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Opinion Jan 1 2011

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 informality of the event I was quite in awe of the senior researchers who attended.

Computing Applications

Communications Editor-in-Chief Moshe Y. Vardi

Opinion Nov 1 2010

On P, NP, and Computational Complexity

While the P vs. NP quandary is a central problem in computer science, a resolution of the problem may have limited practical impact.

Systems and Networking

Opinion Sep 1 2010

Science Has Only Two Legs

Science has been growing new legs of late. The traditional "legs" (or "pillars") of the scientific method were theory and experimentation. Computational science has been called the 'third pillar' of scientific inquiry, and has been recently augmented by yet a "fourth paradigm."

Computing Applications

Opinion Jul 1 2010

Hypercriticality

In the two years since we launched the revitalized Communications of the ACM, I have received hundreds of email messages from readers. The feedback has been mostly, but not universally, positive.

Computing Applications

Opinion May 1 2010

Globalization and Offshoring of Software Revisited

ACM Council commissioned in 2004 a Task Force to "look at the facts behind the rapid globalization of IT and the migration of jobs resulting from outsourcing and offshoring." Do the insights produced by the resulting report still ring true four years and a major economic crisis later?

Computing Applications

Opinion Mar 1 2010

Revisiting the Publication Culture in Computing Research

In my May 2009 Editor's Letter, "Conferences vs. Journals in Computing Research," I addressed the publication culture of our field: "As far as I know, we are the only scientific community that considers conference publication as the primary means of publishing our research results.' Why are we the only discipline driving on the conference side of the 'publication road?'"

Computing Applications

Opinion Jan 1 2010

More Debate, Please!

In this issue of Communications we have a debate that is quite a rarity in computing research: a technical debate. A pair of Contributed Articles debate the relative merits of MapReduce and relational database management systems. I have no doubt that our readers will find this technical debate highly instructive.

Computing Applications

Communications Editor-in-Chief Moshe Vardi

Opinion Nov 1 2009

Is the Image Crisis Over?

When Communications relaunched in July 2008, the issue included a "Viewpoint" column by Rick Rashid, entitled "Image Crisis: Inspiring a New Generation of Computer Scientists." Has anything changed in that regard in the last 17 months?

Computing Applications

Opinion Sep 1 2009

The Financial Meltdown and Computing

For many of us, the past year has been one of the most unsettling in our lifetime. In the late 1980s and early 1990s, we watched communism collapse of its own dead weight. In late 2008, we saw capitalism nearly crumble. Lehman Brothers, a major U.S. investment bank, declared bankruptcy last September, sending the world's financial system into a tailspin. Only a massive intervention by central banks saved the system from collapse.

Computing Applications

Opinion Jul 1 2009

Open, Closed, or Clopen Access?

A frequent question I hear about Communications, and about ACM publishing in general, involves its access model. I am asked: "Why don't you adopt the open-access model?" Good question! Why don't we?

Computing Applications

Communications of the ACM Editor-in-Chief Moshe Vardi

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