CS 111, Fundamentals of Programming I (Stough)

Computing is Everywhere!

Computer science has had a far-reaching impact on many disciplines and on society in general.  Below are links to articles on these issues.  As interest dictates, we will discuss in class.  Submit your thoughts tothe 'articles' folder on Piazza and voice your opinions!

(Originally curated by Dr. Sara Sprenkle principally.)

Also be sure to check out http://slashdot.org/ for the latest news for nerds!

• Computing and Privacy:
• Ephemeral Data (like Snapchat, Gryphn) and the future
  
• NSA weakens encryption standards  
• NSA Able to Foil Basic Safeguards of Privacy on Web 
• A whistleblower's guide to leaking to the press
  
• Computer Science and Policy:
• Computer Scientists to Congress: Don't Tell Colleges to Install Filters on Networks
• What do they have on YOU?  A Data Broker Offers a Peek Behind the Curtain
• the effect of the Internet
  
• (Four Puzzles from Cyberspace, an excerpt from Codev2 by Lawrence Lessig
  
• "Why you can't cite Wikipedia in my class" HTML, PDF) 
  
• Google Competitor to Wikipedia 
• Google settles suit over book scanning
• Computing and education
  • Wii bit of fun at Rice University has serious intent
• Computers and Medicine
  • Computers Key to Fighting Medicare Fraud
  • Computers 'spot Alzheimer's fast'
  • Engineers harness cell phone technology for use in medical imaging
  • Supercomputer 'virtual human' to help fight disease
  • Design of Patient Tracking Tools May Have Unintended Consequences
  • Computing for Good: Web technology to solve human problems - focusing on a web application for managing the blood supply in Africa
• Digital divide
  • Techies volunteering to save the world
• Computing and the environment

  Sensor Networks for Environmental Monitoring

  • ZebraNet overview, article
  • Volcano Monitoring, paper

  Applying graphs to social networks of zebras

  Green computing

  • Internet Helps Americans Save More Energy Every Year
  • Could smart traffic lights stop motorists fuming?
• Volunteer computing
  • PS3 network enters record books
• Computing and the sciences
  • ...Error. Why scientific programming does not compute.
  • Cellphone Crime Solvers
  • Solving the Oil Equation
• Electronic voting
  • Voting with (Little) Confidence
  • The Risks of Electronic Voting (requires ACM Digital Library access)
  • Princeton Scientists Create Vote-Stealing Program
• Diversity in computing
  • Patenting the Co-ed Code
  • Black IT Employment
  • Five Myths about Girls and Science
  • Alan Turing - the founder of computer science, cracked the German Engima code in WWII, a gay man
  • Grace Hopper (her bug) and conferences celebrating women and diversity in computing
• Bugs!
  • Using Google Maps? What You See May or May Not Exist -- read linked articles about the issues
  • History's Worst Software Bugs
  • A Bug and a Crash
• Net Neutrality
  • Google Wants Its Own Fast Track on the Web
• Computing and entertainment
  • Movie Magic Conjured by Science
  • The Making of The Beatles: Rock Band
  • If you like U2, you'll like ... Metallica?
  • Satellite TV Soccer Moms Will Hate
  • Eye-tracking game hides baddies in plain view
  • Privacy Issues in Facebook
  • More Privacy Issues in Facebook
• Digital Humanities
  • A Data Deluge Swamps Science Historians
• And more...
  • Twitter, Facebook, and Social Activism
  • Accidental Algorithms
  • If looks could kill
  • Brown Scientists Create Program To Calculate Body Shape
  • Car Key Jams Teen Drivers' Cell Phones
  • Your World View Doesn't Compute