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Communications' Virtual Extension brings more quality articles to ACM members. These articles are now available in the ACM Digital Library.
Computing Paradigm Not a Branch of Science
Computing can't be viewed as a branch of science since it doesn't deal with nature but with an artifact, namely the computer
Katayanagi Prizes and Other CS Awards
Donald E. Knuth, Jon Kleinberg, Andrew Herbert, and other members of the computer science community were recently honored for their innovative research and service.
Communications' Virtual Extension brings more quality articles to ACM members. These articles are now available in the ACM Digital Library.
In his editor's letter "More Debate, Please!" (Jan. 2010), Moshe Y. Vardi made a plea for controversial topics on these pages, citing a desire to "let truth emerge from vigorous debate." Though we support the sentiment as well, we question Vardi's judgment in using his editorial position to mount an attack on a 30-year-old article whose authors were neither forewarned nor given the opportunity to respond.
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Software Still As Much an Art As Science
C.A.R. Hoare's viewpoint "Retrospective: An Axiomatic Basis for Computer Programming" (Oct. 2009) reminded me of a saying attributed to both Jan L.A. van de Snepscheut and Yogi Berra: "In theory, there is no difference between theory and practice. But, in practice, there is."
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