CS 492/CS 692 W23 Course Timetable

Timetable of topics and assignments

• Week 1
  • Readings:
    • Paper: Five Things We Need to Know About Technological Change
    • Paper: Some Thoughts About the Social Implications of Accessible Computing
    • Paper: Human Values and the Future of Technology
    • Paper: No More Phones and Other Tech Predictions for the Next Decade
    • Paper: A Future Where Everything Becomes a Computer is as Creepy as You Feared
    • Paper: Understanding Media, Introduction, Chapter 1. Marshall McLuhan. Digital copy availed from UW library.
    • Book Resource: Hello World: Being Human in the Age of Algorithms. Short term Davis Centre Library loan.
  • week of Jan 9th: overview of social implications of computing
  • Video: Marshall McLuhan Archive:

• Readings:
  • Paper: Wikipedia in the Newsroom
  • Paper: Is Google Making Us Stupid?
  • Paper: I LIKED EVERYTHING I SAW ON FACEBOOK FOR TWO DAYS. HERE'S WHAT IT DID TO ME
  • Paper: PizzaGate Conspiracy Theory Thrives Anew in the TikTok Era
  • Paper: Trust in the internet `now missing'
  • Paper: Almost Everyone Doesn't Trust the Internet
  • Paper: Amazon scraps AI for bias against women, raises more doubts about objectivity of algorithms
  • Paper: Don't Scoff at Influencers --- On trusted sources of information
  • Paper: Capital One data breach
  • Paper: Criminal artificial inteligence and your money
  • Paper: Facebook Connecetd Her to a Tattooed Soldier in Iraq
  • Paper: Looking under the hood of the market place
• week of Jan 16th:
• Friday video: Video: Moshe Vardi:: An Ethical Crisis in Computing

• Readings:
  • Readings:
    • ACM Code: Ethics and Professional Conduct
    • IEEE: Computer Society Code of Ethics
    • Paper: Towards an Ethics of Persuasive Technology
    • Paper: Ethics and Professional Responsibility in Computing
    • Paper: Echo Chambers
    • Paper:The App Generation: How Technology Is Changing Us
    • Ppaer: An Algorithm That Grants Feedom, or Takes It Away
    • Paper: Orwellabama?
    • Paper: Why I Quit GitHub
    • Paper: The Internet of Things Needs a Code of Ethics
    • Paper: How social casinos leverage Facebook user data to target vulnerable gamblers
    • Paper: Socail and Ethical Behavior in the Internet of Things
    • Paper: Towards an ethics of the Internet of Things
    • Paper: Belonging Is Stronger Than Fact
    • Paper: Public safety minister calls on Twitter Canada to address `abusive' tweet driected at CMA president
    • Paper: The Secret History of Women In Coding
    • Paper: How to Focus Like It's 1990
  • week of Jan 23th:
  • Jan 27th, Friday: meet the TAs
• Week 4
  • Readings:
    • Paper: AirTags are being used to track people and cars
    • paper: E-Monitoring In The Workplace
    • Paper: It's time for us to watch them
    • Paper: Does Google Know Too Much About You?
    • Paper: On Traveling With Your Devices
    • Paper: Edward Snowden, after months of NSA revelations, says his missions's accomplished
    • Paper: NSA's shuttered program was `a sacrificial lamb' in U.S. mass surveillance
    • Paper: RFID tags: Big Brother In Small Packages
    • Paper: NSA Security
    • Paper: Tech, Privacy and the NSA
    • Paper: Privacy in the work culture
    • Paper: Employee Rights to Privacy
    • Paper: Privacy and political activism
    • Paper: Privacy in public spaces
    • Paper: Being Recognized Everywhere
    • Paper: The Brain Implants That Could Change Humanity
    • Paper: Private Israeli spyware used to hack cellphones of journalists, activists worldwide
    • Paper: The Battle for Digital Privacy Is Reshaping the Internet
    • Paper: Your privacy at airports and border
    • Paper: Privacy bill sets out rules on use of personal data, artificial intelligence
    • Paper: What is `time theft' and why are some employers so worked up about it?
  • week of Jan 30th:
  • Writing assignment 1 due...on January 30th...AOE.
  • Feb 3rd, Friday: Video: Ben Shneiderman: Human-Centered AI: Relaibe, Safe and Trustworthy
• Week 5
  • Readings:
    • Paper: Facebook employees stage virtual walkout in criticism of Zuckerberg
    • Paper: Group Seeking Equality for Women in Tech Raises $11 Million
    • Paper: Google Researcher Says She Was Fired Over Paper Highlighting Bias in A.I.
    • Paper: Programming our lives away
    • Paper: Ransome Ware at Work
    • Paper: Can a company innovate without working its employees to death? (by Matt McFarland of the Washington Post, August 31st, 2015)
    • Paper: Break from Digital Overload
    • Paper: Solving the Productivity Paradox
    • Paper: Beyond the Productivity Paradox
    • Paper: I Just broke down crying
    • Paper: A World Without Work
    • Paper: Instrumenting the human and socializing the machince
    • Paperr: As machines take over our jobs, human ingenuity has an opportunity to shine
    • Paper: Growing Canadian Digital Economy
    • Paper: Temp Work at Google
    • Paper: Computing, Data, and Work Life Balanace and Satisfaction
    • Paper: Work-life balance law seen as 'toothless' Toronto Star; Toronto, Ont. [Toronto, Ont]. 02 Dec 2021
    • Paper: Uber drivers, gig workers pressure Ontario government for employee status
    • Paper: What Frustrated Workers Heard in That Dolly Parton Ad
    • Paper: Where Tech Talant Is Going
    • Paper: LinkedIn experiment changed job prospects for millions
    • Paper: Uber's interaction with governments
    • Paper: On Quantitative Data and The Digital Work Place
  • week of Feb 6th:
  • Feb 10th, Friday: RPE1
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• Week 6
  • Readings:
    • Paper: Digital Operations Strategic Plan
    • Paper: Measuring digital economic activities in Canada
    • Paper: If you work for Uber or DoorDash, your boss isn't a person but an algorithm
    • Paper on spam: Damn Spam
    • Paper: Why paywalls are not always the answer
    • Paper: Salvation or Folly? The Promises and Perils of Digital Paywalls (skim)
    • Paper: Copycat: How Facebook Tried to Squash Snapchat
    • Paper: E-voting challenge to democracy
    • Paper: New Jersey Lets Sandy Victims Vote Via E-Mail
    • Paper: How the digital economy is shaping a new Bangladesh
    • Paper: Big Data and Differential Pricing
    • Paper: Gartner Predicts Three Big Data Trends for Business Intelligence
    • Paper: Big Data
    • Paper: I Found Work on an Amazon Website. I Made 97 Cents an Hour
    • Paper: Big Tech Continues Its Surge Ahead of the Rest of the Economy
    • Paper: A Bird? A Plane? No, It's a Google Balloon Beaming the Internet
    • Paper: The ethics of zero-day exploits---: the NSA meets the trolley car
    • Paper: A down day for the markets? Analysts blame the machines
    • Paper: Weaponized Ad Technology: Facebook's Moneymaker Gets A Critical Eye
    • Paper: Facebook rolls out high-tech ad registry with a low-tech twist
    • Paper: Farmers seeking 'right to repair' rules to fix their own tractors gain White House ally
    • Paper: Once Tech's Favorite Economist, Now a Thorn in Its Side
    • Paper: On the ethics of chatbots in schools
    • Paper: Reaction to chatbots in univerisities
    • Paper: The form element and how it changed the web
  • week of Feb 13th:
  • Feb 17th, Friday RPE2
  • Feb 17th, writing Assignment 2 is due.
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• Week 7
  Feb 20st: Reading week: no classes
• Week 8
  • Readings:
    • Paper: The Limits of Correctness
    • Paper: An Investigation of the Therac-25 Accidents
    • Paper: Humanoid Robots: A New Kind of Tool
    • Paper: Trial by Fire: Activities of the Rescue Robots at the World Trade Center
    • Paper: Craftsman or Scientist? EWD 480
    • Paper: What's that bug?
    • Paper: Efficiency and Inefficiency
    • Paper: What it takes to put your phone away
    • Vidio: ACM Turing Lecture: Yoshua Bengio
    • Paper: How aritificial intelligence is reshaping the medical landscape
    • Paper: Could A Machine Think? Paul M. Churchland ; Patricia Smith Churchland Scientific American, 1990, Vol.262(1), p.32
    • Paper: Program Verification: Vision and Reality
    • Paper: Who Is Making Sure the A.I. Machines Aren't Racist?
    • Paper: The Tech Cold War's `Most Complicated Machine' That's Out of China's Reach
    • Paper: ACM Turing Award Honors Innovators Who Shaped the Foundations of Programming Language Compilers and Algorithms
    • Paper: Quantum breakthrough could revolutionise computing
    • Paper: US Supreme Court Seems Wary of Limiting Protections for Social Media Platforms
  • week of Feb 27th:
  • March 3rd, Friday RPE3
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• Week 9
  • Readings:
    • Paper: Why Social Media Makes Us More Polarized and How to Fix it
    • Paper: Tinder and online dating
    • Paper: Employers, marketers and parents accessing Facebook database
    • Paper: On The YouTube Economy
    • Paper: Romance In The Information Age
    • Paper: Like.Flirt.Ghost: Social Media and Relationships
    • Paper: Brave New World of Digital Intimacy
    • Paper: Self-esteem and Online Dating
    • Paper: Facts about on-line dating
    • Paper: Cyber-bullying on social media
    • Paper: Photo Sharing and relationships
    • Paper: New Cyber-bullying Legislation
    • Paper: The Shadow Scholar
    • Paper: Modern Elder Resorts
    • Paper: On Doxing and Protesters
    • Paper: Online Agitation and Social Media
    • Paper: One Stupid Tweet
    • Paper: The Internet of Beefs
    • Paper: You are being influenced
    • Paper: Why is it Alexa, not Alex?
    • Paper: What does Tik Tok know about you?
    • Paper: How TikTok became Diplomatic Crisis
  • Mar 6th:
  • Mar 10th: RPE4
  • Mar 10th writing Assignment 3 due.
• Week 10
  • Readings:
    • Paper: Apple suing hacker-for-hire, warned by Citizen Lab
    • Paper: Microsoft, Ukraine, and Russai
    • Paper: U.S. accusses couple of laundering $4.5 bln in bitcoin tied to 2016 hack
    • Paper: Bitcoins carbon footprint
    • Paper: Tracing Stolen Bitcoin
    • Paper: Anonymity in Crypto Raises Alarm
    • Paper: U.S. technology compnay Clearview AI violated Canadian privacy law: report
    • Paper: MPs call for Commons committee probe of health agency's use of mobile data
    • Paper: Cyber command durring an ellection
    • Paper: On Memes and Propaganda
    • Paper: The Sony Hack
    • Article on privacy and security:Tim Cook says Apple's refusal to unlock iPhone for FBI is a 'civil liberties' issue
    • Paper: Security and Morality: A Tale of User Deceit
    • Paper: End to end encryption and privacy
    • Paper: Communications Surveillance: Privacy and Security at Risk
    • Paper: Wikileaks in the Guardian
    • Paper: Cyberattack on Montreal Based UN Aviation Agency
    • Paper: Messaging Apps, Security and Public Trust
    • Paper: On Surveillance and Government
    • Paper: AI and Surveilanec
    • Paper: on-line meeting security
    • Paper: on tech tools and monitoring
    • Paper: On the risk of stable-coin currency
    • Paper: Crypto Currency in Canada
  • week of Mar 13th:
  • Mar 17th: RPE 5
• Week 11
  • Readings:
    • Paper: Wikileaks publication of military records
    • Paper: Access to publication information
    • Paper: Dangers of access to leaked information
    • Paper: What happens if journalist's secure information is not safe
    • Paper: What Happens When Google Maps Gets It Wrong
    • Paper: Google and The Work Place
    • Paper: Culture in a Tech Company
    • Paper: On Boeing and Lage Design Changes
    • Paper: Oversight in the Tech Industry
    • Paper: Burried Responsibility and Desgin Problems
    • Paper: The Crash of Two Airplanes and the Crisis at Boeing
    • Paper: Fingerprinting on-line
    • Paper: On Ducks and Search Engines
    • Paper: On banning communities on Reddit
    • Paper: On banning politicians
    • Paper: Ubiquity Symposium: Computation and Computational Thinking
    • Paper: Bing's bad behaviour
    • Paper: Meta to block access to news
    • Paper: MPs denounce Google
  • Week of Mar 20th:
  • March 25th: RPE 6
  • March 25th
• Week 12
  • Readings:
  • Paper: No-code brings the power of AI to the masses
  • Paper: Hidden Image Descriptions Make the Internet Accessible
  • Paper: Amazon's Ring is the largest civilian surveillance network the US has ever seen
  • Paper: Essay on the impact of science eduction.
  • Paper: Essay on the social implications of optimization.
  • Paper: Stephen Hawking warns about the dangers of AI.
  • Paper: How the World Wide Web has changed as it has grown.
  • Paper: Crowdsourcing Moral Machines
  • Paper: So the internet didn't turn out the way we hoped. Where do we go from here?
  • Paper: Millions of Tweets about the pandemic
  • Paper: AI Is Learning To Read Mammograms
  • Paper: Teaching AI systems
  • Paper: On net neutrality
  • Paper: How the Internet Is Loosening Our Grip on the Truth
  • Paper: How do AI machines become racist?
  • Paper: E.U. Takes Aim at Big Tech's Power With Landmark Digital Act
  • Paper: Food Businesses Lose Faith in Instagram After Algorithm Changes
  • Paper: The Facebook Papers and Their Fallout
  • Paper: The Facebook Files
  • Paper: Facebook Says Its Rules Apply to All
  • Paper: Facebook Knows Instagram Is Toxic for Teen Girls
  • Paper: Facebook Says AI Will Clean Up the Platform
  • Paper: Facebook Increasingly Suppresses Political Movements It Deems Dangerous
  • Paper: Facebook Services Are Used to Spread Religous Hatred In India, Internal Documents Show
  • Paper: Facebook's Internal Chat Boards Show Politics Often At Center of Decision Making
  • Paper: Is Facebook Bad for You?
• Mar 27th: writing assignment 4 due
• March 31st: RPE 7

• Readings:
• Week of April 3rd:
• Apr 3, 5th: RPE 8, 9

• Readings:
• Week of Apr 10th -- Last Class Day
• writing assignment 5 due on the last day of classes