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Lesk, Michael
Rutgers University
New Brunswick, New Jersey
 
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   Weapons of math destruction: how big data increases inequality and threatens democracy
O’Neil C., Crown Publishing Group, New York, NY, 2016. 272 pp.  Type: Book (978-0-553418-81-1), Reviews: (1 of 2)

It’s bad enough being afraid of clowns, but now it’s logistic regression that’s truly frightening....

Nov 2 2016  
  Digital publishing and China’s core scientific journals: a position paper
Cheng W., Ren S., Rousseau R. Scientometrics 98(1): 11-22, 2014.  Type: Article

This paper provides statistics on primary science journals published in China, emphasizing the 1100 online journals (out of 1800 total). In 2010, about a third of the journals were open access. The open-access journals have a higher im...

Aug 14 2015  
   Captive audience: the telecom industry and monopoly power in the new gilded age
Crawford S., Yale University Press, New Haven, CT, 2014. 368 pp.  Type: Book (978-0-300205-70-1)

Fifty years ago, we accepted that there were natural monopolies in telecommunications and that government regulation and anti-trust laws were the best ways to manage them. Unfortunately, that’s all gone. Susan Crawford...

Jul 17 2014  
   A large-scale study of the evolution of Web pages
Fetterly D., Manasse M., Najork M., Wiener J. Software--Practice & Experience 34(2): 213-237, 2004.  Type: Article

It is a commonplace observation that the Web changes rapidly; Cho and Garcia-Molina observed, in 2000, that 40 percent of Web pages changed weekly, and 23 percent of the pages in the “.com” domain changed daily [1]....

Jul 7 2004  
 
 
   
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