How must ACM restructure its portfolio, and the business models that support it, to stay relevant and viable in the future?
John White
Page 5
DEPARTMENT: From the president
While the commons created by the Internet need not be bounded, it is a shared environment that must be protected for the benefit of its users.
Vinton G. Cerf
Page 7
DEPARTMENT: Letters to the Editor
I am a Colorado licensed professional engineer whose area of practice is software and who found no cause for disagreement with the first half of Vinton G. Cerf's "From the President" editorial (July 2013). The second half …
CACM Staff
Pages 8-9
DEPARTMENT: BLOG@CACM
Philip Guo explains how programming skills can make scientists and engineers more efficient and creative.
Philip Guo
Pages 12-13
COLUMN: News
New ultra-fast wireless antennas may be on the way, but don't throw away your old wireless router just yet.
Alex Wright
Pages 15-17
Initiatives favor direct connections, named resources, and cryptography.
Tom Geller
Pages 18-20
Linguists who once spent an entire career reconstructing a major language family now can accomplish that in just a few hours.
Paul Hyman
Pages 21-23
A year-long celebration of the life and work of a man whom many call the founding father of computer science.
Sarah Underwood
Pages 24-25
COLUMN: Technology strategy and management
Considering the key elements of successful startups.
Michael A. Cusumano
Pages 26-29
COLUMN: The business of software
How the speed of modern tools may decelerate development.
Phillip G. Armour
Pages 30-32
COLUMN: Kode Vicious
Also, the perils of premature rebooting.
George V. Neville-Neil
Pages 33-34
COLUMN: Inside risks
Medical device hacking is a red herring. But the flaws are real.
Kevin Fu, James Blum
Pages 35-37
COLUMN: Viewpoint
Esteem for efficiency should be tempered with respect for robustness.
David H. Ackley
Pages 38-40
SECTION: Practice
A special section on high-frequency trading and exchange technology.
Jacob Loveless
Pages 42-49
The challenges faced by competing HFT algorithms.
Jacob Loveless, Sasha Stoikov, Rolf Waeber
Pages 50-56
A close look at round-trip time measurements with the Transmission Control Protocol.
Stephen D. Strowes
Pages 57-64
SECTION: Contributed articles
Improve online public discourse by connecting opinions across blogs, editorials, and social media.
Floris Bex, John Lawrence, Mark Snaith, Chris Reed
Pages 66-73
Keywords in the ACM Digital Library and IEEE Xplore digital library and in NSF grants anticipate future CS research.
Apirak Hoonlor, Boleslaw K. Szymanski, Mohammed J. Zaki
Pages 74-83
SECTION: Review articles
Quantum computer architecture holds the key to building commercially viable systems.
Rodney Van Meter, Dominic Horsman
Pages 84-93
SECTION: Research highlights
Developing effective symbolic verification technology for mixed discrete-analog models has proved to be a challenging problem. The following paper by Althoff et al. reports a major milestone in this quest.
Rajeev Alur
Page 96
We present a scalable and formal technique to verify locking time and stability for charge-pump phase-locked loops (PLLs).
Matthias Althoff, Akshay Rajhans, Bruce H. Krogh, Soner Yaldiz, Xin Li, Larry Pileggi
Pages 97-104
COLUMN: Last byte
From the intersection of computational science and technological speculation, with boundaries limited only by our ability to imagine what could be.Spared a horrible death, it was murder just the same.
Brian Clegg
Pages 112-ff