Computer Science 4 All

Last summer, I worked for a local startup for South Bend Code School (SBCS), an organization with the mission of exposing children and young adults to computer science education. While SBCS had a more direct focus on giving these students (especially those without the same opportunities as their more fortunate peers) skills that they can […]

Intellectual Property

Patents are essentially certificates given by a unified central body, to recognize inventors in any particular field of industry for their creative or innovative works. Theoretically, these patents are meant to ethically/morally provide credit where due for advancements in the wealth of information and technology, and economically provide inventors with monetary incentives for providing their […]

Automation

The human race began, as all races do, with an incredibly simple existence. The vast majority of life was spent simply sustaining and preserving that life as part of the natural food chain, much like other animals we observe today. We (humans) hunted and gathered to feed ourselves, feed those whom we would reproduce with, […]

Project 3 Reflection

I’ve been using the browser extension Privacy Badger for a few days, and am fairly shocked at the long list of trackers that it has identified, whether benign or not. I was already fairly good about keeping minimal permissions for apps on my phone, but when I went into my privacy settings I was still […]

Trolling/Anonymity, Intelligence

So trolling is a fairly loose term that people tend to use to describe lots of different types of activities or people, but for sake of argument I will lay out my own definition: I believe that trolling is performing any deliberate action with the aim/motivation of upsetting another human being or eliciting an emotional […]

Freedom of Speech

I’ll say this up front: I believe that any precedent of censorship by a governing or overarching body of material or content meant for the people being served by said government or body is incredibly dangerous for the future of that particular community or society. I the only exceptions to this principle in my mind […]

Online Advertising

Like the article from the Atlantic stated, people’s information/data, and the ability to access those people’s lives, have become a new form of currency in and of itself. Especially in a society where most decisions that people make are at least influenced by their impact on “real” currency, the framework of trading one for the […]

snowden/surveillance

What is the purpose of government? Ever since humans have walked the earth, they have come together in groups for the purposes of survival, safety, meeting basic human needs (food, shelter, etc), reproduction, technological/intellectual advancement, and “fulfillment” through interaction. Division of basic tasks to provide for a community from a large group is more efficient […]

Project 2 Reflection

I think that the most important part of the guide that my group created is the part about what you can be doing throughout your college career to prepare and navigate yourself into a hireable position. Everyone knows that Junior/Senior year interview and job preparation is a thing, but most people don’t necessarily start earlier […]

Project 2: Job/Interview Guide

ethics-job-interview-guide This was written by Darrett Guffy, Antonio Minondo, and I. yup.