Regular Papers
Volume 105, Issue 8 | August 2017
Papers
A Survey on Web Tracking: Mechanisms, Implications, and Defenses
By T. Bujlow, V. Carela-Espanol, J. Sole-Pareta, and P. Barlet-Ros
This article surveys different web tracking mechanisms and presents defense strategies for protecting against the same. Future trends in tracking mechanisms and the resulting potential threats to the users’ privacy are also discussed.
Relativistic Timekeeping, Motion, and Gravity in Distributed Systems
By D. G. Messerschmitt
This tutorial seeks to educate electrical engineers as well as physicists about special relativity for applications where relativistic effects become important.
Point of View
The Cognitive Dynamic System for Risk Control
By Simon Haykin
Scanning Our Past
Bertha Lamme and the Development of Practical Alternating Current Systems
By Joseph Cunningham
