CS Table: Fall 2008

These are the topics discussed at CS Table in Fall 2008.

12 December 2008: Informal chat before winter break

5 December 2008: Chat with Alumni Scholar Dave Herman

28 November 2008: Thanksgiving break! No meeting

21 November 2008: Google Books

http://www.arl.org/pp/ppcopyright/google/index.shtml

http://books.google.com/intl/en/googlebooks/about.html

http://books.google.com/googlebooks/agreement/

http://www.publishersweekly.com/article/CA6609308.html

14 November 2008: Study Abroad

Special Guest: Richard Bright.

7 November 2008: Analyzing Online Social Networks

Howard, B. 2008. Analyzing online social networks. Commun. ACM 51, 11 (Nov. 2008), 14-16. DOI=http://doi.acm.org/10.1145/1400214.1400220.

31 October 2008: E-Voting

Farivar, C. 2008. Clean elections. Commun. ACM 51, 10 (Oct. 2008), 16-18. DOI=http://doi.acm.org/10.1145/1400181.1400188.

Open Voting Consoritum Web Site: http://www.openvotingconsortium.org/.

17 October 2008: Casual Discussion

10 October 2008: Green Computing

Kurp, P. 2008. Green computing. Commun. ACM 51, 10 (Oct. 2008), 11-13. DOI= http://doi.acm.org/10.1145/1400181.1400186

Joseph Williams, Lewis Curtis, "Green: The New Computing Coat of Arms?," IT Professional, vol. 10, no. 1, pp. 12-16, January/February, 2008.

26 September 2008: Recently-Identified Flaws in DNS

A concise tentative description of the flaw

A longer description of the flaw

A comment on the controversy of the early release of comments about the flaw

19 September 2008: Random Number Generation

Park, S. K. and Miller, K. W. 1988. Random number generators: good ones are hard to find. Commun. ACM 31, 10 (Oct. 1988), 1192-1201. DOI=http://doi.acm.org/10.1145/63039.63042.

Stone, J. D. 1996. A portable random-number generator.

12 September 2008: Writing Correct Programs

Bentley, J. 1983. Programming pearls: Writing correct programs. Commun. ACM 26, 12 (Dec. 1983), 1040-1045. DOI=http://doi.acm.org/10.1145/358476.358484

9 September 2008: Distributed Mechanism Design

Varian, H. R. 2008. Designing the perfect auction. Commun. ACM 51, 8 (Aug. 2008), 9-11. DOI=http://doi.acm.org/10.1145/1378704.1378708

2 September 2008: Welcome to CS Table; Thoughts on CS Spaces