CS 404, W'12 — Schedule

Topic Outline Schedule — v1.0 ( 09 Feb 2012 )

Note: Guest speakers ARE confirmed! This schedule SHOULD NOT change!

Date	Topic	Reading Assignment	Deliverable
Jan 5	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 12	No class		—
Jan 17	Writing Workshop I Focus on smallish blog posts	Start reading Strunk and White	LinkedIn and Internet Safety Wiki sign-up
Jan 19	No class – Dr. K hosting colloquium speaker		—
Jan 24	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 24	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 26	The Orders of Ignorance		Current Event
Jan 31	Writing Workshop II Focus on longer essays		—
Feb 2	No Class - Dr. K at RootsTech in SLC		—
Feb 7	Triumph of the Nerds, Part II (video)		Current Event
Feb 9	Writing Workshop III		Bring 5 copies of one of your blog posts to class.
Feb 14	Triumph of the Nerds, Part III (video)		Current Event
Feb 16	Technology and Family History Work Guest Speaker: Ransom Love, Church Family History Department	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
Feb 21	No class – Monday instruction		Wiki Report 1
Feb 23	No class – Dr. K hosting colloquium speaker		Finish reading Strunk and White
Feb 28	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
Mar 1	Revolution OS (video)	Daily Readings: Raymond, "The Cathedral and the Bazaar"	Smallish Post
Mar 6	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 8	No class - Dr. K hosting colloquium speaker		—
Mar 13	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 15	Women in Computing Guest Speaker: Rebecca Mehr	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	Smallish Post
Mar 20	Nerds 2.0.1, Part II (video)		Wiki Report 2
Mar 22	Technology and Society Reading Circles	Selected book completed	Book-Inspired Post
Mar 27	Technological Entrepreneurship Guest Speaker: Jan Newman, SageCreek Partners		Position vlog
Mar 29	Frontline: Dot Con (video)		Literary Extravaganza
Apr 3	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 5	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"	Wiki Report 3
Apr 10	Internet Safety II - No Class meeting	Daily Readings: "Tangled in the Web" (Ensign, August 2001) Porter, "I Have a Question" (Ensign, March 2001)	Articles of Personal Ethics
Apr 10	Charles Knutson: Families and the Internet (audio talk)

CS 404 — Winter 2012

Ethics and Computers In Society

Topic Outline Schedule — v1.0 ( 09 Feb 2012 )