Schedule
NOTE: ID/PWD to access course materials are posted in the Canvas
Week #1 (8/23): Introduction
Lecture: intro, bad-science
Week #3 (9/6) : Labor Day (NO CLASS)
Week #4 (9/13) : Academic Frauds and Fakes => Publish or Perish
Lecture: oracle, lab-vaccine
A Physicist Experiments with Cultural Studies, Lingua Franca 1996
Oracle, Where Shall I Submit My Papers?, CACM 2009
Scientific Articles Accepted (Personal Checks, Too), NY Times 2015
Call That Gibberish?, ACM Queue 2005
Project #1: Clickbait Tweet Detection (DUE: 10/11)
Diving Deep into Clickbaits: Who Use Them to What Extents in Which Topics with What Effects?, ASONAM 2017
Learning to Identify Ambiguous and Misleading News Headlines, IJCAI 2017
Characterizing Clickbaits on Instagram, ICWSM 2018
Detecting Incongruity between News Headline and Body Text via a Deep Hierarchical Encoder, AAAI 2019
Week #5 (9/20) : Information Frauds and Fakes => Fake News
Lecture: fakenews, lab-fakenews
HW #3 (DUE: 9/27)
The Fake News Machine, CNN.com, 2017
Inside a fake news sausage factory: 'This is all about income', NY Times, 2016
The Spreading of Misinformation Online, PNAS 2015
The Science of Fake News, Science 2018
The Spread of True and False News Online, Science 2018
Week #6 (9/27): Social Media Frauds and Fakes => False Identities
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
Turning the Tide: Curbing Deceptive Yelp Behaviors, SDM 2014
Wearing Many (Social) Hats: How Different are Your Different Social Network Personae?, ICWSM 2017
An Army of Me: Sockpuppets in Online Discussion Communities, WWW 2017
Week #7 (10/4): Social Media Frauds and Fakes => Fake Reviews and LIKEs
Lecture: astroturfing
HW #4 (DUE: 10/4)
HW #5 (DUE: 10/11)
Week #8 (10/11): Social Engineering Frauds and Fakes => Phishing
Lecture: social-eng, phishing
Social Phishing, ACM Comm. of the ACM, 2007
Private traits and attributes are predictable from digital records of human behavior, PNAS 2013
Is Domain Highlighting Actually Helpful in Identifying Phishing Web Pages? Human Factors, 2017
Use of Phishing Training to Improve Security Warning Compliance: Evidence from a Field Experiment, HotSoS, 2017
Detecting Credential Spear phishing in Enterprise Settings, USENIX Security 2017
Week #9 (10/18): Social Engineering Frauds and Fakes => Spam
The Sleazy Life and Nasty Death of Russia's Spam King, Wired, 2007
What is the point of spam e-mail?, The Economist, 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 #10 (10/25): No Class (Instructor's Trip)
Project #2: Open Topic Research (DUE: 12/6)
Week #11 (11/1): Social Engineering Frauds and Fakes => Socialbots
A decade of social bot detection, ACM CACM 2020
Week #12 (11/8): Neural Frauds and Fakes => Deepfake
Week #13 (11/15): Neural Frauds and Fakes => Textual Attack and Defense
Lecture: neural-text
Lab: text-attack
Week #14 (11/22): THANKSGIVING (NO CLASS)
Week #15 (11/29): Project #2 Discussion
Week #16 (12/6): Project #2 Presentation & FINAL EXAM (7:30-8:30pm)
6-7:30pm: Selected teams are invited for presentations
7:30-8:30pm: Exam Protocol (Open Book/Notes, Closed Electronics)