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.