Communications of the ACM
DEPARTMENT: Publications board letter
DEPARTMENT: Publisher's corner
DEPARTMENT: Letters to the editor
DEPARTMENT: CACM online
COLUMN: News
COLUMN: Viewpoints
SECTION: Practice
SECTION: Contributed articles
SECTION: Review articles
SECTION: Research highlights
COLUMN: Last byte
SECTION: Virtual extension
ACM Publications: Access and Sustainability
DEPARTMENT: Publisher's corner
Looking Back and Forward
DEPARTMENT: Letters to the editor
Apple Builds Great Platforms, Too, Not Just Products
DEPARTMENT: CACM online
Previewing the New CACM Web Site
Readers use Communications' content—print and digital—in different ways. These habits have significantly impacted the design of the soon-to-be-launched Communications Web site.COLUMN: News
Living Machines
Researchers of molecular computing and communication are focusing on the type of breakthroughs needed to make the vision of ultrasmall, biocompatible computers a reality.Touching the Future
In combination with finger and hand gestures, multitouch input is enabling users to manipulate and display information in innovative and unprecedented ways.Upwardly Mobile
Mobile phones are bridging the digital divide and transforming many economic, social, and medical realities, particularly in developing nations.Making a Difference
The Grace Hopper Celebration featured technical talks, workshops, networking events, and lively discussions about increasing the number of women in computer science.COLUMN: Viewpoints
Emerging Markets: Labor Supply in the Indian IT Industry
Exploring the evolving dynamics and interconnectedness of India's educational system and its IT work force.Advising Policymakers Is More Than Just Providing Advice
What are the factors that make certain advisory committee reports successful while others are not?Kode Vicious: Permanence and Change
Highlighting the importance of doing one's best in view of code longevity and the impermanence of the changineer.Time to Take Evolutionary Development Off the Shelf
Large systems projects are failing at an alarming rate. It's time to take evolutionary design methods off the shelf.Database Dialogue with Pat Selinger
Relational database pioneer Patricia G. Selinger explores the vast realm of database technology and trends in a wide-ranging discussion with Microsoft's James Hamilton.SECTION: Practice
High-Performance Web Sites
Want to make your Web site fly? Focus on frontend performance.CTO Virtualization Roundtable: Part II
When it comes to virtualization platforms, experts say focus first on the services to be delivered.SECTION: Contributed articles
Got Data? A Guide to Data Preservation in the Information Age
Tools for surviving a data deluge to ensure your data will be there when you need it.Ontologies and the Semantic Web
How ontologies provide the semantics, as explained here with the help of Harry Potter and his owl Hedwig.SECTION: Review articles
Open Information Extraction from the Web
Targeted IE methods are transforming into open-ended techniques.SECTION: Research highlights
Technical Perspective: One Size Fits All: An Idea Whose Time Has Come and Gone
Beginning in the early to mid-1980s the relational model of data has dominated the DBMS landscape. Moreover, descendents of the early relational prototypes have become …Breaking the Memory Wall in MonetDB
In this paper, we report how research around the MonetDB database system has led to a redesign of database architecture in order to take advantage of modern hardware, and in particular to avoid hitting the memory wall.Technical Perspective: Patching Program Errors
C programmers are are all too familiar with out-of-bounds memory errors. The paper here presents an intriguing technique for automatically isolating and correcting these errors …Exterminator: Automatically Correcting Memory Errors with High Probability
Programs written in C and C++ are susceptible to memory errors, including buffer overflows and dangling pointers. We present Exterminator, a system that automatically corrects heap-based memory errors without programmer intervention …COLUMN: Last byte
Puzzled: Solutions and Sources
Last month (November 2008, p. 112) we posed a trio of brain teasers concerning circular food shapes. Here, we offer some possible solutions. How did you do?Future Tense: Pester Power
Future Tense, one of the revolving features on this page, presents stories from the intersection of computational science and technological speculation, their boundaries limited only by our ability to imagine what will and could …SECTION: Virtual extension
