CS 404, W'13 — Schedule

Topic Outline Schedule — v0.98 ( 07 Apr 2013 )

Note: Guest speakers ARE confirmed! Other dates are still around moving a bit!

Date	Topic	Reading Assignment	Deliverable
Jan 8	Triumph of the Nerds, Part I (video)	BYUtv: Insight with Jon Du Pre	—
Jan 10	Introduction/Orientation	Daily Readings: Course web site (yes, the whole thing)	Blog Setup
Jan 10	Ken Robinson: Schools kill creativity (short video)
Jan 15	Writing Workshop I Focus on smallish blog posts	Start reading Strunk and White	LinkedIn and Internet Safety Wiki sign-up
Jan 17	The Digital Age	Daily Readings: Postman, "Five things we need to Know About Technological Change" Oaks, "Focus and Priorities" (Ensign, May 2001)	Smallish Post
Jan 17	Clay Shirky: How social media can make history (short video) Michael Wesch: The Machine is Us/ing Us (short video) Erik Qualman: Social Media Revolution 3 (short video)
Jan 22	Technological Entrepreneurship Guest Speaker: Jan Newman, SageCreek Partners		—
Jan 24	No class - STEM Career Fair		—
Jan 29	Writing Workshop II Focus on longer essays		Current Event
Jan 31	The Orders of Ignorance		—
Feb 5	Triumph of the Nerds, Part II (video)		Current Event
Feb 7	Triumph of the Nerds, Part III (video)		Smallish Post (Women in Computing)
Feb 12	Writing Workshop III		Bring 5 copies of one of your blog posts to class.
Feb 14	CyberSecurity and Espionage	Stoll, The Cuckoo's Egg completed Daily Readings: Segal, "Security vs. Privacy" (HR Magazine, February 1, 2002) Berghel, "The Discipline of Internet Forensics" (Communications of the ACM, August 2003)	Book-Inspired Post
Feb 19	No class - Monday Instruction		Finish reading Strunk and White
Feb 21	No class		Current Event
Feb 26	Women in Computing Guest Speaker: Carla Heesch	Daily Readings: DePalma, "Women, Mathematics, and Computing" Wyden, "Title IX and Women in Academics" (Computing Research News, September 2003) Samuelson, "Women in Math, Science and Engineering" Stross, "What Has Driven Women Out of Computer Science?" (New York Times, November 15, 2008) The Gender HCI Project	Wiki Report 1
Feb 28	Frontline: Dot Con (video)		—
Mar 5	No class		—
Mar 7	Technology and Law	Daily Readings: Card, "MP3's are not the Devil" (The Ornery American, March 2003) Santini, "Bringing Copyright into the Information Age" (IEEE Computer, August 11, 2003) "Copyright Wars" (IEEE Spectrum, May 2003) "Extreme Lawsuits" (IEEE Spectrum, May 2003) Scialabba, "The Control of Ideas" (The American Prospect, January 28, 2002) This American Life: When Patents Attack! (Audio Podcast)	Smallish Post
Mar 12	Nerds 2.0.1, Part II (video)		—
Mar 14	Technology and Family History Work Guest Speaker: Craig Miller, Senior Vice President, FamilySearch	Daily Readings: Haight, "Linking the Family of Man" (Ensign, May 1991) Nelson, "A New Harvest Time" (Ensign, May 1998) Mann and Zautcke, "Family History via the Internet" (Ensign, July 2000) Olaveson, "Updated FamilySearch.org to Bring New Features Under One Roof" (Church News, July 16, 2010) Packard, "Future of FamilySearch.org Explained at Seminar" (Ensign, December 2010)	Smallish Post
Mar 19	Revolution OS (video)	Daily Readings: Raymond, "The Cathedral and the Bazaar"	Smallish Post
Mar 21	No class: RootsTech 2013, Salt Lake		Wiki Report 2
Mar 26	Technology and the Church Guest Speaker: Blaine Maxfield, Chief Information Officer, Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints	Daily Readings: Lubeck, "The Church and Computers: Using Tools the Lord has Provided" (Ensign, June 1984) Perry, "Thou Shalt Give Heed unto All His Words" (Ensign, May 2000) "Mormon.org's Redesign Connects Members and Investigators" (Church News, September 15, 2010) Wrigley, "Using Social Media for Gospel Purposes" (Church News, June 17, 2011)	Smallish Post
Mar 28	Technology and Society Reading Circles	Selected book completed	Book-Inspired Post
Apr 2	No class		Literary Extravaganza Position vlog
Apr 4	Internet Safety I	Daily Readings: Bednar, "Things As They Really Are" (CES Fireside, May 3, 2009) Knutson and Oswald, "Just a Game?" (Ensign, August 2009)	Smallish Post
Apr 9	Internet Safety II	Daily Readings: "Tangled in the Web" (Ensign, August 2001) Porter, "I Have a Question" (Ensign, March 2001)	Wiki Report 3
Apr 9	Charles Knutson: Families and the Internet (audio talk)
Apr 11	Personal and Professional Ethics	Daily Readings: Matthew 23:2-32 1 Corinthians 13 & Moroni 7:42-47 13th Article of Faith For the Strength of Youth ACM Council, "ACM Code of Ethics and Professional Conduct"	Smallish Post
Apr 16	No class		Articles of Personal Ethics

CS 404 — Winter 2013

Ethics and Computers In Society

Topic Outline Schedule — v0.98 ( 07 Apr 2013 )