ADOÇÃO INTUITU PERSONAE

Mobile Computing Personae

Highly portable, powerful computers with wireless connections will radically change the way people think about and use computing. No longer will users limit their computations to a single machine; rather, they will use the machines that best suit their current needs. A user’s environment, which we call the computing persona, cannot continue to be redefined on each machine. Rather, as people mov...

Realizing Mobile Computing Personae

The proliferation of computers has made it possible to do computer-related tasks in many places. At each place a user works, he or she runs applications, specifies preferences for them, and is allowed to access resources and files according to local rules. These elements, together with the nameto-resource mappings, can be referred to as a user’s computing persona. Currently, an implicit persona...

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Inspired by round-the-clock manufacturing, the 24-Hour Knowledge Factory endeavors to transform the production of software and other intangibles into a process of continuous development. While the concept of offshore software development is well established, few enterprises are currently able to develop the same code artifacts around the clock. We discuss the benefits of applying the 24Hour Kno...

Objectivity, Collective Sight, and Scientific Personae

Are On-Line Personae Really Unlinkable?

More and more personal information is available digitally, both collected by organisations and published by individuals. People may attempt to protect their privacy by avoiding to provide uniquely identifying information and by providing different information in different places; however, in many cases, such profiles can still be de-anonymised. Techniques from the record linkage literature can ...