Big data
By Andrew Cron, Huy L. Nguyen, Aditya Parameswaran, September 2012
Articles Tagged: On-line Information Services
Articles & Features
Big privacy
Approaches from computer science and statistical science for assessing and protecting privacy in large, public data sets.
By Ashwin Machanavajjhala, Jerome P. Reiter, September 2012
Web search
By Finn Kuusisto, June 2012
Computer science in service of democracy
By Peter Kinnaird, December 2011
Inventing open government
Internet startup POPVOX connects constituents to Congress in a play to disrupt the world of advocacy.
By Joshua Tauberer, December 2011
Using software to liberate U.S. case law
Although public information is open, it is not always easily accessible.
By Harlan Yu, Stephen Schultze, December 2011
An interview with Dr. Beth Simone Noveck
The former U.S. Deputy Chief Technology Officer and the author of Wiki Government: How Technology Can Make Government Better, Democracy Stronger and Citizens More Powerful discusses open government and what it really means.
By Peter Kinnaird, December 2011
How can software engineers help make government better?
Using their technical expertise to bring transparency to the federal government, developers are unlocking data one API at a time.
By Luigi Montanez, December 2011
Sourcemap
Industry and consumers need tools to help make decisions that are good for communities and for the environment.
By Leo Bonanni, June 2011
GrowFood.org
New social media is helping connect students to apprenticeships in the practice of organic farming.
By Ethan Schaffer, June 2011
In the dark, out in the cold
For 30% of the population, lack of access to home-energy monitoring devices translates into a lack of power---in more ways than one.
By Tawanna Dillahunt, Jennifer Mankoff, June 2011
Challenges in sustainable human-home interaction
Building eco-friendly homes with occupant intelligence as the foundation.
By Johnny Rodgers, Lyn Bartram, Rob Woodbury, June 2011
OPOWER
Energy efficiency through behavioral science and technology.
By Alex Laskey, Ogi Kavazovic, June 2011
Behold a pail of milk
By Malay Bhattacharyya, Vaggelis Giannikas, March 2011
What can gold farmers teach us about criminal networks?
By observing how covert financial networks operate in online games like World of Warcraft, we can learn about how they might function offline.
By Brian Keegan, Muhammad Aurangzeb Ahmad, Dmitri Williams, Jaideep Srivastava, Noshir Contractor, March 2011
Catching bad guys with graph mining
Suspicious network patterns may be the key to detecting criminals and fraudsters on e-commerce sites.
By Polo Chau, March 2011
The 'Internet of Things' and commerce
Everything, everywhere, tagged and tracked. How can this data be harnessed to deliver better products and services?
By Mark Harrison, March 2011
The problem of money as a measuring stick
A more accurate measuring instrument may be found in stable money baskets built by computers and mathematics.
By Nikolai V. Hovanov, James W. Kolari, Mikhail V. Sokolov, March 2011
Programmatic access to Wikipedia
By Dmitry Batenkov, December 2010
Don't ask me
Searching for information online has become an integral part of our everyday lives. However, sometimes we don't know the specific search terms to use, while other times, the specific information we're seeking hasn't been recorded online yet.
By Gary Hsieh, December 2009
Introduction
By Justin Solomon, December 2008
Introduction
By Justin Solomon, June 2008
Information superwhichway?
By Craig Pfeifer, June 2008
Introduction
By Jerry Guo, August 2006