Communications of the ACM (CACM), Volume 53, 2010

Volume 53, Number 1, January 2010 (EE)

Amir Pnueli: Ahead of His Time Editor's letter

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  Moshe Y. Vardi:
  More debate, please! 5

Letters to the editor

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  Software still as much an art as science. 7

In the Virtual Extension

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  In the Virtual Extension. 8

ACM's FY09 annual report

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  Wendy Hall:
  ACM's annual report. 9-13

blog@CACM

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  Greg Linden, Ruben Ortega, Jason I. Hong:
  Software engineering, smartphones and health systems, and security warnings. 16-17

CACM online

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  David Roman:
  The corollary of empowerment. 18

News

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  Tom Geller:
  Rebuilding for eternity. 19-21
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  Leah Hoffmann:
  Amir Pnueli: ahead of his time. 22-23
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  Gary Anthes:
  Automated translation of Indian languages. 24-26
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  Neil Savage:
  New search challenges and opportunities. 27-28
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  Kirk L. Kroeker:
  Future Internet design summit. 29
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  Karen A. Frenkel:
  Robert Lovett Ashenhurst: 1929--2009. 30
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  Samuel Greengard:
  ACM and India. 31

Viewpoints

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  Michael A. Cusumano:
  Technology strategy and management - The evolution of platform thinking. 32-34
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  Phillip G. Armour:
  The business of software - In praise of bad programmers. 35-36
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  Arti Rai:
  Law and technology - Unstandard standardization: the case of biology. 37-39
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  Bjarne Stroustrup:
  Viewpoint - What should we teach new software developers? Why? 40-42
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  William Aspray, Len Shustek, Norbert Ryska:
  Computer museum series - Great computing museums of the world, part one. 43-46

Practice

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  Julian Hyde:
  Data in flight. 48-52
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  Stephen Petschulat:
  Other people's data. 53-57
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  Adam Leventhal:
  Triple-parity RAID and beyond. 58-63

Contributed articles

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  Michael Stonebraker, Daniel J. Abadi, David J. DeWitt, Samuel Madden, Erik Paulson, Andrew Pavlo, Alexander Rasin:
  MapReduce and parallel DBMSs: friends or foes? 64-71
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  Jeffrey Dean, Sanjay Ghemawat:
  MapReduce: a flexible data processing tool. 72-77

Review articles

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  Raz Lin, Sarit Kraus:
  Can automated agents proficiently negotiate with humans? 78-88

Research highlights

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  Dan S. Wallach:
  Technical perspective - Native Client: a clever alternative. 90
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  Bennet Yee, David Sehr, Gregory Dardyk, J. Bradley Chen, Robert Muth, Tavis Ormandy, Shiki Okasaka, Neha Narula, Nicholas Fullagar:
  Native Client: a sandbox for portable, untrusted x86 native code. 91-99
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  Alon Y. Halevy:
  Technical perspective - Schema mappings: rules for mixing data. 100
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  Balder ten Cate, Phokion G. Kolaitis:
  Structural characterizations of schema-mapping languages. 101-110

Last byte

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  Leah Hoffmann:
  Q&A - HP's running man. 120-

Virtual extension

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  Dongback Seo, King-Tim Mak:
  Using the thread-fabric perspective to analyze industry dynamics. 121-125
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  Randal C. Burns, Zachary N. J. Peterson:
  Security constructs for regulatory-compliant storage. 126-130
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  Wonchang Hur, Dongsoo Kim:
  The future of digital imaging. 131-135
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  Seongwoon Kim, Inseong Lee, Kiho Lee, Seungki Jung, Joonah Park, Yeun-Bae Kim, Sang Ryong Kim, Jinwoo Kim:
  Mobile Web 2.0 with multi-display buttons. 136-141
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  Paul D. Witman, Terry Ryan:
  Think big for reuse. 142-147
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  Vijay Khatri, Carol V. Brown:
  Designing data governance. 148-152
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  Vittorio Miori, Dario Russo, Massimo Aliberti:
  Domotic technologies incompatibility becomes user transparent. 153-157
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  Zvi Drezner:
  Technical opinion - Random selection from a stream of events. 158-159

Volume 53, Number 2, February 2010 (EE)

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  Diane Crawford:
  An issue of teamwork. 5
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  In the Virtual Extension. 9

BLOG@CACM

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  Valerie Barr:
  Connecting women and technology. 10-11

CACM online

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  David Roman:
  Where the data is. 12

News

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  Kirk L. Kroeker:
  Alternate interface technologies emerge. 13-15
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  Alex Wright:
  Type theory comes of age. 16-17
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  Sarah Underwood:
  Improving disaster management. 18-20
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  ACM Fellows honored. 21

Privacy and security

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  Martina Angela Sasse:
  Not seeing the crime for the cameras? 22-25

Education

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  Dennis P. Groth, Jeffrey K. MacKie-Mason:
  Why an informatics degree? 26-28

Inside risks

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  W. Douglas Maughan:
  The need for a national cybersecurity research and development agenda. 29-31
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  Michel Beaudouin-Lafon:
  Open access to scientific publications. 32-34

Kode Vicious

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  George V. Neville-Neil:
  Taking your network's temperature. 35-36

Interview

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  Dennis E. Shasha:
  An interview with Michael Rabin. 37-42
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  Eric Saxe:
  Power-efficient software. 44-48
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  Alexandra Fedorova, Sergey Blagodurov, Sergey Zhuravlev:
  Managing contention for shared resources on multicore processors. 49-57
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  Steven P. Miller, Michael W. Whalen, Darren D. Cofer:
  Software model checking takes off. 58-64
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  Al Bessey, Ken Block, Benjamin Chelf, Andy Chou, Bryan Fulton, Seth Hallem, Charles-Henri Gros, Asya Kamsky, Scott McPeak, Dawson R. Engler:
  A few billion lines of code later: using static analysis to find bugs in the real world. 66-75
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  Eric Benhamou, Jon Eisenberg, Randy H. Katz:
  Assessing the changing U.S. IT R&D ecosystem. 76-83
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  Dave Bacon, Wim van Dam:
  Recent progress in quantum algorithms. 84-93
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  Sanjoy Dasgupta:
  Strange effects in high dimension. 96
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  Nir Ailon, Bernard Chazelle:
  Faster dimension reduction. 97-104
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  Shekhar Y. Borkar:
  Want to be a bug buster? 105
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  Sung-Boem Park, Subhasish Mitra:
  Post-silicon bug localization for processors using IFRA. 106-113

Last byte: Puzzled

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  Peter Winkler:
  Breaking chocolate bars. 120

Virtual Extension

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  Dongmin Kim, Izak Benbasat:
  Designs for effective implementation of trust assurances in internet stores. 121-126
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  Irma Becerra-Fernandez, Joyce J. Elam, Susan Clemmons:
  Reversing the landslide in computer-related degree programs. 127-133
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  Tim Chenoweth, Robert P. Minch, Sharon W. Tabor:
  Wireless insecurity: examining user security behavior on public networks. 134-138
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  Farheen Altaf, David Schuff:
  Taking a flexible approach to ASPs. 139-143
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  John Minor Ross:
  Informatics creativity: a role for abductive reasoning? 144-148
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  Damien Joseph, Soon Ang, Roger H. L. Chang, Sandra Slaughter:
  Practical intelligence in IT: assessing soft skills of IT professionals. 149-154
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  Vijay K. Gurbani, Anita Garvert, James D. Herbsleb:
  Managing a corporate open source software asset. 155-159
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  Nikhil Mehta, Anju Mehta:
  It takes two to tango: how relational investments improve IT outsourcing partnerships. 160-164

Volume 53, Number 3, March 2010 (EE)

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  Moshe Y. Vardi:
  Revisiting the publication culture in computing research. 5

Letters to the Editor

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  Too much debate? 6-7
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  In the Virtual Extension. 8

BLOG@CACM

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  Mark Guzdial, Judy Robertson:
  Too much programming too soon? 10-11

CACM online

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  David Roman:
  Granting a second life. 12

News

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  Gregory Goth:
  CS and biology's growing pains. 13-15
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  Kirk L. Kroeker:
  Engineering the web's third decade. 16-18
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  Samuel Greengard:
  Tracking garbage. 19-20
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  Katayanagi prizes and other CS awards. 21

Economic and business dimensions

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  Tim Chang:
  Gaming will save us all. 22-24

Legally speaking

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  Pamela Samuelson:
  Only technological processes are patentable. 25-27

Computing ethics

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  Rachelle Hollander:
  The ethics beat. 28-29

The profession of IT

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  Peter J. Denning, Fernando Flores, Peter Luzmore:
  Orchestrating coordination in pluralistic networks. 30-32

Broadening participation

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  Richard A. Tapia:
  Hiring and developing minority faculty at research universities. 33-35

IT policy

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  Cameron Wilson, Peter Harsha:
  Making the case for computing. 36-38

Viewpoint

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  Kieron O'Hara, Nigel Shadbolt:
  Privacy on the data web. 39-41

Practice

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  Kirk McKusick, Sean Quinlan:
  GFS: evolution on fast-forward. 42-49
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  David J. Brown, Charles Reams:
  Toward energy-efficient computing. 50-58
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  Sia Siew Kien, Christina Soh, Peter Weill:
  Global IT management: structuring for scale, responsiveness, and innovation. 59-64

Contributed articles

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  Thomas Lengauer, André Altmann, Alexander Thielen, Rolf Kaiser:
  Chasing the AIDS virus. 66-74
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  Cameron Seay, Gary Tucker:
  Virtual computing initiative at a small public university. 75-83

Review article

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  Vincent Conitzer:
  Making decisions based on the preferences of multiple agents. 84-94

Research highlights

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  Daniele Micciancio:
  A first glimpse of cryptography's Holy Grail. 96
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  Craig Gentry:
  Computing arbitrary functions of encrypted data. 97-105
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  Pietro Perona:
  Seeing the trees, the forest, and much more. 106
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  Antonio Torralba, Kevin P. Murphy, William T. Freeman:
  Using the forest to see the trees: exploiting context for visual object detection and localization. 107-114

Last byte

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  Peter Winkler:
  Puzzled. 118
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  Ari Juels:
  Future tense. 120-

Virtual extension

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  Fabio Arduini, Vincenzo Morabito:
  Business continuity and the banking industry. 121-125
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  Sherrie Drye Cannoy, Al F. Salam:
  A framework for health care information assurance policy and compliance. 126-131
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  Lin Lin, Paul Jen-Hwa Hu, Olivia R. Liu Sheng, Johnny Jiung-Yee Lee:
  Is stickiness profitable for electronic retailers? 132-136
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  Ramanath Subramanyam, Fei Lee Weisstein, Mayuram S. Krishnan:
  User participation in software development projects. 137-141
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  S. T. Parkinson, Robert M. Hierons, Mark Lycett, M. Norman:
  Practitioner-based measurement: a collaborative approach. 142-147
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  Del Nagy, Areej M. Yassin, Anol Bhattacherjee:
  Organizational adoption of open source software: barriers and remedies. 148-151
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  John H. Benamati, Zafer D. Ozdemir, H. Jeff Smith:
  Aligning undergraduate IS curricula with industry needs. 152-156
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  Hing Kai Chan:
  Agent-oriented embedded electronic measuring systems. 157-162

Volume 53, Number 4, April 2010 (EE)

ACM awards committee

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  Calvin C. Gotlieb, James J. Horning:
  The work of ACM's awards committee. 5

Letters to the editor

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  Computing paradigm not a branch of science. 6-7
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  In the Virtual Extension. 8

BLOG@CACM

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  Michael Stonebraker:
  SQL databases v. NoSQL databases. 10-11

CACM online

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  David Roman:
  Going mobile. 12

News

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  Alex Wright:
  Data streaming 2.0. 13-14
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  Gary Anthes:
  Robots gear up for disaster response. 15-16
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  Samuel Greengard:
  Spies among us? 17-19

Emerging markets

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  Richard Heeks:
  Development 2.0: the IT-enabled transformation of international development. 22-24

Historical reflections

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  Martin Campbell-Kelly:
  Be careful what you wish for. 25-26

Technology strategy and management

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  Michael A. Cusumano:
  Cloud computing and SaaS as new computing platforms. 27-29

Viewpoint

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  Paul Ohm:
  When network neutrality met privacy. 30-32

Kode Vicious

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  George V. Neville-Neil:
  The data-structure canon. 33-34

Practice

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  Andy Woods:
  Cooling the data center. 36-42
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  Mache Creeger:
  CTO roundtable: malware defense. 43-49
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  Michael Armbrust, Armando Fox, Rean Griffith, Anthony D. Joseph, Randy H. Katz, Andy Konwinski, Gunho Lee, David A. Patterson, Ariel Rabkin, Ion Stoica, Matei Zaharia:
  A view of cloud computing. 50-58

Contributed articles

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  Parthasarathy Ranganathan:
  Recipe for efficiency: principles of power-aware computing. 60-67
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  Sergey Yekhanin:
  Private information retrieval. 68-73

Review articles

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  Sergio Antoy, Michael Hanus:
  Functional logic programming. 74-85

Research highlights

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  Padhraic Smyth, Charles Elkan:
  Technical perspective - Creativity helps influence prediction precision. 88
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  Yehuda Koren:
  Collaborative filtering with temporal dynamics. 89-97
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  Leslie Pack Kaelbling:
  Technical perspective - New bar set for intelligent vehicles. 98
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  Sebastian Thrun:
  Toward robotic cars. 99-106

Last byte

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  Leah Hoffmann:
  Q&A. 112

Virtual extension

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  Pak-Lok Poon, Sau-Fun Tang, T. H. Tse, Tsong Yueh Chen:
  CHOC'LATE: a framework for specification-based testing. 113-118
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  Robert J. Aalberts, Percy Poon, Paul D. Thistle:
  A tale of two internet service providers. 119-123
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  Keith Wright:
  Capstone programming courses considered harmful. 124-127
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