From the Editor in Chief: Define--Valedictory

Internet search is a full-contact sport, as similar to pure IR as football is to ballet. IR mechanisms work well in benevolent environments, when you can trust the documents in the corpus to actually be about the words they mention. This is fine for an internal database of documentation, but when the World Wide Web evolved into the world-wide market, having people look at your page acquired economic value     

From the Editor in Chief: Pet Peeves

From spam to bad security, Internet pet peeves are common. EIC Fred Douglis shares some of his, and invites readers to share some of their own - as well as any solutions they've come up with.     

From the Editor in Chief: Welcome A-Board

IEEE Micro Editor in Chief David H. Albonesi welcomes six new emmbers to teh IEEE Micro Editorial Board and previews this general interest issue.     

From the Editor in Chief: Looking Backward

Looking back at his original column, "The Arachnoid Tourist," EIC Robert Filman discusses the perils of trying to predict the future.     

From the Editor in Chief: Middleware's Shrinking Middle

Internal and external communication usage modes' dissimilar underlying programming models are leading to a search for alternatives.     

From the Editor in Chief: What's Your PageRank?

When is advertising good, and when is it bribery. This installment of All Systems Go explores both the good and the bad in online advertising practices.