Syllabus
Date |
Topics |
Due |
Presenters |
Tuesday 2016-03-15
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Introduction |
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Friday 2016-03-18
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Critical Thinking Guest Speaker
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1. Chapter 1 - Catalysts for Change
Interview at end of chapter
2. Appendix A - Plagiarism
3. Discussion Board: Movies
4. Sign up for individual presentation
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1. Laura Robinson - WPI Librarian |
Tuesday 2016-03-22
|
Ethics |
1. Chapter 2 - Introduction to Ethics
Interview at end of chapter
2. Paper 1: Technology
3. Wiki: Technology Timeline
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Friday 2016-03-25
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Freedom of Speech |
1. Chapter 3 - Networked Communications
Interview at end of chapter
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1. Holly Nguyen - Phone Addiction
2. Clark Jacobsohn - Twitter Shaming
3. Qiaoyu Liao - Video Game Violence
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Tuesday 2016-03-29
|
Intellectual Property Guest Speaker
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1. Chapter 4 - Intellectual Property
Interview at end of chapter
2. Paper 2: Global IP Law
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0. Frank Gerratana - IP Lawyer
1. Will Frick - Alternate Music Publishing
2. Patrick Plenefisch - Licensing and Software Adoption
3. Nick Diaz - Recent End User License Agreement Validity
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Friday 2016-04-01
|
Privacy |
1. Chapter 5 - Information Privacy
Interview at end of chapter
2. Paper 3: Self Search
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1. Anonymous - Website Advertising
2. Amanda Adkins - AI Barbie
3. Xiaosong Wen - Amazon ALEXA
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Tuesday 2016-04-05
|
Privacy |
1. Chapter 6 - Privacy and the Government
Interview at end of chapter
2. Paper 4: National ID
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1. Brett Ammeson - iPhone FBI Backdoor
2. Dean Kiourtsis - Google Glass
3. Dalton Tapply - Quantum Encryption Breaking
4. Tyler Jaskoviak - The Truth About Face Detection
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Friday 2016-04-08
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Crime |
1. Chapter 7 - Computer and Network Security
Interview at end of chapter
2. Group Project web site progress through topics covered in class to date.
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1. Himanshu Sahay - Trusted Certificate Signed Malware
2. Adilet Issayev - Hijacking The Internet of Things
3. Andrew La Manna - White Hat Black Hat Vulnerability Discovery
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Tuesday 2016-04-12
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Errors Failures Risks
Guest Speaker
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1. Chapter 8 - Computer Reliability
Interview at end of chapter
2. Paper 5: Code Testing
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0. Brannen Hough - Patriot Missile Engineer
1. Raymond Wang - Self Driving Cars
2. Andrew Lewis - Safety of 3D Printing
3. Daniel Benson - Robot Assisted Surgery
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Friday 2016-04-15
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Professional Ethics |
1. Chapter 9 - Professional Ethics
Interview at end of chapter
2. Paper 6: Game
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1. Hongbo Fang - Dubious Software Business Model
2. Nan Zhang - Conscience AI or Not
3. Patrick Polly - Neurological Control
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Tuesday 2016-04-19
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NO CLASS, THURSDAY SCHEDULE |
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Friday 2016-04-22
|
Work |
1. Chapter 10 - Work and Wealth
Interview at end of chapter
2. Group Presentation Draft
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1. Zach Robbins - AlphaGo
2. Greg Port - Society Guiding Robotic Development
3. Alec Thompson - Creative AI in The Workforce
4. Rick Wight - Unions
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Tuesday 2016-04-26
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Group Presentations
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1. Apollo 13 (1995) cs3043apollo13.wordpress.com (KAP)
2. The Lives of Others (2006) users.wpi.edu/~nadiaz/socialImps.html (KAP)
3. White House Down (2013) himanshu-sahay.squarespace.com (KAP, FHH)
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Friday 2016-04-29
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Group Presentations |
1. Robocop (1987) computinginrobocop1987.wordpress.com (KAP, FHH)
2. Robocop (2014) socialimpsrobocop2014.wordpress.com (KAP)
3. Chappie (2015) cs3043.bammeson.com (KAP)
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Tuesday 2016-05-03
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Student Topic Choice
- Rain Date: IP Guest Speaker
- Rain Date: Errors, Failures, Risks Guest Speaker
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Group Evaluations
Optional Paper:
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0. Brannen Hough - Patriot Missile Engineer
1. Qiaoyu Liao - Video Game Violence
2. Himanshu Sahay - Trusted Certificate Signed Malware
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The Syllabus will change throughout the course as new
interests are found and as material is covered ahead or behind
schedule. Changes will be made in class and recorded in the class slides.
You will be responsible for the material in the assigned reading.
If you need course adaptations or accommodations because of a
disability, or if you have medical information to share with me,
please make an appointment with me as soon as possible.
If you have not already done so, students with disabilities, who believe
that they may need accommodations in this class, are encouraged to contact the
Disability Services Office (DSO), as soon as possible to ensure that
such accommodations are implemented in a timely fashion. The DSO is
located in the Student Development and Counseling Center, (508) 831-4908.
Located on the first floor of Daniels Hall (room 116), the Writing Center is
a valuable resource for helping you improve as a writer. Writing Center
tutors are your peers (other undergraduate and graduate students at WPI) who
are experienced writers themselves and who enjoy helping others work through
thinking and writing problems. Although a single tutoring session should
never be seen as a quick fix for any writing difficulty, these sessions can
help you identify your strengths and weaknesses, and teach you strategies
for organizing, revising, and editing your course papers, projects, and
presentations. Writing Center services are free and open to all WPI students
in all classes, and tutors will happily work with you at any stage of the
writing process (early brainstorming, revising a draft, polishing sentences
in a final draft). Visit the Writing Center website
wpi.edu/+writing to make an appointment.