CS 4001A: Computing, Society, & Professionalism

Spring 2007 Schedule

NOTES:

The Readings are listed on the day that they are due. You are responsible for studying the reading before class, and being prepared for participation in the class discussion.

The Assignments are also listed on the date they are due. Note that assignments are due at the beginning of class on the due date.

Date	Topic	Readings (due date; date discussed)	Assignments (due date)
1/6	Introduction
1/8	Impact of computing on society	Weizenbaum Article
1/13	Impact of computing on society	Bill Joy article	Assignment 1
1/15	Reading Arguments	WA: Ch 1,2
1/20	Introduction to Ethics	Ethics: Ch 1 and App. A	Assignment 2
1/22	Introduction to Ethics	Ethics: Chap 8
1/27	Professional Ethics	Chapter From Bass	Assignment 3
1/29	Code of ethics discussion
2/3	Term paper discussion		Term paper proposal
2/5	Introduction to arguments	WA: Ch 3
2/10	More arguments
2/12	Software safety - Problems	Ethics: Ch 7
2/17	Software safety - Preventions?		Assignment 4
2/19	Introduction to writing arguments	Wikipedia NPOV Tutorial
2/24	Structure of Arguments and midterm review	WA Ch: 3, 4	Assignment 5
2/26
3/3
3/5
3/10	Midterm
3/12	Privacy We will focus on threats to privacy in this class (second half of Chapter 5). Assigned reading is The Unofficial Cookie FAQ, www.cookiecentral.com/faq Detailed outline of your paper is due 3/12.
3/17	Spring Break
3/19	Spring Break
3/24	Communications Assigned reading is Hacking the Hill, http://www.nationaljournal.com/njmagazine/print_friendly.php?ID=cs_20081220_6787 Also read up on basic security techniques including symmetric and assymetric cryptographic protocols.
3/26	Freedom of Speech with an emphasis on the internet Reading is Chapter 3 of the Ethics book. Assignment is for you to write an argument by drawing a line in the sand stating your reasoning behind how far freedom of speech should be allowed on the internet. Due 3/26
4/2	Computer Crime Reading is Chapter 6 of the Ethics book Assignment is for you to turn in your references you are using in your term paper. The references should be in the form of an annotated list. More to come. 4/2
4/7	Using evidence effectively	Arguments Book - Chap 6; Read Robots at War
4/9	Visual Arguments	Arguments Book - Chap 9; Read Full Body Scanners and then look at pictures of full body scans	Assignment 7
4/14	Facial Recognition	Read Facial Recognition Paper	Term Paper Due
4/16	First 13 presentations of Term Paper. Any one who volunteers or I will select volunteers on 4/14 Arya, Chirag S. Bales, Benjamin T. Dost, Alex S. Gomez, Corolina Iyengar, Kashyap T. Lauria, Justin M. Manning, Christopher B. Monaco, Joseph A. Nguyen, Van H. Rodriguez, Mathew M. Sun, Jay Szatkowski, Christian X. Wong, Andrew L.
4/21	Second 13 presentations of Term Paper Amani, Faried Barnes, Winton A. Bennet, Beau J. Chapman, Scott R. Edge, Alexander D. Elmore, Megan L. Ethridge, Eric J. Faine, Thomas P. Guyton, Andrew J. Hamilton, Steven V. Manatunga, Dilan D. Stearns, Kristin D. Yang, Prince T.
4/23	Third 13 presentations of Term Paper Cutler, Gordon P. Erbentraut, Danny R. Holmes, Brett T. Howard, Marvin J. Lemay, Victoria E. Maul, Andrew S. Patel, Sundip A. Pledger, Alan P. Pon, Corbin L. Rana, Praful Rhodes, Aubrey C. Turgeson, John R.
4/27	Final Exams
4/30	Revisions to term papers due