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5 Letter from the ACM President Where is the Science in Computer Science?

By Vinton G. Cerf

20 Technology Strategy and Management Reflecting on the Facebook IPO Exploring some factors that reflect a company’s worth.

By Michael A. Cusumano

6 Letters to the Editor When Harm to Conference Reputation Is Self-Inflicted

8 BLOG@CACM

Online Privacy; Replicating Research Results

Daniel Reed offers three ideas about the future of personal online information management.

Ed H. Chi writes about replication of experiments and how experiments are often the beginning, rather than the end, of a scientific inquiry.

29 Calendar

108 Careers

Last Byte

112 Future Tense

Fermi’s Paradox and the End of the Universe By Geoffrey A. Landis

24 The Business of Software The Goldilocks Estimate Balancing two extremes in project estimation. By Phillip G. Armour

26 Inside Risks

The Foresight Saga, Redux Short-term thinking is the enemy of the long-term future.

By Peter G. Neumann

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11 Digging for Drug Facts

With the right approach, data mining can discover unexpected side effects and drug interactions. By Neil Savage

14 Redesigning the Data Center Faced with rising electricity costs, leading companies have begun revolutionizing the way data centers work, from the hardware to the buildings themselves.

By Gregory Mone

30 Kode Vicious

A Nice Piece of Code

Colorful metaphors and properly reusing functions.

By George V. Neville-Neil

17 Computer Science and the Three Rs A growing sense of crisis prevails as computer science searches for its place in the K– 12 curriculum. By Leah Hoffmann

32 Viewpoint

Computing as if Infrastructure Mattered Understanding the technical and social fundamentals of the computing infrastructure is essential in the continuously evolving technological realm. By Jean-François Blanchette

35 Viewpoint

The Tyranny of the Clock Promoting a clock-free paradigm that fits everything learned about programming since Turing.

By Ivan Sutherland

Association for Computing Machinery Advancing Computing as a Science & Profession