A couple students in my research group and I did a bunch of analysis of the Twitter response to the iPhone 5 announcement this past Wednesday (Sept. 12). We put all our findings into a snazzy infographic. Check it out!
We also wrote a brief blog article that shares some of our thoughts on what interesting trends emerged.
The solutions for the binary practice problems are now online. Identify any issues you had and we can talk about them in class.
Homework #1 is now available. It will be due at the beginning of class Sept 19th. You’re welcome to submit the assignment in written or digital form. If you do submit by email (which is totally fine), email both the TA and me.
I showed this in class today, but it’s definitely worth a post as well.
Lecture 16 is now online. Sorry for the delay!
The final review is now up. We’ll go over it on Friday.
Assignment 6 is now up and available. It is due next Monday (Nov 21st) in class.
In class we’ve talked about how social engineering is a fundamental part of hacking into systems. Here are two fantastic stories about how a security consultant has robbed more than 1,000 banks in order to prove to his clients that security means more than using good passwords (article 1, article 2). They are excellent reads!
The midterm from Wednesday is now online. For those of you who were not in class today, we went over the midterm. Everyone has the opportunity to rework (and resubmit) problems they didn’t get full credit on for additional points (you will receive half the full points for each problem you lost points on on the original midterm). This is in everyone’s interest to do, so please take advantage of it – work your results out on a separate sheet of paper and submit your reworked problems attached to your original midterm on Monday.
If you weren’t in class today, please contact me to find a time when you can stop by and pick your midterm up.
Lecture 12, in which we discussed the details of databases, is now online on the Schedule page.
