CS 492/CS 692 W14 Course Timetable

Classes are held Monday, Wednesday and Fridays 9:30-10:20, in MC 4040.

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Timetable of topics and assignments

Week 1
- Readings:
- Jan 6: overview of course
- Jan 8: introduction: overview of social implications of computers
- Jan 10: overview of social implications of computers
Week 2
- Readings:
  - Paper on trust on the Internet: Trust, Authenticity, and Discursive Power In Cyberspace.
  - Paper: Viacom sues Google over YouTube clips
  - Paper: Copyright Protection Policies To Be Developed by Google
  - Paper: Copyright and the Web
  - Paper: Wikipedia in the Newsroom
  - Paper: The Web Runs on Love, Not Greed
  - Paper: Is Google Making Us Stupid?
- Jan 13: the Internet
- Jan 15: the Internet
- Jan 16: assignment 1 due at 10am
- Jan 17: video on the Internet; RPE groupings finalized
Week 3
- Readings:
  - Primer on the Personal Information Protection and Electronic Documents Act, [pdf].
  - Paper on the Act: Guide for Businesses and Organizations to Canada's Personal Infor mation Protection and Electronic Documents Act, [pdf].
  - Paper: Does Google Know Too Much?
  - Paper: Does Google Know Too Much About You?
  - Paper: US government information gathering
  - Paper: RFID tags: Big Brother in small packages
  - Paper: NSA Security
  - Paper: NSA Prism and Tech Companies
  - Paper: NSA Security Update
  - Paper: Employee Rights to Privacy
  - Paper: Google Glass users fight privacy fears
- Jan 20: privacy and social control (group 1)
- Jan 22: more on privacy and social control (group 2)
- Jan 23: assignment 2 due at 10 am
- Jan 24: RPE3 on universal IDs (all)
Week 4
- Readings:
  - Paper: Programming our lives away
  - Paper: Kelly Global Workforce Index - Technology & Work Life Balance
  - Paper: Break from Digital Overload
  - Paper: Solving the Productivity Paradox
  - Paper: Beyond the Productivity Paradox
  - Paper: The End Of Work As You Know It
  - Paper: State of Telework in the US (Skim)
  - Paper: Present Shock
  - Paper: The Computerization of Work
- Jan 27: the nature of work and productivity with computers (group 1)
- Jan 29: more on the nature of work and productivity with computers (group 2)
- Jan 31: RPE5 on work-life balance with mobile devices (all)
Week 5
- Readings:
  - Article on e-commerce strategies: A Policy Agenda for E-Economy in Canada
  - Paper: The Digital Economy in Canada 2009
  - Paper on spam: Damn Spam
  - Paper: Online Salvation? (e-journalism)
  - Paper: Experiments with E-Voting Technology
  - Paper: E-voting challenge to democracy
  - Paper: New Jersey Lets Sandy Victims Vote Via E-Mail
  - Paper: Microsoft outsourcing high-end jobs, union says
  - Paper: Big Data
  - Paper: Canada Post
  - Paper: 3-D Printed Guns
  - Paper: Algorithmic Trading
- Feb 3: work: e-commerce and the changing workplace (group 1)
- Feb 5: more on e-commerce and the changing workplace (group 2)
- Feb 6: assignment 3 due at 10 am
- Feb 7: RPE4 on personalized advertising on the web (all)
Week 6
- Readings:
- Feb 10: computer mediated communication and social relations on the internet (group 1)
- Feb 12: more on computer mediated communication (group 2)
- Feb 14: RPE2 on piracy (all)
Week 7
Week 8
- Readings:
  - Paper on ACM code of ethics: ACM's Computing Professionals Face New Challenges
  - Paper on ethics of pervasive technology: Towards an Ethics of Persuasive Technology
  - Paper on student facing explusion over Facebook: Student faces Facebook consequences
  - Paper on ethics and responsibility: Ethics and Professional Responsibility in Computing
- Feb 24: ethics and ethics workshop (group 1)
- Feb 26: ethics and ethics workshop (group 2)
- Feb 28: Time for A4 groups to meet (all)
Week 9
- Readings:
  - Paper: The Limits of Correctness
  - Paper: Therac-25 case
  - Paper: Humanoid Robots: A New Kind of Tool
  - Paper: Trial by Fire: Activities of the Rescue Robots at the World Trade Center
  - Paper: A Nascent Robotics Culture: New Complicities for Companionship
  - Paper: AAAI presidential panel
- Mar 3: Reliability and the limits of computerization (group 1)
- Mar 5: Reliability and the limits of computerization (group 2)
- Mar 7: RPE10 on limiting the use of intelligent software (all)
Week 10
- Readings:
  - Paper on radical pragmatism: Privacy & Radical Pragmatism: Change the Paradigm (skim)
  - Article on electronic terrorism: An Electronic Pearl Harbor? Not Likely.
  - Article on electronic terrorism: The Online Threat.
  - BBB on Identify Theft: New Research Shows Identity Fraud Growth Is Contained and Consumers Have More Control Than They Think
  - Paper: Security and Morality: A Tale of User Deceit
  - Paper: Security, Wiretapping, and the Internet
  - Paper: Communications Surveillance: Privacy and Security at Risk
  - Paper: Wikileaks Unpluggable
  - Paper: Amid Fears, WikiLeaks Presents Some Upside To U.S.
  - Paper: Facebook security fears
  - Paper: Antivirus Challenges
- Mar 10: concerns about security (group 1)
- Mar 12: concerns about security (group 2)
- Mar 13: Assignment 4 due at 10am
- Mar 14: RPE6 on certification for software professionals (all)
Week 11
- Mar 17: RPE7 on displacement of workers (all)
- Mar 19: RPE1 on censorship (all)
- Mar 21: RPE8 on computers and children (all)
Week 12
- Mar 24: RPE9 on computers and education (all)
- Mar 26: discussion on video game addiction (Read the article here; view the video) (all)
- Mar 28: What's in the news? A hands-on activity (all)
Week 13
- Mar 31 : assignment 5 due; assignment 5B takes place (all)
- Apr 2: course wrap-up; assignment 6 due (all)