Regulations trump convenience

Does Security Trump Reliability?

D oes security trump reliability, or vice versa? In 2013, the Seventh International Conference on Software Security and Reliability (SERE) in Gaithersburg, Maryland, hosted a panel discussion with representation from industry, academia, and government to answer this question. Neither the panelists nor anyone in the audience took a firm stance. Rather, the discussion meandered from the original ...

Why confessions trump innocence.

As illustrated by the story of Amanda Knox and many others wrongfully convicted, false confessions often trump factual innocence. Focusing on consequences, recent research suggests that confessions are powerfully persuasive as a matter of logic and common sense; that many false confessions contain richly detailed narratives and accurate crime facts that appear to betray guilty knowledge; and th...

Convenience Sampling

Convenience Sampling

The convenience of tilings

Tiling problems provide for a very simple and transparent mechanism for encod ing machine computations This gives rise to rather simple master reductions showing various versions of the tiling problem complete for various complexity classes We in vestigate the potential for using these tiling problems in subsequent reductions showing hardness of the combinatorial problems that really matter We ...