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5 Editor’s Letter More Debate, Please! By Moshe Y. Vardi

7 Letters to the Editor Software Still As Much an Art As Science

8 In the Virtual Extension

9 ACM’s FYO9 Annual Report

16 BLOG@CACM

Software Engineering, Smartphones and Health Systems, and Security Warnings

Greg Linden writes about frequent software deployments, Ruben ortega reports on smartphones and health systems research, and

Jason Hong discusses designing effective security warnings.

18 CACM Online

The Corollary of Empowerment By David Roman

39 Calendar

111 Careers

Last Byte

120 Q&A

HP’s Running Man

Prith Banerjee discusses collaborating with universities, his startup experiences, and Hewlett-Packard Lab’s approach to research and development. By Leah Hoffmann

News

19 Rebuilding for Eternity Researchers use computer vision techniques to preserve culturally significant sites as high-resolution 3D models. By Tom Geller

22 Amir Pnueli: Ahead of His Time Remembering a legacy of practical and theoretical innovation.

By Leah Hoffmann

24 Automated Translation of Indian Languages

India faces a daunting task trying to manually translate among 22 official languages, but assistance, in the form of advanced technology enabled by a lot of hard work, is on the way.

By Gary Anthes

27 New Search Challenges and Opportunities

If search engines can extract more meaning from text and better understand what people are looking for, the Web’s resources could be accessed more effectively.

By Neil Savage

29 Future Internet Design Summit the national Science foundation’s meeting on Internet architectures focused on designs related to emerging social and economic realities.

By Kirk L. Kroeker

30 Robert Lovett Ashenhurst 1929–2009

By Karen A. Frenkel

31 ACM and India

ACM India aims to become a key information exchange and networking organization for the nation’s professional and student communities. By Samuel Greengard

Viewpoints

32 Technology Strategy and Management The Evolution of Platform Thinking How platform adoption can be an important determinant of product and technological success. By Michael Cusumano

35 The Business of Software

In Praise of Bad Programmers

A tale illustrating the difference between individual and team skills. By Phillip G. Armour

37 Law and Technology

Unstandard Standardization:

The Case of Biology

How applicable are the approaches adopted by information and communication technology standards-setting organizations to biological standards?

By Arti Rai

40 Viewpoint

What Should We Teach

New Software Developers? Why? fundamental changes to computer science education are required to better address the needs of industry. By Bjarne Stroustrup

43 Computer Museum Series

Great Computing Museums of the World, Part One the first of a two-part series highlighting several of the world’s museums dedicated to preserving, exhibiting, and elucidating computing history.

By William Aspray

About the cover: amir Pnueli, recipient of the 1996 aCM a. M. turing award, is remembered by friends and colleagues as a pioneer in formal specification and verification. His cover portrait is the work of Chris Kasch, a u.K.-based illustrator. For more about Kasch’s work, visit http://www.chriskasch.co.uk.