Detailed schedule

Final presentations, Tuesday 5/14/2024, 9am

The program for final presentations is available.

Class 28, Friday 5/3/2024

Informal discussion: Big ideas in computing
- optional reading: The list of recent Turing award winners on Wikipedia. In class we will focus on the era 2006-2023.

Class 27, Tuesday 4/30/2024

Afternoon tea party at the instructor’s house (attendance optional). Please see invitation sent by email for details. Feel free to arrive any time after 3:30 PM.
I’ve been asked to remind you to sign the graduation sustainability pledge if you are interested: https://www.dickinson.edu/gpa

Class 26, Friday 4/26/2024

capstone lab day

Class 25, Tuesday 4/23/2024

Please complete the official feedback form for this course.
Informal discussion: portrayal of computation in movies, TV, and literature
- No preparation required.
- If you get a chance, try to think of a few examples for discussion.

Class 24, Friday 4/19/2024

capstone lab day

Class 23, Tuesday 4/16/2024

Informal discussion: Generative AI
- optional reading: Issue 183 of The Batch, by Andrew Ng and DeepLearning.AI, February 8, 2023.
Remaining time for capstone lab

Class 22, Friday 4/12/2024

NQP8: gender and tech (based on 4/8 Amy Diehl event)

Class 21, Tuesday 4/9/2024

capstone lab day

Class 20, Friday 4/5/2024

Poster peer review + abstract/registration for civic engagement symposium + capstone lab day

Posters for review (links to posters will be added here when they are submitted):

Poster review assignments:

Kafka reviews Giang and Mermaid
Sugarlabs reviews Kafka and Giang
Huggingface reviews Sugarlabs and Kafka
Mermaid reviews Huggingface and Sugarlabs
Giang reviews Mermaid and Huggingface
William reviews Dzung and Hailie
Dzung reviews Hailie and William
Hailie reviews William and Dzung

Instructions for poster peer review:

This is intended to be relatively lightweight. Please spend about 10-15 minutes on each of your two reviews.
Your team can meet and create the reviews together, submitting just one review per poster. Or individuals can submit their own reviews.
Communicate your reviews to the poster authors via email or Slack.
Make at least one positive comment and one suggestion for improvement.

Finally, open-source project teams must remember to register and submit their abstracts for the civic engagement symposium: https://forms.office.com/r/gDZ2mHgFrZ

Class 19, Tuesday 4/2/2024

CP presentation (Giang)
Survey on STEM Demographics for a Dickinson educational studies and data analytics major, Amanda Tran: https://forms.office.com/r/uCB1HT2j3q
NQP7: Discussion of DuoLingo and human computing. See the Readings webpage for required reading/viewing.

Summary of upcoming poster deadlines:

4/5: PP1 final
4/5: PP2 draft
4/5: Submit registration form and abstract for civic engagement symposium
4/8: Submit registration form and abstract for research symposium
4/9: PP2 final
4/9: Submit poster by email to civic engagement symposium
4/11: Print center deadline for research symposium
4/18: Print center deadline for civic engagement symposium
4/18: Present poster at research symposium, 4:30-6:00pm (PP3)
4/25: Present poster at civic engagement symposium, 12:00-1:30pm (PP3)

Other deadlines: TR3 on 4/16, IR3 on 4/19

Class 18, Friday 3/29/2024

Continue with project checkpoint presentations, online via Zoom.
Poster abstract peer review.
- make at least one positive comment and one suggestion for improvement
- abstracts available at poster-abstracts.docx
Abstract review assignments:
- Kafka reviews Sugarlabs and Huggingface
- Sugarlabs reviews Huggingface and Mermaid
- Huggingface reviews Mermaid and Giang
- Mermaid reviews Giang and Kafka
- Giang reviews Kafka and Sugarlabs
- William reviews Dzung and Hailie
- Dzung reviews Hailie and William
- Hailie reviews William and Dzung
Remaining time for capstone lab day

Class 17, Tuesday 3/26/2024

Project checkpoint presentations, online via Zoom.

Presentation order, courtesy of our friends at random.org:

Kafka
Sugarlabs
Huggingface
Mermaid
Giang

PP1 word limits:

for open-source teams: 50 words
for honors students: 250 words

Class 16, Friday 3/22/2024

capstone lab day
please complete the mid-semester survey.

Class 15, Tuesday 3/19/2024

Special discussion: Reflections on a Dickinson education

Class 14, Friday 3/10/2024

capstone lab day

Class 13, Tuesday 3/5/2024

Alumni videoconference

Class 12, Friday 3/1/2024

capstone lab day

Class 11, Tuesday 2/27/2024

Discussion of spam, politics, and censorship:

There were oral arguments yesterday in the Supreme Court about social media company censorship: Supreme Court skeptical of Texas, Florida regulation of social media moderation, blog post by Amy Howe, 2/26/2024 on scotusblog.com
Discussion guide: censorship-etc.pptx
Freedom on the Net 2022, a report produced by Freedom House, which is a US nonprofit organization:
- summary page
- the whole report

Class 10, Friday 2/23/2024

capstone lab day

Class 9, Tuesday 2/20/2024

Discussion of social media recommendation algorithms. See the Readings webpage for required reading.
discussion guide: recommendation-algorithms.pptx

Class 8, Friday 2/16/2024

capstone lab day

Class 7, Tuesday 2/13/2024

Discussion of the digital divide

discussion guide: digital-divide.pptx

Class 6, Friday 2/9/2024

capstone lab day

Class 5, Tuesday 2/6/2024

Discussion of automation and globalization

highlighted discussion questions:
- Ethan, responder Dzung
- Sophia, responder Trang
- Giang, responder Hailie
discussion guide: automation-and-globalization.pptx

Class 4, Friday 2/2/2024

capstone lab day

Class 3, Tuesday 1/30/2024

Discussion of professional ethics. Resources:
- Handout with overview of professional ethics: professional-ethics-summary.pptx
- The latest ACM code of ethics

Class 2, Friday 1/26/2024

Discussion of ethical theories
handout: ethical-theories-handout.pptx
New York Times article just published yesterday (for interest only, not required to read before class): https://www.nytimes.com/2024/01/25/technology/cruise-crash-report-san-francisco.html

Class 1, Tuesday 1/23/2024

Overview of the course.
capstone lab day