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5 Editor’s Letter

Is The Image Crisis Over?

By Moshe Y. Vardi

6 Letters To The Editor

Pay for Editorial Independence

9 In the Virtual Extension

News Viewpoints

25 Privacy and Security

Usable Security: How to Get It

Why does your computer bother you so much about security, but still isn’t secure? It’s because users don’t have a model for security, or a simple way to keep important things safe.

By Butler Lampson

10 blog@CACM

Computer Science Curriculum, Deceptive Advertising

Ramana Rao writes about the evolution of computer science curriculum and Greg Linden reflects on ethics and advertising.

28 Legally Speaking

Are Business Methods Patentable? How the U.S. Supreme Court’s forthcoming decision in the Bilski v. Doll case is expected to affect existing and future software patents.

By Pamela Samuelson

12 CACM Online

Internet Addiction:

It’s Spreading, but is it Real? By David Roman

33 Calendar

13 Deep Data Dives

Discover Natural Laws Computer scientists have found a way to bootstrap science, using evolutionary computation to find fundamental meaning in massive amounts of raw data.

By Gary Anthes

31 Economic and Business Dimensions The Broadband Price is Not Right

Developing an effective pricing index is essential to understanding the value of broadband connectivity.

By Shane Greenstein

106 Careers

Last Byte

112 Puzzled

Covering the Plane By Peter Winkler

15 Electronic Paper’s Next Chapter The technological challenge for researchers working on the next generation of electronic paper is to render color as brightly as traditional paper, without increasing power requirements or end-user costs.

By Kirk L. Kroeker

18 Implementing Electronic

Medical Records

Despite a number of challenges, patients’ medical records are slowly making the transition to the digital age. By Leah Hoffmann

34 Viewpoint

On Public Service and Computer Science

Members of the computer science community should become more involved in public service by becoming program managers at federal agencies, the opportunities and benefits of which are outlined here.

By Jonathan M. Smith

21 Exploring New Frontiers

The Expeditions in Computing program provides scientists with the funding to work on ambitious, often multi-disciplinary research. By Gregory Goth

36 Interview

An Interview with Ping Fu

Ping Fu, CEO of the digital shape sampling and processing company Geomagic, discusses her background, achievements, and challenges managing a company during a period of dynamic growth. By Bob Cramblitt

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