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Opinion
Usable Security: How to Get It
Why does your computer bother you so much about security, but still isn't secure? It's because users don't have a model for security, or a simple way to keep important things safe.
Recent Opinion
Law and Technology: The End of the Generative Internet
Exploring the expectations and implications for version 2.0 of the Net's new gated communities.
How Are We Doing?
A rabbinical story tells about an angry reader who stormed into a newspaper office waving the day's paper, asking to see the editor of the obituary column.
Kode vicious: Permanence and change
Highlighting the importance of doing one's best in view of code longevity and the impermanence of the changineer.
Emerging markets: Labor supply in the Indian IT industry
Exploring the evolving dynamics and interconnectedness of India's educational system and its IT work force.
CTO virtualization roundtable, part II: Part II
When it comes to virtualization platforms, experts say focus first on the services to be delivered.
Advising Policymakers is More Than Just Providing Advice
What are the factors that make certain advisory committee reports successful while others are not?
Database Dialogue with Pat Selinger
Relational database pioneer Patricia G. Selinger explores the vast realm of database technology and trends in a wide-ranging discussion with Microsoft's James Hamilton.
Time to Take Evolutionary Development Off the Shelf
Large systems projects are failing at an alarming rate. It's time to take evolutionary design methods off the shelf.
Featured: From the Blogs
Users Rationally Rejecting Security Advice
This paper, by Cormac Herley at Microsoft Research, sounds like me: Abstract: It is often suggested that users are hopelessly lazy and unmotivated on…4-year Masters
Harvard, like many other places, has an option by which students (with "Advanced Standing" from AP classes) can obtain a Master's (in some programs) as…Run-length encoding (part I)
Run-length encoding (RLE) is probably the most important and fundamental string compression technique. Countless multimedia formats and protocols use…Alerts & Feeds
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