Communications of the ACM
DEPARTMENT: Editorial pointers
DEPARTMENT: News track
DEPARTMENT: Forum
COLUMN: The profession of IT
COLUMN: Practical programmer
DEPARTMENT: Hot links
COLUMN: Viewpoint
COLUMN: President's letter
COLUMN: Technical opinion
COLUMN: Inside risks
Editorial Pointers
DEPARTMENT: News track
News Track
DEPARTMENT: Forum
Forum
COLUMN: The profession of IT
Recentering Computer Science
The recent decreases of enrollment in computer science programs signal a chasm between our historical emphasis on programming and the contemporary concerns of those choosing careers.COLUMN: Practical programmer
The Plot to Deskill Software Engineering
Do software engineering milestones represent creativity-enhancing or creativity-stifling developments?DEPARTMENT: Hot links
Top 10 Downloads from ACM's Digital Library
COLUMN: Viewpoint
Crisis and Opportunity in Computer Science
The future of the field depends on winning back student enrollment, public interest in technology, and government research funding.COLUMN: President's letter
Rescuing Our Families, Our Neighbors, and Ourselves
Should computer scientists and engineers take on a greater responsibility to help reduce the loss of life and property damage from natural disasters?It's Time to Think Outside the Computational Box
Systems that don't announce when they've reached their final results can `compute' the uncomputable, possibly allowing them to understand their users and generate their own programs from examples.Mobile Cookies Management on a Smart Card
With CookiesCard, cookies are stored on users' smart cards, coupling cookies to users, not to their machines.Call For a Public-Domain Speechweb
All that's missing is innovative use of existing technology and the encouragement of public participation.Detection and Prevention of Stack Buffer Overflow Attacks
How to mitigate remote attacks that exploit buffer overflow vulnerabilities on the stack and enable attackers to take control of the program.Rule of Law and the International Diffusion of E-Commerce
Strong institutional environments serve as a foundation for e-commerce growth opportunities.Business Email: The Killer Impact
Workplace email is quickly evolving to keep up with those who use it---and perhaps to make way for the next killer app.Assessing the Relative Influence of Journals in a Citation Network
Some journals are perceived as sources of knowledge; others serve as storers of knowledge. Learning the strengths and persuasions of journals is of value to academia, scholars, and publishers.Maintaining Enterprise Software Applications
The problem of maintaining integrated applications is by no means a simple one and requires an interdisciplinary approach.An Architecture For Distributed Scenario Building and Evaluation
A Web portal can support collaborative learning and help individuals and organizations plan for an uncertain future.-sing Web-Based Search Data to Predict Macroeconomic Statistics
Tracking common search terms used on the Web can produce accurate, useful statistics about the unemployment rate. We hope to extend this approach to other economic statistics.COLUMN: Technical opinion
Software Process Improvement: It's a Journey, Not a Destination
Realizing the benefits of continuous software process improvement.COLUMN: Inside risks
