| Course Outline |
Course Content |
Essays
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Group Project | Tutorials
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| Session 1 |
Session 2 |
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| Week 1 Sept 3 |
Introduction Why are we studying this? Slides Empericism Slides |
Ethics Slides Views of the impact of technology on society. Mestene and McDermot Slides |
| Week 2 Sept 10 |
Pessimistic view of technology. Reading: Text - "The Electronic Hive, Reject it" (Part 2, E) Slides Are Comp. Scientists Moral Philosophers? Reading: "Info and Computer Scientists as Moral Philosophers and Social Analysts" (Part 1 G) Slides |
Optimistic view of technology. Reading: Text - "The Electronic Hive: Embrace it" (Part 2, D) Slides |
| Week 3 Sept 17 |
Productivity Paradox: Reading: Text - "I. T. and the Productivity Challenge" (Part 3 K) Slides |
continued. |
| Week 4 Sept 24 |
Privacy: Slides "Your Personal Info Has Gone Public" D. F. Linowes (part 6, B) "Computer Matching Is a Serious Threat to Individual Rights" John Shattuck (part 6, D) Slides |
Privacy: "Wiretapping Bill: Costly and Intrusive" Marc Rotenberg (part 6, G) "Privacy: How Much Data Do Dircet Marketers Really Need" Denison Hatch (part 6, H) Slides |
| Week 5 Oct 1 |
Privacy: {change} "Clipper Chip Will Reinforce Privacy" D. Denning (Part 6, F) "Privacy: How Much Data Do Direct Marketers Really Need?" Denison Hatch (Part 6 H) "Direct Marketing Is Not a Significant Privacy Threat" Robert Posch (Part 6 I) Slides |
Privacy: {change} "The Government Needs Computer Matching to Root Out Waste and Fraud" (Part 6D) "Mr Edens Profits from Watching His Workers' Every Move" Tony Horowitz (Part 4 D) Slides |
| Week 6 Oct 8 |
Essay #1 due On-line relationships and democracy Slides |
"They call it cyber-love", Margo Kaufman (Part 5 E) Slides |
| Week 7 Oct 15 |
Ethics revisited Slides |
Midterm |
| Week 8 Oct 22 |
Project Meetings |
Democracy and freedom of information "Taboo, Consensus and the Challenge of Democracy" Julian Dibbell (Part 5 H) Slides |
| Week 9 Oct 29 |
Project Presentations |
Education, Children Slides "Technology, Scholarship, and the Humanities: The Implications of Electronic Information" Gregorian (Part 5 L) Slides |
| Week 10 Nov 5 |
Project due "How Much Will a Truly Empowering Technology-Rich Educatuion Cost?" Henry Jay Becker (Part 3 H) Slides |
"Safety Critical Computing: Hazards, Practices, Standards, and Regulation" Jonathan Jack (Part 7, C) Slides Therac-25 |
| Week 11 Nov 12 |
"Beyond Outlaws, Hackers ..." Rob Kling (Part 8
A) "All in a Day's Work ..." Parker, Swope, Baker, Weiss (Part 8 B) "Codes of Professional Conduct" Anderson, Johnson, Gotterbarn, Perrolle (Part 8 C) Slides |
"Confronting Ethical Issues of Systems Design
..." (Part 8 E) "Power in Systems Design" (Part 8 F) Slides |
| Week 12 Nov 19 |
Essay 2 due "Considering Privacy in the Development of Mulitmedia Communications" (Part 8 G) Slides "New Principles for Engineering Ethics" (Part 8 H) Slides |
"Acquiring
goods and services via the Internet: Consumer shopping perceptions" by Lori N. K. Leanard "Free Riding on Gnutella" by Eytan Adar and Bernardo A. Huberman |
| Week 13 Nov 26 |
Artificial
Intelligence. "Machines Can Think", A. M. Turing, "Computers Cannot Think", John Searle Slides |
Will machines inherit the earth? Reading: "Will Robots Inherit the Earth?", Marvin L. Minsky Slides |
