My Instant Expert

Expert and Non-Expert Attitudes towards (Secure) Instant Messaging

In this paper, we present results from an online survey with 1,510 participants and an interview study with 31 participants on (secure) mobile instant messaging. Our goal was to uncover how much of a role security and privacy played in people’s decisions to use a mobile instant messenger. In the interview study, we recruited a balanced sample of ITsecurity experts and non-experts, as well as an...

Prototypical Knowledge for Expert Systems: A Retrospective Analysis

The article, "Prototypical knowledge for expert systems" [1 ], published in 1983, was a summarization of my dissertation research at Stanford University in the late 1970s. This was the era of the first rule-based expert systems--MYCIN, Meta-DENDRAL, PUFF, and others from Stanford, and the early frame systems from MIT, such as PIP and NUDGE. I remember being intrigued by the simplicity of the ru...

INTELLIGENCE Linda Gottfredson INSTANT EXPERT 13

Securing Web Communications

On my honor as a University student, on this assignment I have neither given nor received unauthorized aid as defined by the Honor Guidelines for Papers in TCC Courses. Preface Succinctly stated, this thesis works towards securing regular web communications such as instant messaging and file sharing. One might ask, is this an exercise in futility? Who is going to spy on instant messaging conver...

Logic of Non-monotonic Interactive Proofs

We propose a monotonic logic of internalised non-monotonic or instant interactive proofs (LiiP) and reconstruct an existing monotonic logic of internalised monotonic or persistent interactive proofs (LiP) as a minimal conservative extension of LiiP. Instant interactive proofs effect a fragile epistemic impact in their intended communities of peer reviewers that consists in the impermanent induc...