XRDS, Volume 20

Volume 20, Number 1, Fall 2013

The Complexities of Privacy and Anonymity - Letter from the editors

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  Peter Kinnaird, Inbal Talgam-Cohen:
  Equip Yourself for Creativity. 5-7

Inbox

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  Inbox. 8

INIT

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  Maire Byrne Evans, Christine Task:
  Keeping Your Little Back Shop. 9

Benefit

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  Debarka Sengupta:
  XRDS Mobilizes. 10

Advice

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  Vaggelis Giannikas:
  Managing Your Time. 10

Updates

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  Michael Zuba:
  Revitalizing ACM Student Chapters: A look at how to refresh student initiatives. 11

Blogs

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  Olivia Simpson:
  Algorithms Fit for Compilation? 12
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  Gidi Nave:
  Habits: Our cognitive shortcut. 12-13
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  Aaron Roth:
  Coordination When Information is Scarce: How privacy can help. 14-16
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  Jonathan R. Mayer:
  The New Firefox Cookie Policy. 16-17

Features

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  Andreas Birkbak:
  What is Public and Private Anyway? A Pragmatic Take on Privacy and Democracy. 18-21
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  Marion Oswald:
  Something Bad Might Happen: Lawyers, anonymization and risk. 22-26
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  Iain Bourne:
  Personal, Pseudonymous, and Anonymous Data: The problem of identification. 27-31
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  David Birch:
  Talking 'Bout Your Reputation. 32-35
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  Elaine Mackey, Mark J. Elliot:
  Understanding the Data Environment. 36-39
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  Dominic Hobson:
  What is Bitcoin? 40-44
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  Kelley Misata:
  The Tor Project: An inside view. 45-47
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  Philip C. Ritchey:
  It's Not About Winning, it's About Sending a Message: Hiding information in games. 48-52
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  Christine Task:
  An Illustrated Primer in Differential Privacy. 53-57
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  Michael Zuba:
  Cynthia Dwork on Differential Privacy. 58-59
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  Adrian Scoica:
  Jessica Staddon: Managing Google's privacy research. 60

Labz

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  Rich Shay:
  CyLab Usable Privacy and Security Laboratory (Pittsburgh, PA). 62-63

Back

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  Finn Kuusisto:
  WLAN Security. 64

Hello world

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  Marinka Zitnik:
  Zero-knowledge Proofs. 65-67

Volume 20, Number 2, Winter 2013

Letter from the editors

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  Forget about blenders. 5-7

Inbox

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  Inbox. 8

INIT

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  Terrell R. Bennett, Julia Seiter:
  Getting dressed in tech. 9

Benefit

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  Virginia Grande:
  Student chapters in Europe. 10

Advice

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  Connor Bain:
  How you can change the world. 10

Updates

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  Michael Zuba:
  Maintaining ACM traditions: Professional development done right. 11

Careers

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  Dean Jackson:
  The Google technical interview: How to get your dream job. 12-14

Blogs

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  Dimitris Mitropoulos:
  Security bugs in large software ecosystems. 15-16
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  Wolfgang Richter:
  The scary reality of identity theft. 16
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  Suresh Venkatasubramanian:
  The many stages of writing a paper, and how to close the deal. 17

Features

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  Christina Strohrmann, Gerhard Tröster:
  Quantified performance: assessing runners with sensors. 18-23
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  Andrew Miller:
  Fitness trackers. 24-26
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  Kai Kunze:
  Tracking how we read: activity recognition for cognitive tasks. 28-32
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  Gabriele Spina, Oliver Amft:
  Toward smartphone assisted personal rehabilitation training. 33-37
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  Rolf Adelsberger:
  Capturing human motion one step at a time. 38-42
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  Mladen Milosevic, Aleksandar Milenkovic, Emil Jovanov:
  mHealth @ UAH: computing infrastructure for mobile health and wellness monitoring. 43-49
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  Christoph Amma, Tanja Schultz:
  Airwriting: bringing text entry to wearable computers. 50-55
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  Viswam Nathan:
  Wearable brain computer interface are we there yet? 56-60
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  Adrian Scoica:
  Profile Ori Inbar: Making augmented reality a reality. 61

Labz

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  Atif Khan:
  Cryptography, security and privacy (CrySP) research group: Waterloo, Canada. 62-63

Back

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  Finn Kuusisto:
  Robotic vacuums. 63

Hello world

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  Marinka Zitnik:
  On constructing the tree of life. 65-67

Volume 20, Number 3, Spring 2014

Cyber-Physical Systems - Letter from the editors

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  Inbal Talgam-Cohen:
  Enriching your network via diversity. 5-6

Inbox

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  Tweet tweet! 7

INIT

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  Haining Mo, Neeti Sharad Wagle, Michael Zuba:
  Cyber-physical systems. 8-9

Advice

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  Vaggelis Giannikas:
  Team players: How to be a good one. 10

Updates

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  Michael Zuba:
  Defending students from cyber crime: a hands on approach. 11

Careers

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  Tomas Barreto:
  Getting a job at Box: five tips you won't learn in school. 12-13

Milestones

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  Jay Patel:
  Seismic activity. 13

Blogs

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  Samira Daruki:
  Ultra-efficiency via sublinearity. 14-16
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  Vassilios Karakoidas:
  On domain-specific languages usage (why DLSs really matter). 16-17

Features

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  Eric W. Frew:
  Storm-chasing drones. 18-23
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  Wayne E. Woldt, Eric W. Frew, George Meyer:
  Feeding a hungry world: the potential for unmanned aircraft systems. 24-27
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  Matt Waite:
  Journalism with flying robots. 28-31
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  Michael Zuba:
  Connecting with oceans using underwater acoustic networks. 32-37
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  Bong-Huan Jun, Hyungwon Shim:
  A dexterous crabster robot explores the seafloor. 38-45
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  Wenlong Zhang, Yi-Hung Wei, Quan Leng, Song Han:
  A high-speed, real-time mobile gait rehabilitation system. 46-51
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  Yaser P. Fallah:
  Networking vehicles for safety: embedding cyber networks in physical networks. 52-58
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  Aveek Dutta, Dola Saha:
  Composing on-demand intelligent PHYsical layers. 60-66
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  Adrian Scoica:
  Profile Benjamin Cichy: writing code to run on Mars. 68-69

Labz

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  Yan Shvartzshnaider:
  NICTA ATP lab: Eveleigh, Sydney, Australia. 70-71

Back

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  Finn Kuusisto:
  Satellite navigation. 71

Hello world

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  Marinka Zitnik:
  Efficient sensor placement for environmental monitoring. 73-75

Volume 20, Number 4, Summer 2014

Diversity in Computer Science

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  Sean Follmer, Inbal Talgam-Cohen:
  Towards a critical debate about technology and its impact. 5-7

Inbox

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  Adbarrassment. 8

Publisher's corner

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  Scott E. Delman:
  Why saying no to the NSA is a slippery slope. 9-10

INIT

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  Jean Yang:
  Women, hip-hop, and self-teaching: the new diversity in computing. 11-12

Milestones

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  Jay Patel:
  Women in computing. 12

Updates

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  Pedro Lopes:
  XRDS anywhere, anytime. 13

Advice

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  Somdip Dey:
  A beginner's guide to computer science research. 14

Careers

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  Zeljko Obrenovic:
  Doing research in practice: some lessons learned. 15-17

Blogs

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  Wolfgang Richter:
  The curious case of a sick google glass. 18-19

Features

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  Freada Kapor Klein, Ana Díaz-Hernández:
  Pattern recognition: how hidden bias operates in tech startup culture. 20-23
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  Jesse Beach:
  Open source, open heart. 24-27
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  Omoju Miller:
  It's deeper than rap, toward culturally responsive CS. 28-30
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  Tobias Berg, Rebecca Apel, Carmen Leicht-Scholten:
  In search of diverse students. 31-35
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  Erin C. Carson:
  Making tech more inclusive: an interview with Ashe Dryden. 36-37
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  Sarah Jeong, Colin McSwiggen:
  Hackers!: the myth that warped an industry. 38-42
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  Grace Woo:
  All hands on deck! 43-45
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  Eve Fine, Amy Wendt, Molly Carnes:
  Gendered expectations: are we unintentionally undermining our efforts to diversify STEM fields? 46-51
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  Liron Lifshitz-Yadin, Daniela Raijman-Aharonov:
  Campus for moms: an ingenious idea for moms with ideas. 52-55
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  Aliza Aufrichtig:
  The prerequisites and privilege of autodidacticism: what you already need to know to teach yourself. 56-59
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  Adrian Scoica:
  Profile Peter Havelock: how does the world's largest IT company understand diversity? 60-61

Labz

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  Arka Bhattacharya:
  J. Craig Venter Institute: Rockville, Maryland. 62-63

Back

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  Finn Kuusisto:
  Demographics in computing. 63

Hello world

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  Marinka Zitnik:
  Exploring data with topological tools. 65-66