CS349 Contemporary
Issues
Spring, 2009
Alan Cline and Elaine Rich
Schedule
of Topics and
January 20 Introduction
· “Download Uproar: Record Industry Goes After Personal Use” (handout)
January 22 Introduction, continued
January 27 Guest speaker: Gary Chapman, UT LBJ School
January 29 Ethics
· Gift of Fire, Chapter 1
· Bynum, Terrell Ward, “A Very Short History of Computer Ethics”
· Bynum, Terrell Ward, “Norbert Weiner’s Foundation of Computer Ethics”
February 3 Ethics, continued
· John Messerly, “Ethics without Religion” (handout)
· Bertrand Russell, “Prolog” to Autobiography (handout)
February 5 Using the video camera
February 10 Using the video camera
February 12 Video
Editing with Premiere Elements
February 17 Video Editing with Premiere Elements
February 19 Ethics, continued
· Gift of Fire, Chapter 9
A short introduction to risk and ethical behavior – The Challenger disaster
February 24 Ethics, continued
· Write at least one paragraph (to turn in) and come to class prepared to discuss your solution to the problem of rationing in the eBay era.
· PROJECT OUTLINE DUE
February 26 Ethics, continued
· Take the “many voices” quiz
· Write your version of the Prolog to Bertrand Russell’s autobiography
March 3 Ethics
March 5
March 10 Privacy
· Gift of Fire, Chapter 2
March 12 Rhetoric and writing
· Turn in your response to the ACM’s TIA letter
March 17 SPRING BREAK
March 24 Privacy
March 26 Privacy
· First draft of term paper due
March 31 Risk
· Come prepared to discuss the movie Sneakers
April 2 Risk
· Written progress report on video due
April 7 Security
April 9 Artificial Intelligence
· “Computing Machinery and Intelligence”, Alan Turing
April 14
April 16 Artificial Intelligence
· “The Evolution of Mind in the Twenty-First Century”, Ray Kurzweil (handout)
April 21 Artificial Intelligence
· Turn in your response the singularity quiz
· “Sounds Like Bach”, Douglas Hofstadter
· Exegesis, Astro Teller
April 23 The future of technology
· “Why the future doesn’t need us”, Bill Joy
· “The Future Needs Us!”, Freeman Dyson
· Videos due
April 28 Student videos
April 30 Student videos
May 5 Student videos
· Turn in your response to the Free Rice quiz
May 7 Student videos
· Final draft of term paper due