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Opinion Aug 1 2009

My compliments on the article "One Laptop Per Child: Vision vs. Reality" by Kenneth L. Kraemer et al. (June 2009). It is incredibly valuable for the ACM community to understand the profound difference between invention and innovation.

News Aug 1 2009

In the Virtual Extension

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

News Jul 1 2009

ACM Award Winners

Among this year's distinguished honorees are Barbara Liskov of Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Jon Kleinberg of Cornell University.

Computing Applications

Opinion Jun 1 2009

Share the Threats

Othman El Moulat's comment (Apr. 2009) concerning the article "The Topology of Dark Networks"(Oct. 2008) that the views and articles in Communications should have no bearing on or bias toward any agenda, political or religious, is a point well taken.

Computing Applications

Opinion May 1 2009

Logic of Lemmings in Compiler Innovation

I am deeply ambivalent about what I read in the contributed article "Compiler Research: The Next 50 Years" (Feb. 2009). On the one hand, its description of the field's challenges and opportunities evoke great excitement; on the other, the realities cast a discouraging pall on that excitement.

Computing Applications

BLOG@CACM May 1 2009

Recommendation Algorithms, Online Privacy, and More

Greg Linden, Jason Hong, Michael Stonebraker, and Mark Guzdial discuss recommendation algorithms, online privacy, scientific databases, and programming in introductory computer science classes.

Computing Applications

News May 1 2009

Liskov Wins Turing Award

MIT's Barbara Liskov is the 55th person, and the second woman, to win the ACM A.M. Turing Award.

Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning

MIT Institute Professor and 2008 ACM A.M. Turing Award Winner Barbara Liskov

Opinion Apr 1 2009

What Role For Computer Science in the War on Terror?

The contributed article "The Topology of Dark Networks" by Jennifer Xu and Hsinchun Chen (Oct. 2008) ignored sensitive cultural issues while addressing a subject that might by itself offend some people in Muslim societies, including those in the Middle East.

Computing Applications

Opinion Mar 1 2009

Children’s Magic Won’t Deliver the Semantic Web

To explain the nature of "Ontologies and the Semantic Web" (Dec. 2008), Ian Horrocks, a leading figure behind the theory and practice of Description Logics, employed analogous characters and language of the fictional Harry Potter children's novels.

Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning

News Mar 1 2009

ACM Fellows Honored

Forty-four men and women are being inducted this year as 2008 ACM Fellows.

Computing Applications

Shape the Future of Computing

ACM encourages its members to take a direct hand in shaping the future of the association. There are more ways than ever to get involved.

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