Large systems projects are failing at an alarming rate. It's time to take evolutionary design methods off the shelf.Peter J. Denning, Chris Gunderson, Rick Hayes-Roth From Communications of the ACM | December 1, 2008
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...John R. White From Communications of the ACM | November 1, 2008
Should patents confer power to restrict reuses and redistributions of products embodying the whole or essential parts of inventions?
Pamela Samuelson From Communications of the ACM | November 1, 2008
Tracing the course of influential computing developments and considering possible paths to new paradigms.Martin Campbell-Kelly From Communications of the ACM | October 1, 2008
Daphne Koller discusses probabilistic relational modeling, artificial intelligence, and her new work with biologists.
Leah Hoffmann From Communications of the ACM | October 1, 2008