Assignment:
Discussion
1. Samsung recalled millions of its Galaxy Note 7 devices because batteries overheated and burned: As we wrote-this, the cause Warstill'unklimiii and sikictilatiiin ranged overhat& ware (the batteries were faulty, or the battery compartment was too small) and software. Find out if the cause is now known and, if so, describe it.
2. Speaker recognition software analyzes speech to determine who the speaker is (not what words the speaker is saying, as in speech recognition). Describe some potentially useful and some potentially threatening or risky applications.
3. Assume you are a professional working in your chosen field. Describe specific things you can do to reduce the impact of any two problems we discussed in this chapter. (If you can-not think of anything related to your professional field, choose another field that might interest you.)
4. Find a journalistic or scientific article published within the past year that discusses a sig-nificant failure of a computer system. Write a summary of the article and a commentary on the article's analysis of the problem. Include a full citation for the article.