An iconic cartoon by Peter Steiner, which appeared in The New Yorker in 1993, captured the nature of the nascent Internet. It shows a dog seated at a computer, remarking to a second dog on the floor that, “On the Internet, nobody knows you are a dog.”
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CS Education Gets Congressional Attention
Two Congressman introduced two pieces of legislation -- The Computer Science Education Act and the Computer Science Education Week Resolution -- to offer reforms for computer science education and bring attention to the field and its issues.
Evaluating the Success of Mentoring Programs
Can HCI evaluation methods help to assess the effectiveness of mentoring programs for women?
The War Against Spam; and More
Greg Linden asks if spammers have been defeated; Michael Bernstein discusses Clay Shirky's keynote speech at CSCW 2010; and Erika S. Poole writes about how the digital world can help parents cope with the death of a child.
What Do Scientists and Engineers Need to Know About Computer Science?
As computational science and engineering becomes more common, it becomes important to ask what should all scientists and engineers know about computer science to be effective.
Computer Science Left out of National Academies Report
The new draft framework from the National Research Council on "science, engineering, and technology" makes no mention of computer science.
Why is good design so hard to accomplish for organizations? People are coming to the realization that design really matters, but it's not that they don't want to follow suit, it seems that they are not able to.
These “grand challenges” of systems biology encompass almost every aspect of modern computing, from numerical and symbolic methods through data management and analytics to extraordinarily high-performance computing platforms.
In the Internet era, with cell phones, PDAs, and other technologies, humans are more and more connected to each other. All day you can see people walking and at the same time chatting via cell phone. What happens to people that lives connected? What if they simply unplug from the network?
Big web applications are hungry for RAM. They want lots of low power RAM. And they want little else.
Interface Design For New Mothers
Why is there so little research into interface design for new mothers? Interface designers—hear my cry! Here are some pointers for designing interfaces for mothers and babies.
2010 Edition of Campus Party Colombia
A quick look at this special event in Colombia at which people breathe, eat, and sweat technology.
Software Development and Crunch Time; and More
For software developers, crunch time is a period prior to a major product milestone when team members are asked to put in extra effort to get a product finished by a specific delivery date. Why do developers put up with it?
Hope vs. Fear: Privacy Challenges in Online Health Communities
The difficulty in creating privacy controls in online health communities represents the struggle between hope and fear.
Valuing High School Computing Teachers
Thoughts on why high school computing teachers are so important and how we can help them.
The Future of Electronic Design Automation, According to IBM
To paraphrase Mr. Meyerson: A truly talented engineer is someone who, when his hand gets slammed in a doorway and is badly hurt, inserts his other hand in the doorway and slams the door shut on it, so he can get a second set of data.
CFP: Intelligent Transportation Systems
One of the goals of this years Computers Freedom and Privacy conference is to ask the question, "Can we be 'smart' and private?" Wednesday's panel on Intellegent Transportation Systems (ITS) asks, as we make driving safer, more efficient and more comfortable, how can we, at the same time protect the privacy of drivers?
CFP: Activism and Social Networking Advocating For Privacy
The Computers Freedom and Privacy Conference (CFP) continued Tuesday afternoon with a panel called Activism and Social Networking: Advocating for Privacy. Panelists each described recent campaigns utilizing both online and in-person strategies.
CFP: Opening Plenary Privacy and Free Speech
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 for Business," the panel was moderated by Nicole A. Ozer, Technology and Civil Liberties Policy Director, at the ACLU of Northern California.
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 and be promoted.
Robots: From ‘What If’ to ‘Now That’
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 in warfare and law enforcement, to the promise and perils of autonomous driving, to new issues in privacy and Fourth Amendment law.
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 pretending to study.
Research challenges us to pose new questions, choose exploratory avenues carefully, and be frugal and wise stewards of the financial trust invested in us.
Virtual Education: One More Step to Close the Gap
Is virtual education a feasible option to deliver rich educational contents to country side zones where no traditional schools are available?
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