COMMUNICATIONS OF THE ACM
Departments
9 In the Virtual Extension
10 BLOG@CACM
Connecting Women and Technology
Guest blogger Valerie Barr writes
about highlights of the ninth Grace
Hopper Celebration of Women in
Computing Conference, including
keynote speeches by Megan Smith
and Francine Berman.
News Viewpoints 18
5 Editor’s Letter
An Issue of Teamwork
By Diane Crawford
22 Privacy and Security
Not Seeing the Crime
for the Cameras?
Why it is difficult—but essential—
to monitor the effectiveness
of security technologies.
By M. Angela Sasse
26 Education
Why an Informatics Degree?
Isn’t computer science enough?
By Dennis P. Groth
and Jeffrey K. MacKie-Mason
12 CACM Online
Where the Data Is
By David Roman
25 Calendar
114 Careers
13 Alternate Interface
Technologies Emerge
Researchers working in
human-computer interaction
are developing new interfaces to
produce greater efficiencies in
personal computing and enhance
miniaturization in mobile devices.
By Kirk L. Kroeker
29 Inside Risks
The Need for a National
Cybersecurity Research and
Development Agenda
Government-funded initiatives,
in cooperation with private-sector
partners in key technology areas,
are fundamental to cybersecurity
technical transformation.
By Douglas Maughan
Last Byte
120 Puzzled
Breaking Chocolate Bars
By Peter Winkler
16 Type Theory Comes of Age
Type systems are moving beyond
the realm of data structure and into
more complex domains like security
and networking.
By Alex Wright
32 Viewpoint
Open Access to Scientific
Publications
The good, the bad, and the ugly.
By Michel Beaudouin-Lafon
18 Improving Disaster Management
Social networking, sophisticated
imaging, and dual-use technologies
promise improved disaster
management, but they must be
adopted by governments and aid
agencies if more lives are to be saved
in the wake of crises.
By Sarah Underwood
35 Kode Vicious
Taking Your Network’s Temperature
A prescription for capturing
data to diagnose and debug
a networking problem.
By George V. Neville-Neil
21 ACM Fellows Honored
Forty-seven men and women are
inducted as 2009 ACM Fellows.
37 Interview
An Interview with Michael Rabin
Michael O. Rabin, co-recipient
of the 1976 ACM A.M. Turing Award,
discusses his innovative algorithmic
work with Dennis Shasha.
By Dennis Shasha
Association for Computing Machinery
Advancing Computing as a Science & Profession