CS329E  Elements of Computing in Society

Fall, 2012
Elaine Rich

Schedule of Topics and Reading Assignments

August 30 Introduction

September 4 Introduction, continued

· Ethics for the Information Age, Chapter 1 NOTECARD (from one of the two readings)

· Blown to Bits, Chapter 1

September 6 Introduction, continued

· Bynum, Terrell Ward, “A Very Short History of Computer Ethics”

· Bynum, Terrell Ward, “Norbert Weiner’s Foundation of Computer Ethics”

· TURN IN your response to the China in the Internet Age assignment

September 11 Ethics

· Ethics for the Information Age, Chapter 2 NOTECARD

September 13 Ethics, continued

· Bertrand Russell, “Prolog” to Autobiography

· TURN IN your solution to the “How I Lived My Life” assignment

September 18 BDP introduction

Ethics, continued

· Ethics for the Information Age, Chapter 3 NOTECARD

September 20 Ethics, continued

· TURN IN your response to the Conscience+ assignment

September 25 Ethics, continued

· TURN IN a printout of your results on the “many voices” Quiz

September 27 Ethics, continued

· TURN IN your first attempt at a term paper topic statement

· TURN IN your solution to the What’s Right assignment

October 2 Ethics, continued

· Blown to Bits, Chapters 4 and 7 NOTECARD

October 4 Ethics, continued

· Ethics for the Information Age, Chapter 5 (Privacy)

· TURN IN your responses to the set of questions about Tom Mitchell’s opinion piece on data and privacy

October 9 How Do We Exploit the Bits?

· Blown to Bits, Chapters 2 and 3 (Privacy)

October 11 Privacy

· Ethics for the Information Age, Chapter 6 (Privacy) NOTECARD

· TURN IN your term paper outline

October 16 Privacy

· Ethics for the Information Age, Chapter 4 (Intellectual Property)

· Blown to Bits, Chapter 6 (Intellectual Property) NOTECARD from one of the two readings

October 18 Cryptography

· Blown to Bits, Chapter 5 (Cryptography) NOTECARD

October 23 Cybercrime and Security

· Ethics for the Information Age, Chapter 7

· “War in the Fifth Domain”

· TURN IN your Cryptography homework

October 25 Information Security in Real Organizations: Guest speaker: Cam Beasley (UT)

Artificial Intelligence and Robotics

· “Computing Machinery and Intelligence”, Alan Turing

· “Robotic Nation”, Marshall Brain

· Ethics for the Information Age, Sections 10.1 – 10.4

· TURN IN your response to the Politicians on Jobs Problem

October 30 Robotics

· “The Ethical Frontiers of Robotics”, Noel Sharkey (Science, Vol. 322, pp. 1800-1801)

· TURN IN your response to the questions we’ve raised about Sharkey’s article

· TURN IN your term paper first draft

November 1 Risk and Reliability

· Ethics for the Information Age, Chapter 8 NOTECARD

· Ethics for the Information Age, Section 9.6

November 6 What Makes Us Us?

· “Sounds Like Bach”, Douglas Hofstadter

· Christopher Steiner, “Can Creativity be Automated?” NOTECARD

November 8 The Future of Technology

· “Manna”, Marshall Brain (Note: There are 8 chapters, each in a separate file. Read them all.) NOTECARD

November 13 The Future of Technology

· “What is the Singularity?”

· TURN IN your response to the Singularity Quiz

November 15 Student presentations

November 20 Student presentations

· TURN IN your response to the 米 (rice) Problem

November 22 THANKSGIVING

November 27 Student presentations

November 29 The Future of Technology and Our Economy

· The Lights in the Tunnel NOTE: This is an entire book. Do not procrastinate. NOTECARD

· TURN IN your response to the What to Do About Jobs? Problem

Student presentations

December 4 Student presentations

December 6 Student presentations

· TURN IN the final draft of your term paper