March 2006 - Vol. 49 No. 3

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Features

Opinion Editorial pointers

Editorial Pointers

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 […]
News News track

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 […]
Opinion Forum

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 […]
News Call for nominations for advanced member grades in the ACM

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, […]
Opinion President's letter

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, 15–16). We were overwhelmed by the response to the call for nominations, so it took a bit longer than expected […]
Research and Advances Self-managed systems and services

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 […]
News ACM fellows

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 […]
Opinion Hot links

Top 10 Downloads from ACM’s Digital Library

Communications of the ACM Volume 49, Number 3 (2006), Pages 126-127 Hot links: Top 10 downloads from ACM’s digital library Diane Crawford Table of Contents Tables Back to Top Tables Table. The Top 10 Most Popular Papers from ACM’s Refereed Journals and Conference Proceedings Downloaded in December 2005 Table. The 10 Most Popular Courses at […]
Opinion Inside risks

Real ID, Real Trouble?

According to the report of the 9/11 Commission, all but one of the 9/11 hijackers acquired some form of U.S. identification, some by fraud. Acquisition of these forms of identification would have assisted them in boarding commercial flights, renting cars, and other activities. As a result, the Commission and some lawmakers concluded it was necessary […]

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