Microcomputer Applications for Business and Economics
CGS 2100
Fall 2014
Notes for Chapter 10: The Basics of Networking
Assignment Submission and Verification
Photograph of class material package
2014-09-02: Some of you have written to ask about purchasing a standalone access card to the online Pearson student materials. I believe that there is a link here for a standalone access card; but I would strongly recommend contacting Pearson to see if what you want is included in this product before you order it.
2014-09-02: Additional web resources from Pearson are available at http://wps.prenhall.com/bp_beekman_tomtech_10/183/46879/12001253.cw/index.html.
In The News: Edward Snowden
2013-08-26: The Guardian's NSA Files collection of articles (also related, The Guardian's general NSA keyword articles)
2013-08-26: They Know Much More Than You Think
2013-08-27: Snowden Interview
2014-08-28: An Open Letter from US Researchers in Cryptography and Information Security
2014-08-28: NSA and the Snowden Issues
2014-09-11: Mathematicians Discuss the Snowden Revelations
Technology in our lives
2013-06-25: FEMA Cyberattack advice webpage
2013-07-13: Your Facebook Friends May Be Evil Bots
2013-07-18: Nations Buying as Hackers Sell Flaws in Computer Code
2013-07-18: Stuxnet (Wikipedia)
2013-07-18: DHS Eyes Sharing Zero-Day Intelligence With Businesses
2013-07-22: FBI Cyber-crime news archive
2013-07-22: Getting the message, at last
2013-07-22: Messages from the past
2013-07-24: The Coming Push to Open Source Everything
2013-08-27: Firefox Security and Privacy Add-ons
2014-01-22: What Secrets Your Phone Is Sharing About You
2014-01-23: 4 Ways to Keep Hackers Out of Your Refrigerator
2014-01-23: Food that texts 'eat me' could be on way, minister told
2014-01-28: BeWifi lets you steal your neighbor's bandwidth when they're not using it
2014-02-06: We Need to Re-decentralize The Web
2014-03-18: Who Needs to Know How to Code?
2014-08-27: Anti-spy technology remains hot a year after NSA leaks
2014-08-28: Nigeria launches national electronic ID cards
2014-09-03: Hackers Divert Sony Exec's Plane, Launch DoS Attack on PlayStation Network
2014-09-03: Electromagnetic Warfare is Here
Technology in History
Most histories of computing leave out the contributions of the number theorists in the early 20th century who constructed specialized computing devices.
The most prominent of these were Derrick Norman Lehmer and Derrick Henry Lehmer.
Here are a few web pages with information about their computing devcies:
A recent talk given by Arjen Lenstra
Also, here's an interesting book review of a recently published book about the origins of the computing age: Turing's Cathedral: The Origins of the Digital Universe
Technology and Society
Artificial Intelligence (usually called "AI") has long been a fascination of computer scientists and the general public.
Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy: The Turing Test
The Trouble with the Turing Test
XKCD (of course); it's at http://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/turing_test.png
Third-Party Web Tracking: Policy and Technology
Generations in the Computing Age
November, 1977 edition of BYTE magazine
Another printing technology: Dye sublimation printer
IBM's latest and greatest mainframe
The Dawn of Quantum Computing Age?
2014-09-02: Top 500 Supercomputers in the world
Other
Mike Shapiro Hidden Camera Cartoon
Computer and Information Ethics
Electronic Frontier Foundation
Electronic Privacy Information Center
ACM Code of Ethics (this is also included in Appendix B of your textbook)
Megaupload and the Government's Attack on Cloud Computing
GPL's list of Open Source Software Licenses
Meet the Machines that Steal Your Phone's Data
Difference Engine: Pay up or shut up
You're infected — if you want to see your data again, pay us $300 in Bitcoins
Forget the Stereotype: Profile of an IT Worker
2014-09-02: Japanese Patent Office webpage on Kyota Sugimoto, inventor of the first Japanese typewriter
2014-09-02: English language webpage on the development of the Japanese typewriter
2014-09-02: Japanese language webpage on the development of the Japanese typewriter
2014-09-02: In addition to quantum computing, which I have discussed a bit in class, another potentially important technology is that of the memristor.
2014-09-03: Miraisens ("Future Sense") creating 3-d tactile/haptic interaction technology
2014-09-03: Petals to the metal
2014-09-03: Mobileye coming to a road near to you?
2014-09-03: Money from nothing?
2014-09-03: Are your calls being intercepted? 17 fake cell towers discovered in one month
2014-09-09: Intel's New Edison Board
2014-09-09: Apple's New Iphone 6
2014-09-09: The language of the internet of things
2014-09-16: Watch out, California's self-driving car permits take effect today
2014-10-13: Microsoft Research demos our potential, holodeck-style gaming future
2014-10-16: The best resource on the Internet for Chapter 7: The Wikipedia's article on Databases
2014-10-20: Revealed: how Whisper app tracks 'anonymous' users
2014-10-21: Google Search Operators
2014-10-21: Advanced Google Search
2014-10-21: Wikipedia's List of Personal Information Managers
2014-10-21: Meet the $800 Windows tablet designed to interpret for deaf people
2014-10-21: Chinese government launches man-in-middle attack against iCloud
2014-10-21: HTML5 now an official W3C standard
2014-11-06: Connected Choices: How the Internet Is Challenging Sovereign Decisions
2014-11-18: Keeping Secrets
2014-11-18: A phoneful of dollars
2014-11-18: Anonymous speaks: the inside story of the HBGary hack
2014-11-18: Anatomy of an Attack
2014-11-18: Equity Funding Corporation
2014-11-18: TEMPEST: A Signal Problem
2014-11-25: Test your knowledge of the Internet (from Pew)