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How the “Frontier” Became the Slogan of Uncontrolled AI
Artificial intelligence (AI) has been billed as the next frontier of humanity: the newly available expanse whose exploration …
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Revitalizing ACM Student Chapters: A look at how to refresh student initiatives
Michael Zuba
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Algorithms Fit for Compilation?
Olivia SimpsonShould there be a standard in the way of algorithms languages to improve productivity and remove ambiguity?
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Habits: Our cognitive shortcut
Gidi NaveAccepting the habitual system as an inseparable part of our minds, understanding its limitation and the way it works, may help us to achieve our long-term...
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Coordination When Information is Scarce: How privacy can help
Aaron RothThere is something to be gained by borrowing the tools of differential privacy and applying them to solve problems in seemingly unrelated fields.
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The New Firefox Cookie Policy
Jonathan MayerStanford grad student Jonathan Mayer discusses cookies, Web tracking, and changes to Mozilla's cookie policy.
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What is Public and Private Anyway? A Pragmatic Take on Privacy and Democracy
Andreas BirkbakRevealing private content on the Web can also spark public engagement. To understand this, we need to challenge our common sense notions of privacy...
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Something Bad Might Happen: Lawyers, anonymization and risk
Marion OswaldThe line between personal and anonymous information is often unclear. Increasingly it falls to lawyers to understand and manage the risks associated...
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Personal, Pseudonymous, and Anonymous Data: The problem of identification
Iain BourneWhy defining what counts as personal data is important for data protection and information sharing.
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Talking 'Bout Your Reputation
David BirchPeople think they want anonymity, but actually desire privacy. But how do we reframe the debate surrounding privacy and security? Perhaps technology...
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Understanding the Data Environment
Elaine Mackey, Mark ElliotProtecting data privacy and anonymity requires a better understanding of the conditions and mechanisms under which they may be threatened...
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What is Bitcoin?
Dominic HobsonStrengths and weaknesses of the leader in a new generation of emerging cryptocurrencies.
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The Tor Project: An inside view
Kelley MisataA decade since the first version was released, Tor continues to be at the center of the debate around online privacy.
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It's Not About Winning, it's About Sending a Message: Hiding information in games
Philip C. RitcheyNew information hiding techniques use online games to transmit secrets covertly. The technique is simple, but the problem of detecting these covert...
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An Illustrated Primer in Differential Privacy
Christine TaskThe vast amounts of data that are now available provide new opportunities to social science researchers, but also raise huge privacy concerns for...
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Cynthia Dwork on Differential Privacy
Michael ZubaDistinguished Scientist at Microsoft Research, Dr. Cynthia Dwork, provides a first-hand look at the basics of differential privacy.
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Jessica Staddon: Managing Google's privacy research
Adrian ScoicăIn this profile, Jessica Staddon discusses managing privacy research for one the world's best-known technology corporations.
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