Communications of the ACM
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COLUMN: News
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SECTION: Practice
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A New Beginning, A Fond Farewell
I am writing this column in my last month as President of ACM. It's been a great opportunity to support the Association's many successful programs and to expand and firmly establish new directions. Much has been accomplished, …DEPARTMENT: Letters to the editor
Words Both Kind and Contrary
DEPARTMENT: CACM online
Small Changes Hint at Bigger Things
COLUMN: News
Designing the Perfect Auction
Distributed algorithmic mechanism design is a field at the intersection of computer science and economics.Access For All
Accessible technologies are improving the lives of millions of physically impaired people around the world.Challenging Poverty
Information and communication technologies are an important component in the generation of wealth. How can they help reduce poverty?Remembering Jim
Both melancholy and reverential, the Jim Gray Tribute at the University of California at Berkeley honored one of computer science's leading pioneers and visionaries.COLUMN: Viewpoints
The Profession of IT: Voices of Computing
The choir of engineers, mathematicians, and scientists who make up the bulk of our field better represents computing than the solo voice of the programmer.From the Front Lines: Software Development Amidst the Whiz of Silver Bullets
Software development organizations must accept the inevitability of silver-bullet solution proposals and devise strategies to defend against them.Education: Paving the Way For Computational Thinking
Drawing on methods from diverse disciplines---including computer science, education, sociology, and psychology---to improve computing education.Viewpoint: Envisioning the Future of Computing Research
Advances in computing have changed our lives---the Computing Community Consortium aims to help the research community continue that lineage.Interview: Donald Knuth: A Life's Work Interrupted
In this second of a two-part interview by Edward Feigenbaum, we find Knuth, having completed three volumes of The Art of Computer Programming, drawn to creating a system to produce books digitally.SECTION: Practice
Scaling in Games and Virtual Worlds
Online games and virtual worlds have familiar scaling requirements, but don't be fooled: Everything you know is wrong.CTO Storage Roundtable: Part I
Leaders in the storage world offer valuable advice for making more effective architecture and technology decisions.The Rise and Fall of CORBA
There's a lot we can learn from CORBA's mistakes.SECTION: Contributed articles
Designing Games With a Purpose
Data generated as a side effect of game play also solves computational problems and trains AI algorithms.The Collaborative Organization of Knowledge
Why Wikipedia's remarkable growth is sustainable.SECTION: Review articles
Computer Science and Game Theory
The most dramatic interaction between CS and GT may involve game-theory pragmatics.SECTION: Research highlights
Technical Perspective: A Methodology For Evaluating Computer System Performance
Computer science has long had a solid foundation for evaluating the performance of algorithms. The asymptotic complexity of the time required by an algorithm is well defined …Wake Up and Smell the Coffee: Evaluation Methodology For the 21st Century
Evaluation methodology underpins all innovation in experimental computer science. It requires relevant workloads, appropriate experimental design, and rigorous analysis. Unfortunately, methodology is not keeping pace with the …Technical Perspective: Transactions Are Tomorrow's Loads and Stores
In computer science, when we say "time is money," we typically refer to two types of time that determine the costs and benefits of a given computer program: the time it takes …Composable Memory Transactions
In this paper we present a concurrency model based on transactional memory. All the usual benefits of transactional memory are present, but in addition …COLUMN: Last byte
