Science has been growing new legs of late. The traditional "legs" (or "pillars") of the scientific method were theory …
Moshe Y. Vardi
In the two years since we launched the revitalized Communications of the ACM, I have received hundreds of email…
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…
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 …
In this issue of Communications we have a debate that is quite a rarity in computing research: a technical debate. A…
When Communications relaunched in July 2008, the issue included a "Viewpoint" column by Rick Rashid, entitled "Image Crisis: Inspiring a New Generation of…
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…
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…
Conferences vs. Journals in Computing Research
An old joke tells of a driver, returning home from a party where he had one drink too many, who hears a warning over the …
The 2008 presidential campaign slogan "Yes, We Can" is the English translation of the United Farm Workers' 1972 slogan "Sí, se puede," or…
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