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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
Steering Self-Learning Distance Algorithms
The concept of distance expresses the distortion measure between any pair of entities lying in a common space. Distances are at the very heart of geometry, and are ubiquitous…
An Interview with Ping Fu
Ping Fu, CEO of the digital shape sampling and processing company Geomagic, discusses her background, achievements, and challenges managing a company during a period of dynamic growth.
On Public Service and Computer Science
Members of the computer science community should become more involved in public service by becoming program managers at federal agencies, the opportunities and benefits of which are outlined here.
The Broadband Price is Not Right
Developing an effective pricing index is essential to understanding the value of broadband connectivity.
Are Business Methods Patentable?
How the U.S. Supreme Court's forthcoming decision in the Bilski v. Doll case is expected to affect existing and future software patents.
Web 2.0 Summit: Evan Williams Wants To Kill The Suggested User List
Twitter co-founder and CEO Evan Williams engaged in a spirited discussion with Federated Media's John Battelle at the Web 2.0 Summit in San Francisco recently, covering revenue, growth, and possible Facebook affinity among other…
Q&A: Defcon's Jeff Moss on Cybersecurity, Government's Role
Defcon founder and organizer Jeff Moss, who was named to the U.S. Homeland Security Advisory Council in June, notes that there is a desire in the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and other agencies to augment the cybersecurity…
The A-Z of Programming Languages: Arduino's Tom Igoe
Tom Igoe is a co-developer of the Arduino programming language, which he says was created out of a desire to provide a tool for teaching physical computing to artists and designers, with a specific focus on microcontroller programming…
Reverse Brain Drain to India and China
America is a great place to start a company. Reports state that 52 percent of all Silicon Valley companies were started by immigrants. The problem is, it is now more advantageous for folks to go back to China, India and Europe…
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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