Class
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Date
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Topic
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Reading
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Homework
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Comments/Handouts
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| 1 |
Tue 1/29 |
Course overview
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| Writing guidelines
Academic honesty policy
Participation mini-assignment
Student survey
Slides
|
| 2 |
Thu 1/31 |
Topic selection
| Baase Chap. 1.1-1.2
"It's
Time to Raise My Hand"
Due: Signed academic honesty policy
| Student essays
Class topics exercise and reading assignment
| |
| 3 |
Tue 2/5 |
Ethical frameworks
| Baase Chap. 1.3-1.4Tavani Ch. 2 (Posted on Blackboard)
| Due: Participation mini-assignment (hardcopy)
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| 4 |
Thu 2/7 |
Legal and professional frameworks
|
| Due: Reading assignment (Blackboard)
| Reading journal guidelines
PP1
PP2
PP3
Slides
|
| 5 |
Tue 2/12 |
Analysis framework
|
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| Analysis guidelines
In-class case
Slides
|
| 6 |
Thu 2/14 |
History of computing
|
Machine
of the Year (Time 1982)
Past
and Future History of the Internet (CACM 1997)
| RJ1
| Ethical analysis assignment
Slides
| |
| 7 |
Tue 2/19 |
Software development and reuse/open-source software
|
Open Source Definition
BSD
License
Apple's
Insane Developer Agreement
Ethical
Commentary on Software
Expert:Open Source
Licenses (comparison)
Expert:Reusing
Open-Source Software and Practices (posted on blackboard)
| RJ2
|
| |
| 8 |
Thu 2/21 |
Software piracy/copyright
|
Apple v. Franklin summary
Copyright Act of 1976 summary (skim)
Digital Millennium Copyright Act summary
The
Real Loser in Software Piracy
...Who
Really Owns DOTA?
Expert:
Digital Millennium Copyright Act
Expert:Apple
v. Franklin... Judicial Competence
| RJ3
| Analysis Framework Version 2
| |
| 9 |
Tue 2/26 |
SOPA / Aaron Swartz
|
Internet
Activist Suicide
Congress
demands DOJ briefing
Misplaced
Zeal
Aaron
Swartz: A Lesson
Fall
of SOPA (video)
Expert: Carmen
Ortiz
Expert: H.R. 3261 (SOPA)
| RJ4
| Discussion
space
Midterm review guide
| |
| 10 |
Thu 2/28 |
WikiLeaks
|
Wikileaks
for Dummies
WikiLeaks
Founder on the Run
RJ5
Due: Ethical analysis 1 (three hardcopies)
|
| |
| 11 |
Tue 3/5 |
Writing workshop
|
|
| Writing workshop guidelines
|
| 12 |
Thu 3/7 |
Large-scale security/cyberterrorism
|
Obama
Cyber Order
Rick
Forno on cybertheft
Mandiant APT1 report (p2 and pp 20-30)
Expert: Mandiant
APT1 report (pp 31-38)
Optional:APT1 appendix
| RJ6
| Dr. desJardins out of town -- guest instructor
Dr. Richard Forno
| |
| 13 |
Tue 3/12 |
Targeted advertising - data mining and information privacy
|
Baase Ch. 2.3.1
Top
Ten Research Questions
Privacy Violations
ACM Code of Ethics
ACM Software
Engineering
Code of Ethics
Optional: Moral Operating System (TED Talk
video; back to ethical frameworks!)
Expert: Ethical Issues in Web Data Mining (Ethics and
IT 6(2): 129-140, 2004; posted on Blackboard)
Expert:Using the New ACM Code of Ethics in Decision Making
RJ7
Due: Participation portfolio #1 (hardcopy)
|
Final paper guidelines
Thesis statements handout
Targeted advertising
discussion questions
Ethical Analysis #2
| |
| 14 |
Thu 3/14 |
Midterm
|
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|
| Spring Break |
| 15
| Tue 3/26 |
Personal privacy - search, social networking, HIPAA
|
Six Ways to Protect
Yourself
Baase Ch. 2.3.2-2.3.4
Privacy
by Proxy
Expert: Anonymize
Your BitTorrent
RJ8
Due: Optional regrade of Ethical Analysis
|
| |
16 |
Thu 3/28 |
Writing workshop
|
| RJ9: FREEBIE; no post!
BRING: Ethical analysis 2 (two hardcopies)
| Writing Handout Assignment
|
| 17 |
Tue 4/2 |
PATRIOT Act/wiretapping
|
Judge Strikes Down Patriot Act Provisions
Wiretapping of the Cloud
Are we Targeting our Fellow Countrymen?
| RJ10
|
| |
| 18 |
Thu 4/4 |
Effect of automation
|
Nine Jobs That Humans May Lose to Robots
Three Laws of Robotics (introduction/summary only; rest is optional)
Optional:
Runaround (Asimov), pp. 20-33
Expert:
Why Ethics is a High Hurdle for AI
RJ11
Due: Ethical analysis 2 (hardcopy)
|
| |
| 19 |
Tue 4/9 |
Self-driving cars
|
Auto Revolution
Legal Infrastructure for Driverless Cars
Why You Shouldn't Be Too Quick to Cheer
RJ12
Due: Research paper topic statement (email to
instructor)
|
| |
| 20 |
Thu 4/11 |
Gender/minority underrepresentation in CS
|
Stuck in the Shallow End: Interview and review
Lack of Women in Tech
Susan Davidson
Sheryl Sandberg TED Talk
| RJ13
|
| |
| 21 |
Tue 4/16 |
Cyberstalking
|
Cyberstalking
Amazing Mind
Reader
How to Cyberstalk Yourself
Busting a Cyberstalker
RJ14
Due: Participation portfolio #2 (hardcopy)
|
Slides on giving presentations
Presentation scoring form
| |
| 22 |
Thu 4/18 |
Violence in video games
|
Positive and Negative Effecs...
Do Violent Video Games...
The Effects of Violent Video Games
Angst Over Video Games
School Shooting Video Game
Expert:
Video Game FAQs
RJ15
Due: Draft of writing handout (email or google share to
Dr. dJ)
|
| |
| 23 |
Tue 4/23 |
Blade Runner I
|
| RJ16: FREEBIE; no post!
| Peer review form
|
| 24 |
Thu 4/25 |
Blade Runner II
| Optional:
Do Androids Dream of
Electric Sheep? (novel by Philip K. Dick)
| RJ17: Post about Blade Runner by Sat 4/27
|
| |
| 25 |
Tue 4/30 |
Green computing
|
Electronic Waste Dump of the World: Guiyu, China
Green Computing: A Dual Technology
The Realities of Green Computing
Expert:
Google's Green Computing
Optional:
computational-sustainability.org (browse)
| RJ18
|
| |
| 26 |
Thu 5/2 |
Student presentations
|
| Due: Research paper draft (three hardcopies)
| Presentation schedule
|
| 27 |
Tue 5/7 |
Student presentations
|
| Due: Participation portfolio #3 (hardcopy)
|
|
| 28 |
Thu 5/9 |
Student presentations
|
| Due: Research paper peer reviews (email to instructor, TAs, and
authors)
|
|
| 29 |
Tue 5/14 |
Student presentations
|
| Due: Final draft of writing handout (email or google share to Dr. dJ)
|
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Tue 5/21, 10:30-12:30 (Final exam slot)
| After-action review
|
| Due: Final draft of research paper (hardcopy)
|
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