Communications of the ACM
DEPARTMENT: President's letter
DEPARTMENT: Letters to the editor
DEPARTMENT: In the Virtual Extension
DEPARTMENT: blog@CACM
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 Europe
Increasing ACM's relevance and influence as a membership organization in the global computing community has been a top priority from the outset of my presidency.DEPARTMENT: Letters to the editor
Time and Computing
Edward E. Lee's "Computing Needs Time" (May 2009) might be the most important, stimulating, and timely article I have read in Communications over the past 50 years.DEPARTMENT: In the Virtual Extension
In the Virtual Extension
Communications' Virtual Extension brings more quality articles to ACM members. These articles are now available in the ACM Digital Library.DEPARTMENT: blog@CACM
The Netflix Prize, Computer Science Outreach, and Japanese Mobile Phones
The Communications Web site, http://cacm.acm.org, features more than a dozen bloggers in the BLOG@CACM community. In each issue of Communications, we'll publish excerpts from selected posts. Greg Linden writes about machine learning …DEPARTMENT: CACM online
Following the Leaders
The articles, sections, and services available on Communications' Web site all vie for visitor attention. According to our latest Web statistics, the following features …COLUMN: News
Managing Data
Dealing with terabytes of data is not the monumental task it once was. The difficult part is presenting enormous amounts of information in ways that are most useful to a wide variety of users.Debating Net Neutrality
Advocates seek to protect users from potential business practices, but defenders of the status quo say that concerns are overblown.Shaping the Future
To create shape-shifting robotic ensembles, researchers need to teach micro-machines to work together.COLUMN: Viewpoints
Contagious Craziness, Spreading Sanity
Some examples of the upward or downward spiral of behaviors in the workplace.Computing in the Depression Era
Since its beginning, the computer industry has been through several major recessions, each occurring approximately five years after the establishment of a new computing paradigm …Reflections on Conficker
Conficker's alarming growth rate in early 2009 along with the apparent mystery surrounding its ultimate purpose had raised concern among whitehat security researchers. Here is an insider's view of the …Dealing with the Venture Capital Crisis
The venture capital industry, like financial services in general, has fallen on hard times. Part of the problem is that large payoffs have become increasingly scarce. But perhaps …Kode Reviews 101
A review of code review do's and don'ts.Retrospective: An Axiomatic Basis For Computer Programming
C.A.R. Hoare revisits his past Communications article on the axiomatic approach to programming and uses it as a touchstone for the future.SECTION: Practice
Probing Biomolecular Machines with Graphics Processors
GPU acceleration and other computer performance increases will offer critical benefits to biomedical science.Unifying Biological Image Formats with HDF5
The biosciences need an image format capable of high performance and long-term maintenance. Is HDF5 the answer?A Conversation with David E. Shaw
Stanford professor Pat Hanrahan sits down with the noted hedge fund founder, computational biochemist, and (above all) computer scientist.SECTION: Contributed articles
A View of the Parallel Computing Landscape
Writing programs that scale with increasing numbers of cores should be as easy as writing programs for sequential computers. Here as a concrete example of a coordinated attack on the problem of parallelism …Automated Support For Managing Feature Requests in Open Forums
The result is stable, focused, dynamic discussion threads that avoid redundant ideas and engage thousands of stakeholders.SECTION: Review articles
Smoothed Analysis: An Attempt to Explain the Behavior of Algorithms in Practice
This Gödel Prize-winning work traces the steps toward modeling real data.SECTION: Research highlights
Technical Perspective: Relational Query Optimization: Data Management Meets Statistical Estimation
Relational systems have made it possible to query large collections of data in a declarative style through languages such as SQL. There is a key component that is needed to support this declarative style of programming and that …Distinct-Value Synopses For Multiset Operations
The task of estimating the number of distinct values (DVs) in a large dataset arises in a wide variety of settings in computer science and elsewhere. We provide DV estimation techniques for the case in which the dataset of interest …Technical Perspective: Data Stream Processing - When You Only Get One Look
The database and systems communities have made great progress in developing database systems that allow us to store and query huge amounts of data. Real-time analysis is becoming mandatory. Here is where data stream processing …Finding the Frequent Items in Streams of Data
Many data generation processes can be modeled as data streams. While this data may be archived and indexed within a data warehouse, it is also important to process the data "as it happens," to provide up to the minute analysis …COLUMN: Last byte
Q&A: The Networker
Jon Kleinberg talks about algorithms, information flow, and the connections between Web search and social networks.SECTION: Virtual extension
