Communications of the ACM
ICPS Offers Major Research Venue
The ACM International Conference Proceedings Series (ICPS) has recently being relaunched as a publication venue for research activities.DEPARTMENT: Letters to the editor
Shine the Light of Computational Complexity
Regarding Moshe Y. Vardi's view of computational complexity in "On P, NP, and Computational Complexity" (Nov. 2010), I'd like to add that the goal of computational complexity …In the Virtual Extension
To ensure the timely publication of articles, Communications created the Virtual Extension (VE) to expand the page limitations of the print edition by bringing readers the same high-quality articles in an online-only format. …DEPARTMENT: BLOG@CACM
Matters of Design
Jason Hong considers how software companies could effectively incorporate first-rate design into their products.DEPARTMENT: CACM online
End of Days For Communications in Print?
The rise in online publishing raises a question about the durability of print publications and of the printed magazine version of Communications of the ACM. How long will it last?COLUMN: News
Chipping Away at Greenhouse Gases
Power-saving processor algorithms have the potential to create significant energy and cost savings.Information Theory After Shannon
Purdue University's Science of Information Center seeks new principles to answer the question 'What is information?'Maurice Wilkes: The Last Pioneer
Computer science has lost not only a great scientist, but an important link to the electronic computing revolution that took place in the 1940s.Following the Crowd
Crowdsourcing is based on a simple but powerful concept: Virtually anyone has the potential to plug in valuable information.ACM Launches New Digital Library
More than 50 years of computing literature is augmented, streamlined, and joined to powerful new tools for retrieval and analysis.ACM Fellows Honored
Forty-one men and women are inducted as 2010 ACM Fellows.COLUMN: Privacy and security
Against Cyberterrorism
Cyberterrorism is a concept that appears recurrently in contemporary media. This coverage is particularly interesting if one believes, as I do, that …COLUMN: Economic and business dimensions
Household Demand For Broadband Internet Service
How much are consumers willing to pay for broadband service? Our research estimates consumer willingness-to-pay (WTP) for broadband service and shows a high valuation for …COLUMN: Inside risks
The Growing Harm of Not Teaching Malware
Revisiting the need to educate professionals to defend against malware in its various guises.COLUMN: Kode Vicious
Forest For the Trees
With the amount of disk space available to the modern programmer, and the lack of parental supervision in most workplaces, the time for programmers to "clean your room!" and …COLUMN: Education
From Science to Engineering
A series of recent reports claim the U.S. education system is in a very severe crisis; others suggest the crisis is "overblown." An explanation that …COLUMN: Viewpoint
Technology, Conferences, and Community
Considering the impact and implications of changes in scholarly communication.SECTION: Practice
Finding Usability Bugs with Automated Tests
Ideally, all software should be easy to use and accessible for a wide range of people. However, software often falls short of these basic goals. We therefore need ways to help us discover usability and accessibility problems …A Plea from Sysadmins to Software Vendors: 10 Do's and Don'ts
What can software vendors do to make the lives of system administrators a little easier?System Administration Soft Skills
How can system administrators reduce stress and conflict in the workplace?SECTION: Contributed articles
Vision-Based Hand-Gesture Applications
Body posture and finger pointing are a natural modality for human-machine interaction, but first the system must know what it's seeing.Structured Data on the Web
Google's Web Tables and Deep Web Crawler identify and deliver this otherwise inaccessible resource directly to end users.SECTION: Review articles
Still Building the Memex
What would it take for a true personal knowledge base to generate the benefits envisioned by Vannevar Bush?SECTION: Research highlights
Technical Perspective: Markov Meets Bayes
The history of probabilistic sequence models dates back to Markov at the turn of the last century. Though informed by decades of research, current practices are still something …The Sequence Memoizer
The sequence memoizer is a new hierarchical Bayesian model for discrete sequence data that captures long range dependencies and power-law characteristics, while remaining computationally attractive.Technical Perspective: DRAM Errors in the Wild
In order to advance the field, knowledge of the types of memory errors at the system level, their frequencies, and conditions that exacerbate or are unrelated to higher error rates are of critical importance.DRAM Errors in the Wild: A Large-Scale Field Study
While a large body of work exists on DRAM in lab conditions, little has been reported on real DRAM failures in large production clusters. In this paper, we analyze measurements of memory errors in a large fleet of commodity servers …COLUMN: Last byte
Puzzled: Parsing Partitions
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.COLUMN: Viewpoints: Virtual extension
The Need For a New Graduation Rite of Passage
A new organization is being proposed that is solely intended to promote and recognize the ethical and moral behavior in graduates of computing-related degree programs as they transition to careers of service to society.SECTION: Contributed articles: Virtual extension
10 Scientific Problems in Virtual Reality
Virtual Reality was one of the 14 Grand Challenges identified as awaiting engineering solutions for the 21st century announced in 2008 by the U.S. National Academy of Engineering. Here, I explore 10 related open VR challenges …SECTION: Review articles: Virtual extension
