Communications of the ACM
DEPARTMENT: Editorial pointers
DEPARTMENT: News track
DEPARTMENT: Forum
COLUMN: The business of software
COLUMN: Practical programmer
COLUMN: Viewpoint
SPECIAL ISSUE: Computer-supported cooperative work in design
SPECIAL ISSUE: What UML should be
SPECIAL ISSUE: Licensing software engineers
COLUMN: Technical opinion
COLUMN: Inside risks
Editorial Pointers
DEPARTMENT: News track
News Track
DEPARTMENT: Forum
Forum
COLUMN: The business of software
Ten Unmyths of Project Estimation
Reconsidering some commonly accepted project management practices.COLUMN: Practical programmer
Sorting out Software Complexity
Underlying complexity escalates exponentially: some little-known research findings.COLUMN: Viewpoint
New Surveillance Techniques Raise Privacy Concerns
How much privacy are citizens willing to surrender in the interest of public safety?SPECIAL ISSUE: Computer-supported cooperative work in design
Introduction
Systems design is a complex activity requiring the cooperation of multi-disciplinary teams. Most of the time, these teams are located in different places and use different software applications for various purposes. Distribution …A Complex Systems Perspective on Computer-Supported Collaborative Design Technology
What can be done to better support collaborative innovation?On-the-Fly Web Content Integrity Check Boosts -sers' Confidence
Malicious attacks on Web servers by intruders and hackers are prime concerns of organizations, administrators of Web sites, as well as users who access them.A Collaborative Platform For Fixed and Mobile Networks
C/Webtop: providing users with a means for collaborating while on the move.A Java 3D-Enabled Cyber Workspace
Along with the browser paradigm, Java has fundamentally changed the work environment, helping produce compelling applications for collaborating over the Internet.The World-Wide Telescope
Mining vast databases of astronomical data, this new online way to see the global structure of the universe promises to be not only a wonderful virtual telescope but an archetype for the evolution of computational science.Seti@home: an Experiment in Public-Resource Computing
Millions of computer owners worldwide contribute computer time to the search for extraterrestrial intelligence, performing the largest computation ever.Volume-Rendered Galactic Animations
How a 40-billion-pixel Orion Nebula visualization was rendered for a 9.1-million-pixel display at the Hayden Planetarium of the American Museum of Natural History.SPECIAL ISSUE: What UML should be
Introduction
UML is at a crossroads. Which of the proposed revisions will bring it closer to meeting user needs and winning tool-vendor commitment? What if UML2 instead combined the best features of each proposal?Evolution, Not Revolution
Any consideration of altering UML must account for its current user base and its potential role as the keystone of a new model-based method of software development.Uml2 Must Enable a Family of Languages
UML2 needs to take advantage of new infrastructure to enable first-class specialization and variation of the UML superstructure language.Make Models Be Assets
Needed first is a layered UML with a small, well-defined, executable, translatable kernel that enables and supports development of an extensible tool chain.Be Clear, Clean, Concise
UML needs to focus on its foundations.Why Significant Uml Change Is Unlikely
Reform may be too little too late to spare software engineers the cognitively overwhelming effort of applying UML to modeling system structure and behavior in a truly unified manner.SPECIAL ISSUE: Licensing software engineers
Should Software Engineers Be Licensed?
Acm's Position on the Licensing of Software Engineers
Texas Licensing of Software Engineers: All's Quiet, For Now
The notion of licensing software engineers has been weighed and argued on global, national, and statewide platforms for many years. Here, we go to the frontlines---Texas and Canada---where the practice of licensing is in fact …A Rice University Perspective on Software Engineering Licensing
Licensing Software Engineers in Canada
Software Engineering Requires Individual Professionalism
COLUMN: Technical opinion
Software Engineering Considered Harmful
In search of a resolution to the ongoing software crisis.COLUMN: Inside risks
