12/2009

VOL. 52 NO. 12

Practice
Contributed Articles
Virtual Extension

58 The Bulk Multicore Architecture for Improved Programmability Easing the programmer’s burden does not compromise system performance or increase the complexity of hardware implementation.

By Josep Torrellas, Luis Ceze, James Tuck, Calin Cascaval, Pablo Montesinos, Wonsun Ahn, and Milos Prvulovic

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.

38 A Threat Analysis of RFID Passports Do RFID passports make us vulnerable to identity theft? By Alan Ramos, Weina Scott, William Scott, Doug Lloyd, Katherine O’Leary, and Jim Waldo

66 Computer Science in the Conceptual Age

CS departments are incorporating game design to prepare students for the game industry’s expectations. By Michael Zyda

Power and Trust in Global
Virtual Teams
Niki Panteli and Robert Tucker

Online Privacy, Government
Surveillance, and National ID Cards
Sun Sun Lim, Hichang Cho
and Milagros Rivera Sanchez

Review Articles

Security in Dynamic Web Content
Management Systems Applications
Ganesh Vaidyanathan
and Steve Mautone

43 What DNS Is Not

DNS is many things to many people—perhaps too many things to too many people.

By Paul Vixie

74 Computer Games and

Traditional CS Courses Integrating computer games into existing CS courses may help attract students to the field, but there are guidelines to be considered.

By Kelvin Sung

Assessing Open Source Software
as a Scholarly Contribution
Lou Hafer and Arthur E. Kirkpatrick

48 Maximizing Power Efficiency with Asymmetric Multicore Systems How do we develop software to make the most of the promise that asymmetric multicore systems use a lot less energy?

By Alexandra Fedorova,

Juan Carlos Saez, Daniel Shelepov, and Manuel Prieto

Why Did Your Project Fail?

Narciso Cerpa and June Verner

Research Highlights

80 Technical Perspective

Design Tools for the Rest of Us By James A. Landay

Visual Passwords:

Cure-All or Snake-Oil?

Karen Renaud and Antonella De Angeli

81 Designing Plush Toys with a Computer

By Yuki Igarashi and Takeo Igarashi

Positive Externality, Increasing Returns, and the Rise in Cybercrimes Nir Kshetri

Article development led by queue.acm.org

89 Technical Perspective

A Graphical Sense of Touch By Pat Hanrahan

iLLUSTRATiON BY ANDY GiLMORe

Technical Opinion Are Employees Putting Your Company At Risk By Not Following Information Security Policies? Mikko Siponen, M. Adam Mahmood, and Seppo Pahnila

90 ThinSight: A Thin Form-Factor Interactive Surface Technology By Shahram Izadi, Steve Hodges, Alex Butler, Darren West,

Alban Rrustemi, Mike Molloy and William Buxton

Association for Computing Machinery Advancing Computing as a Science & Profession