Recommended Reading/Watching/Listening
Books- Weapons of math destruction : how big data increases inequality and threatens democracy
- Everybody lies : big data, new data, and what the internet can tell us about who we really are
- Automating inequality : how high-tech tools profile, police, and punish the poor
- Technically wrong : sexist apps, biased algorithms, and other threats of toxic tech
- Sleepwalkers - A Podcast that covers a lot of topics relevant to this course: AI, privacy, technology addiction
- Futuremakers - A Podcast focusing on discussions between Oxford scholars. Season 1 focuses on AI and automation
- Spark from CBC Radio - Usually geared towards a less technical audience, but a regular podcast that has some interesting topics
News
- ACM TechNews
- Wired
- Slashdot
- Risks Digest
- Globe and Mail, technology news
- Wall Street Journal, technology news
- New York Times, technology news
- CNET
Writing
- UofT Writing Centre
- "How not to plagiarize": A practical guide on avoiding plagiarism
- How and when to use quotations
- How and when to paraphrase or summarize
- Documentation formats (citations, footnotes, etc)
- Google's Technical Writing Self Paced Course
Last Modified: 2020 Nov 05
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