CSEE professor Tim Finin has been appointed as a co-editor of the Viewpoints section of the Communications of the ACM, the monthly magazine of the Association for Computing Machinery. ACM was...
As we celebrate Martin Luther King Jr. Day, check out UMBC’s online exhibit “For All the World to See,” which focuses on the civil rights movement. For All the World to See: Visual Culture and the...
Workaholism is often confused with hard work. Some people who work on the Web seem not only to disregard its dangers, but to actively promote it. They see it as a badge of honor—but is it...
If you’re anything like me, you spend a lot of time studying other designers’ work. I like to look at projects for the experience and the interactions created for the users. Obviously, as more...
Sports, we like to believe, remains the one true unifier. If we can’t bridge differences in politics, religion, or nationality, we can at least enjoy the pure spirit of...
Online phone-call tools have made it easy for swindlers to dupe victims out of valuable personal information or to overwhelm phone systems for essential public services like hospitals.
When you think about LEGO toys, what do you imagine? Is it LEGO City, Bionicles and Hogwarts Castle or the Millennium Falcon? Fun for all kinds, Right? In recent years, LEGO has delved away...
The announcement last week that Google was paying $3 billion to acquire Nest, a maker of Internet-connected home products, put a sort of Good Housekeeping seal of approval on this nascent market....