5 Editor’s Letter
Is The Image Crisis Over?
By Moshe Y. Vardi
6 Letters To The Editor
Pay for Editorial Independence
9 In the Virtual Extension
25 Privacy and Security
Usable Security: How to Get It
Why does your computer bother you so much about security, but still isn’t secure? It’s because users don’t have a model for security, or a simple way to keep important things safe.
By Butler Lampson
10 blog@CACM
Computer Science Curriculum, Deceptive Advertising
Ramana Rao writes about the evolution of computer science curriculum and Greg Linden reflects on ethics and advertising.
28 Legally Speaking
Are Business Methods Patentable? How the U.S. Supreme Court’s forthcoming decision in the Bilski v. Doll case is expected to affect existing and future software patents.
By Pamela Samuelson
12 CACM Online
Internet Addiction:
It’s Spreading, but is it Real? By David Roman
33 Calendar
13 Deep Data Dives
Discover Natural Laws Computer scientists have found a way to bootstrap science, using evolutionary computation to find fundamental meaning in massive amounts of raw data.
By Gary Anthes
31 Economic and Business Dimensions The Broadband Price is Not Right
Developing an effective pricing index is essential to understanding the value of broadband connectivity.
By Shane Greenstein
106 Careers
112 Puzzled
Covering the Plane By Peter Winkler
15 Electronic Paper’s Next Chapter The technological challenge for researchers working on the next generation of electronic paper is to render color as brightly as traditional paper, without increasing power requirements or end-user costs.
By Kirk L. Kroeker
18 Implementing Electronic
Medical Records
Despite a number of challenges, patients’ medical records are slowly making the transition to the digital age. By Leah Hoffmann
34 Viewpoint
On Public Service and Computer Science
Members of the computer science community should become more involved in public service by becoming program managers at federal agencies, the opportunities and benefits of which are outlined here.
By Jonathan M. Smith
21 Exploring New Frontiers
The Expeditions in Computing program provides scientists with the funding to work on ambitious, often multi-disciplinary research. By Gregory Goth
36 Interview
An Interview with Ping Fu
Ping Fu, CEO of the digital shape sampling and processing company Geomagic, discusses her background, achievements, and challenges managing a company during a period of dynamic growth. By Bob Cramblitt
Association for Computing Machinery Advancing Computing as a Science & Profession
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