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February 16, 2010 (vol. 120, iss. 95) • Page Image 2

…, Univeristy Police reported. The second car fled and there are no suspects. No injuries were reported. Showcase sale on Apple goods WHAT: Take an additional 6 percent off Apple products including computers, i…

…Pods, software and accessories. WHO: Information and Technology Services WHEN: Today from 9 a.m. to 6 p.m. WHERE: U-M Computer Showcase stores at the Mich- igan Union and Pierpoint Commons Ensemble performance…

March 16, 2016 (vol. 125, iss. 89) • Page Image 4

… becomes extremely hard to crack even with millions of dollars of computer hardware. In the realm of technology, it’s used on individual devices to privatize data, usually to prevent access by a thief…

… perpetrators. The debate between privacy advo- cates and law enforcement came to a head this past month when Apple published a customer let- ter announcing they would refuse to comply and fight a court…

Apple in its customer letter said such an action would cre- ate dangerous standards that would undermine the security that pro- tects all of its customers. While one should be sympathetic to the cause…

… of investigators in these cases, Apple is right. Since October 2015, government authorities have also requested access to 12 other iPhones under the jurisdiction of the ancient All Writs Act of…

… 1789. Despite their insistence on needing Apple’s help, 11 of these devices run older versions of Apple’s iOS software with existing public vulnerabilities that would allow investigators to extract…

… tech- nology every day. One of the few congressmen with a background in computer science, Rep. Ted Lieu (D–Cal.), introduced a federal bill that would stop states from instituting their own bans on…

… out almost unanimously in support of Apple in this case. The Department of Justice, in a brief, even suggested that they could com- pel Apple to turn over their source code to the FBI, presenting a…

… these tech com- panies could be forced to become puppets of the justice system to this extreme should be alarming, and the technical community sees that. For now, the courts have sided with Apple in…

… a similar case, such that Apple will not have to introduce exploits in their system available for use by law enforcement. While many lawmakers and citizens will try to see nuance in the issue and…

… what makes so much of using the Internet, computers and smartphones possible.” O n Saturday, 65 students, myself included, will grudgingly leave the warm confines of our beds, don…

March 16, 2016 (vol. 125, iss. 89) • Page Image 12

… radically different today than it was even five years ago. In almost every classroom on campus, professors have the ability to use a projector screen, a desktop computer, document cameras and sometimes…

… even electronic whiteboards. Looking back at those professors are often hundreds of glowing Apple logos, illuminating the thousands of dollars in laptops brought to class each day by students. With an…

… chalk and talk facilitate what Google cannot. Where a computer sits, waiting for input, Scannell engages on his own, guiding the conversation in such a way that only an expert human in his field…

November 16, 2017 (vol. 127, iss. 32) • Page Image 6

… 7 Former name of the Mariinsky Ballet 8 “Shameless” network, briefly 9 Bellicose sort 10 Pet pendant 11 Comedy duo Key & __ 12 Computer warning 15 Sub station 19 Hide 21 One rising at dawn 24 Guys 25…

… a chalet, maybe 54 Apple tablet 55 Girl in “Calvin and Hobbes” 56 Like argon and krypton 61 Burnable media 62 TiVo button 64 Feel sick 65 “That __ close!” By Jason Chapnick and C.C. Burnikel ©2017…

… Patience There’s a scene in “Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice” in which Wonder Woman sits at a computer and proceeds to click through folders of other superheroes waiting to appear in other movies…

September 16, 2019 (vol. 128, iss. 131) • Page Image 4

… t’s recruiting season, and that means North Campus at the University of Michigan is being flooded with companies desperate for computer science talent. This past week, Microsoft, Palantir and…

… Uber had events on North Campus, and this week’s engineering career fair will host more than 300 companies, most of them recruiting computer science students. It’s a good time to be studying CS…

… these students, what does a University of Michigan CS education prepare them for? Increasingly, it seems, life at a big tech company. Facebook, Amazon, Google, Microsoft and Apple were five of the…

… curriculum, and concern for these issues seems to be rare among the student body. It’s time computer science students consider the morality and ethics of where they work and what they work on. A CS…

…, not just build projects in a vacuum. For students aware of the responsibilities that come with their power as computer scientists, working in big tech may even be the right choice. With the…

… potential to affect millions or billions of people with their code and the shortage of CS talent, there is little precedent for the power that computer scientists have today. Because of this…

…, collective action by computer scientists can have a substantial impact on the places they work, and by extension, the world. In the past year we’ve seen Google employees instigate changes to sexual…

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