Recently in CACM

From recent issues, lots of interesting stuff:

March 2006 (v49i3)

• Practical programmer: Is the crouching tiger a threat? by Robert L. Glass about China's coming prominance as IT superpower and if all the worry is over-reaction.
  
• Reviving your favorite CS books by David A. Patterson. Really cool. Top 25 out of print classic CS texts from a poll.
  
• President's letter: Computer science education in the 21st century by David A. Patterson. Reinvigorating the CS curriculum for the present, rather than clinging to the past.
  
• Applications quest: computing diversity by Juan E. Gilbert. Strategies for increasing diversity in CS programs.
  
• Women in computer science: no shortage here! by Mazliza Othman, Rodziah Latih. In Malaysia, there are actually more women is CS than men. What's up with that?

February 2006 (v49i2)

• Technology strategy and management: Where does Russia fit into the global software industry? by Michael A. Cusumano
  
• President's letter: Offshoring: finally facts vs. folklore by David A. Patterson. Looking at the facts, not the hype, it's not so bad as everyone fears.
  
• Principles for digital preservation by H. M. Gladney. Take the user/customer's perspective when designing archives, not internal, institutional imperatives.
  
• Making computer science minority-friendly by Roli Varma. Some good ideas of how to attract and retain students.

January 2006 (v49i1)

• Ethnocomputing: ICT in cultural and social context by Matti Tedre, Erkki Sutinen, Esko Kähkönen, Piet Kommers. Taking culture in account when designing systems.
  
• Technical opinion: The first 10 years of the ECCC digital library by Christoph Meinel, Volker Klotz. About the Electronic Colloquium on Computational Complexity, something I wasn't familiar with but which look very useful.
  
• Inside risks: Software and higher education by John C. Knight, Nancy G. Leveson. Maybe software would be better is developers were a little more like real engineers, ie more software engineering and less computer science. Or something.