Communications of the ACM
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November 2008
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Multi-Core and Parallel Programming: Is the Sky Falling?
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign professor Marc Snir acknowledges that multicore parallelism is difficult, and this difficulty can give rise to divergent perspectives. One perspective is that parallel programming is…
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On the 10th Anniversary of ACM's Digital Library
When ACM launched its pioneering Digital Library a decade ago, it was one of the first professional societies to offer its members—and the broader computing community—a digital repository of its publications. At launch, the …
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Education: Reprogramming College Preparatory Computer Science
The college preparatory computer science education curriculum must be improved, beginning with the earliest phases of the process.
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Legally Speaking: Quantafying the Value of Patent Exhaustion
Should patents confer power to restrict reuses and redistributions of products embodying the whole or essential parts of inventions?
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Cyber Privacy and Security Pose Difficult Problems
It's not just science or engineering that will be needed to address security concerns, but law, economics, anthropology, and more.
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CTO Roundtable on Virtualization: Part I
Virtualization technology is hot again, but for the right reasons?