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5 Publications Board Letter ACM Publications: Access and Sustainability By Ronald F. Boisvert and Holly Rushmeier

7 Publisher’s Corner Looking Back and Forward By Scott E. Delman

21 Emerging Markets Labor Supply in the Indian I T Industry Exploring the evolving dynamics and interconnectedness of india’s educational system and its it work force. By Alok Aggarwal

8 Letters to the Editor

Apple Builds Great Platforms, Too, Not Just Products

10 CaCM Online

Previewing the New CACM Web Site By David Roman

31 Calendar

96 Careers

Last Byte

11 Living Machines researchers of molecular computing and communication are focusing on the type of breakthroughs that are needed to make the vision of ultrasmall, biocompatible computers a reality.

By Kirk L. Kroeker

24 It Policy

Advising Policymakers Is More Than Just Providing Advice

What are the factors that make certain advisory committee reports successful while others are not?

By Cameron Wilson and Peter Harsha

27 Kode Vicious

Permanence and Change highlighting the importance of doing one’s best in view of code longevity and the impermanence of the changineer.

By George V. Neville-Neil

118 Puzzled

Solutions and Sources By Peter Winkler

120 Future tense Pester Power

By Cory Doctorow

14 Touching the Future in combination with finger and hand gestures, multitouch input is enabling users to manipulate and display information in innovative and unprecedented ways.

By Ted Selker

29 the Profession of It

Evolutionary System Development large systems projects are failing at an alarming rate. it’s time to take evolutionary design methods off the shelf.

By Peter J. Denning, Chris Gunderson, and Rick Hayes-Roth

17 Upwardly Mobile

Mobile phones are bridging the digital divide and transforming many economic, social, and medical realities, particularly in developing nations.

By Samuel Greengard

20 Making a Difference the Grace hopper Celebration featured technical talks, workshops, networking events, and lively discussions about increasing the number of women in computer science.

By Leah Hoffmann

32 Interview

Database Dialogue with Pat Selinger relational database pioneer Patricia G. selinger explores the vast realm of database technology and trends in a wide-ranging discussion with Microsoft’s James hamilton.

By James Hamilton