| Week | Monday | Tuesday | Wednesday | Thursday | Friday | Readings |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Week 1 09/04-09/08 | Holiday | Syllabus Catalysts for Change | Catalysts for Change News: Facebook Controversy | Quinn: chapter 1 Spinello and Tavani: pp. 40-54: "Reason, Relativity, and Responsibility in Computer Ethics", by James Moor | ||
| Week 2 09/11-09/15 | Writing Assignment 1 | Introduction to Ethics | Introduction to Ethics | Quinn: chapter 2 Spinello and Tavani: pp. 96-106: "Common Morality and Computing", by Bernard Gert | ||
| Week 3 09/18-09/22 | Writing Assignment 2 | Networking Video: Spam | Networking Video: Cyberstalker: Hard Lessons of Internet Safety | Quinn: chapter 3 Spinello and Tavani: pp. 159-172: "Fahrenheit 451.2: Is Cyberspace Burning?", by the ACLU | ||
| Week 4 09/25-09/29 | Writing Assignment 3 | Networking News: Circumventing Web Filters | Networking Video: Caught in the Net | Quinn: chapter 3 | ||
| Week 5 10/02-10/06 | Study for exam | Midterm Exam 1 | Intellectual Property Vista Cost Pirated Vista Universal Music Sues | Quinn: Chapter 4 Spinello and Tavani: pp. 294-304, "Intellectual Property, Information, and the Common Good", by Michael McFarland | ||
| Week 6 10/09-10/13 | Writing Assignment 4 | Intellectual Property Sony Rootkit Exposed More Sony Bad News | Video: Revolution OS | Quinn: Chapter 4 Spinello and Tavani: pp. 351-366, "Ethical Issues in Open Source Software", by F. Grodzinsky, K. Miller, and M. Wolf (including Appendices A and B) | ||
| Week 7 10/16-10/20 | Writing Assignment 5 | Intellectual Property Patents and Software Patented European Webshop NoSoftwarePatents.com | Privacy Levis and RFIDs News: AOL Sued Over Privacy | Quinn: Chapters 4, 5 Spinello and Tavani: pp. 450-461, "Toward an Approach to Privacy in Public: Challenges of Information Technology", by Helen Nissenbaum | ||
| Week 8 10/23-10/27 | Writing Assignment 6 | Privacy Video: No Place to Hide | Privacy | Quinn: Chapter 5 Spinello and Tavani: pp. 525-535, "Terrorism or Civil Disobedience: Toward a Hacktivist Ethic", by M. Manion and A. A. Goodrum | ||
| Week 9 10/30-11/03 | Writing Assignment 7 | Guest Speaker: Josh Richard (UMD ITSS) | Security | Quinn: Chapter 6 | ||
| Week 10 11/06-11/10 | Study for exam | Midterm Exam 2 | Video: Hackers: Outlaws and Angels | C. C. Palmer: "Ethical Hacking" (HTML or PDF) | ||
| Week 11 11/13-11/17 | Writing Assignment 8 | Computer Reliability | Computer Reliability Work and Wealth | Quinn: Chapters 7, 8 Spinello and Tavani: pp. 651-658, "Unintentional Power in the Design of Computing Systems", by C. Huff | ||
| Week 12 11/20-11/24 | Writing Assignment 9 | Work and Wealth | Holiday | Holiday | Quinn: Chapter 8 Bill Joy: Why the Future Doesn't Need Us | |
| Week 13 11/27-12/01 | Writing Assignment 10 | Artificial Intelligence: Overview (ppt, odp) | Artificial Intelligence: Ethical Issues | Spinello and Tavani: pp. 690-697, "Lilliputian Computer Ethics", by J. Weckert | ||
| Week 14 12/04-12/08 | Presentation Schedule | Presentation Schedule | ||||
| Week 15 12/11-12/15 | Course Evaluations
Presentation Schedule | Presentation Schedule | ||||
| Finals Week 12/18-12/22 | Final Exam Tue., Dec. 19 4:00-5:55 p.m. |