This paper offers a brief history of the information age in order to demonstrate how the loss of user control and the increase in certain forms of automation have metastasized into imminent and ongoing threats to social order and the democratic way of ...

The internet was introduced to connect computers and allow communication between these computers. It evolved to provide applications such as email, talk and file sharing with the associated system to search. The files were made available, freely, by ...

This year marks the silver anniversary of IDEAS. It has been an exciting quarter century to shepherd this meeting through good times and not so good ones. We have survived Ebola, MERS and SARS. Whereas the others were local, the COVID pandemic, which ...

The internet was supposed to be an interconnection of independent distributed computer and information systems; the web was formally introduced in 1994 at the first conference now known as WWW1 in Geneva, It was supposed to make easier access to a trove ...

Having been an observer and user of computing devices from slide rules, analog computers, early monstrous digital machines, to sleek, hand held digital ones: seeing the shift of the computing and data 'ownership' paradigms over the last six decades one ...

This paper raises the privacy issues related to information that is accessible about individuals from their mobile devices and that which is collected when they interact with and use so called "free" services provided on the web. The importance of ...

The web was ushered in with great expectations, formally in May 1994, in a conference called World Wide Web I, This event, in hindsight, is sometimes referred to as the Woodstock of the web. The web and Mosaic, the graphical browser, which was announced ...

Internet of things (IoT) is the current trend to connect all types of devices to the internet with the purpose of making remote control of these devices possible from anywhere. This allows for convenience, efficiency and the benefit of collecting data ...

This panel critically examines the state of data: how its growth and ubiquity have confronted the computer science and particularly the database community, with new challenges. These challenges require practitioners and teachers to learn new skills and ...

We are currently experiencing an extraordinary acceleration in the growth rate of digital data. One of the reasons for this increase is the digitization of virtually all communications and records. This exponential growth is evidenced by the fact that ...