Vote for your favorite tech/computer/internet haiku!

Here are all the tech/computer/internet entries from the academic haiku contestPlease vote for your favorite by Monday night (Feb. 26). UPDATE: Voting is now in progress to choose the overall winner! Vote by 11:59 PM, Wednesday, February 28.

1.
Data hides in JPEG.
Eve can’t know; the oppressed speak,
Not just al Qaeda

“Odd-even histogram-preserving JPEG steganography”

2.
marsupial bot
kangaroolike behavior
now simulated

“Enabling Complex Behavior by Simulating Marsupial Actions”

3.
I am an expert.
I am man, you are woman.
I exaggerate.

“Differences in Actual and Perceived Online Skills: The Role of Gender”

4.
RSS, widgets,
Don’t know one from the other.
Average Web users.

“Wikis and Widgets: Differences in Young Adults’ Uses of the Internet”

5.
can’t spot the forest
from space, look in rain or sun?
check both: there it is!

“Mapping South Asian dry dipterocarp forest using dual season imagery”

6.
Ears against the ground
Shake the earth and listen close
Echoes share secrets

Seismic imaging

7.
careful scientist
watches the computers crash
all subjects depart

“Security and Morality: A Tale of User Deceit”

8.
Online, you trust who?
Are your friends wise, trustworthy?
Social browsing works.

“Net Trust”

9.
alice’s plaintext
proxy and delegatee
fear for collusion

“On Unidirectional Proxy Re-encryption Schemes”

4 comments ↓

#1 Crooked Timber » » Vote for your favorite academic haiku on 02.24.07 at 2:10 pm

[...] tech/computer/Internet haiku social science haiku humanities haiku physical science haiku [...]

#2 bob on 02.24.07 at 3:36 pm

Looks like nobody got the joke in 7
:-(

#3 …and Make It Short! at Jacob Christensen on 02.24.07 at 4:36 pm

[...] favourites: Humanities #4, Physical sciences #10, Social sciences #24, Tech/Computers/Internet [...]

#4 eszter on 02.25.07 at 12:34 pm

BoB, it doesn’t mean that, it just means that people may have appreciated some of the other entries more. It’s best not to make far-reaching conclusions based on a few votes, or even many votes depending on the conclusion.

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