All Articles

A comprehensive list of (most of) the articles.

The effect of the Internet

• (Four Puzzles from Cyberspace, an excerpt from Codev2 by Lawrence Lessig
• "Why you can't cite Wikipedia in my class" ( HTML, PDF)
• Google Competitor to Wikipedia 
• Google settles suit over book scanning

Computing and education

• Wii bit of fun at Rice University has serious intent

Computers and Medicine

• Computers Key to Fighting Medicare Fraud
• Computers 'spot Alzheimer's fast'
• Engineers harness cell phone technology for use in medical imaging
• Supercomputer 'virtual human' to help fight disease
• Design of Patient Tracking Tools May Have Unintended Consequences
• Computing for Good: Web technology to solve human problems - focusing on a web application for managing the blood supply in Africa

Digital divide

• Techies volunteering to save the world

Computing and the environment

Sensor Networks for Environmental Monitoring

• ZebraNet overview, article
• Volcano Monitoring, paper
• Applying graphs to social networks of zebras

Green computing

• Internet Helps Americans Save More Energy Every Year
• Could smart traffic lights stop motorists fuming?

Volunteer computing

• PS3 network enters record books

Computing and the sciences

• ...Error. Why scientific programming does not compute.
• Cellphone Crime Solvers
• Solving the Oil Equation

Computer Science and Policy

• Computer Scientists to Congress: Don't Tell Colleges to Install Filters on Networks

Electronic voting

• Voting with (Little) Confidence
• The Risks of Electronic Voting (requires ACM Digital Library access)
• Princeton Scientists Create Vote-Stealing Program

Diversity in computing

• Patenting the Co-ed Code
• Black IT Employment
• Five Myths about Girls and Science
• Alan Turing - the founder of computer science, cracked the German Engima code in WWII, a gay man
• Grace Hopper (her bug) and conferences celebrating women and diversity in computing

Bugs!

• Using Google Maps? What You See May or May Not Exist -- read linked articles about the issues 
• Google Maps Loses Florida Town, Again
• History's Worst Software Bugs
• A Bug and a Crash

Net Neutrality

• Google Wants Its Own Fast Track on the Web

Computing and entertainment

• Movie Magic Conjured by Science
• The Making of The Beatles: Rock Band
• If you like U2, you'll like ... Metallica?
• Satellite TV Soccer Moms Will Hate
• Eye-tracking game hides baddies in plain view
• Privacy Issues in Facebook
• More Privacy Issues in Facebook

Digital Humanities

• Digitized book project unveils a quantitative "cultural genome" 
• A New Algorithm to Attack Art Fraud
• A Data Deluge Swamps Science Historians

And more...

• Why Software Is Eating The World
• Behind Intel's New Random-Number Generator , including why generating random numbers is a difficult problem
• A possible Facebook killer? The Making of Diaspora
• Santorum asks Google to change search results
• Some insight on high-tech lobbying: In the Politics of Innovation, Steve Jobs Shows Less Is More
• An overview of the Web's distributed structure, through WikiLeaks: WikiLeaks Demonstrates Web Resiliency
• In-depth discussion of computational forensics: Beyond C.S.I.: The Rise of Computational Forensics
• Leveraging Google's search algorithms for evil: For DecorMyEyes, Bad Publicity Is a Good Thing and Google's follow up
• Computing for the Environment: Efforts to assess local effects of global warming discussed at computer conference
• Trade Algorithms: Algorithms Take Control of Wall Street

• Twitter, Facebook, and Social Activism
• Accidental Algorithms
• If looks could kill
• Brown Scientists Create Program To Calculate Body Shape
• Car Key Jams Teen Drivers' Cell Phones
• Your World View Doesn't Compute