Facebook vs Typosquatters

Legal issues concerning registering domain names that are basically typos of known domain names, e.g., facebbok.com.  The Facebook case.

Mining Books to Map Emotions through a Century

Mining Books To Map Emotions Through A Century

• Ask questions about the importance of the context of the words

Social Media used for Tracking Tornadoes

Researchers using social media to track tornado debris

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"

One Laptop Per Child

One Laptop Per Child released an inexpensive laptop, now tablet.

Read BOTH:

• Given Tablets but No Teachers, Ethiopian Children Teach Themselves
•  The Failure of One Laptop Per Child  

Note the publication date for each article.


OPTIONAL Background: A story about the original laptop, before its release in 2007

 Discussion about the pros and cons of the technology, the challenges, and solutions.

Facebook's Algorithms

The last article I had was from 2007.  This article is from Nov 2012:
News Feed, EdgeRank and page posts: what’s really going on with Facebook?

To discuss with class

• How are some of the algorithms implemented?
• What are some of the non-technical challenges that Facebook faces?  How do they attempt to balance the solutions to these challenges?

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.