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Analogizing the Internet of Things
Scott J. Shackelford
in The Internet of Things: What Everyone Needs to Know®
As any new frontier opens or industry matures, it’s natural to search for analogies and historical precedents to guide both our actions and perceptions. President Kennedy famously compared ...
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The Basics
Cassidy R. Sugimoto and Vincent Larivière
in Measuring Research: What Everyone Needs to Know®
What is this book about?
Research is a complex social activity. It is performed in a variety of environments by a wide array of actors, and includes many different activities. ...
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The Big Picture
Cassidy R. Sugimoto and Vincent Larivière
in Measuring Research: What Everyone Needs to Know®
Who controls research measurement?
Scholarship is often lauded as a public good—that is, a product that is expensive to hold exclusively and whose value does not lessen with ...
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Cyber-What?
Scott J. Shackelford
in The Internet of Things: What Everyone Needs to Know®
The Internet of Things (IoT) exists at the intersection of “cyberspace” and physical space, though the line between the two is increasingly blurry. As Nicholas Negroponte, founder of the ...
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The Data
Cassidy R. Sugimoto and Vincent Larivière
in Measuring Research: What Everyone Needs to Know®
What is a citation index?
A citation index is a bibliographic database that contains, in addition to basic metadata on information resources—such as authors, publication year, ...
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Governing the Internet of Things
Scott J. Shackelford
in The Internet of Things: What Everyone Needs to Know®
Beginning in 2020, smart devices sold in California that connect “directly or indirectly” to the public Internet have to be equipped with “reasonable” cybersecurity features such as a ...
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How Can We Do Better? Finding Cyber Peace in the Internet of Things
Scott J. Shackelford
in The Internet of Things: What Everyone Needs to Know®
Making predictions is generally a somewhat foolhardy endeavor, especially in a field as dynamic as the Internet of Things (IoT), but history can be a useful guide. After all, according to ...
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The Indicators
Cassidy R. Sugimoto and Vincent Larivière
in Measuring Research: What Everyone Needs to Know®
How is authorship defined and measured?
Authorship is at the heart of bibliometric indicators: It is authors, whose names and institutions appear on a document, who are measured. ...
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Protecting Privacy in an Internet of Everything
Scott J. Shackelford
in The Internet of Things: What Everyone Needs to Know®
As with security, concerns are replete over how best to scale privacy in the emerging Internet of Everything (IoE). How should we define “privacy” in an environment where our thermostats ...
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Securing Everything?: Deep Dives into Internet of Things Security
Scott J. Shackelford
in The Internet of Things: What Everyone Needs to Know®
Success sometimes has unexpected or counterproductive consequences. For example, as the makers of Kleenex, Q-Tip, and Band-Aid know, widespread success can cause a trademark to become ...
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Welcome to the Internet of Things
Scott J. Shackelford
in The Internet of Things: What Everyone Needs to Know®
New inventions often open the door to unanticipated impacts that are difficult to foresee as they interact with and influence the evolution of systems around them. Take tractors, for ...
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