User:Jun Jie

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= Midterm Project = Technology that helps in ocean expeditions

https://oceanexplorer.noaa.gov/technology/technology.html

There are 5 ways to discover the ocean, diving is being the most basic way. When the depths aren't low or conditions are safe, divers are able to descend into the water to explore the marine. Other tools such as submersibles and system & sensors, allow us to explore and collect samples from unexplored ecosystem. Vessels and communication technologies are able to share and receive information about the unexplored depth at a fast speed to divers and scientists. These are the current technologies that will aid mankind to explore the mysterious ocean.

Teams that advanced to Shell Ocean Discovery XPRIZE

https://www.oceannews.com/news/science-technology/nine-teams-advance-to-final-round-of-the-7m-shell-ocean-discovery-xprize

These 9 teams, each with different nationalities and races has been advanced to finals to solve humanities grand challenges and improve technologies for a faster and higher-resolution expedition. Each team has developed different types of innovative technologies from autonomous robot drones to low-cost underwater vehicles, to improve the abilities to gather,visualize and interpret deep ocean data.

How much is the ocean undiscovered

https://www.worldatlas.com/articles/how-much-of-the-ocean-is-still-unexplored.html

Exploring ocean is a very dangerous task, that is why ocean is only 5% discovered. There are many factors that why exploring the ocean has great challenge, it requires sophisticated equipment, large budgets, brave and experienced personnel, and permissions from governments at national and international levels. Deep sea divers also face strange sea creatures, high water pressure, equipment failure and etc. Modern sonar detection systems which is better than satellite can mapped the ocean floor up to 15%. However, underwater vehicles are needed to detect objects and features of the sea floor for better resolution.

= Individual Project =

Interesting People with my Name
There is less than 1,643 people in the U.S. has the same first name(Jun Jie) as mine, My last name(Lai) is not quite popular in the U.S. as it is ranked 2148. Although there is a popular Singaporean singer that has the same first name, but our last name is not the same, I think most people know him by his stage name, JJ Lin.

Computer and Society Website (BEST)
https://www.webwise.ie/teachers/what-is-fake-news/

As most people who has access to the internet knew what is fake news, but do we exactly know what is fake news? Fake news has been influenced and confused many of the people in society and caused a mess in politics. This article is about the origin of fake news, how fake news influence the society and how to spot fake news.

Online Community Service
http://warmupamerica.org/

Warm Up America (WUA) is a non-profit organization that is aimed to help people that are less fortunate than us. Everyone can volunteer by knitting afghans or other knitted item that keep the person warm and donate it to the organization (although there is a small amount of shipping fee). Volunteer are able to learn how to knit at the same time. This organization will then donate those knitted items to various communities and social service agencies upon request.

Privacy (BEST)
https://privacyinternational.org/explainer/56/what-privacy

Privacy is about keeping your personal details from being shared to public or keeping your intimate action without being seen by others such as sleeping .etc. Even filling up a form that requires your data could be dangerous. This article will shows a video and why is it matter to everyone. And having privacy will lessen the people who might threaten you with your personal info.

Censorship
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Censorship#United_States

In most country, like Muslim countries and Asian countries are more likely to have censorship. Website such as adult entertainments, propaganda, sensitive issues and opposing political opinions often happens in those countries. This article will explain what is censorship and different type of censorship in some countries. Of course, some people will try to bypass these censorship with proxy and VPNs and access the contents.

Privacy and Personal Information
https://www.privacyrights.org/consumer-guides/securing-your-computer-maintain-your-privacy

This article is about how to secure your privacy and maintain it well. Even a slightest access to your privacy can cause a huge deal because if we are not careful, your data and your computer's camera might get hacked. This article also recommends that we should update our computer security as we download something, some files might have unfamiliar codes and so the anti-virus will detect it.

DMCA (BEST)
https://www.upcounsel.com/dmca-notice

DMCA is a law that prevents copyright infringement. It also informs search engines, companies and ISP to request take down materials that infringed on copyright. DMCA also protects the rights of both copyright owners and consumers.

Open Source
https://whatis.techtarget.com/definition/open-source

Linux, programming languages, and OpenStax are considered open source. Open source refers to a source codes that is made available for everyone and does not require permission to modify or improvise on it

Art and Computers
https://www.pewinternet.org/2004/12/05/artists-and-musicians-are-enthusiatic-internet-users-and-they-believe-the-internet-helps-them-make-and-sell-their-work/

Artist sometimes struggle to find inspiration so they had to go and surf the internet to get some ideas. This articles shows surveys of paid artists how internet helped them earn and gain ideas.

Computers and Crime (BEST)
https://thenewdaily.com.au/money/consumer/2019/02/08/online-credit-card-fraud-surges/

This article talks about the rise of online credit card fraud among Australians. In July 1, 2017 to June 30, 2018, $249 million were conned out from Australians. This means that online shopping popularity has surge and are highly targeted by cyber criminals. In this article, it will give you some advice on how to prevent ourselves from credit card fraud and not get tricked.

What to do if Hacked?
https://www.recode.net/2014/9/11/11630774/what-to-do-if-youve-been-hacked-and-how-to-prevent-it

This site provides ways to prevent getting hacked, though you still can use the ways provided by the link to enforce your security. This article suggested using 2 Factor Authentication like most of the hack prevention articles. Never input your bank info on a public computer or public network as they contain malicious software that could obtain your data. If you've been hacked, the article suggested to reset the passwords and run a scan on the computer using an anti-virus program. For my suggestion, I would suggest not to cloud save or upload tons of image of ourselves, and also not to input personal info through a non-trustworthy websites that has no encryption or link that doesn't show "HTTPS".

Assistive Technology
https://mashable.com/2011/04/20/design-for-visually-impaired/#bTJgrXtHrPqg

Internet is for everyone, including people with visually impaired. This articles provide advises for web developers to not only limit to normal people but to visually impaired people. The 5 ways: Larger text, Better contrast for text, More obvious action buttons, Cross-platform for better user experience and More keyboard shortcuts.

K-8 Engineering
https://www.jpl.nasa.gov/edu/teach/tag/grade/K%2C1%2C2%2C3%2C4%2C5%2C6%2C7%2C8

This website is contributed by NASA. It has variety of activities and lessons that is provided to young kids or anyone. K-8 engineering basically does develop creativity from young age and also lets young kids experience something that's look fun to them. The learning process is also different, rather than looking at the textbook, young kids are able to experience it. Also it won't reduce the students love of learning.

Games in Education (BEST)
http://www.gamesforchange.org/game/alphabear/

I played this game before and it's a great video game, In my opinion, Alpha Bear is very appearing to me as the graphics of the game makes it very interesting. Kids are able to learn new vocabularies by using their own creativity to form new words in this game.

Another i would recommend is http://www.gamesforchange.org/game/autonauts/. It looks similar to Minecraft but it's about building robots with resources, this game give you a brief understanding how to teach your robot to automate the world.

Transforming CO2 into Valuable Products
https://phys.org/news/2014-10-oxygen-molecules-carbon-dioxide.html

CO2 can be split into Carbon and Oxygen but it would require a lot of energy, and also produces more CO2 than it is separated. In this articles stated that researcher has found a way to split CO2 into Oxygen molecule and Carbon atom by using vacuum ultraviolet light (VUV). VUV was provided in the form of a laser shooting a beam at CO2. Thus, it doesn't rely on biological approach like plants and trees for photosynthesis. Though it only split 5% of the CO2 molecules into O2 and C while the rest becomes CO and O.

Simulation
https://interactives.ck12.org/simulations/chemistry.html

This website has 20 Simulation related to chemistry which cover from different concept. Though it's still on beta but there is physic simulation which cover more than 20 chapters and concept. You will need to register after certain number of simulation u had played.

Internet of Things (BEST)
https://www.forbes.com/sites/jacobmorgan/2014/05/13/simple-explanation-internet-things-that-anyone-can-understand/#37bd02461d09

This article explain the definition of IoT, which explain that any device can connect to the internet with the on and off switch. it also apples to machine and vehicles.

https://www.techhive.com/article/3297744/smart-home-guide-for-beginners-how-to-make-your-home-more-convenient-to-live-in.html

Smart home is a home that every devices from doors to stoves are connected to your mobile phone or smart speakers. So everything is automated when you tap from your mobile phone or voice command on smart speakers like Google Home, Amazon Echo or Gatebox.

Great Technologies
https://www.w3schools.com/

It's a website that give reference and also teach how to build web pages. It's a great website for beginner web developers to get their reference.

https://www.scamadviser.com/

If you are unsure whether the website you access is safe or not, you could use this to determine it.

Ethics
https://www.forbes.com/sites/jessicabaron/2018/12/27/tech-ethics-issues-we-should-all-be-thinking-about-in-2019/#1b3f901d4b21

Some technology like cloning, genetic modification and planting chips inside human's body, are these technologies really ethical and necessary for humanity to advance forward to the future? This article explain varieties of tech ethic issue and how it could affect around the world.

Safety
https://www.techsafety.org/onlineprivacyandsafetytips

Safety is one of the most important factors when comes to the internet. This article provide tips on how to stay safe while connected to internet.

Errors
https://www.process.st/human-error/

Human errors is common in the tech world and a simple simple mistake could cause money and damages. This article show how to prevent human errors and how human errors cause a lot of money and damages to society

Medicine and Computers
https://www.visualcapitalist.com/5-ways-technology-healthcare-industry/

Technology are getting involved in medical fields especially robotic surgery are more efficient and less mistake done. AI also been used to detect illness and disease much faster while VR are able to train doctors. Another is that #D printing could reduce the cost of creating much stronger artificial bones, prosthetic and tiny organs.

Learn to Code
https://www.codecademy.com/

This one is a great website to learn and would be much more easier to understand how code works. This website teaches you quite details and I'm highly recommend it to children and people of all age. Learning to code is like learning a new language and having able to code is a life achievement. Coding can improve our problem-solving skills and our creativity.

Smartphones (BEST)
https://www.digitalturbine.com/blog/the-rise-of-mobile-how-mobile-apps-have-changed-our-lives/

We all know smartphone let us communicate with people around the world and looking for information through our phone. Nowadays smartphone application does a very big part in our life and society. Apps like Facebook, Instagram, Twitter and other social media app are being widely used through our smartphone. People no longer required computer to play games at one place, instead they can play the games through their phone at anywhere and anytime. Beside, E-commerce developed an app so people can buy stuff virtually and delivered to them and such service apps like Tinder, MyFitnessPal, Uber and GrubHub improve our efficiency in our daily life. Apps has been drastically changed our lifestyle since they were released, as more and more people rely on mobile apps everyday.

Technology and Elections
https://www.cnbc.com/2016/10/19/us-election-machine-technology-is-out-of-date-experts-say.html

Voting machine are often outdated and may be prone to hackers, this articles states that voting machine are still running on Windows 2000. This could cause manipulation of data and malicious malware and fraud affecting the voting machine.

Social Innovation
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fC9da6eqaqg&t=18s

Education are taught differently based on gender. This issue talks about most girls taught to avoid risk and play safe while boys are vice versa. It also mention that why there is a huge gender barrier and gap in each and every career especially in tech industry. The innovation is that girls can do equally or greater than boys in the industry and told girls to be comfortable with imperfection.

Interesting Quantitative Facts (BEST)
https://hostingfacts.com/internet-facts-stats/

This article provide an updated interesting statistics and facts about variety range of stuff in internet. The websites has been updating the information annually. You can see information were presented in different kinds of ways, though you have to read some text to get a better understanding about the chart or info graphic. The statistic were quite interesting such as more and more people in China surf the internet using their mobile phone each year and how e-commerce were keep rising every year

What's New and Important?(2019)
https://www.techradar.com/news/what-is-5g-everything-you-need-to-know#top

5G has been a hot topic since it first announced to the public. It is said to be 100 times faster than 4G LTE and our current cable internet. Besides that, 5G may be helpful in technology advancement.