Communications of the ACM
DEPARTMENT: Editor'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
Is the Image Crisis Over?
When Communications relaunched in July 2008, the issue included a "Viewpoint" column by Rick Rashid, entitled "Image Crisis: Inspiring a New Generation of Computer Scientists." Has anything changed in that regard in the last …DEPARTMENT: Letters to the editor
Pay For Editorial Independence
Though Moshe Y. Vardi's Editor's Letter "Open, Closed, or Clopen Access?" (July 2009) addressed the question of who pays the bills, we must also address the price of quality.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
Computer Science Curriculum, Deceptive Advertising
Each issue of Communications publishes excerpts from selected BLOG@CACM posts to the Communications Web site. In this issue, Ramana Rao writes about the evolution of computer science curriculum and Greg Linden reflects on ethics …DEPARTMENT: CACM online
Internet Addiction: It's Spreading, but Is It Real?
The number of Internet addiction treatment centers is growing to treat behaviors worthy of a 12-step program. But neither the American Psychiatric Association's DSM nor theICD …COLUMN: News
Deep Data Dives Discover Natural Laws
Computer scientists have found a way to bootstrap science, using evolutionary computation to find fundamental meaning in massive amounts of raw data.Electronic Paper's Next Chapter
The technological challenge for researchers working on the next generation of electronic paper is to render color as brightly as traditional paper, without increasing power requirements or end-user costs.Implementing Electronic Medical Records
Despite a number of challenges, patients' medical records are slowly making the transition to the digital age.Exploring New Frontiers
The Expeditions in Computing program provides scientists with the funding to work on ambitious, often multidisciplinary research.COLUMN: Viewpoints
Usable Security: How to Get It
Why does your computer bother you so much about security, but still isn't secure? It's because users don't have a model for security, or a simple way to keep important things safe.Are Business Methods Patentable?
How the U.S. Supreme Court's forthcoming decision in the Bilski v. Doll case is expected to affect existing and future software patents.The Broadband Price Is Not Right
Developing an effective pricing index is essential to understanding the value of broadband connectivity.On Public Service and Computer Science
Members of the computer science community should become more involved in public service by becoming program managers at federal agencies, the opportunities and benefits of which are outlined here.An Interview with Ping Fu
Ping Fu, CEO of the digital shape sampling and processing company Geomagic, discusses her background, achievements, and challenges managing a company during a period of dynamic growth.SECTION: Practice
Communications Surveillance: Privacy and Security at Risk
As the sophistication of wiretapping technology grows, so too do the risks it poses to our privacy and security.Four Billion Little Brothers?: Privacy, Mobile Phones, and Ubiquitous Data Collection
Participatory sensing technologies could improve our lives and our communities, but at what cost to our privacy?You Don't Know Jack About Software Maintenance
Long considered an afterthought, software maintenance is easiest and most effective when built into a system from the ground up.SECTION: Contributed articles
Scratch: Programming For All
"Digital fluency" should mean designing, creating, and remixing, not just browsing, chatting, and interacting.Why IT Managers Don't Go For Cyber-Insurance Products
Proposed contracts tend to be overpriced because insurers are unable to anticipate customers' secondary losses.SECTION: Review articles
Turing Lecture: Model Checking: Algorithmic Verification and Debugging
Turing Lecture from the winners of the 2007 ACM A.M. Turing Award.SECTION: Research highlights
Technical Perspective: Narrowing the Semantic Gap in Distributed Programming
In science, significant advances are often made when researchers from different communities join forces.Declarative Networking
Declarative Networking is a programming methodology that enables developers to concisely specify network protocols and services, which are directly compiled to a dataflow framework that executes the specifications.Technical Perspective: Machine Learning For Complex Predictions
Interest in machine learning can be traced back to the early days of computer science. Alan Turing himself conjectured that some form of automatic learning would be required …Predicting Structured Objects with Support Vector Machines
Machine Learning today offers a broad repertoire of methods for classification and regression. But what if we need to predict complex objects like trees, orderings, or alignments? Such problems arise naturally in natural language …COLUMN: Last byte
Puzzled: Covering the Plane
Welcome to three new puzzles. Solutions to the first two will be published next month; the third is (as yet) unsolved. In each, the issue is how your intuition matches up with the mathematics.SECTION: Virtual extension
