DEPARTMENT:
Letters to the editor
Words Both Kind and Contrary
CACM Staff
Page 7
DEPARTMENT:
CACM online
Small Changes Hint at Bigger Things
David Roman
Page 8
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Contributed articles
Designing Games With a Purpose
Data generated as a side effect of game play also solves computational problems and trains AI algorithms.
Luis von Ahn, Laura Dabbish
Pages 58-67
The Collaborative Organization of Knowledge
Why Wikipedia's remarkable growth is sustainable.
Diomidis Spinellis, Panagiotis Louridas
Pages 68-73
SECTION:
Review articles
Computer Science and Game Theory
The most dramatic interaction between CS and GT may involve game-theory pragmatics.
Yoav Shoham
Pages 74-79
Wake Up and Smell the Coffee: Evaluation Methodology For the 21st Century
Evaluation methodology underpins all innovation in experimental computer science. It requires relevant workloads, appropriate experimental design, and rigorous analysis. Unfortunately, methodology is not keeping pace with the …
Stephen M. Blackburn, Kathryn S. McKinley, Robin Garner, Chris Hoffmann, Asjad M. Khan, Rotem Bentzur, Amer Diwan, Daniel Feinberg, Daniel Frampton, Samuel Z. Guyer, Martin Hirzel, Antony Hosking, Maria Jump, Han Lee, J. Eliot B. Moss, Aashish Phansalkar, Darko Stefanovik, Thomas VanDrunen, Daniel von Dincklage, Ben Wiedermann
Pages 83-89
Composable Memory Transactions
In this paper we present a concurrency model based on transactional memory. All the usual benefits of transactional memory are present, but in addition …
Tim Harris, Simon Marlow, Simon Peyton Jones, Maurice Herlihy
Pages 91-100