Editorial to Special Issue on Reliable Computing I am pleased to present you with this special issue of the ACM Journal on Emerging Technologies in Computing, which consists of a set of papers from the 2006 ACM Computing Frontiers Conference (CF 06) plus a particularly novel paper from the 2006 Symposium on Architectural Support for Programming Languages and Operating Systems. The unifying theme is Reliable Computing, but individual topics range from a magnetic bus technology to aspects of selfhealing, self-con guring, and self-replicating systems. The rst article, The Spin-wave Nano-Scale Recon gurable Mesh and the Labeling Problem by Eshaghian-Wilner, Khitun, Navab, and Wang presents spin-wave buses composing a highly parallel, nanoscale, recon gurable communication mesh. The high degree of parallelism combined with recon gurability makes the technology well suited for implementing fault-tolerant communication algorithms. The next set of articles come from a special session at CF 06 on Reliable Computing. This session looked at novel ways of using nature to help us cope with our growing complexity and also help with fault tolerance. The article Design for Dependability in Emerging Technologies by Prodan, Udrescu, Boncalo, and Vladutiu provides an overview of the technologies explicated in the session, and
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