Compsci 182s, Spring 2011, Case Studies

For each topic a pair of students will develop resources (articles and papers to read), formulate questions regarding the case study, and create a four-page summary of the issues relate to the case study, typically crossing topic-boundaries. Pairs will combine to work in groups of four (some pairs will be threesomes).

The articles provided as a starting point can be found below. The resources developed by students from Section 2 can be found here.

Wikileaks

The Man Who Spilled the Secrets, Sarah Ellison, Vanity, Fair, February 2011.
WikiLeaks wars: Digital conflict spills into real life, Jacob Aron, The New Scientist, December 15, 2010.

China/Green Dam, Censorship

China's Green Dam: The Implications of Government Control Encroaching on the Home PC, ONI, Faris, Roberts, and Wang.
China's Cyberspace Control Strategy: An Overview and Consideration of Issues for Canadian Policy, Deibert, February 2010.
Analysis of the Green Dam Censorware System, Wolchok, Yao, and Halderman, June 2009.

Open Source, Goldman Sachs, Aleynikov

IP: Learning from the Goldman Sachs Trade Secret Case, Mark Scarsi, December 28, 2010.
Goldman Sachs Loses Grip on Its Doomsday Machine, Jonathan Weil, Bloomber, July, 2010.

Algorithmic Approaches: Ad Auctions, SEO, Trading

Lane's Gifts v Google Report, Alexander Tuzhilin, and Google Blog Post about the case
Prediction Markets at Google, Harvard Business School, Coles, Lakhani, and McAfee. (students sent link from HBR to access)
Using Prediction Markets to Track Information Flows: Evidence from Google, Cowgill, Wolfers, and Zitzewitz. 2009.