CS4001B Fall 2006--Schedule

Schedule for CS 4001B: Computing, Society, & Professionalism, Fall 2006

Week	Date	Topic	Readings	Assignment Due
1	8/22	Welcome & Overview
	8/24	Case Study: Therac-25	"Medical Devices: The Therac-25" by Nancy Leveson
2	8/29	Reading Arguments	WA 1 & 2
	8/31	Utilitarianism	Q Chapter 2, through end of 2.7
3	9/5	Deontology & Social Contract Theory	Reread Q2.5; Q2.8-end of chapter	Reading the Argument of a Current Article
	9/7	Feminine Ethics	"In a Different Voice by Carol Gilligan, pp. 25-39 (electronic reserve)
4	9/12	Writing Arguments	WA 3
	9/14	Professional Ethics	Q9 Article "Using the New ACM Code of Ethics in Decision Making" by Anderson et al (electronic reserve)
5	9/19	Intellectual Property	Q4 through end of 4.6, pp. 155-184	Applying Ethical Frameworks to a Dilemma I
	9/21	Software as Intellectual Property	Q4.7-end of chapter, pp. 184-205 Browse Open Source Licensing: Links and Resources"
6	9/26	Structure of Argument	WA 4 & 5
	9/29	Social Issues & the Internet	Q3
7	10/3	Term Paper Ideas		Term Paper Proposals
	10/5	Using Evidence	WA 6
8	10/10	Midterm
	10/12	Case Studies in Using Evidence: The Cholera Epidemic & The Challenger Disaster	Tufte Visual and Statistical Thinking
9	10/17	Fall Break (no class)
	10/19	Privacy	Q5
10	10/24	Privacy, continued		Term Paper Outline
	10/26	The Patriot Act	The Patriot Act (read Title II; glance over the rest) EFF Analysis of the Patriot Act
11	10/31	Writing for an Audience	WA 7 & 8
	11/2	Privacy & Security for Kids & Teens Online	American Library Association Statement on Internet Filtering Center for Missing and Exploited Children information on Teen Safety on the Information Highway From this list of Internet filters, pick one and see if you can figure out what values are behind the filter. What kinds of things does it block and not block? For example, does this filter block images of smoking? Are any choices left to parents/ configurable?
12	11/7	eVoting	Q6.5 Pick an article about eVoting (that no one else has picked yet), list it on the CoWeb here, and come to class prepared to spend two minutes summarizing it for the class.
	11/9	The Power of Simulation	"Seductions of Sim" by Paul Starr
13	11/14	Term Paper Discussion		Term Papers
	11/16	Term paper discussion, continued
14	11/21	Software Reliability	Q7
	11/23	Happy Thanksgiving! (no class)
15	11/28	Wealth and Globalization	Q8
	11/30	Internet Censorship in China & Other Nations	Wikipedia article on Internet Censorhip in China	Applying Ethical Frameworks to a Dilemma II
16	12/5	The Changing Face of Work	"Christmas Unplugged" by Amy Bruckman
	12/7	Final Exam Review		Revised Term Papers (optional)

Readings and assignments are subject to change.