communications of the acm
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20Departments
5;Editor’s;Letter
23 Privacy;and;Security
Is Moore’s Party Over?
By Moshe Y. Vardi
Security Risks in Next-Generation
Emergency Services
6;Letters;To;The;Editor
Justice for Jahromi
Sounding the alert on emergency
calling system deficiencies.
By Hannes Tschofenig
9;In;the;Virtual;Extension
12 BLOG@CACM
In Support of Open Reviews;
26 Economic;and;Business;Dimensions
What Gets Measured Gets Done
Stop focusing on irrelevant
broadband metrics.
Better Teaching Through
Large-Scale Data Mining
By Scott Wallsten
Bertrand Meyer writes about his
long-standing decision not to provide
anonymous reviews. Greg Linden
considers how educational practices
could be improved through the data
mining of students’ schoolwork.
29 Legally Speaking
15 Modeling Chaotic Storms
Scientists say improvements to
extreme-weather prediction are
possible with new weather models
and a reinvention of the modeling
technologies used to process them.
By Kirk L. Kroeker
Why the Google Book Settlement
Failed—and What Comes Next?
Assessing the implications of the
Google Book Search settlement.
By Pamela Samuelson
14;CACM;Online
32 Computing Ethics
ACM Offers a New Approach
to Self-Archiving
By Scott E. Delman
18 Hacking Cars
25 Calendar
Researchers have discovered
important security flaws in modern
automobile systems. Will car thieves
learn to pick locks with their laptops?
By Alex Wright
Will Software Engineering
Ever Be Engineering?
Considering whether software
engineering and engineering
can share a profession.
By Michael Davis
112;Careers
35 Education
Last;Byte
120;Puzzled
Distances Between
Points on the Plane
By Peter Winkler
20 Risky Business
Governments, companies,
and individuals have suffered
an unusual number of highly
publicized data breaches
this year. Is there a solution?
By Leah Hoffmann
Teaching-Oriented Faculty
at Research Universities
Developing a well-rounded
university through specialization.
By SIGCSE TOF Group
38 Viewpoint
Gender Demographics Trends and
Changes in U.S. CS Departments
Using the past 10 years of Taulbee
Survey data to evaluate female
student enrollment across
varied academic institutions
and departments.
By Douglas Baumann, Susanne
Hambrusch, and Jennifer Neville
Information Seeking: Convergence
of Search, Recommendations,
and Advertising
By Hector-Garcia Molina, Georgina
Koutrika, and Aditya Parameswaran
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