Lecture Index

Winter Term - Preliminary 2nd Term The Overall approach in second term is to “test our assumptions about X where x is some aspect of our Information Age” and to focus on the large issues involved in Ethics in Computing January 6 Testing our Assumptions about Video games” Video on video games : “"First person shooter" (video #6472 in the library) January 8 discussion of Video Games – guest lecture – Lauren Cruikshank January 13 Testing our assumptions about our identities Read Rifkin’s article in kit: “A Postmodern Stage” January 15 Testing our Assumptions about “ethics’: an overview See site map http://legacy.eos.ncsu.edu/eos/info/computer_ethics/ January 20 Ethics: Equity of access See Rifkin article in kit “The Connected and the Disconnected” January 22 Ethics: Social Justice issues in the Workplace Read Reich article “The end of Employment as We Knew it’ in course kit January 27 work continued Read “Menzies article “Challenging Capitalism in Cyberspace” in kit January 29 work continued; The Canadian situation – guest lecture: Dr. Barbara Crow Read article online here February 3 Ethics in computing: documentary on “Hackers” shown in lecture (video number 5995) + http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/hackers February 5 Computer Abuse – continued http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/hackers/ February 10 Ethics in computing- E-Commerce: “Anti-competitive practices”; The case of Microsoft Short in-class video + read Reich article “Desperately Seeking Stickiness” in kit http://www.carleton.ca/~vmosco/cyber.htm February 13 Commerce continued: Fraud issues http://courses.ncsu.edu:8020/classes-a/computer_ethics/commerce/ February 17 And February 19 Reading Week – no classes February 24 Ethics in Computing: “Risks” – Software Reliability Read Forester and Morrison article in kit February 26 Risks continued URLs located in lecture notes March 3 Testing our Assumptions about Artificial Intelligence: overview Read Wessells article in kit March 5 Documentary on AI – shown in lecture March 10 AI continued: natural language processing March 12 Reshowing of film (film NOT available at Scott Library) March 17 Problem Solving March 19 Expert System March 24 A feminist critique of AI Read Adam article in kit March 26 Overiew of Robotic research (http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/8.04/joy.html?pg=1&topic=&topic_set=) March 31 Asimov’s robots Read Asimov short story in kit April 2 REVIEW for exam

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