Communications of the ACM, Volume 55

Volume 55, Number 1, January 2012 (EE)

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  Moshe Y. Vardi:
  Artificial intelligence: past and future. 5

Letters to the editor

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  Software engineering is engineering. 6-7
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  Alain Chesnais:
  ACM president's letter. 8
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  Alain Chesnais:
  ACM's annual report. 9-13

BLOG@CACM

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  Mark Guzdial, Bertrand Meyer:
  Understanding CS1 students; defective software. 14-15

CACM online

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  Scott E. Delman:
  eBooks will abound in the ACM Digital Library. 16

News

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  Neil Savage:
  Better medicine through machine learning. 17-19
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  Gary Anthes:
  Revamping storage performance. 20-22
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  Samuel Greengard:
  Law and disorder. 23-25
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  Sarah Underwood:
  Celebration time. 26
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  Alex Wright:
  Analyzing Apple products. 27
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  Paul Hyman:
  John McCarthy, 1927-2011. 28-29

Law and technology

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  Randal C. Picker:
  The yin and yang of copyright and technology. 30-32

The business of software

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  Phillip G. Armour:
  The difference engine. 33-34

Historical reflections

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  Thomas Haigh:
  The IBM PC: from beige box to industry standard. 35-37

Viewpoint

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  Kai A. Olsen, Alessio Malizia:
  Interfaces for the ordinary user: can we hide too much? 38-40

Interview

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  Philip L. Frana:
  An interview with Stephen A. Cook. 41-46

Practice

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  Matthew Flatt:
  Creating languages in Racket. 48-56
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  Jim Gettys, Kathleen M. Nichols:
  Bufferbloat: dark buffers in the internet. 57-65
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  Carl A. Waldspurger, Mendel Rosenblum:
  I/O virtualization. 66-73

Contributed articles

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  Jason I. Hong:
  The state of phishing attacks. 74-81
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  Geoff Coulson, Barry Porter, Ioannis Chatzigiannakis, Christos Koninis, Stefan Fischer, Dennis Pfisterer, Daniel Bimschas, Torsten Braun, Philipp Hurni, Markus Anwander, Gerald Wagenknecht, Sándor P. Fekete, Alexander Kröller, Tobias Baumgartner:
  Flexible experimentation in wireless sensor networks. 82-90
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  Chi-Sung Laih, Shang-Ming Jen, Chia-Yu Lu:
  Long-term confidentiality of PKI. 91-95

Review articles

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  Roberto Manduchi, James M. Coughlan:
  (Computer) vision without sight. 96-104

Research highlights

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  Frédo Durand:
  Where do people draw lines?: technical perspective. 106
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  Forrester Cole, Aleksey Golovinskiy, Alex Limpaecher, Heather Stoddart Barros, Adam Finkelstein, Thomas A. Funkhouser, Szymon Rusinkiewicz:
  Where do people draw lines? 107-115
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  Jim Kurose:
  Content-centric networking: technical perspective. 116
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  Van Jacobson, Diana K. Smetters, James D. Thornton, Michael F. Plass, Nick Briggs, Rebecca Braynard:
  Networking named content. 117-124

Last byte

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  Daniel H. Wilson:
  Future tense. 136-

Volume 55, Number 2, February 2012 (EE)

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  Fabrizio Gagliardi:
  Revisiting ACM Europe. 5

Letters to the editor

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  Credit non-anonymous reviewers with a name. 6-7

BLOG@CACM

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  Michael Stonebraker, Jason I. Hong:
  Researchers' big data crisis; understanding design and functionality. 10-11

News

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  Gregory Goth:
  The science of better science. 13-15
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  Samuel Greengard:
  The war against botnets. 16-18
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  Alex Wright:
  The social life of robots. 19-21
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  ACM Fellows inducted. 23

Economic and business dimensions

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  Gregory L. Rosston:
  Incentive auctions. 24-26

Education

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  Beth Simon, Quintin I. Cutts:
  Peer instruction: a teaching method to foster deep understanding. 27-29

Inside risks

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  Donald A. Norman:
  Yet another technology cusp: confusion, vendor wars, and opportunities. 30-32

Kode Vicious

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  George V. Neville-Neil:
  Wanton acts of debuggery. 33-34

Privacy and security

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  Rose McDermott:
  Emotion and security. 35-37

Viewpoint

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  Marvin V. Zelkowitz:
  What have we learned about software engineering? 38-39

Practice

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  BufferBloat: what's wrong with the internet? 40-47
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  Hans-Juergen Boehm, Sarita V. Adve:
  You don't know jack about shared variables or memory models. 48-54
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  Adam J. Oliner, Archana Ganapathi, Wei Xu:
  Advances and challenges in log analysis. 55-61

Contributed articles

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  Nicholas E. Evangelopoulos, Lucian L. Visinescu:
  Text-mining the voice of the people. 62-69
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  Holger H. Hoos:
  Programming by optimization. 70-80
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  Bryce Allen, John Bresnahan, Lisa Childers, Ian T. Foster, Gopi Kandaswamy, Rajkumar Kettimuthu, Jack Kordas, Mike Link, Stuart Martin, Karl Pickett, Steven Tuecke:
  Software as a service for data scientists. 81-88

Review articles

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  Miad Faezipour, Mehrdad Nourani, Adnan Saeed, Sateesh Addepalli:
  Progress and challenges in intelligent vehicle area networks. 90-100

Research highlights

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  Rastislav Bodík:
  Compiling what to how: technical perspective. 102
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  Viktor Kuncak, Mikaël Mayer, Ruzica Piskac, Philippe Suter:
  Software synthesis procedures. 103-111
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  Santosh S. Vempala:
  Modeling high-dimensional data: technical perspective. 112
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  Adam Tauman Kalai, Ankur Moitra, Gregory Valiant:
  Disentangling Gaussians. 113-120

Last byte

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  Peter Winkler:
  Puzzled. 128

Volume 55, Number 3, March 2012 (EE)

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  Moshe Y. Vardi:
  What is an algorithm? 5

Letters to the editor

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  From syntax to semantics for AI. 6-7

BLOG@CACM

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  Bertrand Meyer:
  Knowledgeable beginners. 10-11

News

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  Neil Savage:
  Gaining wisdom from crowds. 13-15
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  Gary Anthes:
  Computing with magnets. 16-18
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  Samuel Greengard:
  Policing the future. 19-21
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  Paul Hyman:
  Stanford schooling - gratis! 22
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  Jack Rosenberger:
  Computer science awards. 23

Computing ethics

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  Patrick Lin, Fritz Allhoff, Neil C. Rowe:
  War 2.0: cyberweapons and ethics. 24-26

Legally speaking

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  Pamela Samuelson:
  Do software copyrights protect what programs do? 27-29

The profession of IT

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  Peter J. Denning:
  The idea idea. 30-32

Viewpoint

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  Vassilis Kostakos:
  Training users vs. training soldiers: experiences from the battlefield. 33-35
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  Alessio Malizia, Andrea Bellucci:
  The artificiality of natural user interfaces. 36-38

Practice

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  Patrice Godefroid, Michael Y. Levin, David A. Molnar:
  SAGE: whitebox fuzzing for security testing. 40-44
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  Luigi Rizzo:
  Revisiting network I/O APIs: the netmap framework. 45-51
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  Poul-Henning Kamp:
  The hyperdimensional tar pit. 52-53

Contributed articles

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  Youngki Lee, S. S. Iyengar, Chulhong Min, Younghyun Ju, Seungwoo Kang, Taiwoo Park, Jinwon Lee, Yunseok Rhee, Junehwa Song:
  MobiCon: a mobile context-monitoring platform. 54-65
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  Seung-Hyun Kim, Qiu-Hong Wang, Johannes Ullrich:
  A comparative study of cyberattacks. 66-73

Review articles

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  S. Barry Cooper:
  Turing's Titanic machine? 74-83
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  J. Y. Huang, C. H. Tsai, Shing-Tsaan Huang:
  The next generation of GPS navigation systems. 84-93

Research highlights

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  Steven D. Gribble:
  The benefits of capability-based protection: technical perspective. 96
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  Robert N. M. Watson, Jonathan Anderson, Ben Laurie, Kris Kennaway:
  A taste of Capsicum: practical capabilities for UNIX. 97-104
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  Michael L. Littman:
  A new way to search game trees: technical perspective. 105
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  Sylvain Gelly, Levente Kocsis, Marc Schoenauer, Michèle Sebag, David Silver, Csaba Szepesvári, Olivier Teytaud:
  The grand challenge of computer Go: Monte Carlo tree search and extensions. 106-113

Last byte

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  Peter Winkler:
  Puzzled. 118
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  Leah Hoffmann:
  Q&A. 120-

Volume 55, Number 4, April 2012 (EE)

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  Yunhao Liu, Vincent Y. Shen:
  ACM China Council. 5

Letters to the editor

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  The beauty of simplicity. 6-7

BLOG@CACM

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  Daniel Reed, Mark Guzdial:
  The power of computing; design guidelines in CS education. 8-9

News

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  Gregory Goth:
  Preserving digital data. 11-13
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  Tom Geller:
  Talking to machines. 14-16
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  Leah Hoffmann:
  Open for business. 17-19

Technology strategy and management

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  Michael A. Cusumano:
  Can services and platform thinking help the U.S. Postal Service? 21-23

Emerging markets

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  Richard Heeks:
  Information technology and gross national happiness. 24-26

Kode Vicious

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  George V. Neville-Neil:
  The network protocol battle. 27-28

Broadening participation

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  Jill Ross, Elizabeth Litzler, Joanne McGrath Cohoon, Lucy Sanders:
  Improving gender composition in computing. 29-31

Viewpoint

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  Selma Tekir:
  Reading CS classics. 32-34
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  Daniel S. Soper:
  Is human mobility tracking a good idea? 35-37

Practice

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  Brian Beckman:
  Why LINQ matters: cloud composability guaranteed. 38-44
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  Jeffrey Heer, Ben Shneiderman:
  Interactive dynamics for visual analysis. 45-54
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  Andrew Danowitz, Kyle Kelley, James Mao, John P. Stevenson, Mark Horowitz:
  CPU DB: recording microprocessor history. 55-63

Contributed articles

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  Martin Schmettow:
  Sample size in usability studies. 64-70
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  Laurie A. Williams:
  What agile teams think of agile principles. 71-76

Review articles

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  David M. Blei:
  Probabilistic topic models. 77-84
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  Sarvapali D. Ramchurn, Perukrishnen Vytelingum, Alex Rogers, Nicholas R. Jennings:
  Putting the 'smarts' into the smart grid: a grand challenge for artificial intelligence. 86-97

Research highlights

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  Dinesh Manocha:
  Building robust dynamical simulation systems: technical perspective. 101
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  David Harmon, Etienne Vouga, Breannan Smith, Rasmus Tamstorf, Eitan Grinspun:
  Asynchronous contact mechanics. 102-109
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  Ed H. Chi:
  Who knows?: searching for expertise on the social web: technical perspective. 110
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  Damon Horowitz, Sepandar D. Kamvar:
  Searching the village: models and methods for social search. 111-118

Last byte

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  Brian Clegg:
  Future tense. 120-

Volume 55, Number 5, May 2012 (EE)

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  Moshe Y. Vardi:
  Fair access. 5

BLOG@CACM

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  Judy Robertson:
  Likert-type scales, statistical methods, and effect sizes. 6-7

News

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  Neil Savage:
  Automating scientific discovery. 9-11
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  Alex Wright:
  Robots like us. 12-13
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  Samuel Greengard:
  Digitally possessed. 14-16
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  Paul Hyman:
  A workshop revival. 17

ACM election

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  Gerald Segal:
  ACM's 2012 general election. 19-29

Law and technology

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  Peter S. Menell:
  Design for symbiosis. 30-32

Historical reflections

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  David Anderson:
  The future of the past. 33-34

Economic and business dimensions

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  Joel Waldfogel:
  Digitization and copyright: some recent evidence from music. 35-37

Education

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  Alexander Repenning:
  Programming goes back to school. 38-40

Viewpoint

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  Abraham Bernstein, Mark Klein, Thomas W. Malone:
  Programming the global brain. 41-43
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  Armando Fox, David A. Patterson:
  Crossing the software education chasm. 44-49

Practice

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  Eric Allman:
  Managing technical debt. 50-55
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  Pat Helland:
  Idempotence is not a medical condition. 56-65
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  Erik Meijer:
  Your mouse is a database. 66-73

Contributed articles

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  Alok N. Choudhary, William Hendrix, Kathy Lee, Diana Palsetia, Wei-keng Liao:
  Social media evolution of the Egyptian revolution. 74-80
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  Daniel S. Soper, Ofir Turel:
  An n-gram analysis of Communications 2000-2010. 81-87

Review articles

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  Nir Atias, Roded Sharan:
  Comparative analysis of protein networks: hard problems, practical solutions. 88-97

Research highlights

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  William Gropp:
  Best algorithms + best computers = powerful match. 100
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  Ilya Lashuk, Aparna Chandramowlishwaran, Harper Langston, Tuan-Anh Nguyen, Rahul S. Sampath, Aashay Shringarpure, Richard W. Vuduc, Lexing Ying, Denis Zorin, George Biros:
  A massively parallel adaptive fast multipole method on heterogeneous architectures. 101-109
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  Steven Hand:
  An experiment in determinism. 110
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  Amittai Aviram, Shu-Chun Weng, Sen Hu, Bryan Ford:
  Efficient system-enforced deterministic parallelism. 111-119

Last byte

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  Peter Winkler:
  Puzzled. 120

Volume 55, Number 6, June 2012 (EE)

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  Eugene H. Spafford:
  USACM and U.S. legislation. 5

Letters to the editor

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  The halting problem in the clear light of probability. 6-7

BLOG@CACM

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