Microcomputer Applications for Business and Economics
CGS 2100
Fall 2017
Technology in History
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
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, and has been growing increasingly important recently.
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
The Dawn of Quantum Computing Age?
Top 500 Supercomputers in the world
Other
Mike Shapiro Hidden Camera Cartoon
Computer and Information Ethics
Electronic Frontier Foundation
Electronic Privacy Information Center
GPL's list of Open Source Software Licenses
Japanese Patent Office webpage on Kyota Sugimoto, inventor of the first Japanese typewriter
English language webpage on the development of the Japanese typewriter
Japanese language webpage on the development of the Japanese typewriter
NSA official: Support of backdoored Dual_EC_DRBG was "regrettable"
Best CPUs for workstations 2017
Okay, Google, Get Out of My Face
10 gbps cable Internet uploads and downloads in DOCSIS 3.1 update
Big Data as Surveillance Capitalism
When it comes to Internet privacy, be very afraid, analyst suggests
Surveillance is the business model of the Internet
Why ProtonMail is more secure than Gmail
Robots Are Not as Smart as You Think
Websites to watch
More XKCD:
