Schedule is updated dynamically throughout the semester
| DATE | TOPIC / PRESENTER | READING | LOCATION | OUT/DUE |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jan 10 | Intro & overview | How to read papers 1, 2 How to write papers 1, 2 |
Hastings 105 | Hw1 out |
| Jan 17 | Discussion paperLead: JacobGuest: Dennis Giese | Antonakakis et al. Understanding the Mirai Botnet, USENIX 2017 | Zoom | Hw2 outHw1 due |
| Jan 24 | Guest lecture:Dr. Benjamin Gyori | Gyori & Bachman From knowledge to models: Automated modeling in systems and synthetic biology, Current Opinion in Systems Biology, 28:2021 | Zoom &WVH 366 | Hw3 outHw2 dueProj groups due |
| Jan 31 | Discussion paperLead: Shreya | E. M. Bender et al. On the dangers of stochastic parrots: Can language models be too big?, ACM Conference on Fairness, Accountability, and Transparency, 2021.Presentation by author | Zoom | Hw4 outHw3 due |
| Feb 7 | Guest lecture:Dr. Ilias Zadik | I. Zadik. Computational and statistical challenges in high dimensional statistical models, Chapter 1, PhD dissertation, MIT, 2019 | Zoom &WVH 366 | Hw5 outHw4 due |
| Feb 14 | Guest lecture:Dr. Michael Ann DeVito | M. A. DeVito. How transfeminine TikTok creators navigate the algorithmic trap of visibility via folk theorization, ACM CHI, 2022 | Zoom &WVH 366 | Hw6 outHw5 due |
| Feb 21 | Project pitches | Zoom | ||
| Feb 28 | Guest lecture:Dr. Sunoo Park | M. Specter et al. KeyForge: Non-attributable email from forward-forgeable signatures, Cryptology, 2019 | Zoom &WVH 366 | Hw7 outHw6 due |
| Mar 7 | No class, Spring break | Proj proposal due 3/3 | ||
| Mar 14 | Guest lecture:Dr. Emily Wenger | S. Shan et al. Fawkes: Protecting privacy against unauthorized deep learning models, USENIX Security Symposium, 2020 | Zoom &WVH 366 | Hw8 outHw7 due |
| Mar 21 | Guest lecture:Dr. Michael Correll | M. Correll. Ethical dimensions of visualization research, ACM CHI, 2019 | Zoom &WVH 366 | Hw9 outHw8 due |
| Mar 28 | Discussion paperLead: TaeyoonGuest: Prof. Jon Bell | S. Zhou et al. How has forking changed in the last 20 years?: a study of hard forks on GitHub, ICSE 2020.Optional: Open source discussion by Jon Bell | Zoom | Hw10 outHw9 due |
| Apr 4 | Discussion paperLead: Ben | M. Halm et al. Burst of the Filter Bubble? Effects of personalization on the diversity of Google News, Digital Journalism, 2018. | Zoom | Hw11 outHw10 due |
| Apr 11 | Discussion paperLead: AaryanGuest: Prof. Cheng Tan | M. Lipp et al. Meltdown: Reading kernel memory from user space, USENIX, 2018. | Zoom | Hw11 due |
| Apr 18 | Project presentations | Proj report due Apr 21 | ||
| Apr 25 | Finals week | Proj review due |