Here is a weekly and day by day schedule of the class. See T-Square @ GATech site for this class for details on readings and assignments. Some topics and readings are subject to change, so please make sure to check this site on weekly basis (at-least).
Week #1, #2, #3, #4, #5, #6, #7, #8, #9,#10,#11, #12, #13, #14, #15
Week 1 (1/10/11)
- Tuesday
- CLASSES CANCELLED (GA Tech Closed)
- Thursday
- Welcome & Overview (In class discussion and materials)
Week 2 (1/17/11)
- Tuesday
- Computing and Society
- READINGS: Quinn, Chapter 1.
- Case Study #1: Therac-25
- READING: “Medical Devices: The Therac-25” by Nancy Leveson.
- Computing and Society
- Thursday
- Reading Arguments
- READINGS:
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- WA Chapters 1 & 2
- Gordon Adams Petition (available via T-Square) [Or find in T-square/CS-4001-C-Resources/Readings].
- Reading Arguments
Week 3 (1/24/11)
- Tuesday
- Writing & Analyzing Arguments
- READINGS: WA 1 & 2
- Writing & Analyzing Arguments
- Thursday
- Deontology & Social Contract Theory
- READINGS: Quinn, Chapter 2
- Deontology & Social Contract Theory
Week 4 (1/31/11)
- Tuesday
- Stakeholder Analysis & Virtue Ethics
- READINGS: In a Different Voice by Carol Gilligan, pp. 25-39 Virtue Ethics, Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy (available via T-Square, look under Resources/Readings/..)
- Stakeholder Analysis & Virtue Ethics
- Thursday
- Core & Logical Structure of Arguments
- READINGS: W&A Chapter 3 & 4.
Week 5 (2/7/11)
- Tuesday
- Freedom of Speech
- READINGS: Quinn, Chapter 3.
- Freedom of Speech
- Thursday
- Privacy
- READINGS:
- Quinn Chapter 5, continued
- “Anonymized” data really isn’t–and here’s why by Nate Anderson in ars technica”
- EU-US Airline Passenger Data Disclosure (skim)
- READINGS:
- Privacy
Week 6 (2/14/11)
- Tuesday
- Privacy II
- Patriot ACT
- Wikipedia Articles:The Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA), The USA Patriot Act
- Do Artifacts Have Politics by Langdon Winner (See T-square/Resources/Readings (and READ it!)).
- Thursday
- Attend the Talk on Watson (Computer by IBM that competed in the Game Show Jeopardy) by Bill Murdock (IBM, GT Alum).
Week 7 (2/21/11)
- Tuesday
- Evidence and Moving your Audience
- READING: WA Chapters 5, 6, 7
- Do Artifacts Have Politics by Langdon Winner (See T-square/Resources/Readings (and READ it!)). [Discussion Led by Caleb Southern]
- Evidence and Moving your Audience
- Thursday
- Intellectual Property
- READINGS: Quinn Chapter 4.
- Intellectual Property
Week 8 (2/28/11)
- Tuesday
- When do People Cheat? Ethical Conduct in the Real World
- READING: Chapter from “Predictably Irrational” by Dan Ariely (T-square, zip file)
- Thursday
- Mid Term Exam (available over T-square) Duration 2hrs. (More information to come!).
Week 9 (3/7/11)
- Tuesday
- Code of Ethics
- READINGS:
- Quinn Chapter 8
- Article “Using the New ACM Code of Ethics in Decision Making” by Anderson et al (T-square)
- READINGS:
- Code of Ethics
- Thursday
- DISCUSSION about Final Term Papers
Week 10 (3/14/11)
- Tuesday
- Work, Wealth, Society, Technology.
- READINGS: Quinn Chapter 9
- Simulation
- READING: Sedutions of Sim by Paul Starr
- Work, Wealth, Society, Technology.
- Thursday
Week 11 (3/21/11) [SPRING BREAK]
- Tuesday
- Thursday
Week 12 (3/28/11)
- Tuesday
- Images/Photography and Ethics
- READINGS
- “The Case of the Inappropriate Alarm Clock (Part 1)” Errol Morris (Oct 18, 2009) NY Times (http://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/10/18/the-case-of-the-inappropriate-alarm-clock-part-1/)
- “Thought Experiment No. 1, and More Inappropriate Alarm Clocks” Errol Morris (Nov 9, 2009) NY Times (http://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/11/09/thought-experiment-no-1-and-more-inappropriate-alarm-clocks/)
- “It Was All Started by a Mouse (Part 1)” Errol Morris (Jan 3, 2010) NY Times (http://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/01/03/it-was-all-started-by-a-mouse-part-1/)
- “It Was All Started by a Mouse (Part 2)” Errol Morris (Jan 4, 2010) NY Times (http://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/01/04/it-was-all-started-by-a-mouse-part-2/)
- “Thought Experiment No. 2” Errol Morris (Jan 12, 2010) NY Times(http://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/01/12/thought-experiment-2/)
- Other RESOURCES
- “Behind the Scenes: Tank Man of Tiananmen” (Jun 3, 2009); NY Times (http://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/06/03/behind-the-scenes-tank-man-of-tiananmen/)
- “Behind the Scenes: A New Angle on History” (Jun 4, 2009); NY Times (http://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/06/04/behind-the-scenes-a-new-angle-on-history/)
- “Essay: Chop and Crop” (Sep 17, 2009); NY Times (http://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/09/17/essay-9/)
- “Behind the Scenes: Digital Manipulation” (July 8, 2009); NY Times (http://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/07/08/behind-5/)
- “Behind the Scenes: Edgar Martins Speaks” (July 31, 2009) NY Times (http://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/07/31/behind-10/)
- http://www.petapixel.com/2010/03/03/world-press-photo-disqualifies-winner/
- Video Rewrite. Example of Video Manipulation: Driving Visual Speech with Audio
- Mary101 Page. Examples of Video Manipulation. Speech driven, facial animation
- READINGS
- Images/Photography and Ethics
- Thursday
- Discussion of Term Paper Topics
Week 13 (4/4/11)
- Tuesday
- Simulation
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- READING: Sedutions of Sim by Paul Starr
- Thursday
- Robots and Military Ethics (GUEST SPEAKER: Professor Ron Arkin)
- READING:
- Arkin (2011), “The Case for Ethical Autonomy in Unmanned Systems” LINK
- Robots and Military Ethics (GUEST SPEAKER: Professor Ron Arkin)
Week 14 (4/11/11)
- Tuesday
- Continued discussion from last class on Robot Ethics.
- Thursday
- Intellectual Property, a Legal Perspective. (GUEST SPEAKERS: Gabriel Azar, Anita Bushan, Brannon McKay from Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner, LLP)
- READING: Re-review Quinn Chapter 4.
Week 15 (4/18/11)
- Tuesday
- Net Neutrality
- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet
- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Network_neutrality
- http://www.savetheinternet.com/net-neutrality-101
- http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/08/18/jon-stewart-google-net-neutrality-_n_686122.html
- http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/10/27/jon-stewart-takes-on-net_n_335517.html
- http://blog.xplana.com/2010/08/net-neutrality-cartoon/
- http://www.dontregulate.org/
- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l9jHOn0EW8U
- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cjd-_309MhA&NR=1&feature=fvwp
- Net Neutrality
- Thursday
- In Class discussion about Term Papers (515pm – 6pm)
- Consider attending this lecture by Michael Jordan (not the Sports star, the Machine Learning star) entitled “Statistical Inference of Protein Structure and Function” from 4pm – 5pm in TSRB Auditorium. LINK
Week 16 (4/25/11)
- Tuesday
- Term Paper PANELS 1
- Thursday
- Term Paper PANELS 2
