[CITASA] Blog Opportunity on Communications of the ACM
With the new digital edition of CACM, the most
widely read journal by computer scientists and
computing professionals, comes a new web site.
They are opening up opportunities for blogging at their new web site.
If you want to influence or communicate with
leaders in the computer and Internet fields, this
is an opportunity to have an impact. See info and links below.
Ron
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2008
Dear Prof Ronald E Anderson :
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Communications of the ACM, 2008 Digital Edition
The Digital Edition of the August issue of
Communications of the ACM is now available.
Feedback on the July issue has been extremely
positive and we look forward to receiving your
comments and suggestions for this current issue in the weeks ahead.
In addition to your feedback, your contributions
to Communications are always welcome. While
there is a rigorous review process in place for
articles published in the magazine, and material
for several of the sections is solicited by
invitation only, it is important that the
computing community continue to send your best
ideas for News, Viewpoints, Contributed
Articles, and Review Articles. The easiest way
to learn more about contributions is by clicking
on
http://cacm.acm.org/guidelines/cacm-author-guidelines/this
link, which will take you directly to the magazine's Author Guidelines.
Nominate A Blog
As indicated in previous e-mails, ACM is hard at
work building a new web site to complement and
enhance the print magazine, and to serve as a
gateway for all Communications readers. The new
site will contain a wide range of high quality
content that will be updated frequently, and
will also provide significant opportunities to
interact with the publication and the
Communications readership. Development of the
site is progressing well and at this point we
are looking for nominations for blogs and blog
topics. Please click on this
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A Blog link to either suggest your own or
another's blog you think would be relevant for the computing community.
In This Issue
An editorial thread runs through the August
issue that looks at the topic of games, not as
entertainment but for the scientific value to be
drawn from the architectures and algorithms they
employ and the computational challenges they
face. Luis von Ahn and Laura Dabbish, in
Designing Games with a Purpose, explore how data
generated as a side effect of game play also
works to solve computational problems and inform
artificial intelligence algorithms. Jim Waldo,
from Sun Microsystems, examines scaling in games
and virtual worlds and warns that everything you
know about scalability is wrong. Yoav Shoham
details computer science and game theory,
arguing that the most dramatic interaction
between the two may involve game pragmatics.
Adding to the discussion, Hal Varian reports on
designing the perfect auction by using
distributed algorithmic mechanism design, a
field at the intersection of computer science and economics.
Also in this issue:
* The collaborative organization of
knowledge, or why Wikipedia's remarkable growth is sustainable.
* Chief technology officers discuss trends in data storage.
* The rise and fall or CORBA.
* Accessible technologies.
* Can ICT really help reduce poverty?
* Envisioning the future of computing research.
* And much more!
As always, we welcome your thoughts and comments
on Communications of the ACM. Please forward
your feedback to: mailto:cacmfeedback@acm.orgcacmfeedback@acm.org
Sincerely,
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