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2009
Is there a human side to software engineering? (1/15)
Dr. Janice Singer, a cognitive psychologist and researcher at the National Research Council Canada, talks about building a Web community interested in the social habits of highly effective software engineers and computer scientists.
Research category: Human-computer interaction
2008
We need a verifiable electronic voting system (10/13)
IBM computer scientist Rich Cardone is an ardent advocate of an electronic voting system whose processes and results are open and confirmable.
Research category: Artificial Intelligence
Science fiction can save the world. For real. (8/19)
Author David Brin explores the ideas that have shaped his imaginative life -- and talks about the power of science fiction to forestall humanity's doomsday scenarios.
Research category: Artificial Intelligence
What do computer scientists see in visualizations? (8/4)
Computer scientist and University of Massachusetts (Lowell) professor Georges Grinstein talks about visualization computing in financial services, homeland security and healthcare – and predicts where these technologies are headed.
Research category: Graphics & Visualization
Is the Web here to stay? (6/8)
Computer scientist and ACM president Wendy Hall talks about the need for a new academic discipline called Web science that will give computer scientists, sociologists and market researchers a look at what makes the Web -- and its users -- tick.
Research category: Web, Artificial intelligence
What is Web science? (5/29)
Nigel Shadbolt and other British computer scientists organize a discipline to study Web phenomena.
Research category: Web, Artificial intelligence
Teaching computers the art of bluffing (and other human strategies) (3/13)
Computer scientists apply the beauty and elegance of games to research in artificial intelligence.
Research category: Artificial intelligence
Finding intelligent life with telescopes and computers (1/4)
Are human beings the only example of intelligent life in the universe? Dr. Jill Tarter, director for the Center for SETI Research, says it's scientifically valid to pursue an asnwer to this question.
Research category: Mobile computing
2007
Attack on cyberspace: Why we have to defend ourselves against the inevitable (11/27)
Dr. Alfred Spector, vice president, Google Research, participated in a study for the National Research Council that urges the U.S. government to adopt a Cybersecurity Bill of Rights.
Research category: Security & Privacy
How social collaboration makes chatter lucrative (10/31)
Head of Yahoo! Research Dr. Prabhakar Raghavan talks about the multidisciplinary road that computer science is on as it takes the Web from a "primitive technical artifact" to a "rich social and microeconomic system."
Research category: Human-Computer Interaction, Multimedia, Web
How do we behave online? (8/8)
Microsoft Research sociologist Marc Smith uses data mining and visualizations to get a picture of the way people act online.
Research category: Human-Computer Interaction, Graphics & Visualization
How do we behave offline? (8/8)
Marc Smith, Microsoft Research, studies the sociology of the Internet.
Research category: Human-Computer Interaction, Graphics & Visualization
Why your wireless network needs a security policy (6/14)
Research associate Sye Loong Keoh, Imperial College, London, talks about the need for a policy-based approach to help make the wireless computing environment manageable and secure.
Research category: Security & Privacy
What will it take to defeat malware? (5/21)
Doctoral candidate Mihai Christodorescu, University of Wisconsin (Madison), discusses the challenges of psyching out malware writers.
Research category: Security & Privacy, Operating Systems
Why do people contribute to wikis? (5/8)
Computer scientist John Riedl, University of Minnesota, talks about the challenges involved in getting people to contribute to wikis and other community-maintained artifacts of lasting value.
Research category: Multimedia, Human-Computer Interaction, Web
How the Internet is influencing vehicle-to-vehicle communications (4/27)
Computer scientist Mario Gerla, UCLA, talks about the role of the Internet in car-to-car communications -- and how cars will become mobile data centers.
Research category: Communications & Networking
How multiplayer video games help socialize autistic children (4/13)
Computer scientist Peter Ohring is devising a software program that may help high-functioning autistic children reach out to other people.
Research category: Graphics & Visualization, Human-Computer Interaction
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Last updated January 15, 2009