The combination of data, semantics, and the Web has led to an ever growing and increasingly complex body of semantic data. Accessing such structured data requires learning formal query languages, such as SPARQL, which poses significant difficulties for non-expert users. Many existing interfaces for querying Ontologies are based on approaches that rely on predefined templates and require expensi...

This paper describes a set of experiments we conducted to answer the question: just how prevalent is Internet interception? That is, if we sent our most sensitive information (bank information, passwords, etc.) in the clear, should we expect to regret it? For a little over a year, we sent different types of Internet traffic over unencrypted channels between multiple clients and servers located ...

Shipping, central to the rise of Atlantic economies, was an extremely hazardous activity. Between 1780s and 1820s, a safety revolution occurred that saw shipping losses insurance rates on oceanic routes almost halved thanks steady improvements in shipbuilding navigation. Copper sheathing, iron reinforcing, flush decks were major innovations shipbuilding. Navigation improved, not through chronom...

The loss of California population to domestic migration has undergone significant changes over the last fifteen years. While traditionally the outflow has been seen as "white or middle class flight," recently a new underlying dynamic has begun to assert itself: Hispanic out-migration. Having spent some time in California, both newly-arrived and later generation Hispanics are subsequently migrat...

People tend to judge themselves as exhibiting above average levels of desirable traits-including competence, kindness, and life satisfaction-but does this self-enhancement extend to emotional responses? Here, we explore this question by having people attribute emotions to themselves and others following simple gambles. We demonstrate that people display an emotional self-enhancement bias that v...