The opening plenary of this year's Computers Freedom and Privacy Conference (CFP) had a decidedly business orientation. Titled "Privacy and Free Speech: It's Good...Katy Nelson From BLOG@CACM | June 15, 2010 at 04:12 PM
If you sit in your office and just focus on doing your work, you’re invisible, Patty Azzarello says. Here’s her career advice on how to be recognized at your work...Jack Rosenberger From BLOG@CACM | June 15, 2010 at 02:50 PM
Our panel at CFP will explore how robotics implicates civil liberties today, and in the near term. We will discuss issues from the ethical ramifications of robots...Ryan Calo From BLOG@CACM | June 10, 2010 at 04:51 PM
Thoughts about using laptops in higher education classes, relating to a recent journal article about what students actually do with their laptops in class while...Judy Robertson From BLOG@CACM | June 7, 2010 at 02:34 PM
Research challenges us to pose new questions, choose exploratory avenues carefully, and be frugal and wise stewards of the financial trust invested in us. Daniel Reed From BLOG@CACM | June 6, 2010 at 09:27 AM
Is virtual education a feasible option to deliver rich educational contents to country side zones where no traditional schools are available?Carlos Brewer From BLOG@CACM | June 2, 2010 at 05:02 PM
At Privacy Rights Clearinghouse, we receive phone calls and emails about online information brokers almost daily. The individuals who contact us are often those...Beth Givens From BLOG@CACM | June 1, 2010 at 03:55 PM
With Facebook privacy on the cover of Time magazine and Google being investigated in Europe and the US after admitting that they collected information from home...Jon Pincus From BLOG@CACM | May 21, 2010 at 04:33 PM
Albion College decides to eliminate the computer science major due to budget cuts and low enrollment, because it's not really part of 21st century work.Mark Guzdial From BLOG@CACM | May 20, 2010 at 04:58 PM
The ACM Education Board visited Qatar at the beginning of May. At Qatar University, 70% of the students in CS are women, and those we met are hungry to produce...Mark Guzdial From BLOG@CACM | May 19, 2010 at 01:40 PM
Malvertisements are attempts to inject malware and scareware into advertisements, leveraging the reach that advertising networks have. This blog entry examines...Jason Hong From BLOG@CACM | May 11, 2010 at 10:38 AM
Startups need their current business to be successful and self-sustaining before they place serious effort in building a general software platform.Ruben Ortega From BLOG@CACM | May 11, 2010 at 09:41 AM
Brief discussion on how social networks are now the battlefield of political campaigns, death threats and more.Carlos Brewer From BLOG@CACM | May 6, 2010 at 01:44 PM
Are people being rational when they ignore the security advice we give them? If so, what advice should we give them that they would not ignore?Greg Linden From BLOG@CACM | April 25, 2010 at 09:14 PM
Since several years ago, with the beginning of nanoscience, the idea having of micro factories, like household microwave ovens, is floating in the air.Carlos Brewer From BLOG@CACM | April 25, 2010 at 09:42 AM
When a corporate, government, or university IT department of the 1970s debated an upgrade to its IBM S/370 mainframes, it is doubtful that the IT director was in...Daniel Reed From BLOG@CACM | April 24, 2010 at 09:56 AM
A brief article pointing to a new large scale study published in Nature about the effect of brain training games.Judy Robertson From BLOG@CACM | April 23, 2010 at 10:11 AM