My initiation into the computing-research community was a workshop on "Logic and Databases" in 1979. I was the only graduate student attending the workshop. In spite of the …

Some of what Constantine Dovrolis said in the Point/Counterpoint "Future Internet Architecture: Clean-Slate Versus Evolutionary Research" (Sept. 2010) made …

To ensure the timely publication of articles, Communications created the Virtual Extension to expand the page limitations of the print edition by bringing readers the same high-quality articles in an online-only format.

It has truly been a banner year for ACM. We firmly established ACM hubs in Europe, India, and China after years of exhaustive efforts to expand the Association's global reach …

Jack Rosenberger shares Patty Azzarello's life lessons about advancing in the workplace. Judy Robertson discusses students' in-class usage of laptops.

Science demands an overhaul of the well-established system of peer-review in scholarly communication. The current system is outmoded, inefficient, and slow. The only question …

Pablo Parrilo has discovered a new approach to convex optimization that creates order out of chaos in complex nonlinear systems.

After more than 20 years of research and development, are haptic interfaces finally getting ready to enter the computing mainstream?

An ambitious biometric ID project in the world's second most populous nation aims to relieve poverty, but faces many hurdles.

Edward Felten, David Harel, Sarit Kraus and others are honored for their contributions to computer science, technology, and electronic freedom and innovation.

You want to know how to get my attention?" Jason Kalich asked the audience rhetorically. "First off, don't bring me a good idea—I've already got plenty of good ideas."

Is Google violating trademark law by operating its AdWords system?

A look in the rearview mirror reveals system and process blind spots.

Privacy and confidentiality issues in cloud-based conference management systems reflect more universal themes.

Frances E. Allen, recipient of the 2006 ACM A.M. Turing Award, reflects on her career.

Seeking to improve the educational mechanisms for efficiently training large numbers of information security workers.

For sysadmins, solving problems usually involves collaborating with others. How can we make it more effective?

Talking with Julian Gosper, Jean-Luc Agathos, Richard Rutter, and Terry Coatta.

Managing virtualization at a large scale is fraught with hidden challenges.

How companies pay programmers when they move jobs and the related IP rights to offshore taxhavens.

The ICE abstraction may take CS from serial (single-core) computing to effective parallel (many-core) computing.

How to experience real-world landmarks through a wave, gaze, location coordinates, or touch, prompting delivery of useful digital information.

Building on the OpenSocial API suite, developers can create applications that are interoperable within the context of different social networks.

What does it mean to preserve privacy?

The objective of Sora is to build a software defined radio that combines the performance and fidelity of hardware platforms with the programmability and …

Sora, a fully programmable software radio platform on commodity PC architectures, combines the performance and fidelity of hardware software-defined radio platforms with the programmability and flexibility of general-purpose …

Multipath transmission for the Internet—that is, allowing users to send some of their packets along one path and others along different paths—is an elegant solution still …

This paper studies data transfers under two classes of multipath control, coordinated control where the rates over the paths are determined as a function ofuncoordinated …

Ed Lazowska discusses his heady undergraduate days at Brown University, teaching, eScience, and being chair of the Computing Community Consortium.