Spring 2009 CS4001 Calendar

Week 1: January 5-9th - Introduction & Example

Day	Readings/Assignments	Resources
Monday, Jan 5th	Course Syllabus HW 1 Assigned Read The New Newspaper Editor: Your Neighbors and Some Python Code	Book List.pdf
Wednesday, Jan 7th	Group A Reading: The Fed Who Blew the Whistle Group B Breading: Atomic John	Douglas Engelbart - NLS demo video
Friday, Jan 9th	Read: WACE: 1 - Argument: An Introduction HW1 Due by 3:05pm Homework 2 (Analyzing Arguments) assigned	AI for Games Therac25-Summary Therac25-Activity.pdf ETHICS 7.5 (Therac-25)

Week 2: January 12-16th - Arguments

Day	Readings/Assignments	Resources
Monday Jan 12th	Read: WACE: 2 Reading Arguments
Wednesday Jan 14th	Read: WACE: 3 Writing Arguments HW3 (Book Selection / Topic Brainstorms) Assigned
Friday Jan 16th	Read Vaughan5.pdf Read Twitter Hack HW2 Due by 3:05pm!

Week 3: January 19th-23rd - Ethics

Day	Readings/Assignments	Resources
Monday, Jan 19th	School Holiday! No Class on Martin Luther King Jr. Day
Wednesday Jan 21st	Read ETHICS: 2 (Introduction to Ethical Frameworks) HW3 (Book/Topics) Due in-class before 3:05pm HW4 (Ethical Frameworks) Assigned	HW4 ethical_dilemma.pdf
Friday Jan 23rd	Read WACE Chapter 14 pg 235-244 (Ethical Arguments) Read the ACM Code of Ethics

Week 4: January 26th-30th - Professional Ethics

Day	Readings/Assignments	Resources
Monday, Jan 26th	Read: ETHICS Chapter 8 (Professional Ethics) Read the ACM Code of Ethics (yes, this is a repeat)	The Elements of Style by William Strunk, Jr.
Wednesday, Jan 28th	HW4 (Ethical Frameworks) due! Read WACE Chapter 4 - Core of an argument Read WACE Chapter 14 p. 228-235 (Categorical Arguments) HW5 - Term Paper Topic Proposal assigned.	Possible Topic Ideas.pdf
Friday, Jan 30th	Read ETHICS 7.1 & 7.6-7.8 (Simulation/Software Engineering/Warranties) Read: Software Copyright and Role Models Watch Chapter 1 (A Hard Problem) of The Great Robot Race 6min 33sec. Watch Chapter 2 (The Red Army) of The Great Robot Race 7min 41sec

Week 5: February 2-6th - Information Security

Day	Readings/Assignments	Resources
Monday Feb 2nd	Read: ETHICS 3.1-3.3 ( Email/Spam) Read:Interview with an adware author
Wednesday, Feb 4th	HW5 (Term Paper Proposal) due before 3:05pm Read WACE Chapter 5: Logical Strucure of Arguments Read: Heartland Payment Systems Hit By Data Security Breach HW6 (Watching Cookies) Assigned
Friday Feb 6th	Read: ETHICS 6.1-6.2 (Viruses, Worms, Trojans) Read:Hacking The Hill Read: Thrift Store MP3 player contains military secrets

Week 6: February 9th-13th - Privacy

Day	Readings/Assignments	Resources
Monday Feb 9th	Read: ETHICS Chapter 5.1-5.6 (Privacy & the Public Record) Read: Whistleblower: NSA spied on everyone, targeted journalists
Wednesday Feb 11th	Read: ETHICS 5.7-5.11 (Threats to Privacy & Countermeasures) Read: The Unofficial Cookie FAQ HW6 (Watching Cookies) DUE by 3:05pm HW7 (Public Key Encryption) Assigned	Enigmail / Thunderbird quickstart guide http://xkcd.com/538/
Friday Feb 13th	Read: WACE 6 - Using Evidence Effectively NOTE: Class located in TSRB Ballroom! Jimmy Wales lecture

Week 7: February 16-20th - Arguments & Exam 1

Day	Readings/Assignments	Resources
Monday Feb 16th	Read: WACE 6 - Using Evidence Effectively (yes, it's a repeat!) Read: Robots At War
Wednesday Feb 18th	Read WACE: 7 - Moving Your Audience Term paper outline assigned
Friday, Feb 20th	EXAM 1 HW7 (Public Key Encryption) DUE by 3:05pm

Week 8: February 23rd-27th - Your Audience & Visual Arguments

Day	Readings/Assignments	Resources
Monday Feb 23rd	Read WACE 8 - Accommodating Your Audience
Wednesday, Feb 25th	Read WACE 9 - Visual Arguments Read: Full Body Scanner View: Sample full body scanner images (Only after reading above article!) Term Paper outline DUE by 3:05pm HW8 Visual Argument assigned.	Visual Arguments.ppt
Friday, Feb 27th	Read WACE: 10 Types of Claims

Week 9: March 2nd - 6th - Freedom of Speech & Censorship

Day	Readings/Assignments	Resources
Monday, March 2nd	Read ETHICS 3.4-3.7 (WWW/Censorship/Freedom of Expression) Read Face Recognition-Clever or Just Plain Creepy
Wednesday, March 4th	Guest Lecture James Clawson HW8 Visual Argument Due! Term Paper References Assigned
Friday, March 6th	No Class: Term Paper Work Day

Week 10: March 9th-13th - Computer Crime & Intellectual Property

Day	Readings/Assignments	Resources
Monday March 9th	Read ETHICS: 6.1-6.4 (Viri, Worms, Trojans, Hackers, Phreaks & DOS) Read: New Kindle Audio Feature Causes a Stir	Heart of a Whistleblower-Slides HoaW-Rules
Wednesday, March 11th	Term Paper References DUE by 3:05pm Book Review assigned Read ETHICS 4.1-4.5 (Intellectual Property & DRM)
Friday, March 13th	Read ETHICS 4.6-4.10 (P2P,IP for Software, OSS&Creative Commons)

Week 11: March 16-20th: Spring Break!

Week 12: March 23rd-27th - Impact on Society

Day	Readings/Assignments	Resources
Monday, March 23rd	Read ETHICS: 9.5-9.7 (Digital Divide / Education) Read: Digital Maoism - The Hazards of the New Online Collectivism
Wednesday, March 25th	Book Review DUE by 3:05pm Term Paper Draft assigned Read: Students Stop Surfing After Being Shown How In-Class Laptop Use Lowers Test Scores	Choosing_A_Job.pdf FastCompany Story:Insanity_Inc.pdf
Friday, March 27th	Read ETHICS: 9.1-9.4 (Impact on Work) Read: Red Cross: Torture Committed at CIA Sites	US Torture: Voices from the Black Sites Job Selection Critiera

Week 13: March 30th - April 3rd - Reliability & Responsibility

Day	Readings/Assignments	Resources
Monday, March 30th	Read: ETHICS 6.5 (Online voting) Read: Trilogy-RollingStone.pdf Watch: Hacking Democracy: Part 1	Ask Slashdot: Best Grad Program for a CS Major? Net Neutrality
Wednesday, April 1st	Term paper draft DUE by 3:05pm Read ETHICS 7.1-7.4 ( Data & software errors & failures) Watch Tim Wu and Tim Berners-Lee on Net Nutrality. Book Reflection assigned
Friday, April 3rd	Read: Ethics 7.5-7.8 Read:Space_storm_alert__90_seconds_from_catastrophe-_New_Scientist.pdf	A super Solar Flare

Week 14: April 6th-10th - AI, Robots, Copyright Law

Day	Readings/Assignments	Resources
Monday, April 6th	Read ETHICS 9.2.4 (pg 436-439) - Rise of the Robots Read ETHICS pg 103-105 - Interview with James Moor Watch the Ethical Governor video (High Quality 60mb or Low Quality (26MB) Read this story about the annual Loebner Prize contest
Wednesday, April 8th	Book Reflection DUE by 3:05pm Term Paper Presentation assigned Read: Michael Geist's comments on the Canadian DMCA. Read: this post on Google's Public Policy blog about copyright reform in Canada. Read: the BCBC 2 page position paper linked from the Google post.	Sample Presentation template.ppt Canadian DMCA results
Friday, April 10th	Read:Fox News Columnist Pays Big Price for Reviewing a Pirated Movie - NYTimes Read, Print and bring to class: CodeOfConductAppeal.pdf	CodeOfConductAppeal_final.pdf

Week 15: April 13th-17th -

Day	Readings/Assignments	Resources
Monday, April 13th	Read the RFID Position Statement of Consumer Privacy and Civil Liberties Organizations. Term Paper Due
Wednesday, April 15th	EXAM 2
Friday, April 17th	Read: Electricity Grid in U.S. Penetrated By Spies Term Paper Presentation due	http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/04/14/guest-post-why-amazon-didnt-just-have-a-glitch/ http://www.shirky.com/weblog/2009/04/the-failure-of-amazonfail/ FBI Spyware Has Been Snaring Extortionists and Hackers for Years

Week 16: April 20th-24th -Term Paper Presentations

Day	Readings/Assignments	Resources
Monday, April 20th	Presentations	A Cyber-Attack on an American City
Wednesday, April 22nd	Presentations	ATM Skimmer
Friday, April 24th	Presentations	Computer Spies Breach Fighter-Jet Project

Final Period (Presentations): Tuesday April 28th 11:30am-2:20pm