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Guest Speakers:| Date | Speaker | ||
| LEC01 | LEC30 | Video | |
| Jan 11 | Brian Harrington - Welcome & Course Overview Mariana Jardim - Research Resources |
Brian Harrington - Welcome & Course Overview | |
| Jan 13 | David Chan - Presentation Skills Sarah King - Writing Skills |
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| Jan 18 | Saddaf Syed - Experiential Learning | Saddaf Syed - Experiential Learning | |
| Jan 20 | Mariana Jardim - Research Resources | ||
Student Presentations:
| Theme | Dates | Topic | Presenters | |
| LEC01 | LEC30 | |||
| 1 - Professional Ethics | Jan 25 | NEWS |
David Wan Mason Kwun-Hon Tang Matthew Chau Birathan Somasundaram |
Pui Lam Cheryl Chen Jiale Yang Maunica Toleti |
| P1a - Codes of Ethics | Guoqiang Ou | Lin Wang | ||
| P1b - Ethical Frameworks | Raiyan Rahman | Yiming Zhong | ||
| P1c - Self Driving Cars | Alexander Ursu | Benjamin Cooper | ||
| P1d - Software Engineers | Kaihua Sun | Ajay Rajendran | ||
| P1e - Runaway Cars | Pravinthan Prabagaran | |||
| Jan 27 | Debate 1 |
A: Husni Mohamed Fareed & Alexandru Andros B: Minh Hoang Nguyen & Xin Yi Chen C: Jason Chiou Nong Dai & Maduvan Kasi | ||
| 2 - Mental Health | Feb 1 | NEWS |
Evan Kar Long Ng Guoqiang Ou Gnanaswarup Srinivasan Mohammad Amr Khan Bilal Ahmed |
Eric Kalantyrski Zongda Wang Gordon Michael Levitsky Victor Si Jun Guo |
| P2a - Addictive Apps | Alex Man-Hei Wong | Jialiang Lin | ||
| P2b - Screen Use and Sleep | Nicholas Wong | Anirudha Kanodia | ||
| P2c - Mental Heath in Tech | Chu Yun Zhong | Jun Zheng | ||
| P2d - The Loneliness Epidemic | Luke Zhang | |||
| P2e - Internet Addiction | Ohmasinh Devendrasinh Negi | |||
| Feb 3 | Debate 2 |
A: Siyang Shen & Hung Jen Lin B: Tsz Cheuk So & Ryland Wang |
A: Ao Gao & Jiayi Zhao | |
| 3 - Privacy | Feb 8 | NEWS |
Alexandru Andros Son Nguyen Jose Rafael Maingat Myron Paul Monteiro Behrad Ghadiri Bahardoost |
Muhammad Ali Laphonso Dominic Camus Reyes Ryan David de Sao Jose |
| P3a - Canadian Privacy Law | Qiuyu Huang | Pui Lam Cheryl Chen | ||
| P3b - GDPR | David Wan | Xingyuan Zhu | ||
| P3c - San Bernardino | Anthony Alaimo | Borui Li | ||
| P3d - Cambridge Analytica | Cheng Gao | |||
| Feb 10 | Debate 3 |
A: Brian Kanghyun Kim & Gaurav Sharma B: Danny Samara & Yifei Gao C: Carl Alvares & Chedy Sankar |
A: Qi Hang Yang & Maunica Toleti | |
| 4 - Internet | Feb 22 | NEWS |
Alex Man-Hei Wong Nicholas Wong Xin Yi Chen Siyang Shen Ryland Wang |
Jialiang Lin Jiayi Zhao |
| P4a - Who Controls the Internet | Mason Kwun-Hon Tang | |||
| P4b - Internet Censorship | Evan Kar Long Ng | Eric Kalantyrski | ||
| P4c - Section 230 | Cong Anh Truong | Darryl Huang | ||
| P4d - Net Neutrality | Sean Eitan Applebaum | |||
| P4e - Internet Voting | Husni Mohamed Fareed | |||
| Feb 24 | Debate 4 |
A: Yiling Zhu B: Gnanaswarup Srinivasan & Sheng Wei Cui C: Mohammad Amr Khan & Matthew Chau |
A: Benjamin Cooper & Ajay Rajendran | |
| 5 - Social Issues | Mar 1 | NEWS |
Cong Anh Truong Chu Yun Zhong Anthony Alaimo Yifei Gao Tsz Cheuk So |
Borui Li Xingyuan Zhu Ao Gao |
| P5a - Weapons of Math Destruction | Alexandru Andros | Muhammad Ali | ||
| P5b - Attention Economy | Gaurav Sharma | |||
| P5c - Tech Employee Walkouts | Brian Kanghyun Kim | |||
| P5d - Facebook Myanmar | Minh Hoang Nguyen | Zongda Wang | ||
| Mar 3 | Debate 5 |
A: Sean Eitan Applebaum & Son Nguyen B: Jose Rafael Maingat C: Alexis Yang & Anton Kaminsky |
A: Gordon Michael Levitsky & Case Mitchel Ploeg B: Laphonso Dominic Camus Reyes & Ryan David de Sao Jose | |
| 6 - Legal Issues | Mar 8 | NEWS |
Raiyan Rahman Cheng Gao Hung Jen Lin Carl Alvares Chedy Sankar |
Yiming Zhong Anirudha Kanodia |
| P6a - Right to Repair | Xin Yi Chen | Jiayi Zhao | ||
| P6b - Tech monopolies | Siyang Shen | Jiale Yang | ||
| P6c - Predictive Policing | ||||
| P6d - CESTA/FOSTA | Yiling Zhu | |||
| P6e - Wikileaks | Danny Samara | |||
| Mar 10 | Debate 6 |
A: Kaihua Sun & Alex Man-Hei Wong B: Qiuyu Huang & Behrad Ghadiri Bahardoost |
A: Jun Zheng & Eric Kalantyrski | |
| 7 - Information Quality | Mar 15 | NEWS |
Luke Zhang Ohmasinh Devendrasinh Negi Sean Eitan Applebaum Jason Chiou Nong Dai |
Benjamin Cooper Lin Wang Case Mitchel Ploeg |
| P7a - Fake News: Problems | Gnanaswarup Srinivasan | Ao Gao | ||
| P7b - Fake News: Solutions | Son Nguyen | Qi Hang Yang | ||
| P7c - Wikipedia | Yifei Gao | |||
| P7d - Filter Bubbles | Hung Jen Lin | |||
| P7e - Deepfakes | Sheng Wei Cui | |||
| Mar 17 | Debate 7 |
A: Pravinthan Prabagaran & Nicholas Wong B: Anthony Alaimo & Evan Ng |
A: Jialiang Lin & Borui Li B: Zongda Wang & Muhammad Ali | |
| 8 - Environment/Economics | Mar 22 | NEWS |
Alexander Ursu Qiuyu Huang Husni Mohamed Fareed Maduvan Kasi |
Ajay Rajendran |
| P8a - E-Waste | Mohammad Amr Khan | Maunica Toleti | ||
| P8b - Electronics Manufacturing | Jose Rafael Maingat | |||
| P8c - Power Consumption | Tsz Cheuk So | |||
| P8d - The Gig Economy | Carl Alvares | |||
| P8e - The Digital Divide | Jason Chiou Nong Dai | Laphonso Dominic Camus Reyes | ||
| Mar 24 | Debate 8 |
A: Cong Anh Truong & Chu Yun Zhong B: Bilal Ahmed & Birathan Somasundaram |
A: Lin Wang & Anirudha Kanodia B: Pui Lam Cheryl Chen & Victor Si Jun Guo | |
| 9 - Global Conflict | Mar 29 | NEWS |
Kaihua Sun Brian Kanghyun Kim Yiling Zhu Sheng Wei Cui Anton Kaminsky |
Jun Zheng Darryl Huang |
| P9a - Stuxnet | Matthew Chau | Gordon Michael Levitsky | ||
| P9b - Estonia | Ryland Wang | |||
| P9c - SCADA Boxes | Chedy Sankar | |||
| P9d - LAWS | Maduvan Kasi | Case Mitchel Ploeg | ||
| P9e - XAI | Alexis Yang | |||
| Mar 31 | Debate 9 |
A: Raiyan Rahman & Luke Zhang B: Cheng Gao & Mason Kwun-Hon Tang |
A: Yiming Zhong & Xingyuan Zhu | |
| 10 - AI/Futurism | Apr 5 | NEWS |
Pravinthan Prabagaran Minh Hoang Nguyen Gaurav Sharma Danny Samara Alexis Yang |
Qi Hang Yang |
| P10a - The Dangers of AI | Birathan Somasundaram | Victor Si Jun Guo | ||
| P10b - The Benefits of AI | Bilal Ahmed | Ryan David de Sao Jose | ||
| P10c - The Montreal Declaration | Anton Kaminsky | |||
| P10d - Transhumanism | Behrad Ghadiri Bahardoost | |||
| Apr 7 | Debate 10 |
A: Alexander Ursu & Ohmasinh Devendrasinh Negi B: David Wan & Guoqiang Ou |
A: Jiale Yang & Darryl Huang | |
Last Modified: 2021 Mar 22