CS 459 Reading Assignments and Detailed Syllabus
- Risks of Technology, 1/28/02
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- Loot for Good Essays
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- Invasion of Privacy I, 2/4/02
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- Invasion of Privacy II, 2/11/02
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- Intellectual Property I, 2/18/02
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- Intellectual Property II, 2/25/02
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- Constitutional Freedoms, 3/4/02
Note: No reading the week of 3/4, hope you have been writing your essay,
and studying for midterms in your other classes!
- Computers as Weapons; Weapons Against Computers, 3/11/02
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- Computer Crime, 3/18/02
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Topics to include fraud, embezzlement, sabotage, digital forgery,
intrusion, hacking, cracking, and computer crime laws
- M. C. will lead a discussion on computer crime
from the legal perspective.
- Cybercrime.gov's
Computer Crime Policy and Programs. Note: read all the pages
linked from this page.
- Impact of Computers on the Workplace, 4/1/02
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Topics to include job destruction and creation, job hopping, telework, and
employee monitoring
- A. H. will lead a discussion on job destruction and creation
due to computers. If you are interested in following up on this
topic here are some links she provided.
- http://www.qmw.ac.uk/~ugte193/papers/proposal.htm
- http://www.ncat.edu/~testa/COMP390/chapters/Chapter8.htm
- http://www.jrc.es/pages/ourrole/policy/multimedia/employme_10.html
- Impact of Computers on the Home and the Digital Divide, 4/8/02
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Topics to include bitwealth, the IT meal ticket, and computing in the 3rd world
- M. A. will lead the discussion on computing in the 3rd world.
If you are interested in following up on this
topic here is a link she provided.
- http://www.computer-aid.org is a society in the UK that takes discarded
computers and ships them to africa instead of dumping them in landfills.
Here are some more links on computing in the third world:
- Ethics I, 4/15/02
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Topics to include ethical theories, guidelines for computer professionals
- M. Q. will lead a discussion on guidelines for system
administrators.
- The USENIX SAGE Code of Ethics
- L. M. will lead a discussion social responsibilities in
selecting an employer, and possibly related topics.
- The ACM/IEEE
Software Engineering Code of Ethics
- Ethics II, 4/22/02
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Topics to include case studies and ethical dilemmas
- The Digital Society, 4/29/02
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Topics to include chat rooms, online communities
- D. R. will lead a discussion on the digital society.
- He has recommended, rather late, that you check out Coty's
Digital Perfume
- J. M. will lead a discussion on the ethics of web site hacking.
- M. W. will talk about napster or morpheous or something.
- Final Exam Week, 5/6/02
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- no reading; the class will not meet
- you should plan to finish writing and polishing your second essay
Leading Your Discussion
Everyone has 15 minutes of fame, and in this case your 15 minutes of fame
should consist of about 6 minutes of presenting your second essay ideas,
followed by about 9 minutes of discussion/questions. You should prepare a
list of topics/questions to ask the class, in the event they run out of
questions for you.
At most three people can lead discussions in a given week, and therefore
at most three people can write their final essays on a given week's topics.
Discussion slots and topics will be given out in the order in which e-mail
requests are received. A discussion slot request is an e-mail to jeffery
listing a requested date, requested topic, and (preferably) a short
description of what you want to examine within that topic. For example,
a person requesting to lead the discussion on 4/8/02 might request to
talk about the digital divide, and whether computers are increasing the
differences between rich and poor, and what the social impact of this
change may include.