Procuring reform would be required by the web on each level, from the construction of the platform to the way users participate with it to the policies that control it. This complicated endeavor makes it critical that business owners, physicians, politicians, and journalists –all of us, actually–comprehend the technology that we use daily and the way that it empowers our society.

To satisfy this need, the CAS computer science section collaborates with colleagues through the University to come up with interdisciplinary lessons that incorporate computer science into the areas of biology, communications, international relations, math and statistics, and engineering. Edgar’s class, Internet Freedom and Cyber Clash, analyzes the challenges in handling computer and network insecurity while protecting civil liberties. Storytelling with Information, offered jointly by the College of the computer science section as well as Communication journalism section, investigates data driven journalism, which includes assessing information gathered from leaked files, public databases, and social media.

“Because society is increasingly coordinated by computations, and because everybody is changed by applications along with the pervading electronic equipment all of US live with, it is vital that you comprehend what these technologies are doing, what their limits are, and the best way to command them.”

This mission is improving in positions that range from software engineer for Fidelity INVESTMENTS to deputy manager of the recently recognized Information Awareness Office of the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency to technical strategist for Microsoft.

With bombs and banks online, this is going to be no little accomplishment, leaving a duty no less spectacular than saving the net to save the planet to CAS faculty, students, and alums.