Reading 14 — Computer Science Education

I believe that everyone should be exposed to programming basics at least once. Computers are already almost ubiquitous, and they will only appear in more and more places as time goes on. Everyone needs to have a basic understanding of how they work. One great…

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Apr 15, 2018

Reading 12 — Self-Driving Cars

The biggest motivation for developing and employing self-driving cars is to make the roads safer for everyone involved. The idea is that computers and sensors can plan and respond to outside stimuli much faster than humans can. According to the National Highway Traffic…

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Apr 8, 2018

Reading 11 — Intelligence

Artificial Intelligence is a sub-field of Computer Science that deals with any task that is trying to make a computer program act intelligently. There are a few different schools of thought, namely “Strong AI” and “Weak AI” that are differentiated by their attempt to exactly model…

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Mar 25, 2018

Reading 09 — Freedom of Speech

Net neutrality is the set of regulations passed in 2015 that essentially mandate that all Internet Service Providers treat all the content they serve equally. This means they can’t charge consumers more for a third-party service like Netflix while charging a lower price for…

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Mar 18, 2018

Reading 08 — Corporate Personhood

The concept of corporate personhood revolves around the idea that corporations can be extended some rights that previously were only guaranteed to individuals. These include rights like freedom of speech and donating to federal campaigns. Granting corporations these…

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Mar 4, 2018

Reading07 — Cloud Computing

Cloud computing is the ability to quickly acquire computing resources such as hardware, software, and other infrastructure without worrying about the initial capital and overhead of setting it all up and getting it configured. After looking at some of the readings, I think some…

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Feb 24, 2018

Reading 06 — I don’t really care if I’m being spied on

To be completely honest, I think it is a little silly that so many people are worried about having complete privacy. There’s no reason to be worried about the government reading your text messages, emails, etc unless you are doing…

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Feb 23, 2018

Project 02 — Reflection

I think the most important aspects of our guide are how to prepare for an interview and what resources to use. Many times, the problem people have with interviews is not knowing what to expect, and if they don’t have the correct resources to prepare then they will be at a severe…

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Feb 19, 2018

Reading 05 — Challenger Disaster

I think the root causes of the Challenger disaster were mostly arrogance and impatience from NASA. After reading about the disaster, it is clear that they were dead set on launching on January 28th. They ignored the concerns brought up by Roger Boisjoly and his colleagues…

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Feb 11, 2018

Reading 04 — Diversity

I agree that there is a diversity problem within the tech industry. It’s unfortunate that this is still such a big issue today. When I first started reading more about this issue I came in with a couple ideas already formed in my head. I had heard about the lack of diversity in the tech…

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