Communications of the ACM
DEPARTMENT: President's letter
DEPARTMENT: Publisher's corner
DEPARTMENT: Letters to the editor
DEPARTMENT: CACM online
COLUMN: News
COLUMN: Viewpoints
SECTION: Practice
SECTION: Contributed articles
COLUMN: Review articles
SECTION: Research highlights
COLUMN: Last byte
SECTION: Virtual extension
ACM's Place in the Global Picture
ACM's new president intends to make international initiatives a top priority, hoping to share the Association's riches with a greater global audience.DEPARTMENT: Publisher's corner
50 Years Young
I've received dozens of email messages providing feedback on the July issue.DEPARTMENT: Letters to the editor
Knuth's Art of Recovering from Errors
DEPARTMENT: CACM online
Current Features
COLUMN: News
Finding Diamonds in the Rough
Spectral graph theory has proven to be very useful for text search and retrieval and for refining predictive-analysis systems.Ubiquitous Video
Scalable and distributed video coding offers the promise of two-way, real-time video.Privacy Matters
As concerns about protecting personal data increase, differential privacy offers a promising solution.Wisdom from Randy Pausch
Randy Pausch, author of the best-selling The Last Lecture and a virtual-world innovator, on computer science, Alice, and teaching.COLUMN: Viewpoints
Technology Strategy and Management: The Puzzle of Apple
Given Apple's unique characteristics, should it strive to be a platform or a product leader?Kode Vicious: Pride and Prejudice (The Vasa)
Navigating the well-traveled course of communication failure that often leads to engineering disasters.IT Policy: Science Policy Isn't Always About Science
What is the appropriate role and level of influence for science and technical advice in policy deliberations?Viewpoint: Global Warming Toward Open Educational Resources
Seeking to realize the potential for significantly improving and advancing the world's standard of education.SECTION: Practice
How Do I Model State?: Let Me Count the Ways
A study of the technology and sociology of Web service specifications.Powering Down
Smart power management is all about doing more with the resources we have.CTO Storage Roundtable, Part Two
Leaders in the storage industry ponder upcoming technologies and trends.Software Engineering and Formal Methods
The answer to software reliability concerns may lie in formal methods.SECTION: Contributed articles
Beyond Keywords: Automated Question Answering on the Web
Beyond Google, emerging question-answering systems respond to natural-language queries.Design and Code Reviews in the Age of the Internet
New collaboration tools allow geographically distributed software-development teams to boost the venerable concept of code review.COLUMN: Review articles
Information Integration in the Enterprise
A guide to the tools and core technologies for merging information from disparate sources.SECTION: Research highlights
Technical Perspective: Transactional Memory in the Operating System
The long tradition of building ever-faster processors is ending, with the computer industry instead putting more processing "cores" on each processor chip. Therefore, to continue …TxLinux and MetaTM: Transactional Memory and the Operating System
TxLinux is the first operating system to use hardware transactional memory (HTM) as a synchronization primitive, and the first to manage HTM in the scheduler. TxLinux, a modification of Linux, is the first real-scale benchmark …Technical Perspective: Distributing Your Data and Having It, Too
Distributed Selection: A Missing Piece of Data Aggregation
In this article, we study the problem of distributed selection from a theoretical point of view. Given a general connected graph of diameter D consisting of n nodes in which each node holds a numeric element, the goal of a k-selection …COLUMN: Last byte
Puzzled: Solutions and Sources
Last month (August 2008, p. 104) Peter Winkler posed a trio of brain teasers in his "Puzzled" column. Here, he offers some solutions. How well did you do?Future Tense: Will
Expect virtual immortality through enduring, realistic avatars based on published work and archived memory.SECTION: Virtual extension
