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| Wed 1-13 | Introduction to the course |
| Fri 1-15 | Surveys; Requirements; Academic Integrity Rant |
| Mon 1-18 | Reading: Barlow, "Selling Wine without Bottles" (Ludlow, essay 1) |
| Wed 1-20 | Reading: material on patents (Ludlow, essays 2, 3) |
| Fri 1-22 | Reading: Heckel, "Debunking the Software Patent Myths" (Ludlow, essay 4) |
| Monday 1-25 | Discussion of Writing an Argumentative Paper |
| Wed 1-27 | Reading: materials on hacking etc. (Ludlow, essays 7, 8, 10) |
| Fri 1-29 | Reading: Denning, "Concerning Hackers Who Break into Computer Systems" (Ludlow, essay 9) |
| Mon 2-1 | Barlow, "Crime and Puzzlement" (Ludlow, Appendix 1) |
| Wed 2-3 | Reading: materials on Carnegie-Mellon and Thomas cases (Ludlow, essays 20, 21, 22) |
| Fri 2-5 | Reading: Shallit, "Public Networks and Censorship" and Godwin,
"Sex and the Single Sysadmin" (Ludlow, essays 23 and 24)
DRAFT OF FIRST PAPER DUE TO CORY |
| Mon 2-8 | Presenter: Lacey Benbrook
Topic: Privacy and Encryption Reading: Ludlow, essays 11 - 15 |
| Wed 2-10 | Presenter: Sarah Berry
Topic: Broader Implications of Making Privacy Possible Reading: Ludlow, essays 16 - 19 FIRST PAPER DUE |
| Fri 2-12 | Presenter: Sam Brannen
Topic: Internet and Democracy Reading: http://www.wr.com.au/democracy/intro.htm (online master's thesis! Read the whole thing.) http://www.sas.upenn.edu/~eumansky/net.dem.html (explore site) |
| Mon 2-15 | Interlude: constructing a web site (no presentation)
Assignment: 1. obtain web page account from User Services; 2. play with Netscape Composer or Microsoft Front Page; 3. look at NCSA's Beginner's Guide to HTML at http://www.ncsa.uiuc.edu/General/Internet/WWW/HTMLPrimer.html |
| Wed 2-17 | Presenter: JamNiaBru
Topic: Online Communities 1 Reading: Ludlow, essays 26, 27, 28 |
| Fri 2-19 | Presenter: Adam Egly
Topic: Online Communities 2 Reading: Ludlow, essays 29, 30 |
| Mon 2-22 | Presenter: Robbie Fleener
Topic: Online Communities 3 Reading: Ludlow, essays 31, 32, 33 |
| Wed 2-24 | Presenter: Rob Harrison
Topic: Two Styles of Thought Reading: Turkle, Introduction and Chapters 1, 2 |
| Fri 2-26 | Presenter: Brandon Norton
Topic: Artificial Intelligence 1 Reading: Turkle, Chapters 4, 5 |
| Mon 3-1 | Presenter: Luke Peterson
Topic: AI 2 (A classic essay) Reading: Turing, "Computing Machinery and Intelligence" (handout) |
| Wed 3-3 | SECOND PAPER DUE
(No presentation) Topic: Online vs. Traditional Research |
| Friday 3-5 | Presenter: Jonathan Piefer
Topic: AI 3 (Competing Conceptions) Reading: Dreyfus and Dreyfus, "Making a Mind vs. Modeling the Brain" (handout) |
| Monday 3-8 | Spring Break - No Class |
| Wed 3-10 | Spring Break - No Class |
| Fri 3-12 | Spring Break - No Class |
| Mon 3-15 | Presenter: Jessica Pontiff
Topic: AI 4 (artificial life) Reading: Turkle, chapter 6 |
| Wed 3-17 | Presenter: Amanda Reese
Topic: Cyberspace in Fiction Reading: Snow Crash |
| Fri 3-19 | Presenter: Brad Steinke
Topic: Nature of the Self 1 Reading: Turkle, chapter 7, 8 |
| Mon 3-22 | Presenter: Dipali Venkataraman
Topic: Nature of the Self 2 Reading: Turkle, chapters 9, 10 |
| Wed 3-24 | Topic: Nature of the Self 3
Reading: Dennett, Consciousness Explained, chapters 13, 14 |
| Fri 3-26 | Topic: Cyber Body Art
Reading: Mark Dery, Escape Velocity, chapter 4 |
| Mon 3-29 | Topic: Cyber Literature
Reading: Hyperizons and (optional) this weird online book thing |
| Wed 3-31 | THIRD PAPER DUE
Discussion of final projects |
| Fri 4-2 | Good Friday - No Class |
| Mon 4-5 | Annotated Webliography Due
Topic: Problems for the Future Reading: Floridi, "Brave.Net.World 3.1" at http://www.wolfson.ox.ac.uk/~floridi/papers.htm |
| Wed 4-7 | Floridi, "The Internet: Which Future for Organized Knowledge?" (see link above) |
| Fri 4-9 | Help session for final projects (attendance optional) |
| Mon 4-12 | Final Projects: Adam, Robbie |
| Wed 4-14 | Final Projects: Sam, JamNiaBru |
| Fri 4-16 | Final Projects: Luke, Jonathan |
| Mon 4-19 | Final Projects: Jessica, Amanda |
| Wed 4-21 | Final Projects: Brad, Dipali |
| Fri 4-23 | Final Projects: Lacey, Sarah
FINAL PROJECT DUE |
| Mon 4-26 | Wrapping things up |
| Wed 4-28
Thurs 4-29 |
Reading Days |