Links

For your enjoyment and enlightenment, another several weeks’ worth of links! There are some real gems in here, such as STEMing the Tide:

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In high school, girls only take 17 percent of computer-science AP tests. They earn only 18 percent of computer and information-science degrees in college, and they make up just under a quarter of computer and math professionals.
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A March report from the American Association of University Women found that female postdoctoral applicants have to produce 20 more papers to be judged as productive as their male counterparts.
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During a conference Jemison organized to address the issue, a few of the (white, male) professors suggested something more radical: making funding for tenured professors contingent upon them making sure there are more women and minorities in their classes. “You want it done? Give it to them,” Jemison says. “Make them responsible for it … Right now they don’t have any skin in the game.” Putting the onus of turning things around on men rather than women is gathering strength among advocates for gender equality.
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Enjoy reading!

Copyright

• EFF Argues Against Mass Copyright Infringement Lawsuits in Wednesday Hearing  28 June 2010, 9:18 am
• YouTube Wins Summary Judgment in Viacom DMCA Lawsuit  23 June 2010, 5:25 pm
• IPEC Releases “Strategic Plan on Intellectual Property Enforcement”  23 June 2010, 2:09 pm
• Sign the ACTA Communiqué and Tell Negotiators to Protect Your Rights  22 June 2010, 4:37 pm
• It’s Your Data, It’s Your Bot: It’s Not A Crime  22 June 2010, 2:06 pm
• ‘Hot News’ Doctrine Could Stifle Online Commentary and Criticism  22 June 2010, 10:30 am

Education

• Computing Careers: The Future Is Bright  6 July 2010, 4:28 am
• STEMing the Tide  6 July 2010, 4:24 am
• Supporters tout broadband network for researchers  30 June 2010, 5:05 am

Medical Technology

• Liquid Farewell: Belgian Undertakers Seeking Permission to Dissolve Corpses  6 July 2010, 7:55 am
• A Pacemaker for Your Brain  6 July 2010, 4:21 am
• New drug restores hearing after noise-induced hearing loss in rats  2 July 2010, 8:00 am
• Tool manipulation is represented similarly in the brains of the blind and the sighted  27 June 2010, 2:00 pm
• Tactile sensations influence social judgments and decisions  25 June 2010, 2:00 pm
• Brain stimulation technique boosts language ability in Alzheimer’s patients  25 June 2010, 5:00 am
• How to Win Friends and Inoculate People: The Navy’s Strategy for Saving the World  24 June 2010, 12:00 pm
• Gay men’s bilateral brains better at remembering faces, study finds  24 June 2010, 8:00 am
• Imaging reveals how brain fails to tune out phantom sounds of tinnitus  23 June 2010, 2:00 pm
• Brain structure corresponds to personality  23 June 2010, 8:00 am
• Portable media players associated with short-term hearing effects  22 June 2010, 2:00 pm

Miscellany

• Reading the look of love  1 July 2010, 5:00 pm
• Why Debate the War?: The Real Reason We Are in Afghanistan  1 July 2010, 7:41 am
• Goodbye Fat Cats?: Europe Moves to Regulate Bankers’ Bonuses  1 July 2010, 4:24 am
• A Fight for Memory: Monument Honors Sinti Boxer Murdered by the Nazis  30 June 2010, 6:43 am
• Gender Quotas for German Business?: Justice Ministers Want More Female Managers  25 June 2010, 8:45 am
• Henley v. DeVore: Second-Class Citizenship for Satire?  24 June 2010, 5:03 pm
• The Burqa Debate: Are Women’s Rights Really the Issue?  24 June 2010, 7:21 am
• Norway Takes Aim at G-20: ‘One of the Greatest Setbacks Since World War II’  22 June 2010, 4:43 am
• How to Prevent Language Extinction  21 June 2010, 11:09 am
• Virtual pay for real work  21 June 2010, 12:07 am
• Public Opinion  20 June 2010, 9:00 pm
• How Kinect may change home entertainment  15 June 2010, 8:06 am

Privacy

• Nanoscale Random Number Circuit to Secure Future Chips  6 July 2010, 4:27 am
• Quantifying Human Behavior–One MoCap Data Point at a Time  6 July 2010, 4:19 am
• Erasing all digital footprints ‘impossible’  6 July 2010, 12:07 am
• SPIEGEL Interview with Sci-Fi Author Daniel Suarez: ‘We Have To Regain Control Over Our Own Data’  2 July 2010, 8:49 am
• Facebook adds privacy features for outside apps  1 July 2010, 12:07 am
• Security glitch exposes WellPoint data again  29 June 2010, 11:50 am
• Steve Sees Everything: Apple Under Fire over Privacy in Germany  29 June 2010, 4:06 am
• ReputationDefender gets $15 million  27 June 2010, 6:25 am
• How do you hide in the digital age?  27 June 2010, 5:12 am
• SWIFT Progress?: Europe Backs New EU-US Data Sharing Deal  25 June 2010, 4:42 am
• Language Analysis Tool to Ascertain Age and Gender  24 June 2010, 2:24 pm
• Twitter settles with FTC over data security lapses  24 June 2010, 10:58 am
• German Interior Minister on Web 2.0 Privacy: Those on ‘Social Networking Sites Want Their Data To Be Linked’  23 June 2010, 9:57 am
• German state files complaint about Street View  15 June 2010, 8:02 am
• Google sees seamless access to information  15 June 2010, 6:38 am

Robotics

• A Marriage of Origami and Robotics  6 July 2010, 4:25 am
• Robofish Leads the Crowd to Open Up New Studies in Group Dynamics  6 July 2010, 4:22 am
• Lizard-Like Robot Can ‘Swim’ Through Sand  28 June 2010, 11:57 am
• Hop, Jump and Stick  26 June 2010, 4:45 am
• Japan’s Hitachi Creates Roller-Skating Robot  21 June 2010, 11:07 am

Security

• Spy suspects allegedly used regular consumer tech  2 July 2010, 8:12 am
• A Chapter from the Cold War Reopens: Espionage Probe Casts Shadow on Ties with China  30 June 2010, 5:43 am
• The World from Berlin: ‘Espionage Is Still Obligatory for Most States’  30 June 2010, 4:53 am
• Fighting Back Against Web Attacks  21 June 2010, 11:09 am
• Why Can’t Johnny Develop Secure Software?  21 June 2010, 11:04 am

Social Networking

• Maryland Scientists Develop World’s Fastest Program to Find Patterns in Social Networks  6 July 2010, 4:26 am
• Street food carts rely on Twitter and Facebook  1 July 2010, 12:07 am
• FarmVille crops up as iPhone, iTouch app  25 June 2010, 6:03 am
• Blogs and Tweets Could Predict the Future  24 June 2010, 2:24 pm
• A Private Social Network for Cell Phones  24 June 2010, 2:24 pm
• Using the Wisdom of Crowds to Translate Language  24 June 2010, 2:23 pm
• Facebook may start location-based service  24 June 2010, 11:13 am

Technology

• Genetic Inspiration Could Show the Way to Revolutionize Information Technology  6 July 2010, 4:23 am
• Microsoft, taking stock of redundancies, kills off its Kin  4 July 2010, 7:14 am
• Google ordered to restore Navx ads  1 July 2010, 12:07 am
• Get to Work / The blog that helps you find, get and keep a job  27 June 2010, 12:08 am
• Smartphone Add-On Will Bring Eye Tests to the Masses  26 June 2010, 4:47 am
• Enterprise PCs Work While They Sleep, Saving Energy and Money  26 June 2010, 4:46 am
• ICANN to renew negotiations on .xxx domains  26 June 2010, 12:07 am
• Apple, Give Us a “Freedom of Choice” Button  23 June 2010, 4:11 pm
• Google developing method to ease sale of news content  22 June 2010, 12:07 am
• Stanford Helps to Digitally Preserve Mountains of Documents  21 June 2010, 11:10 am
• AMS Group Demonstrates Self-Healing for Electronics  21 June 2010, 11:08 am