As the Web becomes truly world wide, site developers will need to address multilingual and cross-cultural issues. Howard sorts out the concepts of internationalization and localization, and explains how they relate to your company's future.

Editor in Chief Amit Asaravala recommends that before you think globally, make sure your business is sound locally.

Eugene Eric Kim reviews "Unicode: A Primer".

Article by Dan Greening on data mining techniques applied to analyzing and making decisions from web data.

Andy Oram article discussing P3P as a social protocol, as well as his views of the motivations behind the protocol.

Breaking up is hard to do, but interleaving can be even subtler.

This column is about why it's time right now to think about systems with lots of cores. In short: Software is the (only) gating factor; as that gate falls, hardware parallelism is coming more and sooner than many people yet believe.

Presents a solution to races and deadlocks based on a well-known deadlock-avoidance protocol and shows how it can be enforced by the compiler. It can be applied to programs in which the number of locks is fixed and known up front.

Explains why in the concurrent world, locality is a first-order issue that trumps most other performance considerations. Now locality is no longer just about fitting well into cache and RAM, but to avoid scalability busters by keeping tightly coupled ...

Looks at how lock-free programming avoids system failure by tolerating individual process failures.