CS 492/CS 692 W26 Course Timetable
Tentative meeting times: in person MC 4042: TH: 11:30-12:50 (sec 1) , TH: 1:00-2:20 (sec 2), TH: 1:00-2:20 (sec
3).
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
AI
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 2
week of Jan 12th:
(Sec 1 and 2) Thurs Jan 15th: Guest presentation: Rebecca Hutchinson: UW Library
(Sec 3) Thurs Jan 15th: Guest presentation writing workshop: Jirina Poch
Week 3
- Readings:
- Week 4
- Week 5
- Readings:
- Paper:
Facebook employees stage virtual walkout in criticism of Zuckerberg
- Paper:
Group Seeking Equality for Women in Tech Raises $11 Million
- Paper: Google Researcher Says She Was Fired Over Paper Highlighting Bias in A.I.
- Paper: Programming
our lives away
- Paper: Ransome
Ware at Work
- Paper: Can a company innovate without working its
employees to death? (by Matt McFarland of the Washington Post, August 31st, 2015)
- Paper: Break from Digital Overload
- Paper: Solving the Productivity Paradox
- Paper: Beyond the
Productivity Paradox
- Paper: I
Just broke down crying
- Paper: A
World Without Work
- Paper: Instrumenting
the human and socializing the machince
- Paperr: As
machines take over our jobs, human ingenuity has an
opportunity to shine
- Paper: Growing
Canadian Digital Economy
- Paper: Temp
Work at Google
- Paper: Computing,
Data, and Work Life Balanace and Satisfaction
- Paper: Work-life balance law seen as 'toothless'
Toronto Star; Toronto, Ont. [Toronto, Ont]. 02 Dec 2021
- Paper:
Uber drivers, gig workers pressure Ontario government for employee status
- Paper: What Frustrated Workers Heard in That Dolly Parton Ad
- Paper: Where Tech Talant Is Going
- Paper: LinkedIn experiment changed job prospects for millions
- Paper: Uber's interaction with governments
- Paper: On Quantitative Data and The Digital Work Place
- Paper: Canada's Electronic Spy Agency Facing Staffing Crisis
- Paper: What We Do and Don't Know About The Effects Of Remote Work
- Paper:Ottawa hoping to convince reluctant civil servants of the benefits of working from the office
- Paper:Training My Replacement
- Paper:Workers Can Form Union At Amazon Warehouse In Laval
- Paper: What is `time theft' and why are some employers so worked up about it?
- Paper:Hottest Job In Corporate America
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- Paper:
Once Tech's Favorite Economist, Now a Thorn in Its Side
- Paper: Inside The AI Arms Race That Changed Silicon Valley
- Paper:Microsoft, Google and Antitrust
- Paper:AI is coming for lawyers. Again
- Paper:`Google is a monopoly' judge rules
- Paper:AI Spending Is Accelerating Among Tech's Biggest Companies
- Paper: Who Compete's With Meta?
- Paper: An Army of Robot's is China's Weapon in Trump's Tarrif War
- Paper:
Amazon Plans to Replace More Than Half a Million Jobs With Robots
- week of Feb 2nd:
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- Week 6
- Readings:
- week of Feb 9th:
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- Feb 13th,
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- Week 7
Feb 16th: Reading week: no classes
- Week 8
- Readings:
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- week of Feb 23rd: Assignment 2 due.
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- Feb 26th
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- Week 9
- Readings:
- Mar 2nd:
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- RPE 1 and 2 (Mar 5th:sec 1 and 2;Mar 3rd sec 3)
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- Week 10
- Readings:
- week of Mar 9th:
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- RPE 3 and 4 (Mar 12th: sec 1 and 2; Mar 10th: sec3)
- Week 11
- Readings:
- RPE 5 and 6 (Mar 19th: sec 1 and 2; Mar 17th: sec3)
- Week of Mar 16th:
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- Week 12
- Mar 23rd:
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RPE 7 and 8 (Mar 26th: sec 1 and 2; Mar 24th: sec3)
Week 13
- Readings:
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- Week of March 30th:
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- RPE 9 and 10 (Apr 2nd: sec 1 and 2; Mar 31st: sec3)
Week of March 30th-- Last Class Day April 2nd