5 Policy Letter USACM’s Policy Role By Eugene H. Spafford
8 Letters To The Editor
Seven Principles for Secure E-Voting
10 CACM Online
The Dot-Org Difference By David Roman
20 Economic and Business Dimensions The Extent of Globalization of Software Innovation
Will the software development laboratories follow the production mills?
By Ashish Arora, Matej Drev, and Chris Forman
25 Calendar
98 Careers
23 Education
Human Computing Skills: Rethinking the K– 12 Experience Establishing the fundamentals of computational thinking is essential to improving computer science education.
By George H. L. Fletcher and James J. Lu
104 Puzzled
Will My Algorithm Terminate? By Peter Winkler
11 Photography’s Bright Future Researchers working in computational photography are using computer vision, computer graphics, and applied optics to bring a vast array of new capabilities to digital cameras. By Kirk L. Kroeker
14 Making Sense of Sensors Recognizing the potential of position sensors, researchers are using them to overcome the limitations of traditional user interfaces.
By Alex Wright
26 Privacy and Security International Communications Surveillance
Aren’t we all foreigners when our Internet traffic transits through other countries and is subject to regional intelligence-gathering policies?
By Kristina Irion
16 The First Internet President Barak Obama’s presidential campaign utilized the Internet and information technology unlike any previous political campaign. How politicians and the public interact will never be the same. By Samuel Greengard
29 Inside Risks
U.S. Election After-Math Recounting problems still associated with election integrity, transparency, and accountability.
By Peter G. Neumann
31 Point/Counterpoint
Network Neutrality Nuances
A discussion of divergent paths to unrestricted access of content and applications via the Internet. By Barbara van Schewick and David Farber
19 SIGGRAPH Debuts in Asia
ACM’s premier computer graphics conference hosts its first-ever graphics event in Asia, with a more global focus.
By Kirk L. Kroeker
Association for Computing Machinery Advancing Computing as a Science & Profession
PhotograPh of Jack thielePaPe
2 CommunICatIons of the aCm | feBRuaRY 2009 | vol. 52 | No. 2
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