Table of Contents

Departments

Editor's Letter

The Financial Meltdown and Computing

Letters to the Editor

Computer Science Does Matter

In the Virtual Extension

blog@CACM

Saying Good-bye to DBMSs, Designing Effective Interfaces

CACM Online

What You Read on Your Summer Vacation

Calendar

Careers

Last Byte

Puzzled

Solutions and Sources

Future Tense

Confusions of the Hive Mind

News

Entering a Parallel Universe

Medical Nanobots

Facing an Age-Old Problem

Computer Science Meets Environmental Science

Viewpoints

Law and Technology

Keeping Track of Telecommunications Surveillance

The Profession of IT

Computing: The Fourth Great Domain of Science

Emerging Markets

How ICT Advances Might Help Developing Nations

IT Policy

The Long Road to Computer Science Education Reform

Viewpoint

Face the Inevitable, Embrace Parallelism

Interview

An Interview with Maurice Wilkes

Practice

Reveling in Constraints

Monitoring and Control of Large Systems with MonALISA

Making Sense of Revision-Control Systems

Contributed Articles

Sound Index: Charts For the People, By the People

What Intellectual Property Law Should Learn from Software

Review Article

The Status of the P versus NP Problem

Research Highlights

Technical Perspective

Abstraction for Parallelism

Optimistic Parallelism Requires Abstractions

Technical Perspective

They Do Click, Don't They?

Spamalytics: An Empirical Analysis of Spam Marketing Conversion

Communications - September 2009 Index