Communications - February 2009

02/09

VOL. 52 NO. 2

Practice
Contributed Articles
Virtual Extension

52 Toward 2 ^W, Beyond Web 2.0

2^W is a result of the exponentially growing Web building on itself to move from a Web of content to a Web of applications.

By T. V. Raman

60 Compiler Research: The Next 50 Years Research and education in compiler technology is more important than ever.

By Mary Hall, David Padua, and Keshav Pingali

as with all magazines, page limitations often prevent the publication of articles that might otherwise be included in the print edition. to ensure timely publication, acM created Communications’ virtual extension (ve).

ve articles undergo the same rigorous review process as those in the print edition and are accepted for publication on their merit. these articles are now available to acM members in the digital library.

Oracle, Where Shall I Submit My Papers? Ergin Elmacioglu and Dongwon Lee

Review Articles

38 Parallel Programming with Transactional Memory

While still primarily a research project, transactional memory shows promise for making parallel programming easier. By Ulrich Drepper

68 Women in Computing—Take 2 Inspiring, recruiting, and retaining women for a career in computing remains a challenge.

By Maria Klawe, Telle Whitney, and Caroline Simard

Automatically Profiling the Author of Anonymous Text Shlomo Argamon, Moshe Koppel, James W. Pennebaker, and Jonathan Schler

Networks of Contextualized Data: A Framework for Cyberinfrastructure Data Management Pamela E. Carter, and Gina Green

44 Improving Performance on the Internet

Given the Internet’s bottlenecks, how can we build fast, scalable, content-delivery systems?

By Tom Leighton

Research Highlights

For Sale by Owner Online:

Who Gets the Saved Commission?

Xiao-Bai Li and Luvai Motiwalla

78 Technical Perspective Tools for Information to Flow Securely and Swift-ly By Dan Wallach

Shadow Systems: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly Sandy Behrens

cover PhotograPh by Michael goldMan/getty iMages, fractal by scott draves

79 Building Secure Web Applications with Automatic Partitioning

By Stephen Chong, Jed Liu, Andrew C. Myers, Xin Qi, K. Vikram, Lantian Zheng, and Xin Zheng

Why IS Management is in Trouble and How to Save It Arik Ragowsky and David Gefen

88 Technical Perspective

The Complexity of Computing Nash Equilibrium

By Ehud Kalai

Why File Sharing Networks Are Dangerous? M. Eric Johnson, Dan McGuire, and Nicholas D. Wiley

about the Cover: While women’s representation in computing has improved, we still have a long way to go to inspire, recruit, and retain females for a life-long career in the field. engaging girls to the wonders of computing is just the beginning.