communications of the acm

Slashdot points us to the news that just last week, Jeff Bezos and Amazon were granted a patent (7,743,001) on "Dynamic Pricing of Web Services Utilization." Much of the Slashdot writeup compares this to old computer t

Peter J. Denning and Jack B. Dennis, The Resurgence of Parallelism, Communications of the ACM, Vol. 53 No. 6, Pages 30-32, 10.1145/1743546.1743560

Michi Henning, Why API Design Matters, Communications of the ACM, May 2009.

Swift is a language-based approach to building web applications that are secure by construction.

Swift applications are written in the Jif language, a Java-based language that incorporates "security-typing" to manage the flow of information within an application.