全球資訊新聞導讀

Global Information Technology News

1. Course Number: 219163
2. Course Objectives: This course gives a broad view of global information technology news. Students will collect and study news reports from all over the world, and highlight key concepts for oral discussion. After a semester of reading and speaking, students will be familiar with key concepts in IT as well as proficient at English presentation.
3. Time: Friday 14:10-17:00
4. Classroom: TC-321
5. Students: 9
6. Instructor Office Hour: Monday 19:10-21:00, TC-409
7. Teaching Approach: Reading Assignment, Presentation, Group Discussion
8. Grading criteria:
   • Homework (30%)
   • Midterm Exam (30%)
   • Term Project and Oral Presentation (40%)
9. Textbook:
   • 李家同，海柏, "專門替中國人寫的英文基本文法", 聯經出版, 2004.
10. References:
    1. The Elements of Style by William Strunk, Jr.
    2. 閱讀課 : 與孩子共讀15篇商業周刊好文章
    3. 大前研一, "思考的技術"
11. Teaching Assistant tasks: Homework Evaluation, Presentation Rehearsals

Syllabus

1. LaTeX
   1. Leslie Lamport - Turing Award Laureate, 2014.
   2. Overleaf, Online LaTeX Editor
      • small2e.tex
        • Add title, author, and date
        • Mathematical Formulas
        • Chinese
        • Cross-References and Citation
      • IEEE Templates
        • IEEE Conference Template for Overleaf
      • Presentation with the document class Beamer.
   3. Brian Rushton, How should LaTeX be taught to university students?, Mathematics Educators Stack Exchange, March 19, 2014.
   4. Leslie Lamport, "Password Authentication with Insecure Communication", Communications of the ACM 24.11 (November 1981), pp.770-772.
2. Programmers
   1. Vinton G. Cerf, ACM and the Professional Programmer, Communications of the ACM, August 2014, Vol. 57 No. 8, Page 7 doi:10.1145/2639107
   2. Bertrand Meyer, AI Does Not Help Programmers, BLOG@CACM, June 3, 2023.
   3. 何佩珊, 台灣「未來獨角獸」報到，軟體黃金10年來了, BusinessWeekly Vol. 1863, pp.66-87, July 31, 2023.
3. ChatBot
   1. A Factual Error by Bard AI Chatbot Just Cost Google $100 Billion, TIME Magazine.
   2. Natalie Sherman, Google's Bard AI bot mistake wipes $100bn off shares, BBC, February 8, 2023.
   3. Eric Griffith, GPT-4 vs. ChatGPT-3.5: What’s the Difference?, PC Magazine, March 16, 2023.
   4. Herbert Bruderer, Is Bard Better than ChatGPT?" BLOG@CACM, July 17, 2023.
   5. AMRITANSHU MUKHERJEE, OpenAI Could Go Bankrupt By 2024 Due To ChatGPT, AUGUSTMAN, August 14, 2023.
   6. Philippa Wain, Chatbots: Why does White House want hackers to trick AI? BBC, August 6, 2023.
   7. AVI STAIMAN, "Academic Publishers Are Missing the Point on ChatGPT", The Scholarly Kitchen, March 31, 2023.
   8. Clare Duffy, Google rolls out a major expansion of its Bard AI chatbot, CNN, September 19, 2023.
4. Code Generator
   1. Samuel Greengard, "AI Rewrites Coding," Communications of the ACM, April 2023, Vol. 66 No. 4, Pages 12-14. doi:10.1145/3583083
   2. CodePal
   3. GitHub Copilot
   4. Alex McFarland, 10 Best AI Code Generators, Unite.AI, August 1, 2023.
5. CPU
   1. Stephen Shankland, Apple's Brainiest Mac Chip So Far, the M2 Ultra, Means No More Intel, CNET, June 5, 2023.
   2. MATTHEW CONNATSER, For Intel's Meteor Lake, the tech inside is more important than the overall product, XDA Newsletter, October 1, 2023.
   3. Catalin Cimpanu, Intel CPUs impacted by new Zombieload side-channel attack, ZDNet, May 14, 2019.
6. Neural Net
   1. Victor Zhou, Machine Learning for Beginners: An Introduction to Neural Networks, MARCH 3, 2019.
   2. Tiernan Ray, Intel architect Koduri says every chip will be a neural net processor, ZDNet, August 19, 2021.
   3. Josh Taylor and Alex Hern, ‘Godfather of AI’ Geoffrey Hinton quits Google and warns over dangers of misinformation, The Guardian, May 2, 2023.
7. GPU
   • Paul Alcorn, "AMD Rising: CPU And GPU Market Share Growing Rapidly", Tom's Hardware, February 28, 2018.
   • Jeremy Laird, "AMD regains (a tiny bit of) GPU market share from Nvidia", PC GAMER, August 31, 2023.
     • What is an APU?
   • Darren Murph. "Stanford University tailors Folding@home to GPUs", Octber 12, 2007.
     • Roger Cheng, "BEHIND THE SCENES OF FOLDING@HOME: HOW DO YOU FIGHT A VIRUS WITH DISTRIBUTED COMPUTING?" HACKADAY, March 31, 2020.
     • Al Williams, "FAREWELL SETI@HOME", HACKADAY, March 6, 2020.
8. Cooling System
   1. Wes Fenlon, Overclocking a CPU to 7 GHz with the science of liquid nitrogen, PC GAMER, June 10, 2017.
   2. Niels Broekhuijsen, How to Install a Waterblock on a GPU: Liquid Cooling Your Graphics Card, time's HARDWARE, August 28, 2020.
   3. Jacob Ridley, MSI prototypes for the future of graphics card cooling look impressive and expensive, PC GAMER, May 30, 2023.
9. DPU
   1. Janakiram MSV, What Is A Data Processing Unit (DPU) And Why Is NVIDIA Betting On It?, Forbes, October 11, 2020.
   2. John Russell, Hot Chips: Here Come the DPUs and IPUs from Arm, Nvidia and Intel, HPCwire, August 25, 2021.
10. TPU
    1. Joe Osborne, Google's Tensor Processing Unit explained: this is what the future of computing looks like, TechRadar, August 23, 2016.
    2. Anton Shilov, ASUS & Google Team Up for ‘Tinker Board’ AI-Focused Credit-Card Sized Computers,AnandTech, November 12, 2019.
11. Quantum Computing
    • John Russell, IBM Quantum Update: Q System One Launch, New Collaborators, and QC Center Plans, HPCwire, January 10, 2019.
    • John Martinis, Quantum Supremacy Using a Programmable Superconducting Processor at Google, Google Research BLOG, OCTOBER 23, 2019.
12. Quantum Communication
    • Martin Giles, Explainer: What is quantum communication?, MIT Technology Review, February 14, 2019.
    • NIST, Quantum Communications and Networks, February 7, 2023.
13. Drone
    • 林洧楨, 美國軍火商也組團來，22兆軍工商機湧進台灣！揭密阿里山下無人機聚落, 商業周刊, April 12, 2023.
    • How are 'kamikaze' drones being used by Russia and Ukraine? BBC, January 3, 2023.
    • Jonathan Marcus, Combat drones: We are in a new era of warfare - here's why, BBC, February 4, 2022.
    • SAIRA HUSSAIN AND HANNAH ZHAO, Victory! Fourth Circuit Rules Baltimore’s Warrantless Aerial Surveillance Program Unconstitutional, EFF, July 2, 2021.
    • RFC 9153 - Drone Remote Identification Protocol (DRIP) Requirements and Terminology, February 2022.
    • RFC 9434 Drone Remote Identification Protocol (DRIP) Architecture, July 2023.
14. Virus
    1. The accident that created the world's first computer virus, BBC, July 25, 2023.
    2. Ralph Langner, To Kill a Centrifuge: A Technical Analysis of What Stuxnet's Creators Tried to Achieve, June 13, 2016.
15. CS Education
    • N. E. Gibbs, The SEI education program: the challenge of teaching future software engineers, Communications of the ACM, Volume 32, Issue 5, May 1989, pp. 594–605. https://doi.org/10.1145/63485.63490.
    • Esther Shein, Python for beginners, Communications of the ACM, Volume 58, Issue 3, March 2015, pp, 19–21. https://doi.org/10.1145/2716560
    • Benjamin S. Bloom, Learning for Mastery.
16. 2023 Turing Award Laureate: Rober Metcalfe
    1. Podcast
    2. Transcript

News Source

1. ACM TechNews
2. WIRED
3. Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF)
4. CNN Technology
5. BBC Technology
6. CNET
7. ZDNet
8. PC Magazine
9. Wall Street Journal Technology
10. The New York Times Technology
11. The Guardian Technology
12. Tech & Learning

Reference:

1. BBC Learning English
2. Better Writing through Appropriate Vocabulary and Grammar (Activity about "Semantic Markers")
3. 政治及財經新聞解讀
4. Journalism on Coursera