Insightful implementers refocus user ambivalence and resistance toward trust and acceptance of new systems.

How to address user information needs amidst a preponderance of data.

Using the past 10 years of Taulbee Survey data to evaluate female student enrollment across varied academic institutions and departments.

Nine teacher-oriented faculty in computer science departments at research universities in the U.S. or Canada describe how their positions work, how they contribute to education, and how departmental policies can influence their success and satisfaction.

Considering whether software engineering and engineering can share a profession.

Assessing the implications of the Google Book Search settlement.

Sounding the alert on emergency calling system deficiencies.

Governments, companies, and individuals have suffered an unusual number of highly publicized data breaches this year. Is there a solution?

Researchers have discovered important security flaws in modern automobile systems. Will car thieves learn to pick locks with their laptops?

Bertrand Meyer writes about his long-standing decision not to provide anonymous reviews. Greg Linden considers how educational practices could be improved through the data mining of students' schoolwork.

For almost 50 years we have been riding Moore's Law's exponential curve. Oh, what a ride it has been! No other technology has ever improved at a geometric rate for decades. But exponential trends always slow down, and the end of "Moore's Party" may be near.

As protests against financial power sweep the world, science may have confirmed the protesters' worst fears. An analysis of the relationships between 43,000 transnational corporations has identified a relatively small group of companies, mainly banks, with disproportionate power over the global economy.

Women are less likely than men to stay in engineering majors and to become engineers because they want to have families and are more insecure about their math abilities, right? Not necessarily, suggests a new study published in the American Sociological Review.

The newly released 2012 Salary Guides from Robert Half International project U.S. starting salaries for technology positions will increase 4.5 percent increase over the next 12 months, the largest gain among all fields researched.

When IBM's Deep Blue supercomputer won its famous chess rematch with then world champion Garry Kasparov in May 1997, the victory was hailed far and wide as a triumph of artificial intelligence. But John McCarthy—the man who coined the term and pioneered the field of AI research—didn't see it that way.

A faltering economy explains much of the job shortage in America, but advancing technology has sharply magnified the effect, according to two researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

The Electronic Communications Privacy Act (ECPA) was signed into law on October 21, 1986. Although it was forward-looking at the time, ECPA's privacy protections have remained stuck in the past while technology has raced ahead, providing us means of communication that not too long ago existed only in the minds of science fiction writers.

U.S. lawmakers are working toward bipartisan legislation that would offer expedited visas to foreign graduates with advanced technical degrees, amid complaints from companies that the United States is training highly skilled workers only to let them go to other nations. 

A recent National Science Foundation study found that minority doctoral holders are still poorly represented as faculty members at U.S. institutions, even as the number of minority students has climbed over the last 20 years. 

At a time of slow economic growth and declining competitiveness, wireless technology remains a shining example of innovation. In the last 10 years, wireless communications companies in the United States have invested hundreds of billions of dollars and unleashed a torrent of new products.