Industry has recognized that creating secure systems requires incorporating security concepts throughout the software development lifecycle. A similar effort is required in education, integrating security best practices and risk management into the curriculum. At Towson University, we are developing and implementing a model to thread security throughout our computer science curriculum. Key to o...

We examine BACKCHANNEL-INVITING CUES — distinct prosodic, acoustic and lexical events in the speaker’s speech that tend to precede a short response produced by the interlocutor to convey continued attention— in the Columbia Games Corpus, a large corpus of task-oriented dialogues. We show that the likelihood of occurrence of a backchannel increases quadratically with the number of cues conjointl...

We review one recent approach to the equity premium puzzle. The key elements of this approach are loss aversion and narrow framing, two well-known features of decisionmaking under risk in experimental settings. In equilibrium, models that incorporate these ideas can generate a large equity premium and a low and stable risk-free rate, even when consumption growth is smooth and only weakly correl...

Objective evaluation and comparison of knowledge-based tools has so far been mostly an elusive goal for researchers and developers. Objective experiments are difficult to perform and require substantial resources. The EON Ontology Alignment Contest attempts to overcome these problems in inviting tool developers to perform a series of experiments in ontology alignment and compare their results t...