Impact
Results for Impact
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- 10: The Story of Alan Turing & His Machine
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YouTube: Interview Turing's Cathedral This year, the "On the Same Page" (O.T.S.P.) programs' theme is The Dawn of the Computer Age. The theme centers around Alan Turing and his machine. University of Califo ...
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- 06. Blown to Bits : Chapter 1
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Blown to Bits: Reading This chapter of Blown to Bits discusses elements of the recent explosion of computing in everyday life. (blown bits chapter 1) (CSP, Impact, Student reading, BYOB/S ...
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- 11. How Algorithms Shape Our World
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Ted Talk: Kevin Slavin In this TED Talk, Kevin Slavin argues that we're living in a world designed for -- and increasingly controlled by -- algorithms. He shows how these complex computer programs determine espionage tactics ...
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- 03. Scratch: Programming for All
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ACM Reading November 2009 Article on the Scratch programming language and the motive for creating it. Specifically, scratch is intended to appeal to people who don't necessarily see themselves as programmers. ...
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- 07. Designing Games with a Purpose
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Reading Article on an alternative approach to artificial intelligence tasks. While the standard approach to difficult AI problems is to write more sophisticated algorithms, it is sometimes more effective to embed the task into ...
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- 08. Justices Split on Violent Games
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WSJ Reading Wall Street Journal: November, 2010 Article from the Wall Street Journal discussing the 2010 Supreme Court case on the constitutionality (and morality) of banning minors from purchasing violent video games. ...
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- 09. Kinect's Future: a Game Controller in Everything
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Reading November, 2010 Article from MSNBC about Microsoft's Kinect. Discusses what makes it special (software) and what lies in its future. (kinect future game controller everything) ...
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- 05. Animating a Blockbuster
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Reading Snippet: May, 2010 This article examines the fusion of creativity and technology during the production of Toy Story 3. (animating blockbuster) (CSP, Impact, Student readin ...
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- 02. Professor Harvey's Introduction to Abstraction
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Professor Harvey's Reading Snippet: August 2010 The classic example is thinking about a car. Cars are made of nuts, bolts, metal rods, big metal blocks, rubber or paper gaskets, plastic containers for fluids ...
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- 04. Programmed or Be Programmed: Douglas Rushkoff
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Youtube: Programmed or Be Programmed Description: November, 2010 Douglas Rushkoff expounds on his new book "Program or Be Programmed" in the Computers & Society Speaker Series at the Courant Institut ...
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