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Social computing has the potential to fundamentally change the structure of human relationships. Will it succeed? This paper will highlight interesting developments in the world of social computing. In addition to exploring interesting phenomena in the social computing world, these articles will strive to peek into what the future holds by examining recent research.
The grand ideas that led to the 1991 High-Performance Computing Act shaped the modern Internet only as they sifted through layers of the vertical division of labor.
Although still being used, peer-to-peer technology appears to be declining in popularity compared to other approaches for accessing content over the Internet.
Knowledge of the use of software applications that perform line-by-line comparisons of programs is not enough to squelch the tide of academic misconduct cases.
Captchas are a standard defense on commercial websites against undesirable or malicious Internet bot programs, but widely deployed schemes can be broken with simple but novel attacks. Applying security engineering expertise to the design of Captchas can significantly improve their robustness.
An open question is how big Wiki pedia should become. How many ideas are worthy of an article? Per haps all of the notable subjects have already been covered, and the number of new contributors should be kept small. Wales has argued in recent years that the challenge to Wikipedia going forward is to shift the focus from volume to quality of content. Here we examine the size of Wiki pedia and how it...
Light has long been used to convey information-often in long and short bursts, as in semaphores-and today's world is no exception. Researchers recently found a way for users to access the Internet via visible light. LVX System developed a lighting fixture that offers an access point with a clear data channel to whatever backbone system the LVX customer has installed. CEO John Pederson says that unlike...
The development of entirely new types of Web-based software systems built to leverage the vast capabilities of the World Wide Web allows the use of dynamically downloaded applications and services from any type of terminal, including both desktop computers and mobile devices, implying radical changes in the ways people develop, deploy, and use software.
This paper discusses about rich Internet applications and supporting technology, such as JavaScript and Flash. RIAs can offer an interactive experience closer to that of a desktop application.
Unlike the traditional Internet, the emerging Internet of Things constitutes a mix of virtual and physical entities. A proposed Internet of Things browser enables the exploration of augmented spaces by identifying smart objects, discovering any services they might provide, and interacting with them.
Data obesity is a consequence of data gluttony and vice versa. The paper focuses on remediable aspects relevant to the computing profession and, as the phrase "data obesity" suggests, to a few of the various aspects of the data involved rather than of the machinery processing the data.
Tags, words or short phrases attached to items on the Internet, organize the social Web. Unlike expert-maintained taxonomies such as the Dewey Decimal Classification, tags evolve organically based on the collective action of individual users. The collection of tags in a tagging system, called a folksonomy, can vary widely from site to site. The paper mentions that the combination of eager taggers...
Framed digital displays will soon give way to walls and facades that creatively motivate individual and group interaction. A stage serves as an apt metaphor to explore the ways in which these ubiquitous screens can transform passive viewing into an involved performance.
The UrBan Interactions (UBI) research program, coordinated by the University of Oulu, has created a middleware layer on top of the panOULU wireless network and opened it up to ubiquitous-computing researchers, offering opportunities to enhance and facilitate communication between citizens and the government.
Social and community intelligence research aims to reveal individual and group behaviors, social interactions, and community dynamics by mining the digital traces that people leave while interacting with Web applications, static infrastructure, and mobile and wearable devices.
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