This page provides a tentative schedule for the course.
All reading materials can be accessed via Schmidt Library.
For articles in IEEE Computer, select Subject Guides, Engineering, and IEEE Xplore.
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Date Topic Reading Jan 22 Introduction Four Ethical Issues of the Information Age, Richard O. Mason (MIS Quarterly - 3/86) Jan 27 Profession The Tears of Donald Knuth, Thomas Haigh (ACM - 1/15)
The Business of Professionals, Mari Sako (ACM - 7/13)
The Whole Professional, Peter J. Denning (ACM - 12/14)Jan 29 Liability Software Needs Seatbelts and Airbags, Emery D. Berger (ACM - 9/12)
Responsible Programming, Vinton G. Cerf (ACM - 7/14)
Responsible Programming Not a Technical Issue, James Larus (ACM - 10/14)
Finding More Than One Worm in the Apple Mike Bland (ACM - 7/14)Feb 3 IP - Copyrights Intellectual Property, Part I, Gaff, Loren, and McCool (IEEE - 1/12)
Oracle v. Google: Are APIs Copyrightable?, Pamela Samuelson (ACM - 11/12)
Statutory Damages As a Threat to Innovation, Pamela Samuelson (ACM - 7/13)Feb 5 IP - Patents Is Software Patentable?, Pamela Samuelson (ACM - 11/13)
Why Do Software Startups Patent (or Not)?, Pamela Samuelson (ACM - 11/10)
The Troll Under the Bridge, Brian M. Gaff (IEEE - 7/13)
Supreme Court IP Update, Brian M. Gaff (IEEE - 7/14)Feb 17 Privacy - I The Tangled Web We Have Woven, Eben Moglen (ACM - 2/13)
Data Brokers Are Watching You, Gary Anthes (ACM - 1/15)
Big Data's End Run Around Procedural Privacy Protections, Solon Barocas and Helen Nissenbaum (ACM - 11/14)Feb 24 Privacy - II A Right to Be Forgotten, Lee A. Bygrave (ACM - 1/15)
Can You Engineer Privacy?, Seda Gurses (ACM - 8/14)Mar 10 Security - I Security or Privacy? A Matter of Perspective, George Hurlburt, Irena Bojanova, Ann Sobel, and Keesha Crosby (IEEE - 11/14)
Risky Business, Leah Hoffman (ACM - 11/11)
Privacy and Security: Summing Up, Susan Landau (ACM - 11/14)Mar 12 Security - II Preventing Heartbleed, David A. Wheeler (IEEE - 11/14)
Security Collapse in the HTTPS Market, Axel Arnbak, Hadi Asghari, Michel Van Eeten, and Nico Van Eijk (ACM - 10/14)
Security Outlook: Six Cyber Game Changers for the Next 15 Years, Alexander Kott, Ananthram Swami, and Patrick McDaniel (IEEE - 12/14)Mar 17 Government Big Brother? US linked to new wave of censorship, surveillance on web
Overt Censorship: A Fatal Mistake?, Jean-Loup Richet (ACM - 8/13)
Moral Hazards, Negative Externalities, and the Surveillance Economy, Hal Berghel (IEEE - 2/14)Mar 24 Internet Living in a Digital World, Samuel Greengard (ACM - 10/11)
Access to the Internet is a Human Right, Stephen Wicker and Stephanie Santoso (ACM - 6/13)
Does the Internet Make Us Stupid?, Hermann Maurer (ACM - 1/15)Apr 7 Shane Bonner - Piracy
Nick Lay - EncryptionCan Online Piracy Be Stopped By Laws?, Pamela Samuelson (ACM - 7/12)
What Happened to Video Game Piracy?, Ben Depoorter (ACM - 5/14)
The Pentagon Gets ‘NSA Proof’ Phones
The FBI used to recommend encryption. Now they want to ban itApr 9 Mike Marsh - Net Neutrality A Consumer-Welfare Approach to Network Neutrality Regulation of the Internet
The Solution to the F.C.C.’s Net-Neutrality Problems
Net Neutrality Rules: Still a Threat to Internet FreedomApr 14 Anthony Oduyebo - Ethical Hacking
Aaron Roth - HacktivistsEthical Hacking: Understanding the Benefits, Goals and Disadvantages
IST researchers examine role of ‘white hat’ hackers in cyber warfare
The Hacktivists, Joe Dysart (ABA Journal - 12/11)
Hacktivists For Democracy, Sophie McBain (New Statesman - 4/14)
Hacktivist Attacks Grow, Get Political, Byron Acohido (USA Today - 7/25/12)Apr 16 Sam Hamor - Github IP
Hieu Dao - IP PatentsCopyright Infringement and Software Version Control
Open source licensing
Compulsory Licensing After eBay, Angela Foster (New Jersey Lawyer Magazine - 6/09)
Do Stronger Intellectual Property Rights Increase Innovation?
Updates on the Intellectual Property Front, Pamela Samuelson (ACM - 11/14)Apr 21 Thomas Hon - Incomplete Software
Jason Fiddle - Day 1 PatchesIf Apple's Software Is Getting Buggier, It's No Wonder
Blockbuster Games Have a Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day
Alpha Protocols: The perils of early access
The Effects Of Day-One Patches
More Than a Third of 2014’s Big-Budget Games Got Day-One PatchesApr 23 Chris Davis - Facial Recognition
Cody Howard - Computer MediationFacebook’s facial recognition software is now as accurate as the human brain, but what now?
Cloud-Powered Facial Recognition Is Terrifying
Five Issues Of Facial Recognition Software
The NSA, Mediation and Digital Accountability
NSA Has Ability To Hide Spying Software Deep Within Hard Drives: Cyber ResearchersApr 28 Alana Palmerini - AI
Drew Holtzapple - RobotsArtificial intelligence: Know its purported benefits and risks
Bionic Man
Bill Gates joins Elon Musk and Stephen Hawking in saying artificial intelligence is scary
Robots replacing human factory workers at faster pace
10 Jobs that Won’t Be Taken By Robots…Yet
Study indicates robots could replace 80% of jobsApr 30 Josh Coady - Computer Literacy
Ryan Bare - Google CensorshipWhy Johnny Can't Program: A New Medium Requires A New Literacy
Stop Saying "Computer Literacy"!
Google: The reluctant censor of the Internet
Google Chrome Dragged Into Internet Censorship Fight
