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In CS Education, Educate the Educators First
As long as CS educators cannot agree about the fundamental importance of mathematics is an essential aspect of a proper CS education, practice will remain below the professional standards common in classical engineering.
Communications' Virtual Extension brings more quality articles to ACM members. These articles are now available in the ACM Digital Library.
Pay For Editorial Independence
Though Moshe Y. Vardi's Editor's Letter "Open, Closed, or Clopen Access?" (July 2009) addressed the question of who pays the bills, we must also address the price of quality.
Edward E. Lee's "Computing Needs Time" (May 2009) might be the most important, stimulating, and timely article I have read in Communications over the past 50 years.
A Conversation with David E. Shaw
Stanford professor Pat Hanrahan sits down with the noted hedge fund founder, computational biochemist, and (above all) computer scientist.
Communications' Virtual Extension brings more quality articles to ACM members. These articles are now available in the ACM Digital Library.
The articles, sections, and services available on Communications' Web site all vie for visitor attention. According to our latest Web statistics, the following features are the most popular in pageviews since the site's formal launch in April 2009.
It was disappointing that two competent computer scientists — Matthias Felleisen and Shiram Krishnamurthi — took such a narrow view in their Viewpoint "Why Computer Science Doesn't Matter" (July 2009).
Communications' Virtual Extension brings more quality articles to ACM members. These articles are now available in the ACM Digital Library.
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