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Revisiting the Publication Culture in Computing Research

In my May 2009 Editor's Letter, "Conferences vs. Journals in Computing Research," I addressed the publication culture of our field: "As far as I know, we are the only scientific community that considers conference publication as the primary means of publishing our research results.' Why are we the only discipline driving on the conference side of the 'publication road?'"
Research and Advances

Practitioner-Based Measurement: A Collaborative Approach

The established philosophy within the software development industry is that an organization implementing a program to improve software quality can expect to recoup the cost of the implementation many times over. While organizations recognize that there are potential benefits to measuring their processes and products, however, they typically find it difficult to structure ad-hoc measures into a formal program.
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Time Travel Is Now Possible

I will be reporting on two of the sessions I attended this afternoon. One session was on analyzing interactions, which dealt primarily with methods for measuring interactions, and the second was entitled meeting in the middle, which dealt primarily with ways of improving group dynamics and idea generation. While all of the presentations in both sessions were interesting in their own right, I have selected one presentation from each to give readers a taste of the innovative research being presented at CSCW.
Opinion

Open Access to Scientific Publications

In his July 2009 Communications editor's letter "Open, Closed, or Clopen Access?", editor-in-chief Moshe Vardi addressed the question of open access to this magazine and to ACM publications in general. Scientific publishing is undergoing major changes. One reason is the exponential increase in the number of scientific publications, which has turned this area into a serious business.
News

Improving Disaster Management

Social networking, sophisticated imaging, and dual-use technologies promise improved disaster management, but they must be adopted by governments and aid agencies if more lives are to be saved in the wake of crises.
Research and Advances

Designs for Effective Implementation of Trust Assurances in Internet Stores

Improving customer trust in an Internet store is an important goal in B2C electronic commerce because it leads to outcomes important for the success of an Internet store, such as reduced customer risk perceptions in transacting with the store and increased willingness to buy from the store. One of the critical success factors for Internet stores is to convince customers of the store's trustworthiness.
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Opinion

Where the Data Is

The vast Internet delivers only a sliver of the information the average American consumes each day, according to a recent report by the University of California, San Diego (http://hmi.ucsd.edu/howmuchinfo_research_report_consum.php).
Opinion

More Debate, Please!

In this issue of Communications we have a debate that is quite a rarity in computing research: a technical debate. A pair of Contributed Articles  debate the relative merits of MapReduce and relational database management systems. I have no doubt that our readers will find this technical debate highly instructive.

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