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The article focuses on the business of software as examined in the 2014 Research Edition of the "QSM Software Almanac" published by Quantitative Software Management (QSM). Topics discussed include the core metrics that provide insights into the health of software projects and organizations, some industry trends over time such as project duration, the decline of project effort along with the delivered size of systems, and the median project team size, and some useful approaches for the measurement of projects as described in the Almanac.

The author addresses some of the issues facing the computer education research (CER) community. Topics discussed include National Science Foundation's (NSF) funding of efforts to create a CER in the U.S. and Europe, research issues to be faced by CER in areas of broadening participation, students and learning, computing in primary and secondary education and tools, underrepresentation of women and minority groups in computing, the importance of interventions to make computing available for females, minorities and low-income students.

A correction to the article "Computer Science Awards, Appointments," in the September 2014 issue is presented.