COLUMN: Letter from the editors
Women's fight for existence, respect, and freedom in public space
By Diane Golay, March 2021
Articles Tagged: World Wide Web
Articles & Features
SECTION: Features
The women bricoleurs of technology
Understanding the value of reaching from theory to practice by revisiting the contributions of women before us and our assumptions about how we create valuable impact for the future.
By Deborah Schultz, March 2021
SECTION: Features
Can we build a privacy-preserving web browser we all deserve?
The web is the biggest legacy application ever developed or supported by software engineers, but it's also blurring the line between the consumption of data and the leaking of personal details. Browser makers may be the only line of defense.
By Christoph Kerschbaumer, Luke Crouch, Tom Ritter, Tanvi Vyas, July 2018
SECTION: Features
The cognitive and immersive situations room
Cognitive environments with "eyes," "ears," "mind," "mouth," and "hands" will converse with people, understand group dynamics, present stories, and augment group intelligence, enabling humans and computers to accomplish things neither could do alone.
By Hui Su, April 2017
Filter bubbles and fake news
The results of the 2016 Brexit referendum in the U.K. and presidential election in the U.S. surprised pollsters and traditional media alike, and social media is now being blamed in part for creating echo chambers that encouraged the spread of fake news that influenced voters.
By Dominic DiFranzo, Kristine Gloria-Garcia, April 2017
Managing crises, one text at a time
Crisis Text Line CTO Jason Bennett shares his insight on the technology behind this helpline using text to reach people in need of counseling during times of crisis.
By Rahul R. Divekar, Nidhi Rastogi, April 2017
Gathering people to gather data
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
Opportunities of social media in health and well-being
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
Here comes the #engagement: A serious health initiative made trendy
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
DEPARTMENT: Blogs
The New Firefox Cookie Policy
Stanford grad student Jonathan Mayer discusses cookies, Web tracking, and changes to Mozilla's cookie policy.
By Jonathan Mayer, September 2013
SECTION: 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
SECTION: Features
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
COLUMN: INIT: issue introduction
Behold a pail of milk
By Malay Bhattacharyya, Vaggelis Giannikas, March 2011
SECTION: Features
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
Social learning and technical capital on the social web
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
Privacy challenges and solutions in the social web
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
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
Introduction
By William Stevenson, December 2004