CS 492/CS 692 S16 Course Timetable

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

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Timetable of topics and assignments

Week 1
- Readings:
- May 2: overview of course
- May 3: video on the dawn of the Internet
- May 5: 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?
  - Paper: Google and the Right to be Forgotten
  - Paper: Facebook and Gun Advertising
- May 9: overview of social implications of computers
- May 10: the Internet
- May 12: the Internet; RPE groups finalized; assignment 1 due at 10 am
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: NSA Security
  - Paper: NSA Prism and Tech Companies
  - Paper: NSA Security Update
  - Paper: Employee Rights to Privacy
  - Paper: Google Glass users fight privacy fears
  - Paper: We Can't Stop Sharing
  - Paper: Privacy and the Internet of Things
- May 16: privacy and social control (group 1)
- May 17: privacy and social control (group 2)
- May 19: see below
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: State of Telework in the US (Skim)
  - Paper: Present Shock
  - Paper: The Rise of the Robots and Shadow Work
  - Paper: Your Job Taught to Machines
- May 19: the nature of work and productivity with computers (group 1)
- May 24: more on the nature of work and productivity with computers (group 2)
- May 26: RPE5 on workplace monitoring (all); assignment 2 due at 10 am
Week 5
- Readings:
  - Papers on spam: Damn Spam , Canadian Anti-Spam Law, Geist on Anti-Spam
  - Paper: Online Salvation? (e-journalism)
  - Paper: Experiments with E-Voting Technology (skim)
  - 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
  - Papers on e-trading: Algorithmic Trading, Loss of Trading Jobs
- May 30: work: e-commerce and the changing workplace (group 1)
- May 31: more on e-commerce and the changing workplace (group 2)
- June 2: RPE4 on personalized advertising on the web (all)
Week 6
- Readings:
- June 6: computer mediated communication and social relations on the internet (group 1)
- June 7: more on computer mediated communication (group 2)
- June 9: RPE8 computers and children (all); assignment 3 due at 10 am
Week 7
- 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
- June 13: ethics and ethics workshop (group 1)
- June 14: ethics and ethics workshop (group 2)
- June 16: Time for A4 groups to meet (all)
Week 8

Readings:
- Paper: Privacy by Design
- Paper: An Electronic Pearl Harbor? Not Likely.
- Paper: The Online Threat.
- Paper: Security and Morality: A Tale of User Deceit
- 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
- Paper: Sony Hacking Case
- Paper: Bill C-51
- Paper: Terrorism, Security and Privacy
- Paper: Obama and Cameron Exposing the Internet
June 20: concerns about security (group 1)
June 21: concerns about security (group 2)
June 23: RPE2 on piracy (all)

Week 9
- Readings:
  - Paper: The Limits of Correctness
  - Paper: Therac-25 case (skim)
  - 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
  - Paper: Hawking and Russell on AI and the Public
- June 27: Reliability and the limits of computerization (group 1)
- June 28: Reliability and the limits of computerization (group 2)
- June 30: RPE6 on liability for software (all); assignment 4 due at 10 am
Week 10
- July 4: guest speaker on users with assistive needs (all)
- July 5: RPE7 on displacement of workers (all)
- July 7: RPE1 on censorship (all)
Week 11
- July 11: RPE10 on net neutrality (all)
- July 12: RPE9 on computers and education (all)
- July14: no class; time to complete assignments
Week 12
- July 18: guest speaker on gender and computer science (all)
- July 19: assignment 5 due; assignment 5B takes place (all)
- July 21: discussion on video games (hands-on) (all)
Week 13
- July 25: course wrap-up; assignment 6 due (all)