CS 492/CS 692 S23 Course Timetable
Classes are held Tuesdays and Thursdays 8:30 -- 10:00 and 10:00 -- 11:20, in MC 4040.
Timetable of Topics, RPEs, and Assignment Due Dates
In a non-RPE week, discussions will consume the entirety of the time on Tuesday and Thursday. The following is a set of readings for each week. Do not feel pressured to read each and every paper (there are a lot of papers below!) but do read at least some of the papers and be prepared to comment on themand the topics of the week. This list of papers will be updated throughout the course as students suggestions are received.
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Week 8
- Readings:
- Paper: Cellphones and Texting have Blown Up the Dating Culture
- Paper: Employers, marketers and parents accessing Facebook database
- Paper: Facebook manipulation Factiva internal link
- Paper: Can Blogs Revolutionize Progressive Politics?
- Paper: Foreign Election Interference
- Paper: Ontario legislature member is part of alleged Beijing 2019 election-interference network: sources
- Paper: Brave New World of Digital Intimacy Alternate link
- Paper: Like.Flirt.Ghost: Social Media and Relationships
- Paper: Victims of Cyberbullying
- Paper: Cyber-bullying on social media debated in Parliament
- Paper: New Cyber-bullying Legislation
- Paper: Updated: Nova Scotia Passes New Cyber-bullying Legislation
- Paper: Ns Cyber Bullying Act Bill 27: An Act Respecting the Unauthorized Distribution of Intimate Images and Protection Against Cyber-bullying
- Paper: Ask.fm owners 'considered shutting down' social network
- Paper: Hate speech online
- Paper: The Shadow Scholar
- Paper: Deleting Emails
- Paper: Anxiety of Unanswered Email Factiva internal link
- Paper: You are being influenced Factiva internal link
- Paper: One Stupid Tweet Factiva internal link
- Paper: On The YouTube Economy Factiva internal link
In The News
- Paper: What Digital Twins And The Metaverse Mean For Our Infrastructure
- Paper: Europe calls for tech companies to fight disinformation by labeling AI-generated content
- Paper: Spotify says distributor removed 'Glory to Hong Kong' from platform, as gov’t seeks to ban all forms of protest song
- Paper: Facebook and Instagram to restrict news access in Canada
- Paper: Dating App Insiders Remain 'Highly Concerned' About User Security, According To A Recent Survey
- Paper: French president urges parents to keep teens at home, faults social media as rioting spreads
- Paper: Farmer's thumbs-up emoji reply to texted contract offer means he accepted it, must pay $82,000: judge
- Paper: Minecraft ‘loophole’ library of banned journalism
Video Games
- Paper: Not just a video game: the obsessive world of gaming and its young stars
- Paper: Video Games Play May Provide Learning, Health, Social Benefits, Review Finds
- Paper: Getting Hooked on Tech Alternate link Internal link
- Paper: Internet Addiction
- Web Page: Video Game Addiction Symptoms, Causes and Effects
- Web Page: Video Game Addiction: Signs, Problems, Risks, & Treatment
- Paper: Sense and Nonsense About Video Game Addiction
- Web Page: Video game addiction
- Paper: Digital Addiction: A Requirements Engineering Perspective
- Paper: How
social casinos leverage Facebook user data to target
vulnerable gamblers
- Paper: Losses Disguised as Wins
- Paper: UBC research draws new links between video game 'loot boxes' and gambling
- Paper: The UBC paper mentioned in previous article on loot boxes: Engineered highs: reward variability and frequency as potential prerequisites of
behavioural addiction
In The News
- Paper: One of America's biggest gaming companies is acting as China's censor
- Paper: Epic Games to Pay $520 Million Over Children’s Privacy and Trickery Charges Internal link
- Paper: How video games affect the brain [Positively]
- Paper: Sick of online dating? Here's why you should give it another try
- Paper: Your Ubisoft account can be suspended and subsequently permanently deleted for 'inactivity,' taking your games library with it
- Paper Clarification: Ubisoft Clarifies That It Won't Delete Game Libraries Due to Game Inactivity After Fan Panic
- Paper Clarification: AI will 'lead to more games being made and more jobs'
- June 27: Computer-Mediated Communication
- June 29: Video Games
Week 9
- Readings:
- Paper: Underrepresented Women in CS
- Paper: Challenges for Women in CS
- Paper: An Agenda for Women in CS
- Paper: There are too few Women in CS
- Paper: Why is Computer Science Unpopular Among Women?
- Paper: Racial
imbalance in computer science
- Paper: Diversity Gaps in Computer Science
- Paper: LGBTQ
in computer science
- Paper:
Amazon scraps AI for bias against women, raises more doubts
about objectivity of algorithms
- Paper:
The Secret History of Women in Coding Factiva internal link
- Paper: Why is it Alexa, not Alex?
- Paper: We can build better, fairer algorithms in a world of angry bias – so why aren’t we?
- Paper: A threat in the network: STEM women in less powerful network positions avoid integrating stereotypically feminine peers
- Paper: Mapping social exclusion in STEM to men’s implicit biasand women’s career costs
In The News:
- Paper: Wendy’s, Google Train Next-Generation Order Taker: an AI Chatbot
Facitva internal link
- Video: TED Talk: Teach girls bravery, not perfection.
- Paper: How Whitney Wolfe Herd Turned a Vision of a Better Internet Into a Billion-Dollar Brand
- Paper: Tinder Is Target of Sexual Harassment Lawsuit
Facitva internal link
- Paper: Google to pay $118M to settle lawsuit alleging it underpaid women
- Paper: Why Diversity In AI Is So Important
- Paper: Musk’s response to an anti-trans video sparks 24 hours of chaos at Twitter
- Paper: Some organizations that support region's LGBTQ+ community consider whether or not to leave Twitter
- Paper: What You Can Learn From How Elon Musk Is Derailing Inclusion Efforts At Twitter
- Paper: Stop Telling Women They Have Imposter Syndrome
- Paper: What Happened to All the Women in Computer Science?
- Paper: What Programming's Past Reveals About Today's Gender-Pay Gap
Facitva internal link
- Paper: Why Women Leave Tech (aka "Why I Left Tech")
- Paper: There Are Too Few Women in Computer Science and Engineering
- Paper: Electronic Arts is Investigating Sexual Misconduct Allegations
- Paper: California sues Activision Blizzard over a culture of 'constant sexual harassment'
- Paper: Activision Blizzard is once again being sued for sexual harassment
- Paper: Activision Blizzard Will Pay SEC $35 Million To Settle Claims
- Paper: Ubisoft concedes that its handling of misconduct scandal was flawed
- Paper: Inside The Culture Of Sexism At Riot Games
- Paper: Riot Games to pay $100m to settle gender discrimination lawsuit
Security
- Paper on radical pragmatism: Privacy & Radical Pragmatism: Change the Paradigm (skim)
- Paper: Privacy & Radical Pragmatism: Change the Paradigm (News Article - note the date)
- Paper: Privacy by Design
- Paper: An
Electronic Pearl Harbor? Not Likely.
- Paper: The
Online Threat.
- Paper: Security
and Morality: A Tale of User Deceit
- Paper: Wikileaks
Unpluggable
- Paper: Amid Fears, WikiLeaks Presents Some Upside To U.S.
- Paper: Edward Snowden, Whistle-Blower Factiva internal link
- Paper: Edward Snowden: Traitor or Hero?
- Paper: In Edward Snowden's New Memoir, the Disclosures This Time Are Personal Factiva internal link
- Paper: Facebook security fears
- Paper: Facebook Password Storage
- Paper: Antivirus Challenges Factiva internal link
- Paper: Bill C-51
- Paper: Terrorism,
Security and Privacy Factiva internal link
- Paper: Obama
and Cameron Exposing the Internet
- Paper: An encryption exodus looms over UK’s Online Safety Bill
- Paper: Toddler Surveillance Factiva internal link
- Paper: Security,
Wiretapping, and the Internet
- Paper: Identity Fraud Losses Total 52 Billion in 2021
- Paper: DensePose From Wi-Fi - AI model used Wifi routers for human detection
- July 4: Gender Balance and Marginalization
- July 5: Assignment 4 due at 10:00am (Late deadline Monday July 10 at 11:59pm)
- July 6: Security
Week 10
Week 11
Week: 12
- Readings:
- Papers on spam: Damn Spam , Canadian Anti-Spam Law, Geist on Anti-Spam
- Paper: The Robocalls Problem Is So Bad That the FCC Actually Did Something
- Paper: Online Salvation? (E-Journalism)
- Paper: E-Voting Pros and Cons.
- Paper: Blockchain Voting.
- Paper: E-voting challenge to democracy
- Paper: New Jersey Lets Sandy Victims Vote Via E-Mail
- Video: Cathy O'Neil: Weapons of Math Destruction (You should really read the book but this talk will have to suffice for now)
- Paper: Microsoft outsourcing high-end jobs, union says
- Paper: Big Data Factiva internal link
- Paper: Canada Post
- Paper: 3-D Printed Guns
- Paper: 3-D Printed Guns in Canada
- Paper on e-trading: Wall Street firms use algorithms that capture Trump's tweets to profit from automated trades
- Paper on e-trading: Loss of Trading Jobs Factiva internal link
- Paper: Cyber command durring an election Factiva internal link
- Paper: On
Memes and Propaganda Factiva internal link
Cryptocurrency
- Paper: Apple suing hacker-for-hire, warned by Citizen Lab
- Paper: Microsoft, Ukraine, and Russia Factiva internal link
- Paper: Ukrainian refugee flees to Poland with $2,000 in bitcoin on a USB drive
- Paper: In Ukraine, Crypto Finds a Purpose
- Paper: Quadriga CEO's widow speaks out over his death and the missing crypto millions
- Paper: Bitcoins Tied to QuadrigaCX Transferred Out of Cold Wallet
- Paper: What is Tokenized Equity?
- Paper: Why Did Cryptocurrencies TerraUSD and Luna Unravel? Stablecoin Price Crash Explained. Factiva internal link
- Paper: TerraUSD Crash Led to Vanished Savings, Shattered Dreams Factiva internal link
- Paper: Crypto exchange FTX bails out lending platform BlockFi
- Paper: He was hailed as crypto's saviour. Now he needs billions for a bailout
- Paper: How Did Sam Bankman-Fried's Alameda Research Lose So Much Money?
- Paper: FTX's Sister Firm, Alameda Research, Was Central to Collapse Factiva internal link
- Paper: U.S. accusses couple of laundering $4.5 bln in bitcoin tied to 2016 hack
- Paper: Bitcoins carbon footprint Factiva internal link
- Paper: Tracing Stolen Bitcoin
- Paper: Anonymity in Crypto Raises Alarm Factiva internal link
- Paper: The
Sony Hack Factiva internal link
- Paper: Sony Hacking Case
- Paper: On-line meeting security Factiva internal link
- Paper: On tech tools and monitoring Factiva internal link
- Paper: On the risk of stable-coin currency Factiva internal link
- Paper: Crypto Currency in Canada
- Paper: Indigo Ransomware Attack
- Paper: Indigo Ransomware Attack Fallout
- Paper: Indigo lost $50M last year, in large part due to February cyberattack
- Papers on NL ransomware attack:
Article 1
Article 2
Article 3
- Paper: Where Cryptocurrency, Water and Conflict Collide.
In The News:
- Paper: Worldcoin: Sam Altman launches eyeball scanning crypto coin
- July 25: Work: E-Commerce and the Changing Workplace (E-Voting, 3D Printing, Big Data)
- July 26: Assignment 5 due at 10:00am (Late deadline Monday July 31 at 11:59pm)
- July 27: Cryptocurrencies and Ransomware
- August 1: Make up Oral Exam/RPE day (Likely no lecture)