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News Mar 27 2012

Rebecca Mackinnon Discusses Threats to Internet Freedom: Part 2

Many people don't realize that most of the censorship and surveillance in China is not being done by the government, but by companies at the behest of the government, says Rebecca MacKinnon.

Computing Profession

News Mar 20 2012

Rebecca Mackinnon Discusses Threats to Internet Freedom: Part 1

Rebecca MacKinnon shares insights about Internet freedom, including the roles and responsibilities of citizens, corporations, and governments.

Computing Profession

Careers Mar 13 2012

Berkeley Supports It Startups High Atop the Campus

High above the University of California, Berkeley campus, IT entrepreneurs are being given the opportunity to grow their startups in the four-month-old Skydeck startup incubator/accelerator.

Architecture and Hardware

News Mar 6 2012

Parkagent Seeks to Reduce Urban Traffic Congestion

Researchers in Israel and the Netherlands have teamed up to create PARKAGENT, a spatially explicit agent-based software model designed to assess and optimize urban parking policies.

Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning

News Mar 1 2012

Stanford Schooling – Gratis!

Stanford University's experiment with online classes could help transform computer science education.

Computing Applications

Careers Feb 21 2012

Google’s Mind the Gap! Program Interests Women in CS

Two-hour sessions with female Google software engineers are convincing many female high-school students in Israel to change their majors to computer science and to consider it as a career.

Computing Profession

News Feb 7 2012

Researchers se Social Bots To Expand Twitter Networks and Influence People

That next tweet you receive on Twitter may not be from a person but from a social bot, a tiny program designed to mimic real users and influence their behavior.

Computing Applications

News Jan 24 2012

Open-Source Surgical Robot Fuels niversity Research

U.S. researchers have developed a new, open source robot — said to be the first of its kind — that is now facilitating robotic laparoscopic surgery research at seven different universities.

Architecture and Hardware

News Jan 17 2012

Will Tablets Replace Laptops?

Tablets like the iPad 2 are hot … and apparently so hot that 46% of respondents believe they will eventually eliminate the need for laptop computers, according to a new poll of 1,155 American adults.

Architecture and Hardware

News Jan 10 2012

What Fueled Twitter’s Success?

Innovators anxious to see their software products go viral might want to take a close look at how Twitter—which is said to have more than 300 million users worldwide—accomplished that feat.

Computing Applications

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