03/2011
vol. 54 no. 03
Practice
Contributed Articles
Review Articles
76 Data Structures in the Multicore Age
The advent of multicore processors
as the standard computing
platform will force major changes
in software design.
By Nir Shavit
Research Highlights
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70
86 Technical Perspective
Concerto for Violin
and Markov Model
By Juan Bello, Yann LeCun,
and Robert Rowe
44 Testable System Administration
Models of determinism are
changing IT management.
By Mark Burgess
50 National Internet Defense—
Small States on the Skirmish Line
Attacks in Estonia and Georgia
highlight key vulnerabilities in
national Internet infrastructure.
By Ross Stapleton-Gray
and William Woodcock
60 Plug-and-Play Macroscopes
Compose “dream tools” from
continuously evolving bundles
of software to make sense
of complex scientific data sets.
By Katy Börner
87 The Informatics Philharmonic
By Christopher Raphael
94 Technical Perspective
VL2
By Jennifer Rexford
70 Understanding Scam Victims:
Seven Principles for Systems Security
Effective countermeasures depend
on first understanding how users
naturally fall victim to fraudsters.
By Frank Stajano and Paul Wilson
56 B. Y.O.C ( 1,342 Times and Counting)
Why can’t we all use standard
libraries for commonly
needed algorithms?
By Poul-Henning Kamp
95 VL2: A Scalable and Flexible
Data Center Network
By Albert Greenberg, James R. Hamilton,
Navendu Jain, Srikanth Kandula,
Changhoon Kim, Parantap Lahiri,
David A. Maltz, Parveen Patel,
and Sudipta Sengupta
Articles’ development led by
queue.acm.org
The Internet Electorate
The 2008 U.S. presidential election
demonstrated the Internet is
a major source of both political
information and expression.
By R. Kelly Garrett
and James N. Danziger
IllustratIon by alex wIllIamson, PhotograPh by CollIn Parker
Governing Web 2.0
Grounding principles to get the most
out of enterprise 2.0 investments.
By Steven De Hertogh, Stijn Viaene,
and Guido Dedene
about the cover:
artist/photographer
eric Fischer created the
geotaggers’ world atlas
by collected geographical
data from Flickr photos,
revealing where people
take pictures in major
cities around the world.
each city was ranked on
the density of photographs
taken around its center;
our cover image of new
york City topped the list.
