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5 Editor’s Letter

Fricative Computing

Let’s bring friction back into computing.

By Moshe Y. Vardi

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12 Letters to the Editor

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41 Calendar

102 Careers

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COMMUNICATIONS OF THE ACM

From the President ACM President’s Salary Increased by 300%! By Vinton G. Cerf

26 Law and Technology

Fair Use in Europe

Examining the mismatch between copyright law and technology-influenced evolving social norms in the European Union.

By P. Bernt Hugenholtz

Publisher’s Corner A Few Good Reasons to Publish in Communications By Scott E. Delman

29 Historical Reflections

Max Newman: Forgotten Man of Early British Computing Reflections on a significant, yet often overlooked, computing pioneer.

By David Anderson

14 BLOG@CACM

Encouraging I T Usage In Future Healthcare, Quality in CS Education Jeannette M. Wing considers how technology acts as a change agent for healthcare, while Mark Guzdial ponders ways to measure quality in computer science education.

17 Proving Grounds

Researchers are making headway with one of quantum computing’s major theoretical problems: multi-prover interactive proofs. By Alex Wright

32 Education

Human-Centered Computing: A New Degree for Licklider’s World Combining computing and psychology, J.C.R. Licklider’s prescient ideas are being applied in contemporary educational settings. By Mark Guzdial

20 Vanishing Electronics

Engineers are reinventing electronics by building safe devices that dissolve in the body or within the environment. The technology could redefine everything from medicine to computing.

By Sam Greengard

35 Viewpoint

The Science in Computer Science Computer science is in a period of renaissance as it rediscovers its science roots.

By Peter J. Denning

104 Puzzled

Ant Alice’s Adventures By Peter Winkler

23 ‘Small Data’ Enabled Prediction Of Obama’s Win, Say Economists “Big data” from crowdsourcing resulted in more complex predictions. By Paul Hyman

39 Viewpoint

Moving from Petaflops to Petadata The race to build ever-faster supercomputers is on, with more contenders than ever before. However, the current goals set for this race may not lead to the fastest computation for particular applications.