Blog do Prof. Palazzo

Dear colleague,

One of my grad students is conducting a field research on social networks.

For his dissertation he’s built a Facebook Application, entitled Privacy Study, which intends to measure user privacy awareness. I’d be glad and it’d of great help if you could install the application and maybe share it with some people from your network. The whole process only takes a few clicks. Some prizes will also be raffled off among the participants, such as: one iPod Touch of the forthcoming generation and 5 digital copies of the game Starcraft II.

Here’s the link to the application:
http://www.facebook.com/apps/application.php?id=144781782200917

And also the link for you to help promote the study:  http://www.theprivacystudy.org

Thank you in advance.

Sincerely yours,

– Virgílio A. F. Almeida

Este artigo publicado na CACM precisa ser lido. Trata de assunto relevante: a importância da simulação digital e do processamento de sistemas de equações complexos bem como de grandes volumes de dados para a ciência.

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Communications of the ACM
Volume 53, Number 9 (2010), Pages 5-5

Science has only two legs
Moshe Y. Vardi

Science has been growing new legs of late. The traditional “legs” (or “pillars”) of the scientific method were theory and experimentation. That was then. In 2005, for example, the U.S. Presidential Information Technology Advisory Committee issued a report, “Computational Science: Ensuring America’s Competitiveness,” stating: “Together with theory and experimentation, computational science now constitutes the ‘third pillar’ of scientific inquiry, enabling researchers to build and test models of complex phenomena.” The report offered examples such as multi-century climate shifts, multidimensional flight stresses on aircraft, and stellar explosions.

DOI: http://doi.acm.org/10.1145/1810891.1810892