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Opinion Oct 1 2010

While we were pleased Communications celebrated E.F. Codd's seminal article "A Relational Model of Data for Large Shared Data Banks" (June 1970) in "Happy Birthday, RDBMS!" by Gary Anthes (May 2010), we were also dismayed by its inaccuracies.

Computing Profession

Opinion Sep 1 2010

More Than One Way to Annotate Metadata

"Managing Scientific Data" (June 2010) explained that data generated by research projects is valuable only when annotated with metadata describing the data's provenance, context, and meaning. However, a given data item can be annotated in more ways than one.

Computing Profession

News Aug 1 2010

In the Virtual Extension

Communications' Virtual Extension brings more quality articles to ACM members. These articles are now available in the ACM Digital Library.

Opinion Aug 1 2010

CS Expertise For Institutional Review Boards

IRBs need computer scientists, a point highlighted by the Viewpoint "Institutional Review Boards and Your Research" by Simson L. Garfinkel and Lorrie Faith Cranor (June 2010). The column was timely but also somewhat misleading.

News Jul 1 2010

In the Virtual Extension

Communications' Virtual Extension brings more quality articles to ACM members. These seven articles are now available in the ACM Digital Library.

Computing Applications

Opinion Jul 1 2010

Don’t Ignore Security Offshore, or in the Cloud

Moshe Y. Vardi's Editor's Letter "Globalization and Offshoring of Software Revisited" and Dave Durkee's "Why Cloud Computing Will Never Be Free" (both May 2010) failed to address security risks.

Computing Profession

Opinion Jun 1 2010

Workflow Tools For Distributed Teams?

"Orchestrating Coordination in Pluralistic Networks" by Peter J. Denning et al. (Mar. 2010) offered guidance for distributed development teams. I can vouch for the issues it raised. However, my coordination problems are compounded because email is today's de facto medium for business and technical communication.

News Jun 1 2010

In the Virtual Extension

Communications' Virtual Extension brings more quality articles to ACM members. These articles are now available in the ACM Digital Library.

Opinion May 1 2010

Roots of Publication Delay

Moshe Y. Vardi wrote in his Editor's Letter "Revisiting the Publication Culture in Computing Research" (Mar. 2010) about computer science being a field in which conferences are the primary venue for reporting research.

Computing Applications

News May 1 2010

ACM’s 2010 General Election

Meet the candidates who introduce their plans—and stands—for the Association.

Computing Applications

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