| Feb. 2, 4 |
Ethical and legal issues.
Introduction
Ethical theories
|
Tue: Introduction
Thu: Ethical Theories
Cyberethics chapter 1.
[Study questions]
| Feb. 9, 11
|
ACM Code of Ethics
|
Tue: ACM Code of Ethics
ACM
Code of Ethics and Professional Conduct
[Study questions]
Thu: ACM Code of Ethics
| Feb. 16, 18
| Intellectual property law. Copyright and fair use
Notes
|
Tue: Ethical olympics
["Critique" 3 guidelines]
Thu: IP intro. Copyright
Cyberethics, pp. 103-116
Copyright basics,
facts
[Study questions]
| Feb. 23, 25
| Fair use, DRM, and the DMCA
|
Tue: Fair use, DRM, and the loss of consumer rights
Pamela Samuelson,
Digital
Rights Management {and, or, vs.} the Law
Pamela Samuelson,
Toward a New
Politics of Intellectual Property
[Study questions]
Thu: DMCA
Cyberethics, pp. 116-129, 146-148 (Grokster)
Wikipedia, The Digital
Millenium Copyright Act
[Study questions]
| Mar. 1, 3
| Patents
PatentAbsurdity.com
[local]
|
Tue: Patents
Wired (Simson Garfinkel), Patently Absurd
Are Software Patents Evil? (Paul Graham)
[Study questions]
Thu: Patents
Thu: Vanity Fair, The great smartphone war
[Study questions]
| Mar. 8, 10
| Privacy and the Internet
Why Privacy Matters
[TED]
|
Tue: Privacy
Cyberethics, pp. 182-188 (Doubleclick, Facebook)
NY Times, How companies learn your secrets
[Study questions]
Thu: Privacy
Cyberethics, pp. 153-176
Breaking
down Apple's iPhone fight with the US government
Reuters:
Government rift on encryption
See the first few comments on this Washington
Post article
[Study questions]
Term Paper: tentative topic due
| SPRING BREAK
|
| Mar. 22, 24
| Ethics of data collection
|
Tue: Fair information practices
Code
of Fair Information Practices
California's Web site privacy policy law
[Study questions]
Thu: Fair information practices
|
| Mar. 29, 31 |
Midterm test
Thu: CS Major Field Test
Tue: Test (Essay and factual questions about
ethical theories, the ACM code of ethics, and intellectual
property law.)
Thu:CS Major Field Test
(2 hours 6:30pm-9:30pm in the ulab, no class at 10:30am)
| |
| Apr. 5, 7 |
Social issues
Artificial
Intelligence
Chalmers.
Dilbert.
Tue: AI worldviews
Hans Moravec, Dualism Through Reductionism
[Study questions]
Thu: AI worldviews, cont.
Time,
2045:
The Year man Becomes Immortal
[Study Questions]
|
|
| Apr. 12, 14
|
Transhumanism
Dilbert.
Enriquez, Ted Talk.
Tue: Fixed
Thu: Transhumanism
Christopher Hook (Christianity Today),
The Techno Sapiens Are Coming
[Study questions]
| |
| Apr. 19, 21
| Perfection
Technology and cognition
|
Tue: Perfection
Michael Sandel, The
case against perfection [Alternate
link]
[Study questions]
Thu: Technology and cognition
Nicholas Carr, Is Google Making Us Stupid?
[Study questions]
| Apr. 28
| Technology and education
|
Thu: Technology and education
Sara Corbett, NY Times, Learning by Playing: Video Games in the Classroom
[Study questions]
| May 3, 5
| Technology and the military
TDC
video
What's next
Tue: Technology and the military
Steve Featherstone, Harper's Magazine:
The Coming Robot Army
Cornelia Dean, NY Times:
A Soldier, Taking Orders From Its Ethical Judgment Center
[Study questions]
Thu: How will you measure your life?
[Study questions]
| May 10
| Conclusion
|
Tue: Presentations + wrap-up
|
| May 17, 1:30 pm |
[Final exam slot] |
Presentations |
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