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October 2013 - Vol. 56 No. 10
Features
Opinion From the president
Revisiting the Tragedy of the Commons
While the commons created by the Internet need not be bounded, it is a shared environment that must be protected for the benefit of its users.
Opinion Letters to the Editor
Deep Accountability, Beyond Even Liability
I am a Colorado licensed professional engineer whose area of practice is software and who found no cause for disagreement with the first half of Vinton G. Cerf's "From the President" editorial (July 2013). The second half was another matter.
Helping Scientists, Engineers to Work Up to 100 Times Faster
Philip Guo explains how programming skills can make scientists and engineers more efficient and creative.
New ultra-fast wireless antennas may be on the way, but don't throw away your old wireless router just yet.
Making the Internet Safe For Gadgets
Initiatives favor direct connections, named resources, and cryptography.
Software Helps Linguists Reconstruct, Decipher Ancient Languages
Linguists who once spent an entire career reconstructing a major language family now can accomplish that in just a few hours.
The Alan Turing Year Leaves a Rich Legacy
A year-long celebration of the life and work of a man whom many call the founding father of computer science.
Opinion Technology strategy and management
Considering the key elements of successful startups.
Opinion The business of software
How the speed of modern tools may decelerate development.
Opinion Kode Vicious
The Naming of Hosts Is a Difficult Matter
Also, the perils of premature rebooting.
Opinion Inside risks
Controlling For Cybersecurity Risks of Medical Device Software
Medical device hacking is a red herring. But the flaws are real.
Opinion Viewpoint
Esteem for efficiency should be tempered with respect for robustness.
A special section on high-frequency trading and exchange technology.
Online Algorithms in High-Frequency Trading
The challenges faced by competing HFT algorithms.
Passively Measuring TCP Round-Trip Times
A close look at round-trip time measurements with the Transmission Control Protocol.
Research and Advances Contributed articles
Improve online public discourse by connecting opinions across blogs, editorials, and social media.
Research and Advances Contributed articles
Trends in Computer Science Research
Keywords in the ACM Digital Library and IEEE Xplore digital library and in NSF grants anticipate future CS research.
Research and Advances Review articles
A Blueprint for Building a Quantum Computer
Quantum computer architecture holds the key to building commercially viable systems.
Research and Advances Research highlights
Technical Perspective: Can We Verify Cyber-Physical Systems?
Developing effective symbolic verification technology for mixed discrete-analog models has proved to be a challenging problem. The following paper by Althoff et al. reports a major milestone in this quest.
Research and Advances Research highlights
Formal Verification of Phase-Locked Loops Using Reachability Analysis and Continuization
We present a scalable and formal technique to verify locking time and stability for charge-pump phase-locked loops (PLLs).
Opinion Last byte
From the intersection of computational science and technological speculation, with boundaries limited only by our ability to imagine what could be.Spared a horrible death, it was murder just the same.
