Project Bangla Pi: Why I Care about Affordable Computing

Project Bangla Pi: Why I Care about Affordable Computing

A story from a senior at Harvard.

The Future of Crime Prevention: Big Data

The Future of Crime Prevention

An Urban Reality: Smart Cities

An Urban Reality: Smart Cities

A variety of technologies/ideas in 5 cities across the globe are discussed.  Opportunities for students to look into the technologies more deeply.

Emergency Alert Study Reveals Metadata’s Better Side

Emergency Alert Study Reveals Metadata’s Better Side

An interesting counterpoint to what students have learned about PRISM.  Could generate interesting discussion.

Computing and Gun Violence

What a hot topic to discuss!

• Viewpoint Can Computer Professionals and Digital Technology Engineers Help Reduce Gun Violence?  -- from Communications of ACM
• Can 'Smart Gun' Technology Help Prevent Violence? - from NPR's "All Things Considered"

Some articles about electronic voting

• Election hacked, drunken robot elected to school board Experts warn e-voting systems decades away from security

•  Could e-voting machines in Election 2012 be hacked? Yes.

Computer Science's Sputnik Moment

From the New York Times: Computer Science's Sputnik Moment? I had the students read the overview and three opinions and say which they agreed with and which they didn't. The opinions give students a variety of perspectives and things to think about. I was a little surprised by how interesting the students found this, since the articles were "just" opinions.

SOPA and PIPA

Forbes: What are SOPA and PIPA and Why All the Fuss?

Internet Search and Politics

Santorum asks Google to change its search results

Why I Like This Article:

• very relevant to students' lives
• questions about how Google's search algorithm works
• discussion of the power/impact of a search engine