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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

Last Byte

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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