AOS1: Innovative solutions

Impacts of Current & Emerging Technologies

Areas to think about when considering the Issues and Impacts of any technology:

• automation - job losses, deskilling & changes, economic shifts

• access and inequity - the digital divide

• loss and change of human interaction and a decrease of interpersonal skills

• information and personal security, including cyber-bullying

• sustainability - environmental, economic and social

Tools for developing solutions & managing projects

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• Project Management & Gantt Charts

• Tools for Thinking: Design Thinking, Ideation, etc...

  • https://untools.co/

• Goals and Objectives, Needs or Opportunities

• Data Gathering

• Solution Requirements

• Evaluation Criteria

• Solution Design

Resources - Beginning (less coding)

• AI and the Oceans (Code.org) - get a feel for training a ML system and some of the possible unintended consequences

• Experiments with AI (Google) - includes Teachable Machine and other fun things to play with. (Also: AI @ Google - more discussions & ads!)

  • Google Duplex Announcement @ IO 2018

• NVidia ThisPersonDoesNotExist (StarGAN) & Which Face is Real?

  • StarGAN2 - NVidia research

  • NVidia Playground - some fun (but older) demos

• AI Ethics Courses

  • Moral Machine (MIT) and associated DigitalTechHub sequence

  • AI Ethics for HS @ MIT

• Coding a Sentimental Chatbot (DigitalTechHub sequence)

  • Sentiment analysis done using the amazing TextBlob package

Resources - Advanced, choose 0 to 1 courses

• Learning sequence @ Kaggle & the Titanic Tutorial

• AI For Everyone (by Andrew Ng)

• Fast AI courses

• Learn AI: @ Google, @ Microsoft, @ Amazon

Wearable Tech and IoT

Tech everywhere

Drones, nanosatellites and robotics

Huge range of applications

Games, Multimedia and Web

Games

Now the biggest entertainment industry in the world.

Web & Internet

Evolution of the Web:

• A short history of the Web (CERN)

• Web 1.0 to 2.0 to 3.0 (Geeks for Geeks)

• Single Page Web Apps (ExcellentWebWorld)

• Progressive Web Apps (web.dev - Google)

• Web Assembly - the death of JavaScript?

Tutorials:

• Intro to HTML & CSS and JavaScript (Grok)

• Khan Academy and code.org are also good intros, Free Code Camp is a good full stack course

• Anvil (a Python-only full-stack web app builder)

  • Anvil Learning Center - complete the Feedback Form Tute

  • Longer course from TalkPython Training

• Django, Flask and Pyramid are the major Python web frameworks.

Mixed Reality AR & VR

This is a big growth area at the moment and can lead to a lot more than just Pokemon Go... Here are some of the larger companies working on it: Google AR/VR & Cardboard, Microsoft Hololense, Nvidia VRWorks, Facebook & Oculus, Apple's integrated AR/VR and headset plans, ...

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Blockchain and other new Tech

Blockchain

Most famous use is in cryptocurrency like Bit Coin. However, that is probably not scalable and is unsustainable. Instead, blockchain might find more use for micro contracts and other public registers.

How it works

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