Assignment #10 - Paper and presentation
Due: 10PM, Friday 4/7.
You need to write a paper about a topic of your choice within the scope of "Web Science".
The paper is worth 10% of your grade.
You will also be giving a 15-minute presentation about your topic the last week of class.
The presentation is worth 5% of your grade.
No late days may be used for the paper or the presentation.
Some possible topics:
Web farms at extreme scale
"The Datacenter as a Computer", Google
Bitcoins (taken)
Interesting HTML5 features we didn't cover
e.g. WebGL, CSS3, ...
Geolocation
Techincal details about how it works
Location-based applications
Privacy issues
High-performance web servers (e.g. nginx, lighttpd)
