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• This project seems interesting since it deals with peer to peer protocols and hashing technologies. I would like to learn about technologies that manipulate large datasets. The distributed hash tables act a lot like the hash maps we learned in the Java courses at UW and I would like to expand my knowledge about them through this project. Besides this connection, I don't have much experience on this topics and would love to learn more by conducting research on it.

-Decentralized Web: My understanding of this term is that it is a concept of the web centered around peer to peer networking. Instead of getting web content from centralized servers, users can host/share their content directly via the browser to their peers. This new generation of the web seems to be gaining popularity. Some questions on this topic I have are, How would we scale this new form of content sharing? What are the optimizations that can be done for content lookup? What are the security vulnerabilities in these technologies? How would commercial streaming companies be impacted this concept?

-Peer to Peer Networks: Computer systems can share content to each other without the need of a central server. This concept is what the decentralized web is based off of, only scaled to a global level.

-DAT and IPFS Protocols: Both of these protocols are designed as file systems which provide storage for data in the decentralized web. DAT protocol was designed to share, and interact with large data sets mainly intended for researchers. IPFS protocols work better with smaller amounts of data compared to DAT protocols. This is because IPFS protocols create duplicates of data which can be a problem with large amounts of data. Some questions about this topic are, As content types on the internet evolve, how will DAT and IPFS develop to make sharing of content type easier? Which of these protocols would be ideal for 5G types of speeds? How would social media websites such as Facebook, Instagram, etc implement peer to peer protocols such as DAT and IPFS?(Research that talks about this topic—https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/4801862)

• Availability: 7-9 hours per week, for the next 2 quarters
  -We can meet anytime next week after 2:30pm Monday-Friday(27th-31st)
  -email: [email protected]
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Directions: Fill out the questions below based on a research project that you would like to work on. Title this issue with the name found on my Student Research Opportunities page.

Questions to answer:

• Why you are interested in this research project (e.g. Do you have experience with this topic? Does it sound cool and you just want to find out more? etc.)
• Spend 5 minutes googling some of the keywords. What did you find? What ideas or questions does this spark for you in working on this research project?
• What is your availability for working on this research? (e.g. I can devote 5-10 hours per week for the next two quarters)
• Suggest a time to meet with me in the next seven days to discuss, and leave an email where I contact you.

I'll follow up with you to schedule a time to meet.

1. About me
2. Research statement
3. Seeking students
4. CV
5. Research projects

Why you are interested in this research project (e.g. Do you have experience with this topic? Does it sound cool and you just want to find out more? etc.)
I started becoming interested in civic tech while working as a grad student union organizer in Berkeley before moving to Seattle 5 years ago. In 2017, I worked for Jon Grant's City Council campaign, which operated on a shoe-string budget and strongly relied on technology for voter outreach. Inspired by the experience, I started to become more involved in local politics and particularly housing justice and transportation activism. This experience led me to become more invested in civic tech after seeing how it can both engage people by eliminating access barriers to civic community for some, and alienate by creating new barriers for others. I've also casually been using datasets from the City of Seattle Open Data portal to practice using Python and R, which has led me to a lot of civic data related research questions that I haven't had an outlet for yet in my time in the iSchool.

Spend 5 minutes googling some of the keywords. What did you find? What ideas or questions does this spark for you in working on this research project?
There's obviously a ton of rich stuff out there around civic tech engagement, but a few questions that immediately pull my interest:

• How do civic tech advocates ensure that civic tech apps don't deprecate as technology evolves? How do you ensure that government stays innovative/keeps up with changing technology?
• How do we measure engagement meaningfully? How do we distinguish between "use" and "engagement"?
• Do civic tech applications encourage new populations of civic engagement or is use "translated" from already-engaged populations?
• What role does interoperability play in accessibility of civic tech apps? Since the definition of civic tech remains flexible, what platforms/technologies encourage the broadest and/or most effective use?
• What realms of civic engagement have civic tech most effectively mediated, and how do we measure this effect?
• What possibilities exist to use civic tech to engage underrepresented and/or under-engaged communities?

What is your availability for working on this research? (e.g. I can devote 5-10 hours per week for the next two quarters)
I can commit 7-10 hours a week to this research for Winter and Spring Quarter 2019.

Suggest a time to meet with me in the next seven days to discuss, and leave an email where I contact you.
Reachable at [email protected]
Wednesday, November 21, 12pm-1pm (via Zoom or Hangouts) or 3:30pm - 4:30 pm; Friday, November 22 anytime (via Zoom or Hangouts); Monday, November 26, 12pm-2pm (via Zoom or Hangouts) or 3:30pm - 4:30 pm; Tuesday, November 27 12pm - 1pm (via Zoom or Hangouts)

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My interest in the Digital Badges research project is both professional and personal. In my work life, I am a Content Editor and Curator for the App Store at Apple, mainly focusing on digital games for iOS. Personally, I am an avid gamer and especially enjoy RPGs (very badge/achievement heavy). I also utilize other means of gamifying my life, such as Habitica (https://habitica.com) to manage my productivity. In all of these endeavors, I've noticed my own propensity toward attaining achievement badges and have also been part of workplace discussions involving applications of such badges for training and/or employee education purposes.

Having taken a brief look at the resources from Wikipedia, I am especially interested in pursuing this research project to see how and when digital badges to fail or succeed. If/when they're successful in virtual spaces (such as gaming), how have they then been applied to real-world scenarios like education (through the MacArthur Foundation, for example) or in the workplace? What are the challenges toward bringing badges into these settings (trusted sourcing/authorities, open vs digital badges, self reporting and accountability)?

I can devote likely 10-15+ hours/quarter over the next two quarters to this project and this week, could touch base on Wednesday (any time), Thursday afternoon, any evening after 7pm, or over the weekend (I'm based in San Francisco, so all times PST). You can feel free to reach me at [email protected]. Thank you!

Directions: Fill out the questions below based on a research project that you would like to work on. Title this issue with the name found on my Student Research Opportunities page.

Questions to answer:

• Why you are interested in this research project (e.g. Do you have experience with this topic? Does it sound cool and you just want to find out more? etc.)
  I am generally interested in the academic publishing industry and how it has responded to digitization and the open access movement. I had not heard of "software journals" before, but after reviewing Candela et al. (2015) and Hong's list, I'm interested to learn more about them and how they've impacted academic publishing.
• Spend 5 minutes googling some of the keywords. What did you find? What ideas or questions does this spark for you in working on this research project?
  This project fills a necessary gap in Candela et al. (2015), which explicitly states that they do not consider software, only data sets. I think that extending their work to cover the software used to gather those data sets helps complete the picture of how academic publishing handles new pressures from scientists and digitization. I'm especially curious how structured software journals are in their expectations for authors, since computer software has its own dedicated journals already, but developing software and using it in new ways for scientific research is more complicated and a very new demand from the community. Although several journals have stepped up to meet the demand, if they do not do it in a standardized way, it can lead to more confusion than good, as Candela et al. (2015) described for data journals.
• What is your availability for working on this research? (e.g. I can devote 5-10 hours per week for the next two quarters)
  I can dedicate 15-20 hours per week for the duration of summer quarter.
• Suggest a time to meet with me in the next seven days to discuss, and leave an email where I contact you.
  I think the best time would be between 1-3pm PST on Friday, May 8th. My email is [email protected]

I'll follow up with you to schedule a time to meet.

1. You want to schedule a meeting with me.
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3. You want to do research with me.
4. You want to do a PhD at the iSchool.
5. How to write your thesis.
6. How to write your dissertation proposal.
7. How to prepare your dissertation proposal defense.
8. How to finish your dissertation
9. How to respond to your committee's request for revisions

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I am interested in this project because it seems to be an interesting resource. I am unfamiliar with Mesh networks and it gives me another opportunity to learn something new and another possibility for exploring another field of study. The relationship between net neutrality, mesh networks and ISPs. This also brings up government regulations and control and community. People are creatively searching for ways to still have the freedom to search the internet without having restrictions on the content that they want to view. If FCC regulations for net neutrality are safe, for now, how popular do these networks continue to become? Could this be a movement that could rival large corporations for DIY ISPs? Could this be similar to how streaming services have competed with cable television services where people have created an à la carte viewing experience that is more cost effective and meaningful? I can devote 5-10+ hours per week for the next two quarters. I am available to meet with you via videoconferencing 11/5-7 between the hours of 8AM - 6PM PST. My email address is