KUCI: Tech Talk

Dr. Rajat Agrawal from the Doheny Eye Institute at USC talks to us about his involvement on a research project with the Bionic Eye, an incredible device 20 years in the making that is giving sight to those who have suffered from a disease called Retinosis Pigmentosa.

Nithya Sambasivan, a 4th year Informatics PhD student at the Donald Bren School of Information and Computer Science here at UCI, talks about her research on Human Computer Interface, or HCI, and its potential to effect change in developing communities. We discuss the usage of phone and other transmission technologies in various rural developments in India, including phone call systems and the distribution of physical media and information over a physical social network

Professor Dan Frost talks to us about the newest addition to the Bren School of Information and Computer Sciences. The Computer Gaming Science major is the focus of the show, from its foundation to its structure. We discuss the nature of programming for gaming as a science, along with the future of the program.

Gwen Shaffer, a PhD and Post-Doc researcher at the Bren School of Information and Computer Sciences, talks about her research on Net Neutrality and its application to Mobile Devices. We also talk about her work with Professor Scott Jordan, and their block model of Internet Services.

Grad Student Jed Brubaker talks to us about his research on Death and the Social Network

Joe Basirico is the Director of Security Services at Security Innovation. Security Innovation is an independent application security firm that offers education, risk assessment and risk mitigation solutions to Fortune 500 companies and enterprise IT organizations. We discuss the security development process and how to protect your software from the very beginning.

Devin Pigera is a fourth year ICS major who is currently working for multiple companies, but primarily a Irvine-based startup company called RadioFlag. We discuss programming in industry, APIs, social networking, and his company's latest project.

Kumar and I provide summaries and analysis for all of California's Ballot Propositions!

Kumar and I talk about the emergence of the internet on mobile phones and television sets. We talk about the evolution of smart phones from an early Nokia to the Droid. Then we discuss Apple TV and Google TV.

New co-host Ravind Kumar introduces himself to the audience and we discuss our future plans for the show as well as what we missed over the summer. We conclude with a conversation about the new film "The Social Network."

Ravind Kumar and I will be talking about high frequency trading and terms of service/privacy policies on the internet. When we discuss high frequency trading, we question whether it is appropriate to use trading algorithms that operate at higher temporal resolutions than humans. Should these algorithms be monitored by humans? Then we talk about terms of service and privacy policy agreements. Do you read them before you use a website? An MIT survey on the subject says you probably don't. This is our last show for Spring and we will be back on the air in Fall!

Justin Ma received his PhD from UC San Diego this year and will be a post-doc at UC Berkeley. He discusses algorithms with me as well as two papers he wrote: Beyond Blacklists: Learning to Detect Malicious Web Sites from Suspicious URLs and Identifying Suspicious URLs: An Application of Large-Scale Online Learning.

Samy Kamkar is the creator of the MySpace Worm. The MySpace Worm infected over 1 million profiles on the site. Listen to Samy's suspenseful story in his own words! Then Ravind discusses the story of the iPhone prototype that was lost and examined by the tech blog Gizmodo.com.

We discuss the Blippy credit card number leak with Evan Schuman. Schuman is the Editor of storefrontbacktalk.com, a site that tracks retail technology, e-commerce and security issues. He also writes a weekly column called "Retail Realities" that can be found Friday mornings on CBSNews.com. We also talk with writers from the New U! Ravind Kumar continues our discussion about the Blippy credit card number leak, Vinh Nguyen discusses privacy on Facebook, and Marisha Pareek gives a review of the iPad.

Kumar is a writer for UCI's New University who wrote an article on net neutrality. We also discuss the Sarah Palin e-mail hacking case as well as the privacy controversy surrounding Facebook's "Instant Personalization Pilot Program."

AJAX is Asynchronous JavaScript and XML. AJAX is the foundation of rich web applications that users have come to expect. In this episode, I discuss how to make jQuery, PHP, and SQL work together in a text field with a dynamic autosuggestion box that appears as the user types.

Neil Matatall joins me to discuss application security. Neil Matatall is an information security engineer for AT&T Interactive. He is the Orange County chapter lead for the Open Web Application Security Project (OWASP) and a member of the program committee for the OWASP National Conference.

This is our last programming episode. In this episode we discuss using aggregate functions in select statements as well as inserts, updates, and deletes.

This is our first episode about SQL. We talk about SQL's syntax, comparison operators, joins, and how to use the select statement.

In this episode we finish our discussion of classes in PHP. We conclude with a discussion about how to use PHP's serialize() and unserialize() functions to make class objects persist from page to page.

In this episode we discuss the various logical operators and control structures as our disposal in PHP as well as how to make our own functions!

This is our first episode about PHP! In this show we discuss types, variables, constants, and operators.

In this episode we finish our discussion of jQuery! We talk about the remaining jQuery methods and chaining.

In this episode we learn how to use jQuery! jQuery is built with javascript, but uses its own syntax. We discuss how to include the jQuery library into your webpage, the jQuery syntax, as well as some of the most frequently used selectors and methods that jQuery offers.

This is the conclusion of our discussion of CSS. In this episode, we list the remaining CSS properties, we talk about browser compatibility in Internet Explorer 6, and we discuss advanced CSS techniques so we can build websites that degrade gracefully.

In this episode we learn how to make a CSS file and how to link to it from our HTML. We also discuss the advantages of CSS and its syntax. Finally we discuss most of the CSS properties and values that are well supported.

This is our first show! In this episode we learn how to make an HTML file and how to write markup that follows the XHTML 1.0 Strict standard. We also discuss the importance of semantic markup and the various tags that can be used to make common webpage elements.