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.
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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?
Online Information Brokers & the Challenges of Privacy in a Networked World
At Privacy Rights Clearinghouse, we receive phone calls and emails about online information brokers almost daily. The individuals who contact us are often those who have the most at stake–they are the victims of domestic violence, law enforcement officers fearing for the safety of their families, individuals whose livelihood depends on being in the public sphere, and those dealing with identity theft.
The Chaos of the Internet as an External Brain; and More
From the early days of computers, people have speculated that computers would be used to supplement our intelligence. In the last decades, most of the work toward this dream has been in the form of trying to build artificial intelligence.
Computers, Freedom, and Privacy in a Networked Society: June 15-18, in San Jose and Cyberspace
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 wifi networks, it’s a perfect lead-in to the 20th annual ACM conference on Computers, Freedom, and Privacy.
How Many Computers Will You Own?
How many computing devices will you have in ten years? Two? Six? Just one?
Albion College Eliminates Computer Science
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.
The Complicated Issues of Computing Education in Qatar
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 innovative technology. But are there jobs for them?
On FIFA World Cup 2010: Football and Internet in Latin America
Quick view on how the FIFA Football World Cup will affect Internet in Latin America.
Malvertisements Growing as Online Security Threat
Malvertisements are attempts to inject malware and scareware into advertisements, leveraging the reach that advertising networks have. This blog entry examines some of the issues involved in this growing threat.
Successful Software Platforms Are the Byproducts of Successful Businesses
Startups need their current business to be successful and self-sustaining before they place serious effort in building a general software platform.
On Social Networks, Political Campaigns and Threats
Brief discussion on how social networks are now the battlefield of political campaigns, death threats and more.
NSF Funding Advice; 21st Century Innovation
Jeannette M. Wing shares useful suggestions for department heads. Daniel Reed discusses the importance of synergy among computing specialists and generalists.
What Security Advice Should We Give?
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?
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