Computers and humans combine

Read "Machines to match man by 2029":

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/7248875.stm

Green Computing

Read "Internet Helps Americans Save More Energy Every Year:"

http://www.csmonitor.com/2008/0213/p04s01-usgn.html

Computing for Good

Read "Computing for Good: Web Technology to Solve Human Problems":


http://www.networkworld.com/news/2008/121108-computing-for-good.html

Facebook and Privacy

Read "A Flashy Facebook Page, at a Cost to Privacy."

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/06/11/AR2008061103759.html

Siftables

Read "When Computing Becomes Child's Play":

http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg20126965.400-when-computing-becomes-childs-play.html

One Laptop Per Child

Read "One Laptop Per Child Ready for version 2.0"

http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn16304-one-laptop-per-child-ready-for-version-20.html

New Digital Cities

Read

"Foxconn plans billion-dollar high-tech city"
http://www.nytimes.com/external/idg/2009/03/04/04idg-Foxconn-plans-b.html

and also:

"Work underway in Songdo City"

http://archrecord.construction.com/news/daily/archives/090204korea.asp

Fuzzy Logic and Clean Water

Read "Broad Analysis of Pollutants Using Fuzzy Logic Could Guide Water Quality Improvement":

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/04/080417095919.htm

Excel Bug

Read both:

"A big Excel boo boo" (very short)

http://pogue.blogs.nytimes.com/2007/09/27/a-big-excel-boo-boo/

and Joel on Software explaining the bug:

http://joelonsoftware.com/items/2007/09/26b.html

Why I like these articles

• students talk about what bugs matter (and the very different perspectives in the articles)
• students like to hear that binary is not just theoretical, it actually comes up in an application they use
• they discuss the difficulty and importance of testing 

Nanotech Memory

"Terabyte Thumb Drives Made Possible by Nanotech Memory"
http://www.wired.com/gadgets/miscellaneous/news/2007/10/ion_memory

Digital Rights Bill

"The Making of a Policy Gadfly"
http://chronicle.com/free/v49/i14/14a02701.htm