Author Archives: Matt Glancy

The three most important things I learned this semester were it’s a lot easier to find information on a person once you find their traffic violations, design your resume for the job you’re applying for (don’t include information about how good of a cook you are when applying for a software engineer position), and researchContinue reading “Note to Next Semester Students”

As I’m doing a presentation about setting federal laws for AI, I’m really interested in hearing about what the other AI presenters are going to bring to the table about how they think it should function, and the sort of implications that come with it. The moral sides of AI will be very interesting toContinue reading “Final Topic Presentations”

Before the class, I had zero knowledge on what blockchain actually is and found it to be a very interesting way to put more power into the people, rather than 3rd party avenues. What I liked the most about this technology is that every action is immutable, and can only have additions to it ifContinue reading “Blockchain Reflection”

As a kid when this all happened, I never actually saw any of news reports of what he was doing at the time, however as time passed I learned more and more about it. I never knew about his personal life and how he had a family to worry for while doing something like this.Continue reading “CitizenFour Reflection”

The TED talks didn’t really bring anything new to the table for us, as anything they said were already discussed in our class. Their main goal was just to bring awareness to the issue of every company is doing something shady with your data and we should know that it is happening to be moreContinue reading “TED Talks, Privacy Policies, & Online Presence”

I enjoyed the conversations that were sparked from reviewing the certain privacy aspects of your website, and haven’t previously considered the fact that sites can and do store data from users that no longer exist. In addition to this, I wasn’t aware as to how easy it is to find people’s locations online, associated withContinue reading “Hive Tracks Reflection”

It seemed like everyone agreed on the simple fact that don’t do what hurts others, and this is the simplest “good” ethical discussion anyone can make. However, I differed where I wouldn’t do something if it ends up hurting myself to a point where my own value passes how I view that person. As IContinue reading “Ethics Discussion Relfection”

Inside of ClassMy best computing experience due to a class project is when I had to program a memory cache for Computer Systems 2. The first week (of two) was a challenging hurdle to figure out how exactly the cache is supposed to function, but once I fully understood it the cache became an accomplishingContinue reading “Best Computing Experience”