Author Archives: Nick Nichols

So for our final topic presentations, the topic that I’d be most interested in hearing more about is automation and how it affects and will affect the world in the coming decades. I think, in general, its kind of fascinating to speculate what will happen if most or all of our jobs become replaced byContinue reading “Thoughts on final topic presentations”

So this week in our seminar class, we took a look at privacy and how it applies to CS, and to do so, we engaged in the frowned upon activity of researching another person in class to see what we could find on them, and have them do the same to us to reveal howContinue reading “Thoughts on privacy discussions”

So the first important/most interesting thing that I learned from this class was other people’s views on ethics and where they come from. Going into this class without much knowledge of where other CS students get their ethics, I blindly assumed that most of their ethics came from religion. Even though I would say AppalachianContinue reading “Final blog post”

So our class split into three groups to brainstorm about the impacts of privacy, security, and intellectual property of the study. Our group discussed the intellectual property aspects of the Hive Tracks/ Bee Informed partnership. Albeit it was a bit difficult to come up with the caveats involving intellectual property about the bee study, (whichContinue reading “Reflections on Hive Tracks/ Bee Informed partnership study”

Best Out-of-Class experience: I’d have to say that my best out of class computer-related experience is simply online gaming with my friends, on PC and other platforms. While it’s not really the first thing I think of whenever I think of Computer Science, its certainly not possible without the science behind it, literally speaking. IContinue reading “My First Blog Post”

I guess in a few words, the oral presentations on ethics weren’t that surprising. As far as I remember, a majority of people in the class said they get their ethics from the golden rule, (you wouldn’t do that to yourself, why do it to others), which is what I thought most people would say.Continue reading “Ethics Reflection”