XRDS, Volume 21

Volume 21, Number 1, Fall 2014

Letter from the editors

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  Inbal Talgam-Cohen, Sean Follmer:
  Do no evil in research. 5-6

Inbox

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  Diverse responses to our diversty issue. 7

INIT

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  Adrian Scoica, Daniel Bauer:
  New directions in language processing. 8-9

Milestones

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  Jay Patel:
  Technology for talking. 9

Updates

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  Claudia Schulz:
  From zero to excellence. 10

Advice

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  Oded Green, Yoav Green:
  A call for passion. 11

Careers

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  Farnaz Ronaghi:
  Successfully transitioning from academia to entrepreneurship. 12-13

Blogs

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  Maria Kechagia:
  Why to get involved in the open source community? 14-15
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  Olivia Simpson:
  The geometric origins of spectral graph theory. 15-17

Features

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  Percy Liang:
  Talking to computers in natural language. 18-21
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  Mariano Felice, Zheng Yuan:
  To err is human, to correct is divine. 22-27
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  Per Ola Kristensson:
  From wax tablets to touchscreens: an introduction to text-entry research. 28-33
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  Terhi Nurmikko-Fuller:
  Ancient Sumerian online: challenges and opportunities. 34-39
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  Sara Rosenthal:
  Detecting influencers in social media discussions. 40-45
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  Pierre Lison, Raveesh Meena:
  Spoken dialogue systems: the new frontier in human-computer interaction. 46-51
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  Heba Elfardy, Mohamed Al-Badrashiny, Mona T. Diab:
  A hybrid system for code switch point detection in informal Arabic text. 52-57
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  Daniel Bauer, Billy Rathje:
  Miriam Plieninger on language learning with Babbel. 58-59
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  Adrian Scoica:
  Profile Geoffrey Hinton: unlocking the language of the brain. 60-61

Labz

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  Georgios Kontonatsios, Matt Shardlow:
  National Centre for Text Mining (NaCTeM): Manchester, United Kingdom. 62-63

Back

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  Finn Kuusisto:
  Speech synthesis. 63

Hello world

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  Marinka Zitnik:
  Dynamics of news from the New York Times. 64-66

Volume 21, Number 2, Winter 2014

Health Informatics
Letter from the editors

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  Sean Follmer, Inbal Talgam-Cohen:
  A shrimp's tale: why we need to fund research. 5-6

Inbox

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  On the NLP issue. 7

INIT

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  Diana Lynn MacLean:
  Health 2.0: the digital health revolution. 8

Advice

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  Numair Khan:
  The essentials of a computer scientist's toolkit. 9

Updates

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  Claudia Schulz:
  Staying in touch: how print and digital media can further student chapter outreach. 10-11

Milestones

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  Jay Patel:
  Vital technology. 11

Careers

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  Dean Jackson, Taliver Heath:
  An antidote to impostor syndrome. 12-13

Blogs

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  Wolfgang Richter:
  My $300 home cloud server: a story of blood, sweat, and eBay. 14-17

Features

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  Diana Lynn MacLean:
  Gathering people to gather data. 18-22
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  Munmun De Choudhury:
  Opportunities of social media in health and well-being. 23-27
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  Fay Cobb Payton, KaMar Galloway:
  Here comes the #engagement: A serious health initiative made trendy. 28-31
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  Matthew Kay:
  Challenges in personal health tracking: the data isn't enough. 32-37
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  Matthew L. Lee:
  Did I take my meds today? 38-43
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  Megan Monroe:
  Seeing is believing. 44-47
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  Sinziana Mazilu, Gerhard Tröster:
  Wearable technologies: One step closer to gait rehabilitation in Parkinson's patients. 48-53
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  Adrian Scoica:
  Profile: Trevor van MierloThe story of building a startup in health informatics. 54-55

Labz

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  Suranga Nath Kasthurirathne:
  The Regenstrief global health informatics group: Indianapolis, Indiana. 56-57

Back

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  Finn Kuusisto:
  Radiography. 57

Hello world

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  Marinka Zitnik:
  The anatomy of a human disease network. 58-60

Volume 21, Number 3, Spring 2015

Cryptography
Letter from the editors

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  Sean Follmer:
  Stay weird, stay different. 5-6

Inbox

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  Inbox. 7

INIT

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  Shashank Agrawal:
  Alice and Bob in the new world. 8-9

Updates

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  Claudia Schulz:
  ACM-W chapters at home and abroad: An initiative on women, not of women. 10-11

Milestones

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  Jay Patel:
  Chronicling ciphers. 11

Advice

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  Vaggelis Giannikas:
  The Ph.D. journey: tips from somebody who managed to defend his thesis. 12

Careers

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  Janet Davis, Jeannie Albrecht, Christine Alvarado, Tzu-Yi Chen, Amy Csizmar Dalal, Sohie Lee:
  Computer science faculty careers at liberal arts colleges. 13-15

Blogs

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  Maria Kechagia:
  Exception handling evaluation of large APIs. 16-17
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  Dimitris Mitropoulos:
  On the evolution of security bugs. 18-19

Features

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  Shashank Agrawal, Billy Rathje:
  Kristin Lauter on Cryptography and Mathematics. 20-22
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  David J. Wu:
  Fully Homomorphic Encryption: Cryptography's holy grail. 24-29
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  Seny Kamara:
  Encrypted Search. 30-34
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  Mike Rosulek:
  Secure Your Data and Compute on It, Too. 36-41
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  Jason R. C. Nurse:
  Exploring the Risks to Identity Security and Privacy in Cyberspace. 42-47
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  Michael Smith:
  The Wrens of Bletchley Park. 48-53
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  Adrian Scoica:
  Ian Pratt: Pioneering security through virtualization. 54-55

Labz

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  Luke Garratt:
  Cyber security centre: University of Oxford, United Kingdom. 56-57

Back

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  Finn Kuusisto:
  Ancient and modern cryptography. 57

Hello world

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  Tomaz Hocevar:
  Counting stars: pattern counting in networks. 58-59

Volume 21, Number 4, Summer 2015

Computational Biology
Letter from the editors

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  Inbal Talgam-Cohen:
  Crossing boundaries. 5-7

INIT

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  Cristina Pop:
  A tale of two cells. 9-10

Advice

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  Marius Tudor Benea:
  Tips for writing a good scientific paper. 11

Updates

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  Claudia Schulz:
  A community for learning. 12-13

Milestones

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  Jay Patel:
  Biological backstory. 13

Careers

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  William Cox, Mike Freenor:
  A fleeting sense of security: or security as a science (and how to make your boss understand). 14-15

Blogs

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  Fahad Khalid:
  Dependence and parallelization: how automated tools determine the parallelizability of a loop. 16-19

Features

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  Cristina Pop, Billy Rathje:
  An interview with the director of biomedical informatics at Stanford. 20-23
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  Christoph Lippert, David Heckerman:
  Computational and statistical issues in personalized medicine. 24-27
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  Marina Sirota, Bin Chen:
  Fighting disease with data. 28-33
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  Narges Razavian:
  Advancing the frontier of data-driven healthcare. 34-37
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  Malay Bhattacharyya:
  Disease dietomics. 38-44
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  Cristina Pop:
  A conversation with Vijay Pande. 45-47
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  Adam A. Smith:
  Hidden Markov models and mouse ultrasonic vocalizations. 48-53
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  Karen Sachs, Tiffany Chen:
  Big data comes in tiny packages: single-cell driven science and health. 54-59
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  Sarah Aerni, Hulya Farinas, Gautam S. Muralidhar:
  Digital drivers in the age of massive datasets. 60-66
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  Adrian Scoica:
  Profile Sriram Kosuri: Never mind the cloud, back up your selfies to DNA. 68-69

Labz

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  Sam Abujudeh:
  Cancer Research UK Cambridge Institute: University of Cambridge, United Kingdom. 70-71

Back

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  Finn Kuusisto:
  Gene expression profiling. 71

Hello world

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  Marinka Zitnik:
  Hidden genes: understanding cancer data with matrix factorization. 72-74