Browsing Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Lab (CSAIL) by Author "Abelson, Harold"

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    • Amorphous Computing 

      Abelson, Harold; Allen, Don; Coore, Daniel; Hanson, Chris; Homsy, George; e.a. (1999-08-29)
      Amorphous computing is the development of organizational principles and programming languages for obtaining coherent behaviors from the cooperation of myriads of unreliable parts that are interconnected in unknown, ...

    • Factors Affecting the Adoption of Faculty-Developed Academic Software: A Study of Five iCampus Projects 

      Ehrmann, Stephen C.; Gilbert, Steven W.; McMartin, Flora; Abelson, Harold; Long, Philip D. (2007-10-20)
      Instruction in higher education must adapt more rapidly to: changes in workforce needs, global issues, advances in disciplines, and resource constraints. The pace of such improvement depends on the speed with which new ...

    • Information Accountability 

      Weitzner, Daniel J.; Abelson, Harold; Berners-Lee, Tim; Feigenbaum, Joan; Hendler, James; e.a. (2007-06-13)
      Ease of information flow is both the boon and the bane of large-scale, decentralized systems like the World Wide Web. For all the benefits and opportunities brought by the information revolution, with that same revolution ...

    • Keys Under Doormats: Mandating insecurity by requiring government access to all data and communications 

      Abelson, Harold; Anderson, Ross; Bellovin, Steven M.; Benaloh, Josh; Blaze, Matt; e.a. (2015-07-06)
      Twenty years ago, law enforcement organizations lobbied to require data and communication services to engineer their products to guarantee law enforcement access to all data. After lengthy debate and vigorous predictions ...

    • The Supercomputer Toolkit: A General Framework for Special-purpose Computing 

      Abelson, Harold; Berlin, Andrew A.; Katzenelson, Jacob; McAllister, William H.; Rozas, Guillermo J.; e.a. (1991-11-01)
      The Toolkit is a family of hardware modules (processors, memory, interconnect, and input-output devices) and a collection of software modules (compilers, simulators, scientific libraries, and high-level front ends) from ...

    • Transparent Accountable Data Mining: New Strategies for Privacy Protection 

      Weitzner, Daniel J.; Abelson, Harold; Berners-Lee, Tim; Hanson, Chris; Hendler, James; e.a. (2006-01-27)
      Attempts to address issues of personal privacy in a world of computerized databases and information networks -- from security technology to data protection regulation to Fourth Amendment law jurisprudence -- typically ...