Communications of the ACM, June 2006

Some interesting stuff, as usual:

• President's letter: Farewell address: the growing and graying of ACM by David A. Patterson.
  
• ACM plagiarism policy: Plagiarism on the rise by Ronald F. Boisvert, Mary Jane Irwin. Interesting article about plagiarism by potential ACM authors rather than students.
  
• Piracy, computer crime, and IS misuse at the university by Timothy Paul Cronan, C. Bryan Foltz, Thomas W. Jones. Do you know who's using your library computers? And for what nefarious purpose.
  
• A special section on hacking and innovation
  
  
  • Introduction by Gregory Conti. Provices a very good overview.
    
  • Academic freedom and the hacker ethic by Tom Cross
    
  • Research lessons from hardware hacking by Joe Grand