In the depths of night on August 5th 1914 the British Cable Ship Alert took the first significant action of World War I, severing the five German submarine cables...The Conversation From ACM Opinion | August 7, 2014
Sockpuppetry—using false identities for deception—is centuries old, but the advent of the web has made creating sockpuppets, and falling for their tricks, easier...Wired From ACM Opinion | July 30, 2014
Non-human employees are filling positions in all sorts of workplaces, and they are proving themselves to be fast, accurate, and reliable—more so than their human...Wired From ACM Opinion | July 28, 2014
On Sept. 7, 2000, in the waning days of the Clinton administration, a U.S. Predator drone flew over Afghanistan for the first time.The Wall Street Journal From ACM Opinion | July 28, 2014
There's a box on a shelf in my closet stuffed with smart smoke detectors, old smartphones, chargers, battery cases, fitness trackers, a Kindle that I sat on and...The New York Times From ACM Opinion | July 25, 2014
Invoke the word autocorrect and most people will think immediately of its hiccups—the sort of hysterical, impossible errors one finds collected on sites like Damn...Wired From ACM Opinion | July 24, 2014
Considering a program for cross-disciplinary research between computer scientists and economists studying the effects of computers on work.Frank Levy, Richard J. Murnane From Communications of the ACM | August 1, 2014
An agent-based approach to integrating computing in secondary-school science courses.Uri Wilensky, Corey E. Brady, Michael S. Horn From Communications of the ACM | August 1, 2014
The challenges and potential approaches to applying privacy research in engineering practice.Seda GÜrses From Communications of the ACM | August 1, 2014
EFF is releasing an experimental hacker alpha release of wireless router software specifically designed to support secure, shareable Open Wireless networks.Electronic Frontier Foundation From ACM Opinion | July 21, 2014
"A grass roots effort is under way to stop the project... 'Mediocre science, terrible science policy,' begins the spirited letter…"New Scientist From ACM Opinion | July 16, 2014
Several years ago, my student and I studied anonymous email server data from 40,000 students, faculty and staff at a large university.The Guardian From ACM Opinion | July 8, 2014