CS 195, Social Implications of Computing CS H195, Honors Social Implications of Computing Ruzena Bajcsy 719 Sutardja Dai Hall | Brian Harvey 781 Soda Hall 642-9423 bajcsy@eecs.berkeley.edu | 642-8311 bh@cs.berkeley.edu Office hours Monday 9-10; Friday 9-10 | Office hours Tue,Wed 2-4 General Course Information ========================== The one-unit CS 195 is meant to serve the needs of students who are here to satisfy a requirement. It is meant to be relatively painless and perhaps to spark an interest in the topic. The three-unit CS H195 is meant to allow small-group discussion with the students who are here out of serious interest. It requires more reading and more writing (a term paper) in addition to the extra discussion time. The non-honors version meets once per week, Tuesday 12:30-2, in 306 Soda. The honors version has the same lecture, plus an additional meeting Wednesday 4-5:30, in 380 Soda. This syllabus is online at http://www-inst.eecs.berkeley.edu/~cs195 READINGS -------- There are two course readers, although with a lot of overlap, one for each version of the course. Be sure to get the right reader! They're at Copy Central on Hearst Ave. FOR THE NON-HONORS (CS 195) STUDENTS, ALL ASSIGNED READINGS ARE EITHER IN THE COURSE READER OR ONLINE. The honors version (CS H195) has two textbooks in addition to the reader: [ES] Computers, Ethics, and Society (Third Edition) edited by M. David Ermann and Michele S. Shauf. Oxford University Press, 1997, ISBN 0-19-514302-7 [Lud] High Noon on the Electronic Frontier: Conceptual Issues in Cyberspace edited by Peter Ludlow. MIT Press, 1996, ISBN 0-262-62103-7 Each week we cull news articles relevant to the course; these will be posted in the class bSpace page and are also part of the week's reading assignment. You don't have to read every word of every article, but skim them and read the interesting ones. DO THE READING, COME TO CLASS ----------------------------- As indicated below, each week has a topic, more or less. This first week is a general overview of the course and the topics. PLEASE READ THE INDICATED PAPERS BEFORE EACH WEEK'S DISCUSSION. Most of the readings should be easy going, with only a few exceptions. (We'll try to warn you about those in advance.) But if you don't do the reading, the quality of the discussions will suffer. You are expected to attend class and participate in discussions. ATTENDANCE IS REQUIRED -- THIS WILL BE ENFORCED. WRITING ASSIGNMENTS ------------------- The course is graded P/NP. In addition to attending all class sessions and doing the assigned reading, the requirement for credit includes three writing assignments. In the non-honors section, these will be short (one or two page) papers on assigned topics, based on the readings and lectures, due Tuesday of weeks 6 (2/21), 9 (3/13), and 12 (4/10). In the honors section, the first two will be the same short papers, and the third will be a longer (5-10 page) term paper. Each honors student will pick one topic for more intensive study, leading to a term paper and perhaps a presentation to the class. (Your topic may or may not be the same as one of ours.) Since the term paper is your main written work in this course, we want it to be good -- scholarly, honest, articulate, well-organized. To this end, you will prepare the term paper in three stages: * A one-page proposal (including initial bibliography) due week 5 (2/14). * A first version (your best effort!) due week 10 (3/20). * A revised version due week 13 (4/17). We'll respond to each of these stages within a week. THESE ARE FIRM DEADLINES; they are chosen to allow time for recovery if what you turn in is not of acceptable quality. (In a typical semester we require post-final versions from one or two out of about 25 students.) Typical papers are 5 to 10 pages, but don't pad; quality counts much more than quantity. ACADEMIC INTEGRITY ------------------ We have strong opinions on some of these topics, and we believe that the road to academic integrity is for us to make our biases clear, rather than to pretend not to have opinions. But it's also our job to be sure that the full range of opinion is fairly presented and taken seriously; if, as sometimes happens, most of the class agrees with us about some point we'll do our best to argue the other side of the question. The same standards apply to your papers: You don't have to agree with us; what you have to do is show that you understand and take seriously points of view different from your own, and try to explain why your arguments are better than theirs. (But not every paper is necessarily an opinion paper!) We hope it goes without saying that everything you turn in should be your own work, not quoting from anyone else's work without proper attribution. Schedule: Week Dates Topic Readings 1 1/17,1/18 Intro Williams, "Ethical..." (handout) HONORS: ES 190-202 2 1/24,1/25 Privacy Rachels, "Why Privacy..." Garfinkle: "..." HONORS: ES 137-152; Lud 173-249 Hausman, "Your..." (reader) R.Bajcsy will have power points Lecturing on design of architecture for private healthcare monitoring 3 1/31,2/1 Intellectual Property Stallman, "GNU..." [ES 153-162] Stallman, "Misinterpreting..." (reader) LPF, "Against..." [Lud 47-62] Heckel, "Debunking..." [Lud 63-108] HONORS: Lud 1-121 4 2/7,2/8 Ethics Hospers, "The Best..." [ES 3-11] Rachels, "The Best..." [ES 12-16] Aristotle, "The Best..." [ES 16-20] MacIntyre, _After Virtue_ (reader) HONORS: larger excerpt of MacIntyre (reader) 5 2/14,2/15 Computers and War Chapman, "A Moral Project..." (reader) Page, "Star Wars..." (reader) Mahnken, "Weapons..." (reader) Dunlap, "The Military-Industrial..." (reader) Shafer, "Artificial Intelligence..." (reader) HONORS: ES 214-231 R.Bajcsy will lecture with power points and additional material (HONORS TERM PAPER PROPOSAL DUE Tuesday 2/14) 6 2/21,2/22 Self Dreyfus, "Using..." [ES 74-81] Turkle, _The Second Self_ and _Life on the Screen_ (reader) HONORS: ES 101-110 (FIRST SHORT PAPER DUE Tuesday 2/21) 7 2/28,2/29 Community and ethics in Virtual World Curtis, "MUDding..." [Lud 347-373] Dibbell, "A Rape..." [Lud 375-395] HONORS: ES 85-90, 231-249; Lud 311-457 R.Bajcsy will lecture ethics in VR 8 3/6,3/7 Computers and Education Papert, "Mathophobia..." Schank/Cleary, "What Makes..." Sewell, "Software Styles" (reader) HONORS: ES 171-183 Goodman, "The Present Plight.." Buber, "Education" and "The Education of Character" (reader) Week Dates Topic Readings 9 3/13,3/14 Risks Joy, "Why..." [ES 110-122] Neumann, "Illustrative Risks..." (online: www.csli.sri.com/users/neumann/illustrative.html) Levenson/Turner "...Therac-25.." (reader) HONORS: Collins et al, "How Good..." Gladwell, "Blowup" (reader) R.Bajcsy will show the history of the concept of Risk, list of threatening technologies (SECOND SHORT PAPER DUE Tuesday 3/13) 10 3/20,3/21 The Nature of Work Forester, "Computerizing..." (reader) HONORS: ES 184-190 Hochheiser, "Workplace Database.." Barbour, "Computers Transform..." Pearson&Mitter "Computeriz..." Dedrick et al, "Computing in..." Forester, "Whatever..." (reader) (HONORS TERM PAPER FIRST VERSION DUE Tuesday 3/20) -----(SPRING BREAK)----- 11 4/3,4/4 Internet in 2011 and ethical questions Horrigan, "Being Disconnected..." (reader) Nissenbaum, "A Contextual..." (reader) Mulligan, "Doctrine for..." (reader) Garrett, "Resisting Political..." (reader) Sproul, "Prosocial Behavior..." (reader) HONORS: Clark, "Introduction" (reader) Cheshire, "Online Trust..." (reader) Cerf, "Safety in..." (reader) Camp, "Reconceptualizing..." (reader) Schlozman, "Who Speaks? ..." (reader) Benkler, "WikiLeaks..." (reader) 12 4/10,4/11 Pornography and Censorship Godwin, "Virtual..." [Lud 269-273] Goodman, "Pornography, Art..." (reader) HONORS: Lud 251-310 (THIRD SHORT PAPER DUE Tuesday 4/10) 13 4/16,4/18 Cracking Spafford, "Are Hacker..." [ES 64-74] Wright, "Hackwork" (reader) HONORS: Lud 123-163 (REVISED HONORS TERM PAPER DUE Tuesday 4/17) 14 4/24,4/25 Professional Ethics ACM "Code..." Anderson, "Using..." Barger, "Can We Find..." Bok, "The Morality..." [ES 23-54]