Monthly Archives: March 2009

UCL Election Round 2: Speak Now or Forever Hold your Peace

Posted on March 19, 2009 by ben

The second round of the UCL Election just wrapped up. The cast votes have been recorded, and here are their fingerprints in PDF form. If you have a problem with the way the election was run, for example if you … Continue reading →

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Disturbing Apple Trends

Posted on March 16, 2009 by ben

I’ve long been an Apple fan. It is somewhat dissonant with my strong attachment to open-source/free software, but I’ve learned to live with it because I am significantly more productive on Mac OS than on Linux, and I still have … Continue reading →

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Open-Audit Voting means a Single Vote Counts

Posted on March 6, 2009 by ben

After an incredibly long and busy week of work for my colleagues Olivier Pereira and Olivier de Marneffe, the UCL election, based on Helios, has been verified and tallied. The trustees arrived earlier today and successfully decrypted the result. Students … Continue reading →

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The Beautiful Magic of Cryptography

Posted on March 4, 2009 by ben

An election just wrapped up a few hours hours ago [public radio, le soir, RTL info]. The encrypted votes are stored in a redundant database, tied to each voter’s identifier, signed by the voting system, and available to all election … Continue reading →

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Luis von Ahn: make academic reviews public

Posted on March 1, 2009 by ben

Yes! Luis von Ahn says that academic paper reviews should be public (they can remain anonymous.) I agree. I’d go further than Luis. For most computer science conferences, there is no feedback loop. Want to trash a paper? Write a … Continue reading →

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