Actor John C. Reilly talks on a cell phone while attending Game 1 of the NBA Western Conference final playoff series in Los Angeles, May 17, 2010. The American Civil Liberties Union, which is ...

More information: Chenhao Zhang et al, ICCG: low-cost and efficient consistency with adaptive synchronization for metadata replication, Frontiers of Computer Science (2024). DOI: 10.1007/s11704 ...

Metadata collection for the masses Not long after Snowden outed the NSA, President Obama asked the National Academy of Sciences to convene a panel of 13 computer security experts.

Metadata is the key to keeping track of all this unstructured scientific data. It is “data about data.” In the case of scientific data, it is structured data (written in a prescribed schema or order) ...

The U.S. government has been collecting phone records on all Verizon customers since at least April, and probably longer. Defenders of the surveillance program say it doesn't breach privacy ...

Computer science education will probably focus less on coding and more on computational thinking and A.I. literacy, said Mary Lou Maher, a director of the Computing Research ...

On Monday Edward W. Felten, a professor of computer science and Director of Princeton's Center for Information Technology Policy (CITP), argued that the NSA is building a database that could ...