Alex Ko

I do research in human-based computation, evolutionary computation, machine learning, collective intelligence
US warns on Java software as security concerns escalate - Technology on NBCNews.com - http://www.nbcnews.com/technol...
pHash.org: Home of pHash, the open source perceptual hash library - http://www.phash.org
Researchers say Yahoo Mail exploit still active, despite claim of being fixed - The Next Web - http://thenextweb.com/insider...
Muni is 100 years old. Too bad it won’t die like a human that age - http://pandodaily.com/2012...
Vitamin D receptor as a master regulator of the c-MYC/MXD1 network - http://www.pnas.org/content...
Civic Report 71 | The Great California Exodus: A Closer Look - http://www.manhattan-institute.org/html...
Become a Crime-Fighting Superhero in Your Spare Time | Wired Business | Wired.com - http://www.wired.com/busines...
University wins record $1.17 billion verdict against Marvell Semiconductor | Ars Technica - http://arstechnica.com/tech-po...
Are Universities Patent Trolls? by Mark Lemley :: SSRN - http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3...
Photographer Jason Tozer Turns Soap Bubbles into Mysterious, Colorful Planets | Colossal - http://www.thisiscolossal.com/2012...
Two-for-one: Amazon.com’s Socially Engineered Replacement Order Scam :: HTMList.com, A Web Development Blog by Synapse Studios - http://www.htmlist.com/rants...
Amazon, Advertising's Sleeping Giant, to Awaken in 2013 | Adweek - http://www.adweek.com/news...
Bullshit metrics | Down for the cause by Suhail Doshi - http://sufficientlyadvanced.net/bullshi...
Andreessen and Mixpanel Call for an End to - http://allthingsd.com/2012121...
Peter Thiel on The Future of Legal Technology - Notes Essay - http://blakemasters.tumblr.com/post...
Richard Stallman calls Ubuntu “spyware” because it tracks searches | Ars Technica - http://arstechnica.com/informa...
Rickshaw: A JavaScript toolkit for creating interactive time-series graphs - http://code.shutterstock.com/ricksha...
D3.js - Data-Driven Documents - http://d3js.org
Molly Rauch: Breathing Queasy: My Carcinogenic Couch - http://www.huffingtonpost.com/molly-r...
Passing a Language through the Eye of a Needle - ACM Queue - http://queue.acm.org/detail...
Higher education: Not what it used to be | The Economist - http://www.economist.com/news...
Khan Academy Founder Proposes a New Type of College - Wired Campus - The Chronicle of Higher Education - http://chronicle.com/blogs...
Dell releases powerful, well-supported Linux Ultrabook | Ars Technica - http://arstechnica.com/gadgets...
Org mode for Emacs – Talks and presentations - http://orgmode.org/talks.html
Boskin and Cogan: California's Greek Tragedy - WSJ.com - http://online.wsj.com/article...
“Your criticisms are completely wrong”: Stallman on software patents, 20 years in | Ars Technica - http://arstechnica.com/tech-po...
Inspired by a beetle that draws water from the air, scientist creates self-filling water bottle - The Next Web - http://thenextweb.com/shareab...
EmTech Preview: Another Way to Think about Learning | MIT Technology Review - http://www.technologyreview.com/view...
Harvard Society of Fellows - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki...
They Cracked This 250 Year-Old Code, And Found a Secret Society Inside | Danger Room | Wired.com - http://www.wired.com/dangerr...