Communications - November 2011

communications of the acm
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Departments

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.