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Jun 16 2010

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?

Katy Nelson

Computing Profession

Jun 15 2010

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.

Katy Nelson

Computing Profession

Jun 15 2010

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.

Katy Nelson

Computing Profession

Jun 15 2010

Are You Invisible?

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.

Jack Rosenberger

Computing Profession

Jun 10 2010

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.

Ryan Calo

Computing Profession

Jun 7 2010

Laptops in the Classroom

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.

Judy Robertson

Computing Profession

Jun 6 2010

Research Summers

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

Computing Profession

Jun 2 2010

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?

Carlos Brewer

Computing Applications

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Jun 1 2010

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.

Beth Givens

Computing Applications

Jun 1 2010

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.

Greg Linden, Ed H. Chi, and Mark Guzdial

Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning

May 21 2010

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.

Jon Pincus

Computing Profession

May 20 2010

How Many Computers Will You Own?

How many computing devices will you have in ten years? Two? Six? Just one?

Greg Linden

Computing Profession

May 20 2010

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.

Mark Guzdial

Computing Profession

May 19 2010

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?

Mark Guzdial

Computing Profession

May 17 2010

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.

Carlos Brewer

Computing Profession

May 15 2010

Choosing Successful Research

How to choose research projects that are more likely to be successful.

Tessa Lau

Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning

May 11 2010

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.

Jason Hong

HCI

May 11 2010

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.

Ruben Ortega

Computing Applications

May 6 2010

On Social Networks, Political Campaigns and Threats

Brief discussion on how social networks are now the battlefield of political campaigns, death threats and more.

Carlos Brewer

Computing Profession

May 1 2010

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.

Jeannette M. Wing and Daniel Reed

Computing Applications

Apr 25 2010

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?

Greg Linden

Security and Privacy

Apr 25 2010

Personal Factories

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

Computing Applications

Apr 24 2010

Consumerization of IT and Research

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 any way influenced by the computing experiences or opinions of their teenage children.

Daniel Reed

Computing Applications

Apr 23 2010

Turns out That Brain Training Games Don’t Work

A brief article pointing to a new large scale study published in Nature about the effect of brain training games.

Judy Robertson

Computing Applications

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