CSC 300

Computers and Society

Fall 2012

UTM  University of Toronto

News Reporting

Student reporters will provide weekly summaries of current 
events that relate to the course.  It is up to you to find 
appropriate resources.  

Where to start:  The local daily papers have
technology sections on-line like:
http://www.globetechnology.com
The international papers:
http://www.nytimes.com/pages/technology,
http://www.ft.com/companies/it.
There are also Canadian trade-publications: Computing Canada and Computer 
World Canada:
http://itbusiness.ca, http://itworldcanada.com.
And international trade-publications:
http://acm.org/technews.
Specific topic oriented documents:
http://www.csl.sri.com/users/risko/risks.txt.
There are also socio-technically oriented news sites:
http://www.wired.com.

Reporters should present the material clearly.  Presentations 
should be between 5 and 10 minutes in length.  
Reporters should be ready for questions and
should be ready to lead discussion.
Reporting is worth 5 marks.
Presentations must be in electronic form so they can be posted in the 
course web pages.

Reporters must correspond with each other to make sure that they present 
different topics.  In most weeks there will be three different 
reporters.