CS349 Contemporary Issues in Computer Science
Fall, 2016
Alan Cline and Elaine Rich
Schedule of Topics and Reading Assignments
Aug. 25 Introduction
Aug. 30 Introduction,
continued
·
Ethics for the Information Age, Chapter 1 (Introduction) NOTECARD
·
TURN IN your response to the Social
Science via Google Search assignment
Sept. 1 Introduction,
continued
·
Bynum,
Terrell Ward, “A
Very Short History of Computer Ethics”
·
TURN IN your first news article. We will do this regularly on Thursdays
unless otherwise specified.
Sept. 6 Ethics
·
Ethics for the Information Age, Chapter 2 (Ethics) NOTECARD
Sept. 8 Ethics,
continued
·
Bertrand
Russell, “Prolog”
to Autobiography
·
TURN IN your solution to the “What I Have Lived For” assignment.
Sept. 13 Ethics,
continued
Sept. 15 Ethics,
continued
·
TURN IN your solution to the What Jobs? assignment.
Sept. 20 Ethics,
continued --
NO CLASS: Career Fair
·
TURN IN your results on the “many
voices” Quiz.
Sept. 22 Ethics,
continued
Sept. 27 Using
the Bits
·
DEADLINE to have met with us about you project
topic
·
TURN IN your solution to the What’s Right assignment
Sept. 29 Intellectual
Property Law - Stephen Stout,
Vincent and Elkins
·
Ethics for the Information Age, Chapter 4 (Intellectual Property) NOTECARD
·
TURN IN your response to the 米 (rice) Problem
Oct. 4 Cybersecurity-Bradley
Beman & Scott Kibbey, FBI Special Agents
·
Ethics for the Information Age, Chapter 7 (Security) NOTECARD
Oct. 6 Using
the Bits
·
TURN IN your project outline
Oct. 11 Privacy
·
Ethics for the Information Age, Chapter 5 (Information Privacy) NOTECARD
Oct. 13 Privacy
·
TURN IN your response to the Algorithm Bias problem
Oct.18 Privacy
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Ethics for the Information Age, Chapter 6 (Privacy and the Government) NOTECARD
·
TURN IN in your responses to the set of questions about Tom
Mitchell’s opinion piece on data and privacy.
Oct. 20 Privacy
·
TURN IN First draft of term paper
Oct. 25 What
Makes Us Us?
·
“Sounds Like
Bach”, Douglas Hofstadter
·
Watch
“Humans
Need Not Apply”
·
TURN IN your response to the Humans Need Not Apply Question
Oct. 27 The
Future of Technology
·
“The
Machine Age”, Norbert Wiener
·
“The Ethical Frontiers of
Robotics”, Noel Sharkey (Science,
Vol. 322, pp. 1800-1801)
·
TURN IN your response to the questions we’ve raised
about the Wiener and Sharkey articles
·
TURN IN a written progress report on your video
Nov. 1 Risk
and Reliability
·
Ethics for the Information Age, Chapter 8 (Reliability) NOTECARD
Nov. 3 Risk
and Reliability
·
Ethics for the Information Age, Chapter 9 (Ethics and Reliability) NOTECARD
Nov. 8 The
Future of Technology
·
TURN IN your final video
Nov. 10 Student
videos
·
“Manna”,
Marshall Brain (Note: There are 8 chapters, each in a separate file. Read them all.) NOTECARD
Nov. 15 Student
videos
Nov. 17 Student
videos
·
TURN IN your response to the Income Disparity Problem
Nov. 22 Student
videos
Nov. 24 THANKSGIVING
Nov. 29 More
on the Future of Technology
·
“The
Evolution of Mind in the Twenty-First Century”, Ray Kurzweil NOTECARD on one of these readings
·
“Better
than Human: Why Robots Will – And Must – Take Our Jobs”,
Dec. 1 Prizes
and wrap-up
·
TURN IN Final draft of your term paper