In the end—and at the beginning—it’s all about programming. This issue travels our programming roots to the latest in high-performance and…
October 2001 - Vol. 44 No. 10
Features
ACM filed a declaration in federal court regarding the legal challenge to the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) in the Felten v. RIAA case. In the lawsuit, filed in…
The Business of Software: Zeppelins and Jet Planes: A Metaphor For Modern Software Projects
Comparing modern-day project characteristics with yesteryear's.
From Washington: Considering the Broadband Debate
While the phone companies and their rivals, the CLECs, fight for broadband dominance, the cable companies are poised to strike.
Viewpoint: The Real Reason Why Software Engineers Need Math
The effect of repetitive learning is nowhere more dramatic than in mathematics.
Viewpoint: The ACM Declaration in Felten v. RIAA
Because of concerns that ACM members and ACM itself could be subjected to civil or criminal prosecutions, the ACM Council voted in June to submit a legal document in…
Aspect-Oriented Programming: Introduction
Computer science has experienced an evolution in programming languages and systems from the crude assembly and machine codes of the earliest computers through concepts…
Aspect-Oriented Programming with Adaptive Methods
Java programmers can easily experiment with AOP ideas by using the DJ library.
Using Multidimensional Separation of Concerns to (Re)shape Evolving Software
Simplifying development, evolution, and integration of Java software using Hyper/J.
Composing Crosscutting Concerns Using Composition Filters
Supporting both intraclass and interclass crosscutting through model extension.
An aspect-oriented extension to Java enables plug-and-play implementations of crosscutting.
Analyzing the Role of Aspects in Software Design
How AOP technologies can promote better design practices is an essential issue concerning the potential benefits of the technology.
Does Aspect-Oriented Programming Work?
Determining the best method for evaluating the effectiveness of a new technology.
Structuring Operating System Aspects: Using AOP to Improve OS Structure Modularity
Using AOP to improve OS structure modularity.
A framework for the design of on-demand system remodularization.
Handling Crosscutting Constraints in Domain-Specific Modeling
Uniting AOP with model-integrated computing.
Aspect-Oriented Programming Using Reflection and Metaobject Protocols
Providing programmers with the capability to modify the default behavior of a programming language.
Despite the popular view that Java implementations are inefficient (compared to their Fortran, C, and C++ counterparts), high-performance applications, which demand…
The authors' Numerically INtensive JAva programming environment shows that Java can be made to produce Fortran- and C-like performance for applications involving…
Enabling Java For High-Performance Computing
Exploiting distributed shared memory and remote method invocation adapts pure Java for large-scale, distributed-memory parallel machines and their applications.
Multiparadigm Communications in Java For Grid Computing
The result is a promising programming approach for enabling, controlling, and coordinating resource sharing in computational Grids.
Technical Opinion: The Emperor with No Clothes
Examining the software problem from a scientific standpoint.
Technical Opinion: Hello, World Considered Harmful
It all starts at the beginning: OO programming learned naturally, not procedurally.
Inside Risks: The Perils of Port 80
In the months that the Code Red worm and its relatives have traveled the Net, they’ve caused considerable consternation among users of Microsoft’s Internet…
