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

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: Amazon AWS outage and Eight Sleep Mattress
  - Paper: One man is fighting for our righ to control our garage door openers
  - Paper: AI, coding and computer science
  - 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 5th: overview of social implications of computing
- Video: Marshall McLuhan Archive: This is Marshall McLuhan : This is Marshall McLuhan

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

Week of March 30th-- Last Class Day April 2nd