CS 492/CS 692 W25 Course Timetable

Tentative meeting times: in person MC 4040: TH: 11:30-12:50 (sec 1) , TH: 1:00-2:20 (sec 2).

Course topics may include:

Technology Change and Social Impact

The Internet and how it changes communication

Personal identity, security and computer technology

The impact of computers on work environments

Electronic Commerce

Computers and social interactions

Ethics and computing

Reliable computing

Security and computing

Certification and responsibility of software professionals

Electronic learning environments

Intelligent software

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: Nvidia's Booming A.I. Business Collides With U.S.-Chinese Tensions
  - Paper: The Internet's Final Frontier: Remote Amazon Tribes
  - Paper: Understanding Media, Introduction, Chapter 1. Marshall McLuhan. Digital copy availed from UW library.
  - Reading: Nexus, chapter 6, Yuval Noah Harari, available from U.W. Library.
- week of Jan 7th: overview of social implications of computing
- Video: Marshall McLuhan Archive: This is Marshall McLuhan : This is Marshall McLuhan

Week 2

week of Jan 14th:

Thurs Jan 16th: Guest presentation writing workshop: Emma Dunn, Elise Vist

Week 3

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
  - Paper: 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: Social 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
  - Paper: 41 States Sue Meta
  - Paper:Crowdsourcing Moral Machines
  - Thurs: Guest presentation: Rebecca Hutchinson: UW Library
  - week of Jan 21st:
- 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: 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: 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:Biometrics in the workplace
    - Paper:Drivers Tricked Into Being Spied On
    - Paper:Google To Offer Dark Web Monitoring For Free
    - Paper:Biden Issues Executive Order To Restrict Data Sales
    - Paper:Vending machines had eyes all over this Ontario Campus
    - Paper:Huge Hack of US Phone Companies
  - : Video: Ben Shneiderman: Human-Centered AI: Reliabe, Safe and Trustworthy Video: Ben Shneiderman: Human-Centered AI: Reliable, Safe & and Trustworthy
  - Meet the ta's
  - week of Jan 28th:
  - Writing assignment 1 due...on January 30th...AOE.
- Week 5
- week of Feb 4th:
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Week 6
- Readings:
- week of Feb 11th:
- Feb 13th,
- Feb 13th
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Week 7
Week 8
- Readings:
- week of Feb 25th:
- RPE 1 and 2
- Feb 27th
- .
Week 9
- Readings:
- Mar 4th:
- RPE 3 and 4
- Mar 6th:
- Mar 6th
Week 10
- Readings:
- week of Mar 11th:
- Mar 13th:
- RPE 5 and 6
Week 11
- Readings:
- Week of Mar 18th:
- March 20th:
- March 20th
Week 12
- Readings:
Mar 25th:
March 27st:

Week 13

Readings:
Week of April 1st:
Apr 3, 5th:

Week of Apr 1st-- Last Class Day April 3rd