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:
Week 3
- Readings:
- 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:
- Meet the TAs
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- Week 6
- Readings:
- week of Feb 9th:
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- Week 7
Feb 16th: Reading week: no classes
Writing assignment 2 due...Monday, Feb. 23rd...EOD.
- Week 8
- Readings:
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- week of Feb 23rd:
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- Week 9
- Week 10
- Readings:
- week of Mar 9th:
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- Week 11
- Readings:
- Week of Mar 16th:
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- Week 12
- Mar 23rd:
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Week 13
- Readings:
- Week of Marc h 30th:
- March 31st:
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Week of March 30th-- Last Class Day April 2nd