Researchers fear web information will prompt attacks

Where Researchers Fear to Tread:

Information Assurance: Detection of Web Spam Attacks in Social Media

As online social media applications continue to gain its popularity, concerns about the rapid proliferation of Web spam has grown in recent years. These applications allow spammers to submit links anonymously, diverting unsuspected users to spam Web sites. This paper presents a novel co-classification framework to simultaneously detect Web spam and spammers in social media Web sites based on th...

Will the Web break?

What is the Web? What makes it work? And is it dying? This paper is drawn from a talk delivered by Prof. Zittrain to the Royal Society Discussion Meeting 'Web science: a new frontier' in September 2010. It covers key questions about the way the Web works, and how an understanding of its past can help those theorizing about the future. The original Web allowed users to display and send informati...

Will the Web Vanish?

I t's sometimes argued that certain technologies become so pervasive that they " disappear. " We no longer agonize over what kind of electricity to supply to our house, via what kind of wires, from what kind of dynamo, and which sockets to install. It's standardized and all we see are the appliances that consume the electricity. Here, we're going to take a much narrower view of this question th...

Can cancer researchers accurately judge whether preclinical reports will reproduce?

There is vigorous debate about the reproducibility of research findings in cancer biology. Whether scientists can accurately assess which experiments will reproduce original findings is important to determining the pace at which science self-corrects. We collected forecasts from basic and preclinical cancer researchers on the first 6 replication studies conducted by the Reproducibility Project:...