American history does not lack political entrepreneurs who invented novel ways to manipulate the results of elections, from Tammany Hall in the 19th century to Richard Daley's Chicago Democratic ...

With the creation of centralized computerized databases of voter registrations mandated by the federal Help America Vote Act of 2002 (HAVA), many states have failed to institute necessary safeguards ...

In the science of data mining, analysts search databases of computerized records to find patterns and clusters of information that might not be apparent at first glance. The process -- used in ...

Common approaches to analyzing DNA from a community of microbes, called a microbiome, can yield erroneous results, in large part due to the incomplete databases used to identify microbial DNA ...

Part II, Chapters 6 through 10, presents five case studies in computing research. These case studies are not meant to be definitive histories of the fields they address; rather, they are intended to ...