CS-234: Technologies for democratic society

Lectures in this course (36)

Delves into polarization, radicalization, and self-selecting groups, discussing negative consequences and mitigation strategies.

Explores e-voting research, digital algorithms, privacy challenges, and cryptographic methods in ensuring legitimacy and participation.

Explores Byzantine consensus in decentralized systems and Bitcoin's consensus mechanisms.

Discusses randomness in social self-organization, exploring its role in democratic processes and the challenges of representation and accuracy.

Explores social influence, democracy, individual autonomy, equality, and decision-making models.

Explores crowdfunding, prediction markets, and quadratic voting as market-based mechanisms.

Explores mechanism design, crowdfunding, prediction markets, and quadratic voting.

Explores Sybil attacks, fake content creation, and defenses against online identity fraud.

Explores decentralized systems, distributed storage, and Eclipse attacks in peer-to-peer networks, emphasizing security and consistency.

Covers the Chord DHT in decentralized systems engineering, focusing on reliability, redundancy, and structure maintenance.

Explores citation metrics, emphasizing the Journal Impact Factor's vulnerability to manipulation and introducing the h-index.

Explores blockchain, smart contracts, decentralized governance, and the challenges faced by technologies like DAOs.

Explores Decentralized Autonomous Organizations (DAOs) and their role in decentralized systems, smart contracts, and community investment.

Discusses social influence, online metrics, Page Rank, and the impact of money.

Discusses anonymity, dark side issues, mitigation strategies, and governance in online forums.

Explores influence manipulation in search engines and the significance of scientific peer review and citation metrics.

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