October 1991 - Vol. 34 No. 10
Features
As everyone knows, the computer industry is passing through a period of great change. I was speaking recently to a senior executive in one of the large companies…
Over the past two years, I have written seven “Legally Speaking” columns and one feature article for Communications about legal issues affecting computing…
An ACM response: the scope and directions of Computer Science
The National Research Council's Computer Science and Telecommunications Board (CSTB) chartered a two-year study on the scope and directions of computer science. As part…
The column, “Benchmarks for LAN Performance Evaluation,” by Larry Press (Aug. 1988, pp. 1014-1017) presented a technique for quickly benchmarking the…
A national debate on encryption exportability
Traditionally, cryptography has been an exclusively military technology controlled by the National Security Agency (NSA). Therefore, U.S. International Traffic in Arms…