Pair Programming Is Still Vibrant
The agile methodology has not grown quickly, but still has its adherents.
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Apps Help People with Autism Speak
Smartphones and tablets make it easier for people with disabilities to communicate, and for others to communicate with them.
SC16 Expands Focus on HPC Provider Community, Practitioners
State of the Practice focus at SC16 expands opportunities for HPC service providers and practitioners to publish their innovations and best practices.
Sampling Bias in CS Education, and Where’s the Cyber Strategy?
Mark Guzdial examines a logical fallacy in consumer science education; John Arquilla sees an absence of discussion about the use of information technologies in future conflicts.
Existing Technologies Can Assist the Disabled
Researchers consider how to adapt broadly available technology products for those battling physical impairments.
Marvin Minsky, an American scientist who co-founded the Massachusetts Institute of Technology AI laboratory and was honored with the ACM A.M. Turing Award, passed away on Sunday, Jan. 24, 2016 at the age of 88.
Upstart Puzzles: Sleep No More
We begin simply, with a 60-minute clock that counts only minutes, from 0 to 59. The alarm can also be set from 0 to 59 and will go off when the clock reaches the same value.
The proliferation of social media usage has not resulted in significant social change.
More Encryption Means Less Privacy
Retaining electronic privacy requires more political engagement.
Multimodal Biometrics For Enhanced Mobile Device Security
Fusing information from multiple biometric traits enhances authentication in mobile devices.
How Colors in Business Dashboards Affect Users’ Decision Making
Business dashboards that overuse or misuse colors cause cognitive overload for users who then take longer to make decisions.
Technical Perspective: The State (and Security) of the Bitcoin Economy
"A Fistful of Bitcoins" examines, in the context of Bitcoin, what we could learn by studying the patterns encoded in a complete record of every single financial transaction that took place worldwide over a span of five years.
Technical Perspective: Fairness and the Coin Flip
"Secure Multiparty Computations on Bitcoin" introduces an exciting new idea for how to provide fairness: leverage Bitcoin’s existing infrastructure for distributed consensus.
A Fistful of Bitcoins: Characterizing Payments Among Men with No Names
Bitcoin has the unintuitive property that while the ownership of money is implicitly anonymous, its flow is globally visible. In this paper we explore this unique characteristic further, and consider the challenges for those seeking to use Bitcoin for criminal or fraudulent purposes at scale.
Secure Multiparty Computations on Bitcoin
In this work, we propose to use Bitcoin to design fully decentralized protocols that are secure even if no trusted third party is available.
Wax Woz, Stan Lee, and 30,000 Close Friends
Last weekend, Steve Wozniak and Stan Lee launched the first annual Silicon Valley Comic Con.
The Need For Cognitive Computing
Companies get help digging the pearls of wisdom out of their big data.
Fast Facial Analysis Software Set For Release
The new software could be particularly useful in fields where subjective interpretation has been the norm.
Fast Facial Analysis Software Set For Release
Researchers say a new facial recognition software package is fast, computationally efficient, and robust enough for state-of-the-art results.
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