Week of March 30th - April 2nd, 2015

Monday:
Read "How Operating Systems Work" for today
Operating Systems vocabulary due

Discuss how disk drives work
Introduce operating systems: two roles, five jobs of an operating system

Tuesday:
give out review sheet for test
wrap up operating systems discussion
file names and paths
hands-on OS with terminal window

Wednesday:
review for test
User interface videos:

• Doug Engelbart's Mother of All Demos
• Microsoft Surface Table (now called PixelSense)
• Sixth Sense - Patty Maes TED Talk
• Google Glass
• Microsoft HoloLens
• Magic Leap
• Android Wear
• Project Milo
• Brain-Computer Interface

Thursday:
Test on computer hardware, history, operating systems
(2nd period - locker cleanout after test)

Friday:
happy spring break!  see y'all on April 13th. . . 

Week of March 23rd - 27th, 2015

Monday:
Part 2 of Medical Informatics due. 

Return HTML tests (finally!)

Hand out computer hardware vocabulary worksheet - due Thursday
Watch "Smartest Machine on Earth" (NOVA episode)

Period 1 - in remaining time, start research for paper
Period 2 - watch some of the remaining Robotics/AI videos from last week

Tuesday:

Read Cartoon Guide packet
Hardware basics - input, output, storage, processing worksheet in class
Begin discussing history of computers - Jacquard, Babbage
Video: Babbage's Difference Engine

Wednesday:
Group 2 current events can be handed in:
p1: Emily M., Olivia, Christiana, Tay, Melissa, Bret, Nick S., Ryan, Matt
p2: Jennica, Heather, Shihab, Premila, Alexis, Jerin, Jeremy, Kat S., Mari)

Dissect computers, do worksheet

Thursday:
Computer hardware vocab due

Turn in computer dissection worksheets
Read part 2 of Cartoon Guide for today

Hand out OS vocab sheet - for Monday
Hand out "How Operating Systems Work" reading  - for Monday

Continue with computer history
Videos: The Queen of Code ENIAC SAGE 
Introduce computer bus and bus services

Friday:
Discuss computer chips, Moore's Law
video: How do they make computer chips?

Fetch/execute cycle
Experiment with the Visible Computer
Discuss modern computer history: 1960s to today.

Discuss how a disk drive works

Week of March 16th - 20th, 2015

Medical Informatics sources are here. 
I've decided that your sources don't have to be in APA format, URLs are sufficient

Monday:
Test on HTML, dynamic web pages, computer security
Continue to work on medical informatics when finished

Tuesday:
Last class time to work on presentations

Wednesday:
Group 1 current events can be handed in:
p1: Emily A., Tait, Mary, Charlie, Kunal, Nick H., Sarah, Katie, Nicole
p2: Robert, Aaron, Deanna, Jason, Cat, Alex, Kyra, Alice

Five minutes to prepare, then begin informatics presentations:

Thursday:
Continue presentations
Introduce Artificial Intelligence paper and presentation assignment.

begin Robotics/AI videos, if time allows:

• Dancing Sony Robots (3:26)
• High Speed Robotic Hand (3:00)
• The Latest Version of the LittleDog Robot (2:17)
• Introducing Spot (2:15) 
• Sebastian Thrun - Google's Driverless Car (4:14)
• Robots that Learn from People (3:43)
• A Swarm of Nano Quadrotors (1:43)
• RoboBees - Design Poses Intriguing Engineering Challenge (2:20)
• MIT's Nexi MDS Robot - First Test of Expression (1:12)
• Robot Baby Learns How to Express Human Emotion (2:01)
• A very human-like robot invented by Japanese engineers (3:24)
• How to Survive A Robot Uprising (4:02)
• AI vs AI, Two Chatbots Talking to Each Other (1:24)

• "Smartest Machine on Earth" (NOVA episode)
• "The Future of Robotics and Artificial Intelligence" (Andrew Ng, a machine learning expert from Stanford)
• Humans Need Not Apply (15:00)

Friday:
Complete presentations, if needed.
Continue with introduction to AI and Robotics
Part 2 of medical informatics project will be due on Monday

Week of March 9th - 13th, 2015

Monday:
(Query students on medical informatics topic preferences.)

Begin discussion of computer security.
Security readings for today:

• New Fast-Spreading Virus takes Internet by Storm(1999)
• Slammed! An inside view of the worm that crashed the Internet in 15 minutes (2003)
• The Facebook Virus Spreads: No Social Network is Safe (2008)
• What is a Drive-By Download? (2013)
• Think You're Safe at Starbucks? Think Again. (2013)

Tuesday:
Video (in class): Business Casual G-Men, FBI Ransom Computer Virus
Security readings for today:

• Email Phishing and Scams (2011) -or- How Phishing Works (from HowStuffWorks) or both if you're so inclined. . .
• Creepster of the Week: Webcam Hijacker Gets Six Year Sentence (2011)
• Cyberthieves Silently Copy Your Passwords As You Type (2006)
• Growing Target for Identity Thieves: Kids (2006)
• Security Firm Discovers Global Spy Campaign (2013)
• Health Insurer Anthem is Hacked, Exposing Millions of Patients' Data (2015)
• Robbins v. Lower Merion School District (wikipedia)  Bizarre story of a spyware on school-issued laptops, from 2010.  This is a long and exhaustive article, but worth scanning.
• Privacy advocates try to keep 'creepy' 'evesdropping" Hello Barbie from hitting shelves 

Wednesday:
(Group 2 current events can be handed in:
p1: Emily M., Olivia, Christiana, Tay, Melissa, Bret, Nick S., Ryan, Matt
p2: Jennica, Heather, Shihab, Premila, Alexis, Jerin, Jeremy, Kat S., Mari)

Video (in class): Sabotaging the System (2009) (backup links: part1 part2) (use Firefox), Stuxnet (2012)
Security readings for today:

• How Zombie Networks Fuel Cybercrime (2004)
• Digital Fears Emerge After Data Siege in Estonia (2007)
• The Enemy Within (2010) - a long but worthwhile article with one really bad word, please ignore it. There's also a worksheet that goes along with it.
• If North Korea Did Hack Sony, It's a Whole New Kind of Cyberterrorism (2014)

Give out review sheet for test on Monday

Start Medical Informatics discussion:
In class, watch CBS News video: Charting A New Course
Thursday:
All groups working on informatics project. Each group must create a google docs presentation and share it with Mr. J. by the end of the period

Some sources to start with are at:
https://sites.google.com/a/ctemc.org/judkis/medical-informatics

Friday:

Continue to work on Medical Informatics

I will look over what you have finished and get comments back to you by Monday morning.