Text: Annual Editions: Computers in Society, 2004-05, Paul De Palma, editor, McGraw Hill/Duskin, 2004.
Spreadsheet with Course Grades
Spreadsheet with Final Exam Grades
Suggestions for Group Projects
Guidelines for Writing Documents
Library Website with MLA citation examples.
http://www.cooper.com/alan/homonym_list.html
I. Lee. A Research Guide for Students. http://www.aresearchguide.com/ Feb. 4, 2004.
Web site about Chernobyl Article on InfraGard
Bill Joy, Why the Future Doesn't Need Us
| Date | Group | Chapter | Topic |
| Jan 26 | Overview of course, creation of groups | ||
| Feb 2 | A | 1 | From Movable Type To Data Deluge |
| B | 2 | Whom to Protect and How | |
| Feb 4 | C | 3 | Five Things We Need to Know about Technological Change |
| D | 4 | Beyond The Bar Code | |
| Feb 9 | E | 5 | How You'll Pay |
| F | 6 | You've Got Spam | |
| Feb 11 | G | 7 | Start-Up Finds Technology Slump Works in its Favor |
| H | 8 | The Computer and the Dynamo | |
| Feb 18 | A | 9 | Bring Linux to the Masses |
| B | 10 | Brain Circulation: How High-Skill Immigration Makes Everyone Better Off | |
| Feb 23 | C | 11 | The Perils of E-Mail |
| D | 12 | The Great Prosperity Divide | |
| Feb 25 | E | 13 | You’re Hired, Now Go Home |
| F | 14 | Dealing With Tech Rage | |
| Mar 1 | G | 15 | They're Watching You |
| H | 16 | Security vs. Privacy | |
| Mar 3 | A | 17 | Searching For Answers |
| B | 18 | Is That a Computer in Your Pants | |
| Mar 8 | Midterm Exam | ||
| Mar 10 | C | 19 | Do Cheaters Ever Prosper? Just Ask Them. |
| D | 20 | Why Women Avoid Computer Science | |
| Library Research Document Due | |||
| Mar 22 | E | 21 | Cyber Stars |
| F | 22 | The World According to Google | |
| Mar 24 | G | 23 | Bad Documents Can Kill You |
| H | 24 | The Digital Dilemma | |
| Mar 29 | A | 25 | The Control of Ideas |
| B | 26 | Democracy In An IT-Framed Society | |
| Mar 31 | C | 27 | Should Democracy Online Be Quick, Strong, Or Thin? |
| D | 28 | As Software Goes ... | |
| Survey Document Due | |||
| Apr 5 | E | 29 | Governing the Internet |
| F | 30 | Homeland Insecurity | |
| Apr 7 | G | 31 | Are You the Weak Link? |
| H | 32 | Code Red For The Web | |
| Apr 12 | A | 33 | Networking The Infrastructure |
| B | 34 | Will Spyware Work? | |
| Apr 14 | C | 35 | The Shock Of The Old |
| D | 36 | Data Extinction | |
| Apr 19 | E | 37 | Immigration And The Global IT Work Force |
| F | 38 | Wiring The Wilderness In Alaska and the Yukon | |
| Apr 21 | G, H | 39 | The Quiet Revolution |
| H, A | 40 | Dot Com for Dictators | |
| Apr 26 | B | 41 | ACM's Computing Professionals Face New Challenges |
| C | 42 | Humanoid Robots | |
| Apr 28 | D, E | 43 | The Real Scientific Hero of 1953 |
| E, F | 44 | The Race to Computerize Biology | |
| May 3 | G | 45 | Kurzweil vs. Dertouzos |
| H | 46 | Hyperculture-Stress: How Fast Times Are Transforming America | |
| May 5 | Presentation of Group Projects | ||
| May 12 | Final Exam, 2:40-4:20 |
Group A Group
B Group C Group
D Group E
Group F Group
G Group H
When a group has been assigned a chapter to report on, one member of the group should write a 1 or 2 page summary of the chapter and prepare 1 or 2 Powerpoint slides describing it. The other members of the group should find related material either in print or on the Internet pertaining to the topic in the chapter.Each one should also prepare a 1 or 2 page summary and 1 or 2 Powerpoint slides. The group will then make a presentation during the class time and hand in the written summaries. If we run out of time for the entire presentation, the remainder will be presented during the next class session.
Summaries should be double-spaced and brief. One page is preferred, but two are allowed. Three pages will not be accepted. The slides should also be brief with no more than 4 or 5 bulleted items per slide. The summaries will be graded for both grammar and content. After they have been returned with corrections, the corrected versions should be copied into html and posted on a group website. These websites may be either on a server chosen by the group or on a Pace University server. For the latter, either get a website through DoIT or on matrix.csis.pace.edu.
The group project will consist of a library research paper, a survey, a statistical analysis of the survey results and a conclusion. The entire project is due at the end of the semester. It should both be presented in class and posted on the website. At the end of the semester, zip up the entire contents of the website and send them to me. I will then post them on my website. No one in the group will receive a final grade until all the material has been posted on the site.
Grades will be determined by two written exams, a midterm and a final, all the presentations during the semester and the final project. Each one of these categories will count for 25% of the grade. All written materials, including exams, should be double-spaced. If your handwriting is hard to read, please print on your exams. Grammar will count on all documents, but spelling will only be graded on papers prepared ahead of time.