Schedule for CS 4001A: Computing, Society, & Professionalism, Fall 2010

Date	Topic	Readings	Assignment
8/24	Welcome & Overview
8/26	Case Study: Therac-25	"Medical Devices: The Therac-25" by Nancy Leveson Quinn 7.5 Radiation Offers New Cures, and Ways to Do Harm (New York Times, January 23, 2010
8/31	Reading Arguments	WA 1 & 2
9/2	Utilitarianism	Quinn Chapter 2
9/7	Deontology & Social Contract Theory	Quinn Chapter 2, continued	Reading the Argument of a Current Article
9/9	Core & Logical Structure of Arguments	WA 3 & 4
9/14	Stakeholder Analysis & Virtue Ethics	In a Different Voice by Carol Gilligan, pp. 25-39 (electronic reserve) Virtue Ethics, Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy	Please come to class with a short quote from one of the readings that you find interesting.
9/16	Professional Ethics	Quinn Chapter 8 Article "Using the New ACM Code of Ethics in Decision Making" by Anderson et al (electronic reserve)
9/21	Freedom of Speech	Quinn Chapter 3	Applying Ethical Frameworks to a Dilemma
9/23	Privacy	Quinn Chapter 5 "Anonymized" data really isn't--and here's why by Nate Anderson in ars technica"
9/28	Privacy, continued	Quinn Chapter 5, continued EU-US Airline Passenger Data Disclosure (skim)	Term Paper Proposals
9/30	Do Artifacts Have Politics?	"Do Artifacts Have Politics?" by Langdon Winner (electronic reserve)
10/5	Evidence	WA 5
10/7	Discussion of Term Paper Proposals & Midterm Review		Come to class prepared to tell everyone about your term paper topic.
10/12	Midterm
10/14	Moving your Audience & Responding to Alternate Views	WA 6 & 7
10/19		Fall Break
10/21	Intellectual Property	Quinn Chapter 4, through end of 4.6	Term Paper Outline
10/26	Software as Intellectual Property	Quinn Chapter 4, continued (4.7-end)
10/28	Visual Argument	Visual & Statistical Thinking: Displays of Evidence for Decision Making by Tufte
11/2	The Patriot Act	Wikipedia Articles: The Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) The USA Patriot Act
11/4	When do People Cheat? Ethical Conduct in the Real World	Chapter from "Predictably Irrational" by Dan Ariely (electronic reserve)
11/9	Term Paper Presentations		Term Papers
11/11	Term Paper Presentations
11/16	Term Paper Presentations
11/18	Term Paper Presentations
11/23	No class
11/25	Happy Thanksgiving! (no class)
11/30	Work & Wealth	Quinn Chapter 9
12/2	Simulation	Sedutions of Sim by Paul Starr Quinn 7.6	Revised Term Papers (optional)
12/7	Computer Reliability & Warranties	Quinn Chapter 7 (except sections you've already read, 7.5 & 7.6)
12/9	Final Exam Review

Readings and assignments are subject to change.