41 Calendar
113 Careers
News Viewpoints
COMMUNICATIONS OF THE ACM
Departments
5 Editor’s Letter
Why ACM?
By Moshe Y. Vardi
7 Letters to the Editor
Operationalizing Privacy by Design
26 Historical Reflections
Seven Lessons from Bad History
Journalists, historians,
and the invention of email.
By Thomas Haigh
8 BLOG@CACM
Incremental Research
vs. Paradigm-Shift Mania
Bertrand Meyer asks why
too many research agencies
seem obsessed with funding
only groundbreaking projects.
30 The Profession of IT
Don’t Feel Bad If You Can’t
Predict the Future
Wise experts and powerful
machines are no match for chaotic
events and human declarations.
Beware of their predictions and
be humble in your own.
By Peter J. Denning 14
Last Byte
11 Atomic-Level Computing
Thanks to the University
of New South Wales and IBM
Research, scientists are moving
closer to the junction of quantum
and digital computing.
By Gregory Goth
33 Law and Technology
Automated Prediction: Perception,
Law, and Policy
A few predictions about predictions.
By Tal Z. Zarsky
117 Puzzled
Solutions and Sources
By Peter Winkler
120 Q&A
What Women Want
Harvey Mudd College president
Maria Klawe talks about increasing
the number of women who study
computer science.
By Leah Hoffmann
14 Chips Go Upscale
After decades in Flatland,
the end of Moore’s Law
is pushing semiconductors
into the third dimension.
By Gary Anthes
36 Broadening Participation
The Need to Balance Innovation
and Implementation in
Broadening Participation
Seeking to improve the process
for writing and reviewing proposals
for new educational programs.
By Richard E. Ladner
and Elizabeth Litzler
17 Garbage In, Info Out
Security researchers used malware
to investigate large-scale Internet
censorship in Egypt and Libya.
By Marina Krakovsky
20 In Honor of Alan Turing
Thirty-two of the 39 living
A.M. Turing Award laureates
gathered in San Francisco
to pay tribute to “the father of CS”
and discuss the past, present,
and future of computing.
By Paul Hyman
39 Viewpoint
Author Order: What Science
Can Learn from the Arts
Some thoughts about author
order in research papers.
By Esperanza Marcos, Juan Manuel
Vara, and Valeria de Castro
42 Viewpoint
Alan and I
A personal account of
Alan Turing’s life and impact.
By Christos H. Papadimitriou
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