Communications - October 2011

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5 ACM Publications Board Letter

ACM’s Copyright Policy

By Ronald F. Boisvert and Jack W. Davidson

21 Technology Strategy and Management

The Platform Leader’s Dilemma

Studying the lessons learned from past and present platform leaders.

By Michael A. Cusumano

7 In the Virtual Extension

8 BLOG@CACM

From Idea to Product; How Schools of Education Can Help CS

Daniel Reed discusses how researchers communicate their project ideas to companies and product groups and get them successfully adopted. Mark Guzdial considers whether schools of education could create more high school CS teachers.

25 Kode Vicious

File-System Litter

Cleaning up your storage space quickly and efficiently. By George V. Neville-Neil

10 CACM Online

ACM TechNews Now Available in the Android Market

By Scott E. Delman

27 Inside Risks

Modernizing the Danish Democratic Process

Examining the socio-technological issues involved in Denmark’s decision to pursue the legalization of electronic elections.

By Carsten Schürmann

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11 Improving Brain-Computer Interfaces Researchers are demonstrating advances in restorative BCI systems that are giving paralyzed individuals more effective ways to communicate, move, and interact with their environment.

By Kirk L. Kroeker

23 Calendar

30 The Business of Software Testing: Failing to Succeed Optimizing what we learn from testing.

By Phillip G. Armour

113 Careers

Last Byte

15 Seeing Is Not Enough

A new DARPA program is teaching cameras visual intelligence—how to spot and understand human behavior. By Tom Geller

120 Future Tense

A Person of Influence

Inferred connections map our past and predict our future. By Shumeet Baluja

17 Living in a Digital World Technology has created new opportunities to connect and interact. Yet, researchers are increasingly concerned that heavy technology usage is changing people’s behavior in less than desirable ways.