Digital Design by AN

As part of a lesson, we were to create a one page sort of research paper about a data innovation of our choosing. I chose to write about artificial intelligence because it has always been a topic that has peaked my interest. Luckily, code.org provided a template to write our one pager. The template was basically the following, the purpose of the innovation, its function, and the beneficial effects it can have on society, economy, or culture. We had to have three sources from reputable websites also which made the assignment more complex because there was less page for the writing on the one page. Moreover, there had to be a visualization which filled a lot of space on the one page, but the visualization couldn't be some random image. It had to enhance the one page by further explaining or illustrating the innovation. In hindsight, this was good practice for the AP exam because it was similar to the explore task.

One part of the AP Computer Science exam is called the explore task where the students are to research a technological innovation that has occurred within the past year. This was not a practice test or review, it was the actual explore task for the AP exam which really put everyone tense. However, we were given adequate time and we even had the option of working on the task at home or over the weekend. The actual task consisted of creating a computational artifact or in other words a visualization to represent and illustrate what our innovation was and the purpose. There were no real restriction except that it had to illustrate our innovation, but the written response part of the exam did have some restrictions. The written response was basically responding to prompts/ questions pertaining to out innovation such as what was the function and what is a security concern. This nay sound very simple, and it was a little, but there was a word limit which made it so we had to compress our inf

Today at school, we had another work based learning workshop and this time it was mainly focused on job safety. We started off by watching a tragic video of a new report on a young man who died because he got sucked into a wood chipper. This was meant to scare us and to let us know job safety is to be taken seriously. Then as a detour in the presentation a representative from Future and Options came to inform us about the internship opportunity and career program opportunity which was relevant to the students in attendance, including myself, because a requirement for the class was to have an internship. The internship was for the summer and it was a paid internship which meant if we got accepted then the program would pay us 13 dollars per hour. The college program was a series of college workshops that is to help us with learning more information on the college applications and the steps needed to be taken. Afterwards, we went back to job safety and discussed the rights we have while

In a recent article published by the University of Michigan on their news page, the threats and holes in the cybersecurity of the new self-driving cars are revealed. Cyber security has become a huge concern in society due to the fact that most of our technology has the potential of being hacked and used against us. The self-driving cars are no different; there is a possibility driver's cars can get hacked and the driver could be sent to a different location then attended or the hacker could hold the driver for a ransom. Although this may sound hypothetical, it is extremely possible because cyber security is over looked in the development of self-driving cars. This could lead to harmful outcomes such as a person's car can shut down at any moment a hacker desires which could cause crashes. The article also states that although the advancement of technology is great for society we should not hesitate to scrutinize because if we don't there is a possibility of holes being left

Recently a professor at the UA's Department of Physics, named Jose Angel Berna created a app that is able to pinpoint the location of a person without using a phone signal. The application works by emitting a wi-fi signal that acts as a distress signal over a distance of several kilometers. The signal would contain the coordinated of the person and it comes with short message such as "I am injures" or "I need help". Then a group, in most cases a rescue team would have a light portable receptor device that would have a small antenna that can connect to the smartphone of the search party. This technology was created when natural disasters such as floods and earthquakes occur and people are missing,  but since mobile phone infrastructure is often useless in those cases this app would help the rescue parties. All that is needed to be done for the app to work is for the person in distress to activate the mobile app and the app will emit the signal periodically even i