Week of November 2nd - 6th, 2015

Here again are the resources for Medical Informatics

Monday:
10 minutes at beginning of class to organize presentations
ALL GROUPS MUST BE READY TO GO!
begin Medical Informatics presentations.

Tuesday:
continue with Medical Informatics presentations

Wednesday:
(Group 1 current events can be handed in:
P1: Maya, Stephen, Charlotte, Quinn, Josh, Dana, May, Zack H., Alfred, Ritik
P2: Vishwak, Neil, Brian, Lauren C., Tanay, Dan, Lauren H., Matthew, Bryan, Alex)

Complete presentations.

Complete student survey.

Introduce Artificial Intelligence paper and presentation assignment.
begin Robotics/AI videos, as 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) 
• Atlas, the Next Generation (2:41)
• 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) (52:14)
• "The Future of Robotics and Artificial Intelligence" (Andrew Ng, a machine learning expert from Stanford) (16:26)
• Humans Need Not Apply (15:00)

Thursday, Friday:

No school

Week of October 26th- 30th, 2015

Here are the resources for Medical Informatics

Monday:
Test on HTML, dynamic web pages, computer security
When finished, please complete survey on your security knowledge

then work on informatics presentations

Tuesday:
Grand rounds, JSUMC

Wednesday:
(Group 2 current events:

P1: Zachary K, Michael, Emily, Juliet, Varoon, Noel, Eesha, Elena, Alex
P2: Jess, Reese, Karly, Ian, Katharine, Mayuri, Deven, Arianna, Stacy)

All groups working on informatics presentations

Mr. J. will have feedback to all groups by Thursday morning

Thursday:

All groups working on informatics presentations - last class time.

We will begin presenting on Monday.

Friday:

JSUMC rotation #4

Week of October 19th - 23rd, 2015

Monday:
Shortened periods, knee replacement distance learning
Combine group efforts - make a master list of ways to avoid malware and related problems.

Video (in class): Business Casual G-Men
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)
• Health Insurer Anthem is Hacked, Exposing Millions of Patients' Data (2015)
• Another Lawsuit Filed Over School Webcam Spying (2010)
• Privacy advocates try to keep 'creepy' 'evesdropping" Hello Barbie from hitting shelves
• I’m terrified of my new TV: Why I’m scared to turn this thing on — and you’d be, too

Tuesday:
Video (in class): Cyberwar Threat from NOVA (2015)
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)
• Cyberspace Becomes Second Front in Russia’s Clash With NATO (2015)

Wednesday:
(Group 1 current events can be handed in:

P1: Maya, Stephen, Charlotte, Quinn, Josh, Dana, May, Zack H., Alfred, Ritik
P2: Vishwak, Neil, Brian, Lauren C., Tanay, Dan, Lauren H., Matthew, Bryan, Alex)
Tie up loose ends related to computer security discusssion.
Give out review sheet for test on Monday

Start Medical Informatics discussion:
In class, watch CBS News video: Charting A New Course
Students working in groups on medical informatics presentations.  Each group must create a google slides presentation (no PowerPoint) and share it with Mr. J. by the end of the period.
Here are a bunch of resources to get you started.

Thursday:
Students working in groups on medical informatics presentations
I will get feedback on all presentations back to groups over the weekend.

Friday:
JSUMC rotation #3

Week of October 12th - 16th, 2015

Monday:
No class, staff day

Tuesday:
Continue with discussion of cookies and dynamic web pages.
Read Cookie Monsters.
Video: What They Know - Advertising Cookies and You (7:15)

Discussion of computer algorithms:
Algorithm: "a process or set of rules to be followed in calculations or other problem-solving operations, especially by a computer." "In mathematics and computer science, an algorithm is a self-contained step-by-step set of operations to be performed." In other words, an algorithm is a recipe.

• Video: What is an Algorithm and Why Should You Care?
• Video: The Smartest Elevators
• Demonstrate Conway's Game of Life
• Demonstrate selection sort vs merge sort

Begin discussion of computer security.

Wednesday:
PSAT

Thursday:
(Group 2 current events:
P1: Zachary K, Michael, Emily, Juliet, Varoon, Noel, Eesha, Elena, Alex
P2: Jess, Reese, Karly, Ian, Katharine, Mayuri, Deven, Arianna, Stacy)
Query students on medical informatics topic preferences.

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) 
• Hacker Lexicon: A Guide to Ransomware, the Scary Hack That’s on the Rise (2015)

Students list ways to avoid getting malware on their computers.

Friday:

JSUMC rotation #2

Week of October 5th - 9th, 2015

Monday:
Do now for beginning of class: take survey on computer security knowledge. It's fine if you aren't familiar with most of the words, I'm just trying to get an idea of what you've heard of.
Last in-class time for "3 Page Website" project
If you're feeling adventurous, you might want to adapt this idea and use a version of it on your website: https://www.thinkful.com/learn/halloween-programming-tutorial/

Tuesday:
Computer Pioneer oral presentations - 60-120 seconds, no slides or notes

Wednesday:
(Group 1 current events can be handed in:
P1: Maya, Stephen, Charlotte, Quinn, Josh, Dana, May, Zack H., Alfred, Ritik
P2: Vishwak, Neil, Brian, Lauren C., Tanay, Dan, Lauren H., Matthew, Bryan, Alex)
(shortened period, "Week of Respect" program)

Begin discussion of Google, cloud computing, dynamic web pages
Videos:

• Being a Google Autocompleter (2:37)
• How Google Search works (3:15)
• How Search Ads Work (2:38)
• How Google Apps Work (1:51)
• Google Data Center (4:52)

Thursday:
15 minutes at beginning of class to turn in web sites - web sites due by 11:15 today.
Continue with discussion of cookies and dynamic web pages.
Read Cookie Monsters.
Video: What They Know - Advertising Cookies and You (7:15)

Brief discussion of computer algorithms:
Algorithm: "a process or set of rules to be followed in calculations or other problem-solving operations, especially by a computer." "In mathematics and computer science, an algorithm is a self-contained step-by-step set of operations to be performed." In other words, an algorithm is a recipe.

• Video: What is an Algorithm and Why Should You Care?
• Video: The Smartest Elevators
• Demonstrate Conway's Game of Life
• Demonstrate selection sort vs merge sort

Friday:
JSUMC Rotation #1

Security readings for next Tuesday:

• 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)
• Hacker Lexicon: A Guide to Ransomware, the Scary Hack That’s on the Rise (2015)