Communications of the ACM, Volume 55

Volume 55, Number 1, January 2012 (EE)

• Moshe Y. Vardi:
  Artificial intelligence: past and future. 5
  

• Software engineering is engineering. 6-7
  
• Alain Chesnais:
  ACM president's letter. 8
  
• Alain Chesnais:
  ACM's annual report. 9-13
  

• Mark Guzdial, Bertrand Meyer:
  Understanding CS1 students; defective software. 14-15
  

• Scott E. Delman:
  eBooks will abound in the ACM Digital Library. 16
  

• Neil Savage:
  Better medicine through machine learning. 17-19
  
• Gary Anthes:
  Revamping storage performance. 20-22
  
• Samuel Greengard:
  Law and disorder. 23-25
  
• Sarah Underwood:
  Celebration time. 26
  
• Alex Wright:
  Analyzing Apple products. 27
  
• Paul Hyman:
  John McCarthy, 1927-2011. 28-29
  

• Randal C. Picker:
  The yin and yang of copyright and technology. 30-32
  

• Phillip G. Armour:
  The difference engine. 33-34
  

• Thomas Haigh:
  The IBM PC: from beige box to industry standard. 35-37
  

• Kai A. Olsen, Alessio Malizia:
  Interfaces for the ordinary user: can we hide too much? 38-40
  

• Philip L. Frana:
  An interview with Stephen A. Cook. 41-46
  

• Matthew Flatt:
  Creating languages in Racket. 48-56
  
• Jim Gettys, Kathleen M. Nichols:
  Bufferbloat: dark buffers in the internet. 57-65
  
• Carl A. Waldspurger, Mendel Rosenblum:
  I/O virtualization. 66-73
  

• Jason Hong:
  The state of phishing attacks. 74-81
  
• Geoff Coulson, Barry Porter, Ioannis Chatzigiannakis, Christos Koninis, Stefan Fischer, Dennis Pfisterer, Daniel Bimschas, Torsten Braun, Philipp Hurni, Markus Anwander, Gerald Wagenknecht, Sándor P. Fekete, Alexander Kröller, Tobias Baumgartner:
  Flexible experimentation in wireless sensor networks. 82-90
  
• Chi-Sung Laih, Shang-Ming Jen, Chia-Yu Lu:
  Long-term confidentiality of PKI. 91-95
  

• Roberto Manduchi, James M. Coughlan:
  (Computer) vision without sight. 96-104
  

• Frédo Durand:
  Where do people draw lines?: technical perspective. 106
  
• Forrester Cole, Aleksey Golovinskiy, Alex Limpaecher, Heather Stoddart Barros, Adam Finkelstein, Thomas A. Funkhouser, Szymon Rusinkiewicz:
  Where do people draw lines? 107-115
  
• Jim Kurose:
  Content-centric networking: technical perspective. 116
  
• Van Jacobson, Diana K. Smetters, James D. Thornton, Michael F. Plass, Nick Briggs, Rebecca Braynard:
  Networking named content. 117-124
  

• Daniel H. Wilson:
  Future tense. 136-
  

Volume 55, Number 2, February 2012 (EE)

• Fabrizio Gagliardi:
  Revisiting ACM Europe. 5
  

• Credit non-anonymous reviewers with a name. 6-7
  

• Michael Stonebraker, Jason Hong:
  Researchers' big data crisis; understanding design and functionality. 10-11
  

• Gregory Goth:
  The science of better science. 13-15
  
• Samuel Greengard:
  The war against botnets. 16-18
  
• Alex Wright:
  The social life of robots. 19-21
  
• ACM Fellows inducted. 23
  

• Gregory L. Rosston:
  Incentive auctions. 24-26
  

• Beth Simon, Quintin I. Cutts:
  Peer instruction: a teaching method to foster deep understanding. 27-29
  

• Donald A. Norman:
  Yet another technology cusp: confusion, vendor wars, and opportunities. 30-32
  

• George V. Neville-Neil:
  Wanton acts of debuggery. 33-34
  

• Rose McDermott:
  Emotion and security. 35-37
  

• Marvin V. Zelkowitz:
  What have we learned about software engineering? 38-39
  

• BufferBloat: what's wrong with the internet? 40-47
  
• Hans-Juergen Boehm, Sarita V. Adve:
  You don't know jack about shared variables or memory models. 48-54
  
• Adam J. Oliner, Archana Ganapathi, Wei Xu:
  Advances and challenges in log analysis. 55-61
  

• Nicholas Evangelopoulos, Lucian Visinescu:
  Text-mining the voice of the people. 62-69
  
• Holger H. Hoos:
  Programming by optimization. 70-80
  
• Bryce Allen, John Bresnahan, Lisa Childers, Ian T. Foster, Gopi Kandaswamy, Rajkumar Kettimuthu, Jack Kordas, Mike Link, Stuart Martin, Karl Pickett, Steven Tuecke:
  Software as a service for data scientists. 81-88
  

• Miad Faezipour, Mehrdad Nourani, Adnan Saeed, Sateesh Addepalli:
  Progress and challenges in intelligent vehicle area networks. 90-100
  

• Rastislav Bodík:
  Compiling what to how: technical perspective. 102
  
• Viktor Kuncak, Mikaël Mayer, Ruzica Piskac, Philippe Suter:
  Software synthesis procedures. 103-111
  
• Santosh Vempala:
  Modeling high-dimensional data: technical perspective. 112
  
• Adam Tauman Kalai, Ankur Moitra, Gregory Valiant:
  Disentangling Gaussians. 113-120
  

• Peter Winkler:
  Puzzled. 128
  

Volume 55, Number 3, March 2012 (EE)

• Moshe Y. Vardi:
  What is an algorithm? 5
  

• From syntax to semantics for AI. 6-7
  

• Bertrand Meyer:
  Knowledgeable beginners. 10-11
  

• Neil Savage:
  Gaining wisdom from crowds. 13-15
  
• Gary Anthes:
  Computing with magnets. 16-18
  
• Samuel Greengard:
  Policing the future. 19-21
  
• Paul Hyman:
  Stanford schooling - gratis! 22
  
• Jack Rosenberger:
  Computer science awards. 23
  

• Patrick Lin, Fritz Allhoff, Neil C. Rowe:
  War 2.0: cyberweapons and ethics. 24-26
  

• Pamela Samuelson:
  Do software copyrights protect what programs do? 27-29
  

• Peter J. Denning:
  The idea idea. 30-32
  

• Vassilis Kostakos:
  Training users vs. training soldiers: experiences from the battlefield. 33-35
  
• Alessio Malizia, Andrea Bellucci:
  The artificiality of natural user interfaces. 36-38
  

• Patrice Godefroid, Michael Y. Levin, David A. Molnar:
  SAGE: whitebox fuzzing for security testing. 40-44
  
• Luigi Rizzo:
  Revisiting network I/O APIs: the netmap framework. 45-51
  
• Poul-Henning Kamp:
  The hyperdimensional tar pit. 52-53
  

• Youngki Lee, S. S. Iyengar, Chulhong Min, Younghyun Ju, Seungwoo Kang, Taiwoo Park, Jinwon Lee, Yunseok Rhee, Junehwa Song:
  MobiCon: a mobile context-monitoring platform. 54-65
  
• Seung-Hyun Kim, Qiu-Hong Wang, Johannes Ullrich:
  A comparative study of cyberattacks. 66-73
  

• S. Barry Cooper:
  Turing's Titanic machine? 74-83
  
• J. Y. Huang, C. H. Tsai, S. T. Huang:
  The next generation of GPS navigation systems. 84-93
  

• Steven D. Gribble:
  The benefits of capability-based protection: technical perspective. 96
  
• Robert N. M. Watson, Jonathan Anderson, Ben Laurie, Kris Kennaway:
  A taste of Capsicum: practical capabilities for UNIX. 97-104
  
• Michael L. Littman:
  A new way to search game trees: technical perspective. 105
  
• Sylvain Gelly, Levente Kocsis, Marc Schoenauer, Michèle Sebag, David Silver, Csaba Szepesvári, Olivier Teytaud:
  The grand challenge of computer Go: Monte Carlo tree search and extensions. 106-113
  

• Peter Winkler:
  Puzzled. 118
  
• Leah Hoffmann:
  Q&A. 120-
  

Volume 55, Number 4, April 2012 (EE)

• Yunhao Liu, Vincent Shen:
  ACM China Council. 5
  

• The beauty of simplicity. 6-7
  

• Daniel Reed, Mark Guzdial:
  The power of computing; design guidelines in CS education. 8-9
  

• Gregory Goth:
  Preserving digital data. 11-13
  
• Tom Geller:
  Talking to machines. 14-16
  
• Leah Hoffmann:
  Open for business. 17-19
  

• Michael A. Cusumano:
  Can services and platform thinking help the U.S. Postal Service? 21-23
  

• Richard Heeks:
  Information technology and gross national happiness. 24-26
  

• George V. Neville-Neil:
  The network protocol battle. 27-28
  

• Jill Ross, Elizabeth Litzler, Joanne McGrath Cohoon, Lucy Sanders:
  Improving gender composition in computing. 29-31
  

• Selma Tekir:
  Reading CS classics. 32-34
  
• Daniel Soper:
  Is human mobility tracking a good idea? 35-37
  

• Brian Beckman:
  Why LINQ matters: cloud composability guaranteed. 38-44
  
• Jeffrey Heer, Ben Shneiderman:
  Interactive dynamics for visual analysis. 45-54
  
• Andrew Danowitz, Kyle Kelley, James Mao, John P. Stevenson, Mark Horowitz:
  CPU DB: recording microprocessor history. 55-63
  

• Martin Schmettow:
  Sample size in usability studies. 64-70
  
• Laurie Williams:
  What agile teams think of agile principles. 71-76
  

• David M. Blei:
  Probabilistic topic models. 77-84
  
• Sarvapali D. Ramchurn, Perukrishnen Vytelingum, Alex Rogers, Nicholas R. Jennings:
  Putting the 'smarts' into the smart grid: a grand challenge for artificial intelligence. 86-97
  

• Dinesh Manocha:
  Building robust dynamical simulation systems: technical perspective. 101
  
• David Harmon, Etienne Vouga, Breannan Smith, Rasmus Tamstorf, Eitan Grinspun:
  Asynchronous contact mechanics. 102-109
  
• Ed H. Chi:
  Who knows?: searching for expertise on the social web: technical perspective. 110
  
• Damon Horowitz, Sepandar D. Kamvar:
  Searching the village: models and methods for social search. 111-118
  

• Brian Clegg:
  Future tense. 120-
  

Volume 55, Number 5, May 2012 (EE)

• Moshe Y. Vardi:
  Fair access. 5
  

• Judy Robertson:
  Likert-type scales, statistical methods, and effect sizes. 6-7
  

• Neil Savage:
  Automating scientific discovery. 9-11
  
• Alex Wright:
  Robots like us. 12-13
  
• Samuel Greengard:
  Digitally possessed. 14-16
  
• Paul Hyman:
  A workshop revival. 17
  

• Gerald Segal:
  ACM's 2012 general election. 19-29
  

• Peter S. Menell:
  Design for symbiosis. 30-32
  

• David Anderson:
  The future of the past. 33-34
  

• Joel Waldfogel:
  Digitization and copyright: some recent evidence from music. 35-37
  

• Alexander Repenning:
  Programming goes back to school. 38-40
  

• Abraham Bernstein, Mark Klein, Thomas W. Malone:
  Programming the global brain. 41-43
  
• Armando Fox, David A. Patterson:
  Crossing the software education chasm. 44-49
  

• Eric Allman:
  Managing technical debt. 50-55
  
• Pat Helland:
  Idempotence is not a medical condition. 56-65
  
• Erik Meijer:
  Your mouse is a database. 66-73
  

• Alok N. Choudhary, William Hendrix, Kathy Lee, Diana Palsetia, Wei-keng Liao:
  Social media evolution of the Egyptian revolution. 74-80
  
• Daniel S. Soper, Ofir Turel:
  An n-gram analysis of Communications 2000-2010. 81-87
  

• Nir Atias, Roded Sharan:
  Comparative analysis of protein networks: hard problems, practical solutions. 88-97
  

• William Gropp:
  Best algorithms + best computers = powerful match. 100
  
• Ilya Lashuk, Aparna Chandramowlishwaran, Harper Langston, Tuan-Anh Nguyen, Rahul S. Sampath, Aashay Shringarpure, Richard W. Vuduc, Lexing Ying, Denis Zorin, George Biros:
  A massively parallel adaptive fast multipole method on heterogeneous architectures. 101-109
  
• Steven Hand:
  An experiment in determinism. 110
  
• Amittai Aviram, Shu-Chun Weng, Sen Hu, Bryan Ford:
  Efficient system-enforced deterministic parallelism. 111-119
  

• Peter Winkler:
  Puzzled. 120
  

Volume 55, Number 6, June 2012 (EE)

• Eugene H. Spafford:
  USACM and U.S. legislation. 5
  

• The halting problem in the clear light of probability. 6-7
  

• Jason Hong, Greg Linden:
  Protecting against data breaches; living with mistakes. 10-11
  

• Scott E. Delman:
  Don't throw the baby out with the bathwater. 12
  

• Gregory Goth:
  Analyzing medical data. 13-15
  
• Gary Anthes:
  Smarter photography. 16-18
  
• Leah Hoffmann:
  Data mining meets city hall. 19-21
  
• Neil Savage:
  Game changer. 22-23
  
• Paul Hyman:
  An influential theoretician. 24
  

• Phillip G. Armour:
  A measure of control. 26-28
  

• Simson L. Garfinkel:
  The cybersecurity risk. 29-32
  

• George V. Neville-Neil:
  Scale failure. 33-34
  

• Chris Hall:
  Security of the internet and the known unknowns. 35-37
  

• Peter J. Denning, Nicholas Dew:
  The myth of the elevator pitch. 38-40
  

• Herbert Lin:
  Why computer scientists should care about cyber conflict and U.S. national security policy. 41-43
  

• Dennis Abts, Bob Felderman:
  A guided tour of data-center networking. 44-51
  
• David J. Crandall, Noah Snavely:
  Modeling people and places with internet photo collections. 52-60
  
• Kari Pulli, Anatoly Baksheev, Kirill Kornyakov, Victor Eruhimov:
  Real-time computer vision with OpenCV. 61-69
  

• Benjamin Doerr, Mahmoud Fouz, Tobias Friedrich:
  Why rumors spread so quickly in social networks. 70-75
  
• Bryan Parno:
  Trust extension for commodity computers. 76-85
  

• Michael J. Carey, Nicola Onose, Michalis Petropoulos:
  Data services. 86-97
  
• Ketan Mulmuley:
  The GCT program toward the P vs. NP problem. 98-107
  

• Pablo A. Parrilo:
  Reconstructing the unknown, balancing structure and uncertainty: technical perspective. 110
  
• Emmanuel J. Candès, Benjamin Recht:
  Exact matrix completion via convex optimization. 111-119
  
• Peter Lee:
  The fox and the hedgehog: technical perspective. 120
  
• Tiark Rompf, Martin Odersky:
  Lightweight modular staging: a pragmatic approach to runtime code generation and compiled DSLs. 121-130
  

• Peter Winkler:
  Puzzled. 133
  
• Leah Hoffmann:
  Q&A. 136-
  

Volume 55, Number 7, July 2012 (EE)

• Moshe Y. Vardi:
  Predatory scholarly publishing. 5
  

• An integral number and its consequences. 7-8
  

• Mark Guzdial, Judy Robertson:
  CS and popular culture; learning from console games. 10-11
  

• Gregory Goth:
  Degrees of separation. 13-15
  
• Gary Anthes:
  HTML5 leads a web revolution. 16-17
  
• Marina Krakovsky:
  Patently inadequate. 18-20
  
• Paul Hyman:
  Lost and found. 21
  

• Mari Sako:
  Business models for strategy and innovation. 22-24
  

• Pamela Samuelson:
  Can online piracy be stopped by laws? 25-27
  

• Richard T. Watson, Jacqueline Corbett, Marie-Claude Boudreau, Jane Webster:
  An information strategy for environmental sustainability. 28-30
  

• Martin Campbell-Kelly:
  Alan Turing's other universal machine. 31-33
  

• Alfred Z. Spector, Peter Norvig, Slav Petrov:
  Google's hybrid approach to research. 34-37
  
• Sarah Spiekermann:
  The challenges of privacy by design. 38-40
  

• Kathleen M. Nichols, Van Jacobson:
  Controlling queue delay. 42-50
  
• Poul-Henning Kamp:
  My compiler does not understand me. 51-53
  
• Eric Bouwers, Joost Visser, Arie van Deursen:
  Getting what you measure. 54-59
  

• James Abello, Peter Broadwell, Timothy R. Tangherlini:
  Computational folkloristics. 60-70
  
• Ian Sommerville, Dave Cliff, Radu Calinescu, Justin Keen, Tim Kelly, Marta Z. Kwiatkowska, John A. McDermid, Richard F. Paige:
  Large-scale complex IT systems. 71-77
  
• Milo M. K. Martin, Mark D. Hill, Daniel J. Sorin:
  Why on-chip cache coherence is here to stay. 78-89
  

• David Harel, Assaf Marron, Gera Weiss:
  Behavioral programming. 90-100
  

• David Patterson:
  For better or worse, benchmarks shape a field: technical perspective. 104
  
• Hadi Esmaeilzadeh, Ting Cao, Xi Yang, Stephen M. Blackburn, Kathryn S. McKinley:
  Looking back and looking forward: power, performance, and upheaval. 105-114
  
• Amos Fiat:
  Why study the price of anarchy?: technical perspective. 115
  
• Tim Roughgarden:
  Intrinsic robustness of the price of anarchy. 116-123
  

• Ken MacLeod:
  Future Tense. 128-
  

• Matthew Swinarski, Diane H. Parente, Rajiv Kishore:
  Do small IT firms benefit from higher process capability? 129-134
  

Volume 55, Number 8, August 2012 (EE)

• Bill Poucher:
  Giving students the competitive edge. 5
  

• Composable trees for configurable behavior. 7
  

• John Langford, Ruben Ortega:
  Machine learning and algorithms; agile development. 10-11
  

• Jeff Kanipe:
  Cosmic simulations. 13-15
  
• Tom Geller:
  DARPA Shredder challenge solved. 16-17
  
• Samuel Greengard:
  Advertising gets personal. 18-20
  
• Karen A. Frenkel:
  Broader horizons. 21
  

• Paul Tjia:
  Inside the hermit kingdom: IT and outsourcing in North Korea. 22-25
  

• Fred G. Martin:
  Will massive open online courses change how we teach? 26-28
  

• Danah Boyd:
  The politics of "real names". 29-31
  

• George V. Neville-Neil:
  A system is not a product. 32-33
  

• Chris Forman, Avi Goldfarb, Shane Greenstein:
  The internet is everywhere, but the payoff is not. 34-35
  

• Kai A. Olsen, Hans Fredrik Nordhaug:
  Internet elections: unsafe in any home? 36-38
  
• Neil McBride:
  The ethics of software engineering should be an ethics for the client. 39-41
  

• Thomas A. Limoncelli:
  OpenFlow: a radical new idea in networking. 42-47
  
• Rafael Vanoni Polanczyk:
  Extending the semantics of scheduling priorities. 48-52
  
• Manuel Serrano, Gérard Berry:
  Multitier programming in Hop. 53-59
  

• Stephen B. Wicker:
  The loss of location privacy in the cellular age. 60-68
  
• Bjorn De Sutter, Aäron Van Den Oord:
  To be or not to be cited in computer science. 69-75
  
• Wil M. P. van der Aalst:
  Process mining. 76-83
  

• Scott Aaronson, Edward Farhi, David Gosset, Avinatan Hassidim, Jonathan A. Kelner, Andrew Lutomirski:
  Quantum money. 84-92
  

• Martin C. Rinard:
  Example-driven program synthesis for end-user programming: technical perspective. 96
  
• Sumit Gulwani, William R. Harris, Rishabh Singh:
  Spreadsheet data manipulation using examples. 97-105
  
• Andreas Zeller:
  Proving programs continuous: technical perspective. 106
  
• Swarat Chaudhuri, Sumit Gulwani, Roberto Lublinerman:
  Continuity and robustness of programs. 107-115
  

• Peter Winkler:
  Puzzled. 120
  

Volume 55, Number 9, September 2012 (EE)

• Moshe Y. Vardi:
  Why ACM? 5
  

• Operationalizing privacy by design. 7
  

• Bertrand Meyer:
  Incremental research vs. paradigm-shift mania. 8-9
  

• Gregory Goth:
  Atomic-level computing. 11-13
  
• Gary Anthes:
  Chips go upscale. 14-16
  
• Marina Krakovsky:
  Garbage in, info out. 17-19
  
• Paul Hyman:
  In honor of Alan Turing. 20-23
  

• Thomas Haigh:
  Seven lessons from bad history. 26-29
  

• Peter J. Denning:
  Don't feel bad if you can't predict the future. 30-32
  

• Tal Z. Zarsky:
  Automated prediction: perception, law, and policy. 33-35
  

• Richard E. Ladner, Elizabeth Litzler:
  The need to balance innovation and implementation in broadening participation. 36-38
  

• Esperanza Marcos, Juan Manuel Vara, Valeria de Castro:
  Author order: what science can learn from the arts. 39-41
  
• Christos H. Papadimitriou:
  Alan and I. 42-43
  

• David Chisnall:
  A new Objective-C runtime: from research to production. 44-47
  
• Emery D. Berger:
  Software needs seatbelts and airbags. 48-53
  
• Erik Meijer:
  All your database are belong to us. 54-60
  

• Gary Garrison, Sang Hyun Kim, Robin L. Wakefield:
  Success factors for deploying cloud computing. 62-68
  
• Radu Calinescu, Carlo Ghezzi, Marta Z. Kwiatkowska, Raffaela Mirandola:
  Self-adaptive software needs quantitative verification at runtime. 69-77
  

• Doug A. Bowman, Ryan P. McMahan, Eric D. Ragan:
  Questioning naturalism in 3D user interfaces. 78-88
  

• William Buxton:
  Innovative interaction: from concept to the wild: technical perspective. 90
  
• Shumin Zhai, Per Ola Kristensson:
  The word-gesture keyboard: reimagining keyboard interaction. 91-101
  
• Dan Suciu:
  SQL on an encrypted database: technical perspective. 102
  
• Raluca A. Popa, Catherine M. S. Redfield, Nickolai Zeldovich, Hari Balakrishnan:
  CryptDB: processing queries on an encrypted database. 103-111
  

• Peter Winkler:
  Puzzled. 117
  
• Leah Hoffmann:
  Q&A. 120-
  

Volume 55, Number 10, October 2012 (EE)

• Vinton G. Cerf:
  Where is the science in computer science? 5
  

• When harm to conference reputation is self-inflicted. 6-7
  

• Daniel Reed, Ed H. Chi:
  Online privacy; replicating research results. 8-9
  

• Neil Savage:
  Digging for drug facts. 11-13
  
• Gregory Mone:
  Redesigning the data center. 14-16
  
• Leah Hoffmann:
  Computer science and the three Rs. 17-19
  

• Michael A. Cusumano:
  Reflecting on the Facebook IPO. 20-23
  

• Phillip G. Armour:
  The Goldilocks estimate. 24-25
  

• Peter G. Neumann:
  The foresight saga, redux. 26-29
  

• George V. Neville-Neil:
  A nice piece of code. 30-31
  

• Jean-François Blanchette:
  Computing as if infrastructure mattered. 32-34
  
• Ivan Sutherland:
  The tyranny of the clock. 35-36
  

• Rick Ratzel, Rodney Greenstreet:
  Toward higher precision. 38-47
  
• John Allspaw:
  Fault injection in production. 48-52
  
• Poul-Henning Kamp:
  A generation lost in the bazaar. 53-55
  

• Michael Kearns:
  Experiments in social computation. 56-67
  
• Barbara Simons, Douglas W. Jones:
  Internet voting in the U.S. 68-77
  

• Pedro Domingos:
  A few useful things to know about machine learning. 78-87
  

• Rocco A. Servedio:
  A high-dimensional surprise: technical perspective. 89
  
• Guy Kindler, Anup Rao, Ryan O'Donnell, Avi Wigderson:
  Spherical cubes: optimal foams from computational hardness amplification. 90-97
  
• Bruce Hendrickson:
  Graph embeddings and linear equations: technical perspective. 98
  
• Ioannis Koutis, Gary L. Miller, Richard Peng:
  A fast solver for a class of linear systems. 99-107
  

• Geoffrey A. Landis:
  Future tense. 112
  

Volume 55, Number 11, November 2012 (EE)

• Moshe Y. Vardi:
  Will MOOCs destroy academia? 5
  
• Vinton G. Cerf:
  Why is accessibility so hard? 7
  

• When predicting, start with humility. 8-9
  

• Michael Stonebraker:
  New opportunities for New SQL. 10-11
  
• Bernard Rous:
  Major update to ACM's Computing Classification System. 12
  

• Gregory Goth:
  Software on Mars. 13-15
  
• Tom Geller:
  Control without controllers. 16-18
  
• Samuel Greengard:
  On the digital trail. 19-21
  

• David A. Basin, Srdjan Capkun:
  The research value of publishing attacks. 22-24
  

• Pamela Samuelson:
  Oracle v. Google: are APIs copyrightable? 25-27
  

• Kristina McElheran:
  Decentralization versus centralization in IT governance. 28-30
  

• Aman Yadav, John T. Korb:
  Learning to teach computer science: the need for a methods course. 31-33
  

• Timothy Kostyk, Joseph Herkert:
  Societal implications of the emerging smart grid. 34-36
  

• Richard A. DeMillo:
  Keeping technology promises. 37-39
  

• Jesse Robbins, Kripa Krishnan, John Allspaw, Tom Limoncelli:
  Resilience engineering: learning to embrace failure. 40-47
  
• Kripa Krishnan:
  Weathering the unexpected. 48-52
  
• Marshall K. McKusick:
  Disks from the perspective of a file system. 53-55
  

• Dan Boneh, Amit Sahai, Brent Waters:
  Functional encryption: a new vision for public-key cryptography. 56-64
  
• Jörg K. Wegner, Aaron Sterling, Rajarshi Guha, Andreas Bender, Jean-Loup Faulon, Janna Hastings, Noel M. O'Boyle, John P. Overington, Herman van Vlijmen, Egon L. Willighagen:
  Cheminformatics. 65-75
  

• Rolf Pfeifer, Max Lungarella, Fumiya Iida:
  The challenges ahead for bio-inspired 'soft' robotics. 76-87
  

• Richard Szeliski:
  Open platforms for computational photography: technical perspective. 89
  
• Andrew Adams, David E. Jacobs, Jennifer Dolson, Marius Tico, Kari Pulli, Eino-Ville Talvala, Boris Ajdin, Daniel A. Vaquero, Hendrik P. A. Lensch, Mark Horowitz, Sung Hee Park, Natasha Gelfand, Jongmin Baek, Wojciech Matusik, Marc Levoy:
  The Frankencamera: an experimental platform for computational photography. 90-98
  
• Henning Schulzinne:
  The realities of home broadband: technical perspective. 99
  
• Srikanth Sundaresan, Walter de Donato, Nick Feamster, Renata Teixeira, Sam Crawford, Antonio Pescapè:
  Measuring home broadband performance. 100-109
  

• Peter Winkler:
  Puzzled. 120
  

Volume 55, Number 12, December 2012 (EE)

• Mary Hall:
  Understanding ACM's past. 5
  

• Vinton G. Cerf:
  Computer science revisited. 7
  

• Why open access? 8-9
  

• Mark Guzdial, Judy Robertson:
  Levels of abstraction: pre-teens and career choices. 12-13
  

• Gregory Goth:
  Quantum quests. 15-17
  
• Gary Anthes:
  Zoom in, zoom out. 18-19
  
• Paul Hyman:
  In the year of disruptive education. 20-22
  

• Richard Heeks:
  IT innovation for the bottom of the pyramid. 24-27
  

• David Anderson:
  Saving private Gromit. 28-30
  

• George V. Neville-Neil:
  Can more code mean fewer bugs? 31-32
  

• Peter J. Denning:
  Moods. 33-35
  

• Teresa A. Dahlberg:
  Why we need an ACM Special Interest Group for broadening participation. 36-38
  

• William Newman:
  Alan Turing remembered. 39-40
  

• Ivar Jacobson, Pan Wei Ng, Paul McMahon, Ian Spence, Svante Lidman:
  The essence of software engineering: the SEMAT kernel. 42-49
  
• Aiman Erbad, Charles Krasic:
  Sender-side buffers and the case for multimedia adaptation. 50-58
  
• Michael Cornwell:
  Anatomy of a solid-state drive. 59-63
  

• Bryce Thomas, Raja Jurdak, Ian Atkinson:
  SPDYing up the web. 64-73
  
• Robert M. French:
  Moving beyond the Turing test. 74-77
  

• David Doty:
  Theory of algorithmic self-assembly. 78-88
  

• Yannis Smaragdakis:
  High-level data structures: technical perspective. 90
  
• Peter Hawkins, Martin C. Rinard, Alex Aiken, Mooly Sagiv, Kathleen Fisher:
  An introduction to data representation synthesis. 91-99
  
• Ali Jadbabaie:
  Natural algorithms in a networked world: technical perspective. 100
  
• Bernard Chazelle:
  Natural algorithms and influence systems. 101-110
  

• Peter Winkler:
  Puzzled. 126
  
• Leah Hoffmann:
  Q&A. 128-
  

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