Communications of the ACM
Practice Archive
The Practice archive provides access to all Practice articles published in past issues of Communications of the ACM.
December 2009
From Communications of the ACM
Maximizing Power Efficiency with Asymmetric Multicore Systems
How do we develop software to make the most of the promise that asymmetric multicore systems use a lot less energy?
From Communications of the ACM
What DNS Is Not
DNS is many things to many people — perhaps too many things to too many people.
From Communications of the ACM
A Threat Analysis of RFID Passports
An RFID-passport attack is more plausible than skimming RFID information. Do RFID passports make us vulnerable to identity theft?