CGS 2100

Most histories of computing leave out the contributions of the American 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
Lehmer Factoring Machines

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

Eugene Goostman

XKCD (of course); it's at http://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/turing_test.png

Third-Party Web Tracking: Policy and Technology

Superintelligence

Generations in the Computing Age

November, 1977 edition of BYTE magazine

Xerox PARC

Mosaic

Google Glass

Another printing technology: Dye sublimation printer

3d printing

IBM's latest and greatest mainframe

The Dawn of Quantum Computing Age?

2014-09-02: Top 500 Supercomputers in the world

Other

Ten Risks of PKI

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)

Ethics in Computer (NC State)

Digital Rights

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