CS 492/CS 692 W05 Role Playing Exercises

Please read the RPE requirements first.

Each student in the class must select ONE of the RPEs listed below to complete. Each RPE team consists of preferably 2, possibly 3 people. The timeslot for each RPE is indicated in the class schedule handout. All of the class will be sorted into RPE groups by Friday January 14. Please send e-mail to cs492@student.cs.uwaterloo.ca before January 14. You may indicate any of: which RPE topic you prefer, which team of that RPE you prefer, who you prefer to work with on your team. The TA will slot you into an RPE, as he receives e-mail, so this is more or less first-come, first-served. Students who do not express a preference will be slotted into the remaining spots on RPEs. The TA will continuously update the list of students assigned to RPEs on the course website, to show what is still available to select.

Please note that all students are expected to ATTEND all RPEs, to present questions to the teams in the discussion period. The TAs will be registering attendance and recording your participation. In addition, all students will complete Assignment 7, due on the last day of class (March 30), which records the RPEs attended (and includes a longer commentary on ONE of the RPEs). Since the class size is fairly large, we allow a continuation of discussion on RPEs on the newsgroup. This is an ideal forum to voice opinions, if the TAs are unable select you from the audience, during the class.

To find out when a particular RPE will take place, please refer to the timetable. Also, please check the table below to see which slots are still open before you send your preferences to the course TA.

• Role-playing exercise 1: Conduct codes on campus networks
• Role-playing exercise 2: Professional responsibility when workers are displaced
• Role-playing exercise 3: Universal IDs
• Role-playing exercise 4: Controlling SPAM
• Role-playing exercise 5: Distance learning via the Internet
• Role-playing exercise 6: Minimum liability for software
• Role-playing exercise 7: Certification for software professionals
• Role-playing exercise 8: E-commerce data sharing
• Role-playing exercise 9: Limiting the use of intelligent software
• Role-playing exercise 10: Piracy of software
• Role-playing exercise 11: Managing the use of e-mail in businesses
• Role-playing exercise 12: Computers in elementary schools

Please send any corrections to cs492@student.cs.