01/2013
VOL. 56 NO. 01
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Contributed Articles
Review Articles
50 Condos and Clouds
Constraints in an environment
empower the services.
By Pat Helland
60 Browser Security: Appearances
Can Be Deceiving
A discussion with
Jeremiah Grossman,
Ben Livshits, Rebecca Bace,
and George Neville-Neil.
68 The Web Won’t Be Safe or Secure
Until We Break It
Unless you have taken very particular
precautions, assume every website
you visit knows exactly who you are.
By Jeremiah Grossman
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COVER IllustRatIOn by alICIa KubIsta / andRIj bORys assOCIatEs
about the Cover:
Human mobility patterns
have long been studied
for urban planning, traffic
routing, and the spread
of viruses, among many
other reasons. today,
most humans travel
with cellphones making
valuable footprint data
available via cellular
networks. this month’s
cover story (p. 74) captures
the power in the patterns.
74 Human Mobility Characterization
from Cellular Network Data
Anonymous location data from
cellular phone networks sheds
light on how people move around
on a large scale.
By Richard Becker, Ramón Cáceres,
Karrie Hanson, Sibren Isaacman,
Ji Meng Loh, Margaret Martonosi,
James Rowland, Simon Urbanek,
Alexander Varshavsky,
and Chris Volinsky
83 Abstractions for Genomics
Large genomic databases
with interactive access require
new, layered abstractions,
including separating “evidence”
from “inference.”
By Vineet Bafna, Alin Deutsch,
Andrew Heiberg, Christos Kozanitis,
Lucila Ohno-Machado,
and George Varghese
94 Computer Security
and the Modern Home
A framework for evaluating security
risks associated with technologies
used at home.
By Tamara Denning, Tadayoshi Kohno,
and Henry M. Levy
Research Highlights
105 Technical Perspective
Visualization, Understanding,
and Design
By Doug DeCarlo and Matthew Stone
106 Illustrating How Mechanical
Assemblies Work
By Niloy J. Mitra, Yong-Liang Yang,
Dong-Ming Yan, Wilmot Li,
and Maneesh Agrawala
115 Technical Perspective
Finding People In Depth
By James M. Rehg
116 Real-Time Human Pose Recognition
in Parts from Single Depth Images
By Jamie Shotton, Toby Sharp,
Alex Kipman, Andrew Fitzgibbon,
Mark Finocchio, Andrew Blake,
Mat Cook, and Richard Moore
