CIS 1000 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Crowdsourcing, Jumbotron, Display Device

• School: University of Guelph
• Department: Computing and Information Science
• Course: CIS 1000
• Professor: Zoe Zhu

Document Summary

Social media: repression and censorship people brought together. Crisis mapping: helped spread awareness in crisis, e. g. violent kenya elections. 100% chance of flu pandemic in century, can be less impact. The next einstein initiative (nei) is a plan to focus resources on the young talented mathematical minds of africa. Peter gabriel/the witness project provides video cameras to document human rights abuses. Johnny lee s blog procrastineering. blogspot. com enables users to create smartboards for . The world food programme analyzes the location and need for food around the world to position the food where it will help the most. Fab@home printers enable users to fabricate 3-d objects such as electrical parts. The junkyard jumbotron from the mit center for future civic media is software that enables users to create one huge display device from a set of smaller units, thereby keeping monitors out of landfills. 3 factors lead to satisfaction: autonomy, mastery, purpose.