Privacy in the Networked World: A Millian utilitarian appraisal

This thesis is about how John Stuart Mill\u27s utilitarianism can be applied to contemporary information assurance privacy cases. The expanded use of networked computing creates a demand for innovative approaches to privacy issues. The global scope of privacy challenges require an approach to resolving policy questions that is pluralistic and robust enough to cross cultural lines and yet provide an objective way to reach a solution. In this thesis six legal cases concerning privacy (Katz v. US, Alana Shoars v. Epson America, Inc., Beacon Journal Publishing v. City of Akron, Condon v. Reno, FTC v. Toysmart.com, and Gilmore v. Ashcroft ) are discussed from the perspective of Millian utilitarianism

Washington: A European Capital City in the Early American Repbulic

Honorable Mention for the Griswold Prize for Excellence in Undergraduate Historical ScholarshipWith the Peace of Paris in 1783, the United States achieved de jure independence from Great Britain and began the monumental task of nation building. One of the most pressing priorities was the establishment of a permanent seat of government. Philadelphia and New York City, as the two largest cities in the new country and major centers of commerce and culture, were obvious contenders. However, these places were all-too-recently hubs of British imperial authority, and their northerly locations were deemed by many Southern citizens as unsuitable for the new American republic. Therefore, for the first time since antiquity, a new capital city would be planned and built from the ground up.http://history.ou.edu/journal-2016undergraduat

Techniques for Understanding Unstructured Code

Within the maintenance activity, a great deal of time is spent in the process of understanding unstructured code prior to changing or fixing the program. This involves the comprehension of complex control structures. While automated processes are available to structure entire programs, there is a need for less formal structuring processes to be used by practicing professionals on small programs or local sections of code. This paper presents methods for restructuring complex sequence, selection, and iteration structures into structured logic. The procedures are easily taught and they result in solutions of reduced complexity as compared to the original code. Whether the maintenance programmer uses these procedures simply for understanding, or for actually re-writing the program, they will,simplify efforts on unstructured code