Suggested Paper Topics
In case you are having trouble coming up with a topic, here is a list of ideas to get you started. Even if there isn't anything that excites you, the list might bring to mind something that does. In all likelihood, the best ideas aren't on the list. Rather they lie at the intersection of a technology and a social issue, or in the application to a technology of one of the analyses that are reading.
- Maker Labs
- Open source hardware
- 3D Printing
- Gamification
- Technological Utopias and Dystopias
- Data mining
- Crowdsourcing
- RFID uses and abuses
- Control over use of the wireless spectrum
- Connectivity speeds and costs in Canada
- Anonymous
- Crisis informatics
- White Hat hackers
- Location tracking
- Photo face identification
- Open source
- Social network sites
- Identity in cyberspace / anonymity
- Security through cryptography
- Computing in the developing world
- Mobile phone interfaces
- Location-based computing
- Cloud computing
- Bitcoin
- Internet circumvention technologies (avoiding censorship and tracking)
- Digital divide
- Future of brain interfaces
- Identity Theft
- Open government / citizen participation
- Electronic voting
- Viruses / malware
- Cyberwarfare
- Personalized advertising
- Communications in repressive regimes
- Computers used for social/political organzing (e.g., the "Twitter revolution").
- Home robots
- Military Robots
- Digital medical records
- Computer sensors for health care
- Sensor networks
- Biometrics
- Surveillance cameras
- Public Journalism
- Ubiquitous computing
- Security and user interfaces
- Online financial transactions (banking, stocks...)
- Internet in closed societies (e.g., China, Iran)
- ...
CSC300H Course Curriculum by Susan Elliott Sim is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.
Template design by Andreas Viklund | Modified by Jason Cole