NOTE: ID/PWD to access course materials will be distributed in the first class.
Week #1 (8/20-25): Introduction
Week #2 (8/27-31): Basic Machine Learning Skills (supervised)
Lecture: decision-tree, naive-bayes & evaluation
Lab: supervised (DUE: 8/29)
Week #3 (9/3-9/7) : Basic Machine Learning Skills (unsupervised)
Lecture: clustering
Project #1: clickbait detection (DUE: 10/7)
Week #4 (9/10-14): Fake News
Lecture: fake-news 1/2
Lab: fake-news (DUE: 9/14)
The Fake News Machine, CNN.com, 2017
Inside a fake news sausage factory: 'This is all about income', NY Times, 2016
Enquiring Minds: Early Detection of Rumors in Social Media from Enquiry Posts, WWW, 2015
Rumor Cascades, AAAI ICWSM, 2014
Week #5 (9/17-21): Fake News
Lecture: fake-news 2/2
Lab: fake-it-to-make-it game, fake-news-game (DUE: 9/21)
The Spreading of Misinformation Online, PNAS, 2015
The Science of Fake News, Science, 2018
The Spread of True and False News Online, Science, 2018
Combating Fake News: An Agenda for Research and Action, Harvard & Northeastern, 2017
Week #6 (9/24-28): Junk Science
Lecture: detect fake conf, impact of venue
Lab: junk-science (DUE: 9/28)
Scientific Articles Accepted (Personal Checks, Too), NY Times, 2015
Major publisher retracts 43 scientific papers amid wider fake peer-review scandal, The Washington Post, 2015
Retraction Watch: Tracking retractions as a window into the scientific process
Call That Gibberish?, ACM Queue, 2005
Inauthetic Paper Detector, Indiana U., 2006
Week #7 (10/1-5): Junk Science
Lecture: bad visualization, correlation vs. causation
Lab: criminality
A physicist experiments with cultural studies, Lingua Franca, 1996
Oracle, Where Shall I Submit My Papers?, ACM Comm. of the ACM, 2009
Toward Alternative Measures for Ranking Venues: A Case of Database Research Community, ACM/IEEE JCDL, 2007
Using Compression to Identify Classes of Inauthentic Texts, SIAM SDM, 2006
The Visual Display of Quantitative Information, 2nd Edition, 2001
Week #8 (10/8-12): Astroturfing, Sockpuppets, and Catfish
Lab: social fraud (DUE: 10/12)
The Best Book Reviews Money Can Buy, NY Times, 2012
The Weird Reasons Why People Make Up False Identities on the Internet, Wired, 2014
Catfish: How Manti Te’o’s imaginary romance got its name, Boston Globe, 2013
Spotting Fake Reviewer Groups in Consumer Reviews, WWW, 2012
Opinion Spam and Analysis, ACM WSDM, 2008
Fraud and Malware Detection in Google Play, SIAM SDM, 2016
Week #9 (10/15-19): Astroturfing, Sockpuppets, and Catfish
Lecture: fake review, sockpuppet, prevention
Assignment: presentation (DUE: 11/9)
What Yelp Fake Review Filter Might Be Doing, AAAI ICWSM, 2013
Turning the Tide: Curbing Deceptive Yelp Behaviors, SIAM SDM, 2014
An Army of Me: Sockpuppets in Online Discussion Communities, WWW, 2017
Uncovering Fake Likers in Online Social Networks, ACM CIKM, 2016
Stateless Puzzles for Real Time Online Fraud Preemption, ACM Web Science, 2017
Week #10 (10/22-26): Spam, Phishing, and Social Engineering Attacks
Lecture: social engineering
Lab: anti-phishing game, reality river game, phishing (DUE: 10/26)
The Sleazy Life and Nasty Death of Russia's Spam King, Wired, 2007
What is the point of spam e-mail?, The Economist, 2017
Social Phishing, ACM Comm. of the ACM, 2007
Vishing, DEF CON, 2016
Project #2: design & implementation (DUE: 12/2)
Week #11 (10/29-11/2): Spam, Phishing, and Social Engineering Attacks
Lecture: anti-spam, naive-bayes-spam-filter
A Plan for Spam, 2002
Is Domain Highlighting Actually Helpful in Identifying Phishing Web Pages? Human Factors, 2017
A survey and experimental evaluation of image spam filtering techniques, Pattern Recognition Letters, 2011
A Survey of Learning-based Techniques of Email Spam Filtering, U. Trento, 2008
Machine Learning for E-mail Spam Filtering: Review,Techniques and Trends, arXiv, 2016
Week #12 (11/5-9): NO CLASS
Week #13 (11/12-16): Fraud Presentation
Week #14 (11/19-23): THANKSGIVING WEEK--NO CLASS
Week #15 (11/26-11/30): Project #2 Discussion
Week #16 (12/3-7): Project #2 Presentation
12/3 MON: Kenneth Schnall, Alec Ratzell, Chi-Yang Hsu, Sian Lee
12/5 WED: Colin Kelly, Rafael Vinluan, Sen Lu, Alexander Woodruff
FINAL EXAM (Written): Dec. 11 TUE 10:10am - Noon, Westgate E205