As publishers, it is imperative we always stay attuned to the kind of editorial material our audience finds most professionally valuable and engaging. Indeed, we devour Web analytics about Communications' site to better serve our current audience and to draw more into the fold. And we intend to share that information with you on a regular basis. Here, we present the most popular articles and sections this past summer (starting with the Memorial Day weekend, May 22) as indicated by our latest site statistics. Top Articles FYI: Only full-text articles are ranked, though some abstracts got more pageviews.The Five-Minute Rule 20 Years Later cacm.acm.org/magazines/2009/7/32091One Laptop Per Child: Vision vs. Reality cacm.acm.org/magazines/2009/6/28497Whither Sockets? cacm.acm.org/magazines/2009/6/28495CS Education in the U.S.: Heading in the Wrong Direction? cacm.acm.org/magazines/2009/7/32090API Design Matters cacm.acm.org/magazines/2009/5/24646Award-Winning Paper Reveals Key to Netflix Prize cacm.acm.org/news/32450Time for Computer Science to Grow Up cacm.acm.org/magazines/2009/8/34492How Computer Science Serves the Developing World cacm.acm.org/magazines/2009/6/28498Why 'Open Source' Misses the Point of Free Software cacm.acm.org/magazines/2009/6/28491Conferences vs. Journals in Computing Research cacm.acm.org/magazines/2009/5/24632 Top Blog Posts FYI: Michael Stonebraker's #1 entry had more than 10 times the traffic of his #5 entry.The End of a DBMS Era (Might Be Upon Us) cacm.acm.org/blogs/blog-cacm/32212The Siren Song of Startups cacm.acm.org/blogs/blog-cacm/29807The Biggest Gains Come From Knowing Your Data cacm.acm.org/blogs/blog-cacm/33805What Is a Good Recommendation Algorithm? cacm.acm.org/blogs/blog-cacm/22925DB MSs for Science Applications: A Possible Solution cacm.acm.org/blogs/blog-cacm/22489 Top Sections: FYI: The homepage got more pageviews than all of these sections combined.Magazine Archive: cacm.acm.org/magazinesBLOG@CACM: cacm.acm.org/blogs/blog-cacmNews: cacm.acm.org/newsBlogs: cacm.acm.org/blogsAuthor Guidelines: cacm.acm.org/about-communications/author-center Top Issues: FYI: The site's momentum is evident.June 2009: cacm.acm.org/magazines/2009/6July 2009: cacm.acm.org/magazines/2009/7May 2009: cacm.acm.org/magazines/2009/5April 2009: cacm.acm.org/magazines/2009/4March 2009: cacm.acm.org/magazines/2009/3
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