Shellshock Awakens Bourne-Again Zombies
A bug appears in places people didn’t think to look, or patch.
Software Engineering and Programming Languages
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Still Seeking the Optical Transistor
Optical information handling is a critical staple for communications and the Internet, but using light for computer-scale computation remains a distant dream.
Museums Go High-Tech with Digital Forensics
Scientists are using cutting-edge scanning and visualization techniques to wow visitors and find new stories in ancient artifacts.
Dynamically typed languages adopt features of static typing to cope with growth.
Risks and Myths of Cloud Computing and Cloud Storage
Considering existing and new types of risks inherent in cloud services.
Security Collapse in the HTTPS Market
Assessing legal and technical solutions to secure HTTPS.
Reading News with Maps By Exploiting Spatial Synonyms
Use this map query interface to search the world, even when not sure what information you seek. (View a related original video at https://vimeo.com/106352925.)
Wikidata: A Free Collaborative Knowledgebase
This collaboratively edited knowledgebase provides a common source of data for Wikipedia, and everyone else.
Abstractions For Software-Defined Networks
New abstractions are critical for achieving SDN goals.
The prospect of increasingly unconventional computing methods that may force us to rethink how we analyze problems for purposes of getting computers to solve them for us.
Computing: Art, Magic, Science
A new EdX MOOC emphasizes abstractions, Design by Contract and software quality.
ACM-Infosys Foundation Award recipient David Blei recalls the origins of his famous topic model, its extensions, and its uses in areas that continue to amaze him.
Security, Cybercrime, and Scale
Defense begins by identifying the targets likely to yield the greatest reward for an attacker's investment.
Online Deception in Social Media
The unknown and the invisible exploit the unwary and the uninformed for illicit financial gain and reputation damage.
Would Turing Have Passed the Turing Test?
A recent Turing-Test competition was won by a chatterbot pretending to be a teenage boy. The media was abuzz, claiming a machine has finally been able to pass the Turing Test. The real question, however, is whether the Turing Test is at all an important indicator of machine intelligence.
Weathering a New Era of Big Data
Increased computing power combined with new and more advanced models are changing weather forecasting.
Affordable, connected, personal medical devices are slowly changing the nature of health care.
Accountability in Future Internet Architectures
Can technical and legal aspects be happily intertwined?
And, what flavor of reality do you prefer: standard, augmented, virtual...
A few facts and opinions and a couple of announcements, with a prediction on where the "Hadoop stack" might be going.
Type inference made practical for an object-oriented/functional programming language.
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