Week 5

Weeks 4 and 5

Background:

Open standards for imagery: jpg, gif, pdf, svg, etc.
Unicode and cultural access (general coding and ASCII) (Khmer script anecdote)
accessibility
security

Assignment #4 (due Friday March 29th) : write a three page paper about a contemporary issue involving information technology in which professional ethics have been questionnable though no apparent crime was committed. Incentive for uniqueness of topic; disincentive for topics that are frequently chosen by others. Submit, the assignment on paper, at the beginning of class on the 29th (no email attachments, EVER!)

Quiz : Friday March 29th (everything covered to that date) -- closed book, closed notes, closed internet.

News for thought:

3d pens (and marketing strategy) and printers (and IP implications)
Google glass (and marketing strategy)
High res tablet
Reuters: China claims hacks come from US
http://gigalaw.com/ -- take a look at the entries for Mar. 5th