Communications of the ACM

Seeking solid information on the behavior of modern projects.

Service providers are building their networks right to your door---that is, your den, your bedroom, and your kitchen.

Give instructors the option of turning off wireless Web access to accommodate their students' learning styles, in some cases to save them from themselves.

Enabling novel ways to personalize the relationship with customers without sacrificing their privacy.

Using a server-side architecture to connect specialized enforcement mechanisms with usage control requirements and policies.

Using hardware- and software-based techniques to realize a primitive for externally verifiable code execution.

Cryptographic long-term security is needed, but difficult to achieve. Use flexible cryptographic tools, and have replacements ready.

Using a process modeling-based approach to address privacy and related legal issues arising in an RFID-based augmented reality shopping situation.

Dealing with the demands of escalating paper submissions is a daunting challenge for conference organizers and program chairs. ACM and IEEE have joined forces to create a forum for sharing ideas on the best ways to handle it all.