1. CS 575 Spring 2010 2010-05-15 K.V. Bapa Rao

2. Outline Administrative Review of previous class Student Presentations RDF Overview General Discussion Summary Agenda for next meeting

3. Administrative

4. Review Vannevar Bush’s vision Engelbart’s model Licklider’s development, goals, vision

5. Student Presentations Hanish Patel: Psychological Natalia Shatokhina: Info architecture Alexandre Lomotsev: technological evolution Jaideo Chaudhari: Brain-computer interface Niteen Borge: Accessibility/ Handicapped

6. REMINDER: A [flexible] structure for our study ‘Human issues’ is all-encompassing Many interlocking dimensions Human roles vis-à-vis the computer – User – Inventor / researcher – Visionary – Content creator – Hacker – Criminal – Business person – Wealth generator – … Human-computer coupling – Symbiosis, tool, …

7. A [flexible] structure for our study (contd) Domains of human activity – Education, Entertainment, Play, Family, Reproduction, Art,Wealth generation, Government, consumption, religion, philosophy, … Values – Many values depend on role, domain, … – Absolute values? – Creativity, aesthetics, access, opportunity, freedom, spirituality, rationality, peace, brotherhood, prosperity, … Vision, potentials, realities – Babbage’s Analytical Engine, Bush’s Memex, … Pragmatics – Is it possible? How to get there? – Techniques, Design, Technology, Scaling and emergent phenomena – Will a whole new thing emerge if huge numbers of humans interact with computers in a certain way? How do we understand that ‘thing’? Other aspects, dimensions?

8. A Concrete Example: Overview of RDF http://www.w3schools.com/rdf/rdf_intro.asp

9. Summary Recent history of human/computer concepts Student presentations – Programming paradigms: Jigar – Web mining:Manthan – Human Enhancement Ethics: Yuri – Crowdsourcing : Gaurang – Security, privacy, crime: Abhishek – Entertainment, gaming: Armen – Network Security: Kevin – Robotics: Rucha & Pratyush – UI Standards & Tools: Khushroo – Convergence: Deirdre – Brain-computer integration: Michael – DB History: Astep – Psychological aspects : Hanish – Social Networking :Jwalant, Priyanka – Information architecture : Natalia – Technology Evolution: Alexandre – Brain-computer interface : Jaideo – User Experience: Niteen – Personal Info mgmt vision (Jonathan), cloud computing(Ramandeep), accessibility (Kate)

10. Agenda for next week