CSCI 15 - Winter Study 2020
An Introduction to the Modern Internet
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Lecture Notes and Examples
Links to lecture slides and files will be available after class on the date shown.
| Date | Lecture | Articles | Slides | Reading |
| 6 Jan | The Internet: A series of tubes |
Article 1 Article 2a Article 2b Article 2c Article 3a Article 3b Article 4a Article 4b |
lec1 |
Blown to Bits Chapter 1 |
| 8 Jan | Bits, Protocols, and File Formats |
feep.pgm mobydick.txt hello.txt |
lec2 |
Blown to Bits Chapter 3 |
| 9 Jan | Internet Service Providers |
lec3 |
Why do Internet Exchange Points Play a Fundamental Role in the Internet Ecosystem? Up to 21.2.4 (Measuring node importance) Skim these slides from Cisco about how ISPs share information. We will go over these ideas in class as well. |
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| 13 Jan | Net Neutrality |
Net Neutrality in 2020: Article 1a Article 1b Article 1c Article 1d Impact of Net Neutrality: Article 2a Article 2b Article 2c Article 2d Bittorrent and throttling content: Article 3a Article 3b Article 3c Article 3d Zero-rate providers: Article 4a Article 4b Article 4c Article 4d |
lec4 |
Blown to Bits Appendix (The Internet as a System and Spirit) |
| 15 Jan | Privacy: What information are we giving out? |
lec5 |
Blown to Bits Chapter 2 until "Big Brother" (pages 19--48) | |
| 16 Jan | Privacy: Encryption |
lec6 |
Blown to Bits Chapter 5 | |
| 22 Jan | Government Oversight: Privacy and Censorship |
UAE Germany: 1 2 China Iran Australia UK Russia Latin America Pakistan India |
Blown to Bits Chapter 2 after "Big Brother" (pages 48--72) | |
| 23 Jan | Crowdsourcing and Human Computation | lec8b | ||
| 27 Jan | Search Engines, the Structure of the Web, and the Deep Web |
Wikipedia1: Skygate Wikipedia2: Paitstu Parish Wikipedia3: Laura Berman Wikipedia4: Bie Tingfang Random article generator |
lec9 | |
| 29 Jan | The Social Web |
Facebook's ads page Facebook's Audience Insights News about Facebook data selling |
lec10 | |
| 30 Jan | AI and Deep Learning |
Neural Networks video Adversarial image recognition example |
lec11 | |
