Communications of the ACM
DEPARTMENT: Editor's letter
DEPARTMENT: Letters to the editor
DEPARTMENT: CACM online
COLUMN: News
COLUMN: Viewpoints
DEPARTMENT: ACM's FY08 annual report
SECTION: Practice
SECTION: Contributed articles
SECTION: Review articles
SECTION: Research highlights
COLUMN: Last byte
SECTION: Virtual extension
How Are We Doing?
A rabbinical story tells about an angry reader who stormed into a newspaper office waving the day's paper, asking to see the editor of the obituary column.DEPARTMENT: Letters to the editor
True Seeds of Open-Source Software
Though I appreciated Martin Campbell-Kelly's "Viewpoint" "Will the Future of Software Be Open Source?" (Oct. 2008), we must still rectify a small piece of history to apportion credit correctly.DEPARTMENT: CACM online
Communications Preps Web-Enhanced Articles
The soon to launch Communications Web site will break the bounds of the printed monthly.COLUMN: News
Calculating the Future
Climate researchers have no shortage of scientific issues on which to expend computer power. The biggest problem is choosing which one to tackle first.The Universe in Your Computer
Two virtual astronomical telescopes promise to transform the way people view and study the cosmos.Context-Aware Smartphones
Future generations of smartphones will be context aware, tracking your behavior, providing information about the immediate environment, and anticipating your intentions.A Pioneer Woman
Programmer Jean Bartik is inducted into the Computer History Museum's Hall of Fellows.COLUMN: Viewpoints
Law and Technology: The End of the Generative Internet
Exploring the expectations and implications for version 2.0 of the Net's new gated communities.Ground Control to Architect Tom . . .
Architecture astronauts habitually speak at extremely high levels of abstraction to avoid engaging in tangible discussions that might lead to disclosing that they really have no idea of what they are talking about.The Business of Software: The Ontology of Paper
The next generation of software engineering will involve designing systems without using paper-based formats, instead using software to develop software.Technology Strategy and Management: The Legacy of Bill Gates
Assessing the pluses and minuses of the helmsmanship of Microsoft Corporation since its inception.Viewpoint: Scaling the Academic Publication Process to Internet Scale
A proposal to remedy problems in the reviewing process.DEPARTMENT: ACM's FY08 annual report
ACM's Annual Report
I would be hard-pressed to recall in my four decades as an ACM member a time as eventful and exceptional as recorded by ACM in FY08.SECTION: Practice
Eventually Consistent
Building reliable distributed systems at a worldwide scale demands trade-offs between consistency and availability.The Long Road to 64 Bits
The sometimes contentious development of 64-bit systems shows how technology decisions can have unexpected, enduring consequences.SECTION: Contributed articles
Engineering Rural Development
Information systems enable rural development by increasing the accountability of nongovernmental organizations.wisePad Services For Vision-, Hearing-, and Speech-Impaired Users
The wisePad system is envisioned as a full-service computing platform capable of delivering personalized image, audio, and text services to millions of individuals worldwide with impaired vision or hearing problems.SECTION: Review articles
Computational Challenges in E-Commerce
Economic and social sciences will drive Internet protocols and services into the future.SECTION: Research highlights
Technical Perspective: Customizing Media to Displays
A mind-boggling array of displays differ greatly in resolutions and aspect ratios. But images and videos are captured at fixed resolutions and aspect ratios, and viewing them properly in a display can be a challenge.Seam Carving For Media Retargeting
Traditional image resizing techniques are oblivious to the content of the image when changing its width or height. In contrast, media (i.e., image and video) retargeting takes content into account.Technical Perspective: Finding and Telling Stories with Data
Visual analysis, a powerful method for finding and telling stories with data, is moving from research into widespread use.Voyagers and Voyeurs: Supporting Asynchronous Collaborative Visualization
This article describes mechanisms for asynchronous collaboration in the context of information visualization, recasting visualizations as not just analytic tools, but social spaces.COLUMN: Last byte
Q&A: The Upper Limit
Jeannette Wing talks about clusters, creativity, and the power of computational thinking.SECTION: Virtual extension
