Monday:
- Return and review midterm exams
- Video (in class): Business Casual G-Men
- Readings for Monday:
- 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)
Tuesday:
- Stronge student survey
- Video (in class): Sabotaging the System (2009) (backup links: part1 part2) (use Firefox)
- Optional video: Stuxnet (2012)
- Readings for Tuesday:
- 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.
- (In case you're wondering: yes, Conficker is still out there. . . )
Wednesday:
- Review for security quiz, tie up any loose ends
- Query class on informatics preferences
- Introduce Robotics/AI topic with videos:
- Dancing Sony Robots (3:26)
- High Speed Robotic Hand (3:00)
- The Latest Version of the LittleDog Robot (2:17)
- 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)
- How to Survive A Robot Uprising (4:02)
- AI vs AI, Two Chatbots Talking to Each Other (1:24)
- Introduce AI paper/presentation
- Optional: distance learning on Cyber Security, room 111, 10:30 to 11:30 -- bring your lunch.
Thursday:
- Computer security quiz
- Watch "Smartest Machine on Earth" episode of NOVA
- Recommended video: "The Future of Robotics and Artificial Intelligence" with Andrew Ng, machine learning expert from Stanford
Friday:
- Start Medical Informatics unit:
- In class, watch CBS News video: Charting A New Course
- All groups working on informatics project.