Communications of the ACM
Globalization and Offshoring of Software Revisited
ACM Council commissioned in 2004 a Task Force to "look at the facts behind the rapid globalization of IT and the migration of jobs resulting from outsourcing and offshoring." Do the insights produced by the resulting report …DEPARTMENT: Letters to the editor
Roots of Publication Delay
Moshe Y. Vardi wrote in his Editor's Letter "Revisiting the Publication Culture in Computing Research" (Mar. 2010) about computer science being a field in which conferences …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
NSF Funding Advice; 21st Century Innovation
Jeannette M. Wing shares useful suggestions for department heads. Daniel Reed discusses the importance of synergy among computing specialists and generalists.DEPARTMENT: CACM online
Looking For Control
Computer scientists are wrestling to tame the glut of online data, which is overwhelming both individuals and companies. For some users the answer starts with restrictions …COLUMN: News
Modeling the Astronomical
Advances in computer technology have changed the way astronomers see and study the universe.Happy Birthday, RDBMS!
The relational model of data management, which dates to 1970, still dominates today and influences new paradigms as the field evolves.Cloud Computing and Developing Nations
For a growing number of organizations worldwide, cloud computing offers a quick and affordable way to tap into IT infrastructure as an Internet service. But obstacles and challenges remain.Thacker Wins Turing Award
Microsoft's Charles P. Thacker named 56th recipient of ACM's A.M. Turing Award.DEPARTMENT: ACM election ballot
ACM's 2010 General Election
Meet the candidates who introduce their plans—and stands—for the Association.COLUMN: Economic and business dimensions
Cloud Computing and Electricity: Beyond the Utility Model
Assessing the strengths, weaknesses, and general applicability of the computing-as-utility business model.COLUMN: Education
How to Make Progress in Computing Education
Improving the research base for computing education requires securing competitive funding commitments.COLUMN: Viewpoint
Can IT Lean Against the Wind?
Lessons from the global financial crisis.Is Mobile Email Addiction Overlooked?
Studying the prevalence of mobile email addiction and the associated possible implications for organizations.COLUMN: Computer museum series
Great Computing Museums of the World, Part Two
The second of a two-part series highlighting several of the world's museums dedicated to preserving, exhibiting, and elucidating computing history.SECTION: Practice
Enhanced Debugging With Traces
An essential technique used in emulator development is a useful addition to any programmer's toolbox.Principles of Robust Timing Over the Internet
The key to synchronizing clocks over networks is taming delay variability.Why Cloud Computing Will Never Be Free
The competition among cloud providers may drive prices downward, but at what cost?SECTION: Contributed articles
Beyond Total Capture: A Constructive Critique of Lifelogging
Rather than try to capture everything, system design should focus on the psychological basis of human memory.Student and Faculty Attitudes and Beliefs About Computer Science
The curriculum should inspire students to view CS as both accomplishment and intellectual discipline.SECTION: Review articles
Energy-Efficient Algorithms
Algorithmic solutions can help reduce energy consumption in computing environs.SECTION: Research highlights
Technical Perspective: Learning to Act in Uncertain Environments
The problem of decision making in an uncertain environment arises in many diverse contexts. The key issue in effectively solving problems like this is known as the exploration/exploitation trade-off.Censored Exploration and the Dark Pool Problem
The success and proliferation of dark pool stock exchanges have created challenging and interesting problems in algorithmic trading—in particular, the problem of optimizing the allocation of a large trade over multiple competing …Technical Perspective: Automated Patching Techniques: The Fix Is In
Finding bugs is technically demanding and yet economically vital. How much more difficult yet valuable would it be to automatically fix bugs?Automatic Program Repair With Evolutionary Computation
There are many methods for detecting and mitigating software errors but few generic methods for automatically repairing errors once they are discovered. Recent work combining program analysis methods with evolutionary computation …COLUMN: Last byte
Puzzled: Variations on the Ham Sandwich Theorum
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
