Teach Global Impact in CSP | Resources and Strategies

Big Pixel Initiative Develops Remote Sensing Analysis to Help Map Global Urbanization

September 16, 2016September 23, 2016 by Julia Bernd

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Published By: UC San Diego News Center, 9/14/2016 >> View the Article << Summary An interdisciplinary research team developed a large dataset of 21,030 high-resolution satellite images of India labeled for whether they show built-up areas.…

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Stanford Engineers Propose a Technology to Break the Net Neutrality Deadlock

September 14, 2016September 21, 2016 by Julia Bernd

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Published By: Stanford News, 9/13/2016 >> View the Article << Summary The debate over net neutrality has largely focused on whether Internet service providers should allow some content providers to negotiate faster/cheaper access to their content…

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IoT Early Warning System Helps Save People From Mudslides

September 12, 2016September 21, 2016 by Jonathan Corley

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Published By: Network World, 08/24/2016 >> View the Article

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A Beauty Contest Was Judged by AI and the Robots Didn’t Like Dark Skin

September 9, 2016September 21, 2016 by Julia Bernd

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Published By: The Guardian, 9/8/2016 Summary: Beauty.AI developed a set of algorithms to judge photos according to five factors in human standards of beauty; it disproportionately chose photos of white people. The article discusses the potential…

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The Ad-Blocking Browser That Pays the Sites You Visit

September 7, 2016September 21, 2016 by Julia Bernd

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Published By: Wired, 9/1/2016 Summary: The Brave web browser (released earlier this year) allows only ads that don't track users from site to site; it has now added a feature to record how much time users…

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Inferring Urban Travel Patterns From Cellphone Data

September 5, 2016September 21, 2016 by Julia Bernd

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Published By: MIT News, 8/29/2016 Summary: Researchers are using data on the locations people make calls from to model the movement patterns of Boston commuters; the system may replace or supplement surveys of residents. The article…

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As FBI Warns Election Sites Got Hacked, All Eyes Are on Russia

September 2, 2016September 21, 2016 by Julia Bernd

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Published By: Wired, 8/29/2016 Summary: Hackers have broken into the Illinois and Arizona state boards of elections' records, following hacks of the Democratic National Committee and the Clinton campaign in the last couple of months. This…

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How an Algorithm Learned to Identify Depressed Individuals by Studying Their Instagram Photos

August 31, 2016September 21, 2016 by Julia Bernd

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Published By: MIT Technology Review, 8/19/2016 Summary: Researchers have developed a machine-learning algorithm that achieves 70% recall in identifying depressed individuals by characteristics of their (pre-diagnosis) Instagram photo posts. This is a great example of a…

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Twitter Has Deleted 235,000 Terrorist-Related User Accounts in the Past Six Months

August 29, 2016September 21, 2016 by Julia Bernd

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Published By: ReCode, 8/18/2016 Summary: Twitter announced that it has increased the rate at which it is suspending accounts the service identifies as promoting terrorism, and is working on ways to block the same users from…

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Only Some of @realDonaldTrump’s Tweets Are Actually Donald Trump

August 26, 2016September 21, 2016 by Julia Bernd

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Published By: Scientific American, 8/18/2016 Summary: Data scientists used post metadata and patterns in post format to show that tweets from @realDonaldTrump come from different people, and sentiment analysis to show that the tweets from Trump…

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How the NSA Snooped on Encrypted Internet Traffic for a Decade

August 24, 2016September 21, 2016 by Julia Bernd

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Published By: Ars Technica, 8/19/2016 Summary: The U.S. National Security Agency (NSA) has been using an exploit in Cisco firewall software to break encryption and spy on traffic in Virtual Privacy Networks (VPNs). In the Internet…

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The Best New Way to Read? Novels Told Through Text Messages

August 22, 2016September 21, 2016 by Julia Bernd

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Published By: Wired, 8/18/2016 Summary: Stories told as a stream of text messages between the characters, delivered by story apps, are gaining in popularity (especially for YA horror/suspense). Texting has enabled the creation of a new…

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