Teach Global Impact in CSP | Resources and Strategies

How Big Data and Algorithms Are Slashing the Cost of Fixing Flint’s Water Crisis

September 21, 2016September 23, 2016 by Jonathan Corley

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Published By: The Conversation, 09/08/2016 >> View the Article << Summary Beyond tech companies such as Amazon and Google, big data has a significant effect on science, engineering, and even plumbing. As the government in Flint,…

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Facebook Backs Down From “Napalm Girl” Censorship and Reinstates Photo

September 19, 2016September 23, 2016 by Julia Bernd

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Published By: The Guardian, 9/9/2016 >> View the Article << Summary Facebook recently blocked a news article that reprinted a Vietnam War photo of a naked girl running from a napalm attack. The photo was flagged…

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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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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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