Communications of the ACM
DEPARTMENT: Editor's letter
DEPARTMENT: Publisher's corner
DEPARTMENT: CACM online
COLUMN: News
COLUMN: Viewpoints
SECTION: Practice
SECTION: Contributed articles
SECTION: Review articles
SECTION: Research highlights
COLUMN: Last byte
'Where Do You Come From? And Where Are You Going?'
The noted management consulting firm Booz Allen Hamilton recently issued a report identifying the world's 10 most enduring institutions of the 20th and 21st centuries.DEPARTMENT: Publisher's corner
The Art and Business of Revitalizing a 50-Year-Old Science and Technology Magazine
By the time you flip to this page you will have noticed there is something dramatically different with Communications of the ACM.DEPARTMENT: CACM online
Your Attention, Please
The redesigned CACM Web site will deliver exactly what you want.COLUMN: News
Cloud Computing
As software migrates from local PCs to distant Internet servers, users and developers alike go along for the ride.Quantum Computing
Researchers are optimistic, but a practical device is years away.In Search of Dependable Design
How can software and hardware developers increase the reliability of their designs?COLUMN: Viewpoints
Emerging Markets: India's Role in the Globalization of IT
Tracing the exponential growth of the Indian IT industry.Legally Speaking: Revisiting Patentable Subject Matter
Is everything under the sun made by humans patentable subject matter?Kode Vicious: Beautiful Code Exists, If You Know Where to Look
Coding is his game, pleasantries distainedPoint/Counterpoint: Technology Curriculum For the Early 21st Century
In case you missed IT, the world has changed.Image Crisis: Inspiring a New Generation of Computer Scientists
Consider what you can do to encourage young people to pursue technology-related career paths.Interview: The 'Art' of Being Donald Knuth
In this first of a two-part talk, the renowned scholar and computer scientist reflects on the influences that set the course for his extraordinary career.SECTION: Practice
XML Fever
Don't let delusions about XML develop into a virulent strain of XML fever.Flash Storage Memory
Can flash memory become the foundation for a new tier in the storage hierarchy?Beyond Relational Databases
There is more to data access than SQL.SECTION: Contributed articles
Web Science: An Interdisciplinary Approach to Understanding the Web
The Web must be studied as an entity in its own right to ensure it keeps flourishing and prevent unanticipated social effects.The Revolution Inside the Box
How changes in computer architecture are about to impact everyone in the IT business.SECTION: Review articles
Transactional Memory
Is TM the answer for improving parallel programming?SECTION: Research highlights
Technical Perspective: Computer Science Takes on Molecular Dynamics
The following paper by researcher David Shaw and colleagues describes their Anton molecular dynamics engine. Shaw's Anton engine applies leading-edge …Anton, A Special-Purpose Machine For Molecular Dynamics Simulation
The ability to perform long, accurate molecular dynamics (MD) simulations involving proteins and other biological macro-molecules could in principle provide answers to some of the most important currently outstanding questions …Technical Perspective: The Physical Side of Computing
Wireless sensor networks represent a new computing platform that blends computation, sensing, and communication with a physical environment. This new class of embedded …The Emergence of a Networking Primitive in Wireless Sensor Networks
The wireless sensor network community approached networking abstractions as an open question, allowing answers to emerge with time and experience. The Trickle algorithm has become a basic mechanism used in numerous protocols …COLUMN: Last byte
