Column: Security for Wide-Area Internet Routing. Nick Feamster.

General introduction to network security issues and solutions in the Internet

This article is a general introduction to network security issues and solutions in the Internet; emphasis is placed on route filters and firewalls. It is intended as an overview. Some knowledge of IP networking is assumed, although not crucial.

The current Java thread specification does not adequately provide for the protection of shared resources or for deadlock detection. A model is introduced and implemented that can provides shared resource protection and deadlock detection. (ACM Crossroads)

Article on patterns, emphasizing design patterns, a type of pattern often used in software design. ACM Crossroads.

Overview of strategies for Visual Basic and Visual Basic/COM. Published in ACM Crossroads Magazine.

An article about the usage of dynamic object aggregations as a foundation for composition.

Lorrie Faith Cranor's interview with Wall, and overview of Perl's history.

The student magazine of the Association for Computing Machinery, Crossroads has published many articles on object-oriented programming.

By Shriram Krishnamurthi. Introduction, history, code samples. Published in student magazine of Association for Computing Machinery, which has published several articles on varied languages, including Scheme. [ACM Crossroads]