Table of Contents

News

Managing Data

Debating Net Neutrality

Shaping the Future

Viewpoints

The Business of Software: Contagious Craziness, Spreading Sanity

Historical Reflections: Computing in the Depression Era

Inside Risks: Reflections on Conficker

Technology Strategy and Management: Dealing with the Venture Capital Crisis

Kode Vicious: Kode Reviews 101

Viewpoint: Retrospective: An Axiomatic Basis for Computer Programming

Practice

Probing Biomolecular Machines with Graphics Processors

Unifying Biological Image Formats with HDF5

A Conversation with David E. Shaw

Review Articles

Smoothed Analysis: An Attempt to Explain the Behavior of Algorithms in Practice

Contributed Articles

A View of the Parallel Computing Landscape

Automated Support for Managing Feature Requests in Open Forums

Research Highlights

Technical Perspective: Relational Query Optimization - Data Management Meets Statistical Estimation

Distinct-Value Synopses for Multiset Operations

Technical Perspective: Data Stream Processing - When You Only Get One Look

Finding the Frequent Items in Streams of Data

Departments

President's Letter: ACM Europe

Letters to the Editor: Time and Computing

In the Virtual Extension

blog@CACM: The Netflix Prize, Computer Science Outreach, and Japanese Mobile Phones

CACM Online: Following the Leaders

Calendar

Careers

Last Byte

Q&A: The Networker

Communications - October 2009 Index