Sara Mauskopf lives in Silicon Valley, and is the CEO and co-founder of Winnie, an app with the mission to make parents' lives easier through technology.
By Adrian Scoică, December 2017
Crowdsourcing gives us a way to leverage the complementary strengths of humans and machines. But how do we solve the problem of low-quality crowdwork?
By Jennifer Wortman Vaughan, September 2017
What happens when we algorithmically break complex productivity tasks down into microtasks? At Microsoft Research, the author and her team are accelerating a shift toward microproductivity to make it easy for people to get big things done one small step at a time.
By Jaime Teevan, December 2016
Will the digital revolution actually transform the process of innovation? A professor from NYU spent three years with NASA's engineers and scientists to uncover the significant opportunities and challenges involved with new models for R&D work.
By Hila Lifshitz-Assaf, December 2016
An interview with Paul Wicks, Vice President of Innovation at PatientsLikeMe, a patient network and real-time research platform.
By Diana Lynn MacLean, December 2014
Intelligently leveraging data from millions of social media posts is a modern public health approach that has the potential to save many lives.
By Munmun De Choudhury, December 2014
Creating a user experience to communicate the seriousness of HIV prevention and awareness can be both educational while entertaining. This combination along with a sense of cultural influence helps to both attract and engage millennials.
By Fay Cobb Payton, KaMar Galloway, December 2014
Stanford grad student Jonathan Mayer discusses cookies, Web tracking, and changes to Mozilla's cookie policy.
By Jonathan Mayer, September 2013
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
Internet startup POPVOX connects constituents to Congress in a play to disrupt the world of advocacy.
By Joshua Tauberer, December 2011
Although public information is open, it is not always easily accessible.
By Harlan Yu, Stephen Schultze, December 2011
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
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
Industry and consumers need tools to help make decisions that are good for communities and for the environment.
By Leo Bonanni, June 2011
New social media is helping connect students to apprenticeships in the practice of organic farming.
By Ethan Schaffer, June 2011
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
Building eco-friendly homes with occupant intelligence as the foundation.
By Johnny Rodgers, Lyn Bartram, Rob Woodbury, June 2011
Energy efficiency through behavioral science and technology.
By Alex Laskey, Ogi Kavazovic, June 2011
By Malay Bhattacharyya, Vaggelis Giannikas, March 2011
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
Suspicious network patterns may be the key to detecting criminals and fraudsters on e-commerce sites.
By Polo Chau, March 2011
Everything, everywhere, tagged and tracked. How can this data be harnessed to deliver better products and services?
By Mark Harrison, March 2011
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
The social Web is a set of ties that enable people to socialize online, a phenomenon that has existed since the early days of the Internet in environments like IRC, MUDs, and Usenet (e.g. 4, 12). People used these media in much the same way they do now: to communicate with existing friends and to meet new ones. The fundamental difference was the scale, scope, and diversity of participation.
By Sarita Yardi, December 2009
Research related to online social networks has addressed a number of important problems related to the storage, retrieval, and management of social network data. However, privacy concerns stemming from the use of social networks, or the dissemination of social network data, have largely been ignored. And with more than 250 million active Facebook (http://facebook.com) users, nearly half of whom log in at least once per day [5], these concerns can't remain unaddressed for long.
By Grigorios Loukides, Aris Gkoulalas-Divanis, December 2009
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
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