COMMUNICATIONS OF THE ACM
Departments
News
Viewpoints
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