Darwin to Darware: Why computer engineers have started listening to Mother (Nature).
Moshe Sipper, Daniel Mange, Eduardo Sanchez
Pages 50-56
Pierre Marchal
Pages 57-59
Autonomous, dynamic, and suitable for a variety of real-world applications.
Tetsuya Higuchi, Nobuki Kajihara
Pages 60-66
A brief explanation of AdAM, the Adaptive Architecture Methodology.
Tomofumi Hikage, Hitoshi Hemmi, Katsunori Shimohara
Pages 64-65
Jason D. Lohn
Pages 67-69
Artificial evolution can produce bizarre circuits that work—but do we need to understand them?
Adrian Thompson, Paul Layzell
Pages 71-79
How merchants can win back lost consumer trust in the interests of e-commerce sales.
Donna L. Hoffman, Thomas P. Novak, Marcos Peralta
Pages 80-85
The Global Positioning System can be used to give every terminal a geographic address for multicasting to and from recipients within specified geographical areas.
Tomasz Imieliński, Julio C. Navas
Pages 86-92
These checks and balances prevent project runaways and deliver systems that further corporate strategy and performance.
Niv Ahituv, Moshe Zviran, Chanan Glezer
Pages 93-99
Rachid Guerraoui, Mohamed E. Fayad
Pages 101-104
Lauren Weinstein
Page 120
