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The morality of online war; the fates of data analytics, HPC
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Scientists update views of light
Experiment sheds new light on wave-particle duality.
Automotive systems get smarter
Automotive infotainment systems are driving changes to automobiles, and to driver behavior.
Cyber policies on the rise
A growing number of companies are taking out cybersecurity insurance policies to protect themselves from the costs of data breaches.
Keys under doormats
- Harold Abelson,
- Ross Anderson,
- Steven M. Bellovin,
- Josh Benaloh,
- Matt Blaze,
- Whitfield "Whit" Diffie,
- John Gilmore,
- Matthew Green,
- Susan Landau,
- Peter G. Neumann,
- Ronald L. Rivest,
- Jeffrey I. Schiller,
- Bruce Schneier,
- Michael A. Specter,
- Daniel J. Weitzner
Mandating insecurity by requiring government access to all data and communications.
In defense of IBM
The ability to adjust to various technical and business disruptions has been essential to IBM's success during the past century.
Computing is history
Reflections on the past to inform the future.
Rise of concerns about AI: reflections and directions
Research, leadership, and communication about AI futures.
Life after MOOCs
Online science education needs a new revolution.
Crash consistency
Rethinking the fundamental abstractions of the file system.
Dismantling the barriers to entry
We have to choose to build a Web that is accessible to everyone.
Seeking anonymity in an internet panopticon
The Dissent system aims for a quantifiably secure, collective approach to anonymous communication online.
Framing sustainability as a property of software quality
This framework addresses the environmental dimension of software performance, as applied here by a paper mill and a car-sharing service.
Discovering genes involved in disease and the mystery of missing heritability
The challenge of missing heritability offers great contribution options for computer scientists.
Computing numerically with functions instead of numbers
Science and engineering depend upon computation of functions such as flow fields, charge distributions, and quantum states. Ultimately, such computations require some kind of discretization, but in recent years, it has become possible in many cases to ...
Future Tense: Processional
From the intersection of computational science and technological speculation, with boundaries limited only by our ability to imagine what could be. Information processing gives spiritual meaning to life, for those who make it their life's work.