March 2006 - Vol. 49 No. 3

Features

Opinion Editorial pointers Mar 1 2006

Research efforts to organize and build systems that self-manage and self-monitor themselves with little to no human intervention have moved from experimenting with different alternatives to truly designing methods for facilitating the management of very complex systems more effectively and (hopefully) invisibly. Some of the most potent cues for the latest "self" research, as you […]

Diane Crawford

Architecture and Hardware

News News track Mar 1 2006

News Track

Just as the Vietnam War was the first televised war, the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq will likely be known as the first wars to be blogged. BBC News reports that members of this new generation of U.S. military bloggers, or milbloggers, are sharing their fighting experiences online, giving rise to what many followers claim […]

CACM Staff

Computing Applications

Opinion Forum Mar 1 2006

Forum

In "It’s Time to Think Outside the Computational Box" (Nov. 2005), Peter Kugel suggested we could increase computing power by thinking beyond the narrow model of the classical (functional) computation of Turing machines. He pointed to the limitations of learning through predefined input and immediate output. He suggested "computing in the limit" (CIL) through unlimited […]

Computing Applications

Opinion The business of software Mar 1 2006

The Operational Executive Sponsor

The sometimes-missing link in software process change.

Phillip G. Armour

Computing Applications

Practice Practical programmer Mar 1 2006

Is the Crouching Tiger a Threat?

Considering the changing representation of the computing community.

Robert L. Glass

Computing Applications

Opinion The European report Mar 1 2006

Europe’s Computer Scientists Take Fate Into Their Own Hands

CS chairs from universities throughout Europe and beyond came together for a momentous meeting to examine the fate and the future of the field.

Bertrand Meyer and Willy Zwaenepoel

Computing Applications

News Call for nominations for advanced member grades in the ACM Mar 1 2006

Call For Nominations For Advanced Member Grades in the ACM

ACM has three distinct member grades to recognize the professional accomplishments of our members: Senior Member—is a new member grade recognizing those ACM members, with at least 10 years of professional experience, that have demonstrated performance and accomplishment that set them apart. Distinguished Engineer, Scientist, or Member—is a new member grade recognizing those ACM members, […]

CACM Staff

Computing Applications

Opinion President's letter Mar 1 2006

Computer Science Education in the 21st Century

To draw students to CS, we must first look to create a curriculum that reflects the exciting opportunities and challenges of IT today versus the 1970s. Future students and faculty would greatly benefit from a reinvigorated CS curriculum.

David A. Patterson

Computing Applications

Opinion President's letter Mar 1 2006

Reviving Your Favorite CS Books

Last October we announced a program to put 20 out-of-print books into ACM’s Digital Library and to make print copies of these books available at a low price via a print-on-demand service (CACM, Oct. 2005, 1516). We were overwhelmed by the response to the call for nominations, so it took a bit longer than expected […]

David A. Patterson

Computing Applications

Opinion Viewpoint Mar 1 2006

Computational Thinking

It represents a universally applicable attitude and skill set everyone, not just computer scientists, would be eager to learn and use.

Jeannette M. Wing

Computing Applications

Research and Advances Self-managed systems and services Mar 1 2006

Introduction

Stable and dependable IT services and infrastructures are of paramount importance for modern enterprises. Traditional solutions for managing and controlling the networked systems and services that sustain them appear to have reached their limits. As the number of hardware and software components to be managed increases, and as the dependencies between user-perceived services and the […]

Jean-Philippe Martin-Flatin, Joe Sventek, and Kurt Geihs

Architecture and Hardware

Research and Advances Self-managed systems and services Mar 1 2006

Automatic Recovery from Software Failure

A model-based approach to self-adaptive software.

Paul Robertson and Brian Williams

Architecture and Hardware

Research and Advances Self-managed systems and services Mar 1 2006

Effective Web Service Load Balancing Through Statistical Monitoring

Identifying the correlated effects between components to improve response to overload.

George Porter and Randy H. Katz

Architecture and Hardware

Research and Advances Self-managed systems and services Mar 1 2006

Supporting Application Quality of Service in Shared Resource Pools

Dividing an application's workload demands to better manage resource capacity.

Jerry Rolia, Ludmila Cherkasova, Martin Arlitt, and Vijay Machiraju

Computing Applications

Research and Advances Self-managed systems and services Mar 1 2006

Biologically Inspired Self-Adaptive Multi-Path Routing in Overlay Networks

Using randomness to find optimal solutions in selecting network paths.

Kenji Leibnitz, Naoki Wakamiya, and Masayuki Murata

Computing Applications

Research and Advances Self-managed systems and services Mar 1 2006

Creating an Adaptive Network of Hubs Using Schelling’s Model

Adjusting the overlay network topology in a peer-to-peer network to satisfy performance criteria.

Atul Singh and Mads Haahr

Architecture and Hardware

News ACM fellows Mar 1 2006

ACM Fellows

The ACM Fellows Program was established by Council in 1993 to recognize and honor outstanding ACM members for their achievements in computer science and information technology and for their significant contributions to the mission of the ACM. The ACM Fellows serve as distinguished colleagues to whom the ACM and its members look for guidance and […]

CACM Staff

Computing Applications