CS 492/CS 692 S18 Course Timetable

Classes are held Mondays and Wednesdays 10:00 -- 11:20, in MC 4041.

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Timetable of Topics, RPEs, and Assignment Due Dates

In the typical week, a discussion on a topic occupies the full Monday session and continues in the first 25 minutes of the Wednesday session, and an RPE occupies the last 55 minutes of the Wednesday session. Except possibly for assignments tied to a particular session, assignments are due at 10:00am on Thursday.

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: Unintended consequences
  - Paper: A declaration of the dependence of cyberspace
- May 2: overview of course
- May 2: 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: 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: Fake news
  - Paper: Kitchener Startup's App Takes on Fake News
  - Paper: The state of fakery
  - Paper: Internet Addiction
  - Slides: Internet Requirements
- May 7, 9: the Internet
- May 9: video on the Internet
- May 10: Assignment 1 due at 10:00am
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, Canadian CSIS concerns
  - Paper: Smartphones, Contents of the Mind, and the Fifth Amendment
  - 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
  - Paper: Making security sustainable
  - Paper: Impediments with policy interventions to foster cybersecurity
- May 14, 16: privacy and social control
- May 16: RPEs finalized
- May 16: RPE3 on computers and universal identifiers
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
  - Paper: Responsible research with crowds: pay crowdworkers at least minimum wage
- May 22, 23: the nature of work and productivity with computers
- May 23: RPE7 on displacement of workers
- May 24: Assignment 2 due at 10:00am
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 28, 30: work: e-commerce and the changing workplace
- May 30: RPE4 on personalized advertising on the web
Week 6
- Readings:
  - Paper on ACM code of ethics: ACM's Computing Professionals Face New Challenges
  - Paper: Keep the ACM code of ethics as it is
  - Paper: The state of fakery
  - Paper: Professional and Ethical Dilemmas in Software Engineering
  - Slides: Ethics Senarios
  - Paper: Ethics omission increases gases emission
  - Video: The Pentagon Wars
    This film is based on the book The Pentagon Wars: Reformers Challenge the Old Guard by Colonel James G. Burton, USAF (retired).
    The film describes the dishonesty associated with the 17-year development of the M2 Bradley fighting vehicle.
    The Wikipedia page titled "The_Pentagon_Wars" gives a summary of the movie and pointers to other information.
  - This video: The Challenger Disaster
    Video summarizes the Challenger Disaster and ends with Richard Feynman's demonstration of the inflexibility of the O ring at 0C, the temperature at launch time.
  - Paper: Appendix F - Personal observations on the reliability of the Shuttle by R. P. Feynman
  - 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 4, 6: ethics and ethics workshop
- June 6: RPE8 on computers and children
- June 7: Assignment 3 due at 10:00am
Week 7
- Readings:
  - Paper: Cellphones and Texting have Blown Up the Dating Culture
  - Paper: Employers, marketers and parents accessing Facebook database
  - Paper: Facebook manipulation
  - Paper: Can Blogs Revolutionize Progressive Politics?
  - Paper: Brave New World of Digital Intimacy
  - Paper: Victims of Cyberbullying
  - Paper: Cyber-bullying on social media debated in Parliament
  - Paper: Attempted Cyber-bullying Legislation
  - Paper: Hate speech online
  - Paper: The Shadow Scholar
  - Paper: Deleting Emails
  - Paper: Unanswered Email
- June 11, 13: computer-mediated communication
- June 13: RPE9 on e-learning
Week 8
- Readings:
  - Paper: The Limits of Correctness
  - Paper: Therac-25 case (skim)
  - Paper: A Nascent Robotics Culture: New Complicities for Companionship
  - Paper: Hawking and Russell on AI and the Public
  - Paper: Mark Zuckerberg, Elon Musk and the Feud Over Killer Robots.
  - Paper: The Singularity May Never Be Near.
  - Paper: An Electronic Pearl Harbor? Not Likely.
  - Paper: The Online Threat.
  - Paper: Obama and Cameron Exposing the Internet
  - Paper: Communications Surveillance: Privacy and Security at Risk
  - Paper: Internet-of-Things spying
  - Paper: Canadian cellphone spying
- June 18, 20: fears from computerization
- June 20: RPE2 on computers and piracy
Week 9
- Readings:
  - Paper: Not just a video game: the obsessive world of gaming and its young stars
  - Paper: Video Games Play May Provide Learning, Health, Social Benefits, Review Finds
  - Paper: Getting Hooked on Tech
  - Paper: Internet Addiction
  - Web Page: Video Game Addiction Symptoms, Causes and Effects
  - Web Page: Video Game Addiction: Signs, Problems, Risks, & Treatment
  - Paper: Sense and Nonsense About Video Game Addiction
  - Web Page: Video game addiction
  - Paper: Digital Addiction: A Requirements Engineering Perspective
- June 25: Time for Assignment 4 groups to meet
- June 25, 27: video game addiction
- June 27: RPE6 on net neutrality
Week 10
- Readings:
- July 4: open discussion on gender balance
- July 4: RPE1 on censorship
- July 4: Assignment 4 due in class by 10:00am
Week 11
- Readings:
- July 9, 11: the ethical behavior of self driving cars
- July 11: RPE5 on computers and extracurricular activity
Week 12
- Readings:
- July 16, 18: fair algorithms
- July 18: Assignment 5 due in class by 10:00am
- July 18: Assignment 5B is done in class and
  Student will do their evaluations of Prof. Daniel Berry: Log with your WatIam account credentials
Week 13
- Readings:
- July 23, 25: liability for failed high tech
  and
  Chinese surveillance with facial recongition AI
- July 25: course wrap-up
- July 25: Assignment 6 due in class by 10:00am
Other Topics to Take Up Slack
- what's in the news?
- Facebook's current woes
- intellectual property