In keeping with my goal of trying to get out my list of links more regularly, I enclose a week’s worth of gleanings:
Category: Links
Links
I’ve finally gotten around to writing some .php to parse out the feed of my “starred items” (from which most of these come). Hopefully this will make me a bit more regular at getting these links out, so that there aren’t so many to look through.
Links
Glasgow CS Department:
Collaboration:
Privacy:
- Google Book Privacy Policy: Good Start, Much More Needed
- ACLU lawsuit says student’s cell phone was illegally searched
- Web-monitoring software gathers data on kid chats
- Privacy, consumer groups want news laws to protect Web users
- Privacy in Online Behavioral Tracking and Targeting – It’s Time to Protect Consumers
- Information Overload: German Court Disciplines Google
- ACLU files lawsuit on border laptop searches
- How to keep Big Brother from tracking cell phone
- Software that turns cell phones into bugs is tough to beat
- Op-Ed on Lawless Surveillance by Cindy Cohn
- Trade group releases new list of ‘awful’ Internet laws
- Warrants Required: EFF and Google’s Big Disagreement about Google Book Search
- Palm Pre debacle highlights location privacy issues
- Report: Your Palm Pre May be Spying on You
- Google’s New Opt-Out Privacy Protections
- The UK’s Surveillance Society: Half A Million Intercepts of Communications Data in 2008
- U.S. Web-Tracking Plan Stirs Privacy Fears
Security:
- SFO boarding passes go paperless
- State govs saying ‘No thanks’ to mystery laptops
- New Attack Cracks Common Wi-Fi Encryption in a Minute
- Microsoft Team Traces Malicious Users
- Computer Scientists Take Over Electronic Voting Machine With New Programming Technique
- Warning Issued on Web Programming Interfaces
File Sharing / Copyright:
- UK Musicians Oppose Draconian Disconnect Policy
- Oh, the places Google can go with book plan
- Google Book Search settlement plan questioned
- Promising SXSW Panel Proposals
- Judge bars sales of RealNetworks’ DVD software
- Snatching Rights On the Playa (Burning Man Terms and Conditions)
Social Networking:
- The World from Berlin: Are Exit Polls Safe in the Twitter Era?
- NFL bans social-network updates during games
- Marketing company sells clients Facebook friends
- IBM remote control lets users blog about favorite TV shows
- Judge finalizes dismissal of Web hoax charges
- Twitter Exit Poll Leaks: Illegal Election Updates Strike Again in Germany
- The day the blogging stopped (Japan Election rules)
- California users file civil suit against Facebook
- ‘Infectious’ People Spread Memes Across the Web
- Neighbors Twitter, blog to keep criminals at bay
- Social networking has hidden dangers for teens
Robotics:
- Researchers Hope to Mass-Produce Tiny Robots
- UC San Diego to Develop Ocean Observing Cyberinfrastructure
- Getting Your Robot On: Wearable Machines’ Intimate Interface
- UWE Scientists Design First Robot Using Mould (as in, slime mould)
- Three New Laws of Robotics for the Early 21st Century
- Moral Machines
- Autonomous Machines Prompt Debate
Hardware:
- DNA ‘Organises Itself’ on Silicon
- IBM Gets $16 Million to Bolster its Brain-on-a-Chip Technology
- Nanoelectronic Transistor Combined With Biological Machine Could Lead to Better Electronics
- NIST Demonstrates Sustained Quantum Processing in Step Toward Building Quantum Computers
- Quantum Computer Slips Onto Chips
- New Material for Nanoscale-Computer Chips
Software:
Education:
- 5 College Majors on the Rise (including Computational science)
- Career Advice: High-Tech, Healthcare Best Choices for College Students
- NSF Defers to Universities on Ethical Standards
- Academic Corruption: Germany Rocked By Allegations of Ph.D. Bribes
- Study Finds that Online Education Beats the Classroom
- Online textbooks offered free to students
- College textbooks available as iPhone download
- Computer Science Courses on the Decline
- Research Findings Contradict Myth of High Engineering Dropout Rate
- Girls Encouraged to Enter Technology Field
- To Teach Computing, a New Tool Calls on The Sims
Applied Computing:
- Keyboard Style Could Give Early Warning of Dementia
- An Intelligent System Avoids Forgetting Things
- Simulation Could Mitigate Wildfires
- Ole Miss uses tech tactic to cut energy use
- Flu Trackers Encourage Patients to Blog About It
- Mobile software helps student drop 50 pounds
- Mining the Web for Feelings, Not Facts
- Web offering more gauges about happiness
- You Can’t Trust GPS
- New Linux-Based Technology to Make ‘Smarter’ GPS
- Semantics-Based Software Boosts Company Performance
- Hospitals slow to use technology to halt errors
Languages / Database:
- OpenCL: Parallel Programmers’ New Best Friend
- A New Language for Phone Networks
- From Terabytes to Petabytes: Computer Scientists Develop New Hybrid Database System
- Software lets cell phones write on air
- Red Hat, IBM, Novell Major Contributors to Exploding Linux Kernel Development
- W3C Bridging Knowledge Organization Systems to Linked Data
- Doing What the Brain Does–How Computers Learn to Listen
- Caltech Scientists Help Launch the First Standard Graphical Notation for Biology
- Safer Software
Library / Archive:
- Librarians’ delight: Device helps readers borrow e-books
- A Data Deluge Swamps Science Historians
- It’s Semantic–Easier Solution to Annotate and Search Images
- Sony plans a Kindle rival with wireless downloads
- Short Web address sites form link archiving group
- Sony to Embrace Open E-Book Standard
- A Victim of Its own Success: Berlin Stasi Museum on Brink of Bankruptcy
- Market for e-readers may be turning a page
Research:
- Microsoft Research Keeps Dreaming Big
- HP Labs researchers shift focus to bottom line
- New UC Davis chancellor puts innovation first
Misc:
- Polaroid Love Affair: Instant Film Making a Fashionable Comeback in Berlin
- Fighting Fallout: Drug Promises Fix for Radiation Poisoning
- Ultra-Green Models for a Sustainable Future: Are Eco-Cities Building a Comeback?
- Study: Google pulls away in global search usage
- EBay partially undoes Skype deal, selling majority
- Investing in Death: Betting on US Life Expectancy Proves Risky
- Microsoft apologizes for changing race in photo
- As Net turns 40, barriers threaten open growth
- Word of the Week: Mancession
- Cutbacks Could Be Causing IT Outages
- Workplace suicides surge by 28 percent
- Europe versus America: Do Longer Holidays Translate to Greater Productivity?
- July video game sales down sharply
- Fewer workers, bigger paychecks in high tech
- ‘Evil Steve’ Drives Apple’s Problems
From Troy Davis and the Meaning of ‘Actual Innocence’:
Sitting on death row in Georgia, Troy Davis has won a key victory against his own execution. On Aug. 17, the U.S. Supreme Court instructed a federal court in Georgia to consider, for the first time in a formal court proceeding, significant evidence of Davis’ innocence that surfaced after his conviction. This is the first such order from the U.S. Supreme Court in almost 50 years. Remarkably, the Supreme Court has never ruled on whether it is unconstitutional to execute an innocent person.
Links
Social Media:
- Virtual Worlds May Be the Future Setting of Scientific Collaboration
- ESPN Muscles in on Staff Tweets
- Sex, Murder, and Facebook: The Perils of Social Media
- Twitter post leads to lawsuit
- Video game site lets players bet on their skills
- Online video more popular than Facebook
- Warning: The Wrong Tweet Can Get You Sued
- Bill Gates Leaves Facebook, Says It’s Too Much Hassle
- Chris Anderson on the Economics of ‘Free’: ‘Maybe Media Will Be a Hobby Rather than a Job’
- Who needs newspapers when you have Twitter?
- Need a job? Show them you can Twitter
- iPhone Suicide Case Spotlights Tech?s Dark Side
- Who’s Really Reading Your Facebook Top Five Lists?
Education:
Amazon:
- Amazon sued over Kindle deletion of Orwell books
- The Future of Book Banning?
- Amazon.com CEO apologizes for Orwell incident
- Amazon fails to remember the physical
Apple:
- Apple Screws Up Again, Censors iPhone Dictionary App
- Apple Backs Down On Bluwiki Threats
- Is Apple Hiding Problems with Fiery iPods?
Google:
- Civil liberties groups warn of Google Books privacy concerns
- Don’t Let Google Close the Book on Reader Privacy!
- Google Tries to Silence YouTube Critics
Ancestry:
Misc. Tech:
- Talking Paperclip Inspires Less Irksome Virtual Assistant
- If You’re Happy, Then We Know It: New Research Measures Mood
- Artificial Brain ’10 Years Away’
Misc:
- No Public Option in Secret Baucus Health Plan…Baucus Tops Congress in Campaign Funds From Private Health Industry
- Crawling Death: How Lice Thwarted Napoleon’s Invasion of Russia
- Getting Around the EU Ban: Germans Hoarding Traditional Light Bulbs
Privacy:
- Who Knows Where You Are, And Why?
- Obama’s Military Is Spying on U.S. Peace Groups
- OC man charged with modifying video game consoles
- EFF Releases Interim Report on the Automated Targeting System
- Cars.gov Terms of Service: What Glenn Beck Gets Right and Wrong
- EFF Defends Wikipedian’s Right to the Public Domain
- Defendant in Mass. music-sharing trial: ‘I did it’
- US Snooping Rights in Europe: Criticism Grows over Banking Data Deal
- Big Brother Is Watching Your Blackberry: How Wired Gadgets Encroach on Privacy
- SF Chronicle: Obama Position on Wiretapping is “Mind-Boggling”
Security:
- New Epidemic Fears: Hackers
- Halted ’03 Iraq Plan Illustrates U.S. Fear of Cyberwar Risk
- TECH CHRONICLES / Common Web safeguard might not be all that safe, conference attendees learn
- Report: Shortage of cyber experts may hinder govt
- Researchers to Spotlight Darknets at Black Hat
- New Technology to Make Digital Data Self-Destruct
Software / Computing:
- NCSA Researchers Receive Patent for System that Finds Holes in Knowledge Bases
- Behaviour of Building Block of Nature Could Lead to Computer Revolution
- Intel Taps Facebook Multitudes for Massive Research Efforts
- Computers Unlock More Secrets of the Mysterious Indus Valley Script
- DNA Computation Gets Logical at the Weizmann Institute
- Can Computers Decipher a 5,000-Year-Old Language?
- Yale Researchers Create Database-Hadoop Hybrid
- NICTA Opens Its Software to the World
Robotics:
- Call for Debate on Killer Robots
- We, Robots
- SPACE FLIGHT / Business of space fails to blast off as expected
- Robo-Ethicists Want to Revamp Asimov’s 3 Laws
High-tech Devices:
Links
- Social Networking
- People spend more time on Facebook than any other Web site
- Author releases novel — 140 characters at a time on Twitter
- Most Facebook users are older, study finds
- Second Life Data Offers Window Into How Trends Spread
- THE TECH CHRONICLES / Facebook tidies up privacy settings
- Idiocracy (XKCD mockery of it)
- Exit Poll Leaks: Could Twitter Influence the German Election?
- Study: Top CEOs still shunning Twitter, Facebook
- Virtual Reality, Education
- Researchers Mull STEM Gender Gap
- Beating the Bullies–Changing Real-World Behaviour Through Virtual Experience
- Internet-based therapy shows promise for insomnia
- Bringing Girls and Boys to Computer Science With ‘Alice’
- The Importance of Order: German Researchers Tackle Untidy Desks
- Rights, Privacy
- Orwell in 2009: Dystopian Rights Management
- Azerbaijani blogger arrests prompts backlash
- States ask FCC’s OK to jam prison cell phones
- Digital book free for a month
- Cell phone ring tones spark copyright questions
- High court won’t block remote storage DVR system
- IBM Claims Privacy Breakthrough for Cloud, Data
- Free Speech vs. Surveillance in the Digital Age
- HCI
- Computers May Be Able to ‘Read’ Thoughts
- The Next Hacking Frontier: Your Brain?
- Beyond–Way Beyond–WIMP Interfaces
- The Pathologies of Big Data
- Toyota technology has brain waves move wheelchair
- Traveling the Web Together
- Magnet and Glue Turn Tongue Into Joystick
- Security
- Concerns that L.A. might use Google services
- Microsoft delivers 9 patches, but leaves one hole open
- Dimwitted thieves steal fake cell phones in Mexico
- Researchers Unite to Distribute Quantum Keys
- The Grill: Using Computer Models to Predict War
- U.S. and Russia Differ on a Treaty for Cyberspace
- Iranian Protesters Avoid Censorship With Navy Technology
- Corporations, Business news
- Sun shareholders approve $7.4B Oracle deal
- Video game revenue plunges 31% in June despite player growth
- United Air Lines learns the power of viral revenge
- Photographers resigned to losing Kodachrome
- Google’s Chrome OS puts pressure on Microsoft
- Google’s operating system escalates Microsoft duel
- Walkman, at 30, a mystery to teen
- Geeks double as scourges and sages at media summit
- Devices, Robotics
- Robo-Bats With Metal Muscles May Be Next Generation of Remote Control Flyers
- High-Tech Imaging Reveals Hidden Past in Ancient Texts
- Computers Aid in Cracking Deception in Plants
- ‘Mixed Reality’ Human Helps Medical Students Learn to do Intimate Exams
- Liver device helps man survive until transplant
- Organic Traffic Lights
- Swiss team unveils prototype for sun-powered plane
- Electronic monitors provide care without doctor
- Interactive Robot Guided By Sensors–Not Remote
- Living Safely With Robots, Beyond Asimov’s Laws
Links
- Technology Addiction (comic) from xkcd.com
- How Many Scientists Fabricate And Falsify Research? from sciencedaily.com
- Students Who Get Stuck Look For Computer Malfunctions from sciencedaily.com
- IT Careers Aren’t Cool Enough for Canadian High School Students from itworldcanada.com
- Computer Science Is Widening the Education Gap from computerworld.com
- Gap Between Boys and Girls Persists in Tech from mercurynews.com
- Girls Still Not Choosing Computer Science as a Career, Study Says from eweek.com
- Minorities, Women Underrepresented in IT from informationweek.com
- Women Faring Well in Hiring and Tenure Processes for Science and Engineering Jobs at Research Universities, But Still Underrepresented from nationalacademies.org
- Young Children’s Exposure To Audible Television Has Implications For Language Acquisition And Brain Development from sciencedaily.com
- Could Power Point Presentations Be Stifling Learning? from sciencedaily.com
- Culture, Not Biology, Underpins Math Gender Gap from sciencedaily.com
- Data Center Overload from nytimes.com
- ACM Announces Advanced Web Analytics Software for Library Community from ascribe.org
- Free Gaming in Libraries Class Comes with Free SNAKS from theshiftedlibrarian.com
- Facebook Games for a Better Music Search Engine from ucsd.edu
- If at First You Don’t Succeed, Let the Search Engine Try from psu.edu
- Motion Capture Technology Takes A Leap Forward from sciencedaily.com
- Extracting Meaning From Millions of Pages from technologyreview.com
- Twitter to verify accounts to eliminate celebrity impostors from sfgate.com
- Social Networks Keep Privacy in the Closet from technologyreview.com
- Online map details HIV prevalence in each (U.S.) state from sfgate.com
- Robots with fins, tails demonstrate evolution from sfgate.com
- The Future of Robots Is Rat-Shaped from physorg.com
- Robotic Ferret Will Detect Hidden Drugs and Weapons from alphagalileo.org
- Interactive Data Eyeglasses:New Data Eyeglasses Can Read From Engineer’s Eyes Which Details Need To Be Included On Building Plans from sciencedaily.com
- Predictive Powers:A Robot That Reads Your Intention? from sciencedaily.com
- Exact Replication Of Facial Expressions Challenge Assumptions About Human Behavior from sciencedaily.com
- The New Acropolis Museum:Keeping the Elgin Marbles in London Is Now ‘Untenable’ from spiegel.de
- Plan to Teach Military Robots the Rules of War from newscientist.com
- Scientists Create Hybrid System of Human-Machine Interaction from physorg.com
- Contracts Without Lawyers? from europa.eu
- Software designed to make older drivers sharper from sfgate.com
- Computer System for Dementia Patients from alphagalileo.org
- Nintendo Wii May Enhance Parkinson’s Treatment from sciencedaily.com
- Hi-Tech Clothes to Help Elderly from bbc.co.uk
- Death leaves online lives in limbo from sfgate.com
- Software ‘Gives Children a Voice’ from bbc.co.uk
- Log On To Beat Depression:Internet-based Therapy Found Effective from sciencedaily.com
- Light-treatment Device To Improve Sleep Quality In The Elderly from sciencedaily.com
- Brain-Computer Interface, Developed at Brown, Begins New Clinical Trial from brown.edu
- Personal Discrimination on the Web from eurekalert.org
- ‘Warrior Gene’ Linked To Gang Membership, Weapon Use from sciencedaily.com
- Individuals With Family History Of Genetic Disease At Risk Of Discrimination from sciencedaily.com
- Does Parallel Processing Require New Languages? from gcn.com
- Researchers:Databases Still Beat Google’s MapReduce from computerworld.com
- Looking to Nature for Smarter Software Systems from independent.ie
- Don’t Stand So Close To Me:Proximity Defines How We Think Of Contagion from sciencedaily.com
- Americans Choose Media Messages That Agree With Their Views from sciencedaily.com
- German Internet, One Click Away from a Cop from spiegel.de
- Secret War on Web Crooks Revealed from ft.com
- Iran’s Web Spying Aided By Western Technology from wsj.com
- Privacy May Be a Victim in Cyberdefense Plan from nytimes.com
- Navy Wants Proposals on Cyber Research from fcw.com
- IBM Awarded DARPA Funding for Cognitive Computing Collaboration from frontierindian.net
- Pentagon Plans New Arm to Wage Computer Wars from nytimes.com
- Is the Hacking Threat to National Security Overblown? from wired.com
- Toward Cheap Underwater Sensor Nets from ucsd.edu
- Study:Web Trackers Systematically Compromise Users’ Privacy from darkreading.com
- E-Mail Surveillance Renews Concerns in Congress from nytimes.com
- Two New Books On Innovation Colliding With Law from eff.org
- Censored Street Views:Google Bows to German Data Privacy Demands from spiegel.de
- Software Liability Law Could Divide Open Source from zdnetasia.com
- U.S. Justice Dept. looks at high-tech firms’ hiring from sfgate.com
- The Supreme Court won’t stop Pennsylvania officials from prosecuting a man whose computer was found to contain child pornography while it was at Circuit City being upgraded from sfgate.com
- Darth Vader and the Vikings:The Rise of Sweden’s Pirate Party from spiegel.de