CS 3111 Possible Project Topics

• Email
  • Phishing
  • Spam
• World-Wide Web
  • Children and the net
  • Censorship and free speech
• Identity theft in cyberspace
• Intellectual Property
  • Copyright, fair use and DMCA
  • Digital rights management
  • Peer-to-peer networks
  • Software patents
  • Open source movement
• Privacy
  • Data collection methods (cookies, spyware, RFIDs)
  • Electronic surveillance and wiretapping
  • Data mining and privacy
  • Encryption
  • Cyberstalking
• Security
  • Viruses and worms
  • Hacking vs. cracking
  • Release of system vulnerability information
  • Denial of service attacks
  • Electronic voting
  • National defense
• Computer Reliability
  • Software errors and liability
  • Software verification and validation
• Recreation
  • Effects of gaming
  • Hacking computer game hardware
• Work and Wealth
  • Automation and unemployment
  • Effects of globalization (outsourcing)
  • Digital divide
• Artificial Intelligence/Artificial Life
  • The Turing test
  • Computational model of the mind
  • Electronic singularity
  • Cyborgs
  • Nanotechnology