1 September

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1 September

• Perception vs. Reality

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Current Event IPod Cellphone

• Mobile phone and music player
• Over-the-air music download
• Question What should mobile phones do?
• What do they do today?
• Are there things they shouldnt do?

NY Times, August 30 http//www.nytimes.com/2005/08
/30/technology/30apple.html?themcth
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Perception vs. Reality

• Why do you perceive a website or a technology to
  be safe?
• Why do you trust anything or anybody?

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Trust

• What is trust?
• Definition
• assured reliance on the character, ability,
  strength, or truth of someone or something
  (Merriam-Webster)
• What/who do you trust?
• People, companies, organizations, brands
• How do you characterize them?

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Creating trust

• Stores or products?
• Generate trust through
• Brands
• History
• People?
• Generate trust through
• Reputation
• Behavior

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Destroying trust

• What breaks that trust?
• Mistrust lack of confidence
• How do confidence and trust relate?
• Can you regenerate trust?
• People?
• Brands?
• Counterfeiting and trust

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Cybertrust technologies

• What technologies do you NOT trust?
• Why?
• Is it that you worry about the technology or the
  data?

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The Weakest Link

• Why do people check bank statements, credit card
  bills, or restaurant charges?
• The quality of the system is only as good as the
  weakest link
• What is the weakest link?
• people
• GIGO garbage in, garbage out

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Using Technology to Predict

• Significant work in modeling
• economies, weather, elections
• How much do you trust the model?
• Risk assessment cost/benefit analysis
• What are examples where you make risk assessments?

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Elections

• 1948

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Computer Predictions

• 1952 Stevenson and Eisenhower considered dead
  heat
• Univac used on CBS to predict result
• built by Eckert and Mauchley, builders of Eniac,
  the first computer
• CBS treated it as a novelty
• Mock-up shown on tv

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That evening

• 830 pm Univac predicts Eisenhower landslide 438
  93
• 915 pm algorithm adjusted to give Eisenhower
  8-to-7 odds
• Later CBS confessed the truth
• Actual results 442-89
• Electoral vote within 1
• Popular vote within 3

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Predictions

• Factors that make them accurate?
• Inaccurate?

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And in cyberspace

• What makes you trust a web site?
• Name
• How do you get a URL?
• How do you create a name on a web site?
• What is a link?
• Certification
• How do you put a picture on a web page?
• Lets take a peak

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Symbols on the web
VeriSign uses a Flash program a little harder
to fake, but not much
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Leads us to next week

• Build your home page, during which you will learn
• HTML
• How the computer processes it
• About files and file access
• Assignments
• Make sure you have your ONYEN
• Bring your laptop
• Wireless or an ethernet cable
• Fully charged battery

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Computer in the Arts

• About the work
• When was the work written or produced?
• Whats the genre?
• The role of computers
• A character or a tool?
• Central to the plot or peripheral?
• How computers are portrayed
• Intelligent or simplistic?
• Threatening, helpful or neutral?

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2001 A Space Odyssey

• Produced in 1968 as science fiction
• What was happening in 1968?
• Intel founded
• Sony introduces Trinitron technology
• Keyboard, mouse windows demonstrated
• First artificial intelligence program
• Apollo Guidance Computer
• Tentacle Arm

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1968 Apollo Guidance Computer

• Introduced in Apollo 7
• Steered Apollo 11 to lunar landing in 69
• Primitive interface

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1968 Tentacle Arm

• 12 joints
• Designed to reach around items
• Developed at MIT
• Controlled by DEC PDP-6 computer
• Max 1.2 Mbytes
• .125 MHz
• Powered by hydraulic fluids