With the advent of smart homes, smart cities, and smart everything, the Internet of Things
(IoT) has emerged as an area of incredible impact, potential, and growth, with Cisco Inc …

The rise of social bots Page 1 96 COMMUNICATIONS OF THE ACM | JULY 2016 | VOL. 59 |
NO. 7 review articles ILL US TRA TION B Y ARN0 DOI:10.1145/2818717 Today’s social bots …

Abstract Internet of Things (IoT) is one of the most promising technologies that aims to
enhance humans' quality of life (QoL). IoT plays a significant role in several fields such as …

Increasing evidence suggests that a growing amount of social media content is generated
by autonomous entities known as social bots. In this work we present a framework to detect …

The problem of detecting bots, automated social media accounts governed by software but
disguising as human users, has strong implications. For example, bots have been used to …

The core technical component of blockchains is consensus: how to reach agreement among
a distributed network of nodes. A plethora of blockchain consensus protocols have been …

Social engineering has emerged as a serious threat in virtual communities and is an
effective means to attack information systems. The services used by today's knowledge …

This paper presents Prio, a privacy-preserving system for the collection of aggregate
statistics. Each Prio client holds a private data value (eg, its current location), and a small set …

Artificial intelligence (AI) research and regulation seek to balance the benefits of innovation
against any potential harms and disruption. However, one unintended consequence of the …

Amid widespread reports of digital influence operations during major elections,
policymakers, scholars, and journalists have become increasingly interested in the political …