5 Education Letter
22 Emerging Markets
Computing Education Matters By Andrew McGettrick
9 Letters To The Editor
What Role for Computer Science in the War on Terror?
I T and the World’s “Bottom Billion” How can information technology be best applied to address problems and provide opportunities for inhabitants of the world’s poorest countries?
By Richard Heeks
10 CACM Online
An Ongoing Study in Usability By David Roman
25 Kode Vicious
33 Calendar
107 Careers
System Changes and Side Effects Comparing the potential benefits of system changes that help and the detriments of changes made for the sake of change.
Rebooting Computing Summit
By George V. Neville-Neil
112 Q&A
Our Dame Commander By Leah Hoffmann
11 Learning More About Active Learning Active learning algorithms are producing substantial savings in label complexity over passive learning approaches.
By Graeme Stemp-Morlock
27 Technology Strategy and Management Strategies for Difficult (and Darwinian) Economic Times
How the axiom of survival of the fittest applies in the context of a global economic downturn. By Michael Cusumano
14 Our Sentiments, Exactly
With sentiment analysis algorithms, companies can identify and assess the wide variety of opinions found online and create computational models of human opinion.
By Alex Wright
29 Viewpoint
Computing as Social Science Changing the way computer science is taught in college by encouraging students to develop solutions to socially relevant problems.
By Michael Buckley
16 Did Somebody Say
Virtual Colonoscopy?
31 Viewpoint
Doctors are saving lives with virtual, 3D exams that are less invasive than a conventional optical colonoscopy. By David Essex
Research Evaluation for
Computer Science
19 Time to Reboot
Reassessing the assessment criteria and techniques traditionally used in evaluating computer science research effectiveness.
A diverse, international group of more than 200 persons met at the Rebooting Computing Summit to address the problems confronting computer science.
By Bertrand Meyer, Christine Choppy, Jørgen Staunstrup, and Jan van Leeuwen
By Bob Violino
20 I T Ecosystem in Peril
Association for Computing Machinery Advancing Computing as a Science & Profession
Experts warn the U.S. may soon relinquish its leadership role in I T research and development. By Alan Joch
PHOTOGRAPH BY RICHARD P. GABRIEL
2 COMMUNICATIONS OF THE ACM | APRIL 2009 | VOL.52 | NO.4
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