CSE 111 A B Fall 2008 Final Project Due Date Thursday November 20th no later than 12 noon Submission is Electronic Project is submitted to your TA This is a Team Project Team will be assigned at random from within recitations labs Teams are to select a topic from the attached list If your team cannot find an acceptable topic on the list you can create one of your team s choosing by having it approved by your instructor Teams will consist of 5 6 class members Should team members drop the course the remaining team will still have enough members to complete the project Each team will develop a presentation or document in any of the following formats Video clip Presentation software Google Presentation Wiki essentially a paper Blog Discussion by group members on the topic Blog debate pro con paper or any other presentation method that seems appropriate All team members MUST participate Team members will evaluate each other and such evaluations will be part of your grade Each team will do a presentation of their work in recitation lab Presentations should last approximately 15 minutes Each team must also provide a one page summary which includes references Presentations my be in a Web post able format What your presentation might look like Each presentation should last between 15 minutes and plan for a few minutes of follow up questions from the other students in your recitation or your TA a A video should last at least 10 minutes b A PowerPoint Google Presentations should include about 20 25 slide c Document based presentations such as a blog wiki or a paper must be the equivalent of a 5 6 page paper Your team will still need to explain what your wiki or blog contains and you should be expected to be able to show it to your classmates and TA Each presentation must use at least 4 verifiable references and appropriate citations are required All references whether from print media or the Internet must be from 2006 to the present Three years is forever in the computer world Information from earlier than 2006 is likely to contain out of date information If this three year time frame becomes a problem consult with your TA Your project must discuss the topic in sufficient depth so that other students reading or viewing your presentation can then speak discuss the topic intelligently The best presentations will be posted and questions relating to them may appear on the last exam For some of these topics there are no right answers In those cases your views matter However you need to be able to support your views with facts CSE 111 A B Fall 2008 Final Project Projects will be graded on content creativity quality of presented material and the usefulness of referenced material Peer evaluations from your team members will also be included in your grade All team members will receive the same base grade 70 of the project grade is the base grade 10 is a presentation grade and 20 is for the peer evaluations Students who fail to show up for their team s presentation will automatically receive a letter grade lower as their base grade on the project regardless of their participation in the development of the project Peer Evaluations Each team member will evaluate every other team member and themselves in writing The peer evaluations will be handed in to the TA when the project is presented in class The form for the peer evaluations are found in an additional attachment Topic List 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 100 Laptop Project John Von Neumann Alan Turing Anonymity and Internet information Are Robots like R2D2 and C3P0 possible Biometrics Computer animation Computer Errors Computer Ethics Computer History Computer Music Computer Piracy Computers and Censorship Computers and Data Collection issues Computers and Free Speech Computers and Medical Data issues Computers and the changing job market Computers and the Family Computers and the War on Terror Computers in Medicine Computers in Science Fiction Copyright Computers Creating digital content computers and art Dangers from Computer communities Digital Divide Do computers think E dating good or bad Electronic voting Email issues Encryption Fraud Game Design Government data collection Hacking Homework sites How safe are the computers and software we use Identity Theft Information overload Internet access in China CSE 111 A B Fall 2008 Final Project 40 41 42 43 44 45 46 47 48 49 50 51 52 53 54 55 Is Google s influence becoming too great Is Microsoft the Evil Empire Keeping in touch Email Text messaging cell phones etc Out sourcing of employment Phishing Plagiarism in the digital age Robots in the Real World Software for children Is this a good idea SPAM The changing library Virtual Communities and Social Networking Face book MySpace etc What is a Turing Machine What is the Turing Test Include examples What s a Blog How is it used What can it contain What s a Wiki How is it used What can it contain Why is computer gaming is so popular
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