Communications of the ACM
DEPARTMENT: Education letter
DEPARTMENT: Letters to the editor
DEPARTMENT: CACM online
COLUMN: News
COLUMN: Viewpoints
SECTION: Practice
SECTION: Contributed articles
SECTION: Review articles
SECTION: Research highlights
COLUMN: Last byte
SECTION: Virtual extension
Computing Education Matters
The student enrollment crisis in computer science has propelled the need to re-examine all aspects of computing education on a global scale.DEPARTMENT: Letters to the editor
What Role For Computer Science in the War on Terror?
The contributed article "The Topology of Dark Networks" by Jennifer Xu and Hsinchun Chen (Oct. 2008) ignored sensitive cultural issues while addressing a subject that might by itself offend some people in Muslim societies, including …DEPARTMENT: CACM online
An Ongoing Study in Usability
The new Communications Web site went live last month after several weeks of intense beta testing. While we gleaned many valuable insights and lessons in this process, several highlights and user comments do stand out.COLUMN: News
Learning More About Active Learning
Active learning algorithms are producing substantial savings in label complexity over passive learning approaches.Our Sentiments, Exactly
With sentiment analysis algorithms, companies can identify and assess the wide variety of opinions found online and create computational models of human opinion.Virtual Colonoscopies
Doctors are saving lives with virtual, 3D exams that are less invasive than a conventional optical colonoscopy.Time to Reboot
A diverse, international group of more than 200 attendees met at the Rebooting Computing Summit to address the problems confronting computer science.IT Ecosystem in Peril
Experts warn the U.S. may soon relinquish its leadership role in IT research and development.COLUMN: Viewpoints
IT and the World's 'Bottom Billion'
How can information technology be best applied to address problems and provide opportunities for inhabitants of the world's poorest countries?Kode Vicious: System Changes and Side Effects
Every system change has to have some benefit to users, but every time you add a new responsibility a system is tweaked in some way, which usually has unintended side effects.Strategies For Difficult (and Darwinian) Economic Times
How the axiom of survival of the fittest applies in the context of a global economic downturn.Computing as Social Science
College students must be shown that computer science is social, relevant, important, and caring. The way computer science is taught can hold students' interest by encouraging them to develop solutions to socially relevant problems …Research Evaluation For Computer Science
Reassessing the assessment criteria and techniques traditionally used in evaluating computer science research effectiveness.SECTION: Practice
Purpose-Built Languages
The ecosystem of purpose-built languages is a key part of systems development.Cybercrime 2.0: When the Cloud Turns Dark
Web-based malware attacks are more insidious than ever. What can be done to stem the tide?ORM in Dynamic Languages
Dynamic languages offer a taste of object-relational mapping that eases application code.SECTION: Contributed articles
Database and Information-Retrieval Methods For Knowledge Discovery
Comprehensive knowledge bases would tap the Web's deepest information sources and relationships to address questions beyond today's keyword-based search engines.Roofline: An Insightful Visual Performance Model For Multicore Architectures
The Roofline model offers insight on how to improve the performance of multicore microprocessors whose design diversity exacerbates the jobs of programmers, compiler writers, and architects.SECTION: Review articles
A Direct Path to Dependable Software
Who could fault an approach that offers greater credibility at reduced cost?SECTION: Research highlights
Technical Perspective: Disk Array Models For Automating Storage Management
Large disk arrays are everywhere. When we shop at an Internet retailer, the product and account data come from a disk array in a data center. Our email, banking, payroll, …Relative Fitness Modeling
Relative fitness is a new approach to modeling the performance of storage devices. In contrast to a conventional model, which predicts the performance of an application's I/O on a given device, a relative fitness model predicts …Technical Perspective: Integrating Flash Devices
Flash memory nowadays seems to be in every discussion about system architecture. Sure enough, flash memory boasts multiple qualities and advantages over traditional mass storage …Integrating Nand Flash Devices Onto Servers
In this paper, we examine the use of Flash storage in the server domain. Wear-out has the potential to limit the use of Flash in this domain. To seriously consider Flash in the server domain, architectural support must exist …COLUMN: Last byte
Q&A: Our Dame Commander
Wendy Hall discusses her plans to increase ACM's membership and to create task forces in China, India, and Europe.SECTION: Virtual extension
