Text: Annual Editions: Computers in Society, 2005-06, Paul De Palma, editor, McGraw Hill/Dushkin, 2004.
Suggestions for Group Projects
Guidelines for Writing Documents Writing Center
Writing Enhanced survey - http://www.zoomerang.com/survey.zgi?p=WEB2256P8N7LXH
Group A Group B Group C Group D
Bill Joy: Why the Future Doesn't Need Us
| Date | Group | Chapter | Topic |
| Jan 23 | Overview of course, creation of groups Five Things We Need to Know about Technological Change |
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| Jan 25 | A | 2 | Whom to Protect and How |
| A | 3 | P2P and the Promise of Internet Equality | |
| Jan 30 | B | 4 | The Computer and the Dynamo |
| B | 5 | The Productivity Paradox | |
| C | 6 | As Silicon Valley Reboots, the Geeks Take Charge | |
| Feb 1 | C | 7 | At Bell Labs, Hard Times Take Toll on Pure Science |
| D | 8 | Playing the Search-Engine Game | |
| Feb 6 | D | 9 | Free to Choose |
| A | 10 | Brain Circulation: How High-Skill Immigration Makes Everyone Better Off | |
| A | 11 | Software | |
| Feb 8 | B | 12 | Letter from Silicon Valley |
| B | 13 | They're Watching You | |
| Feb 13 | C | 14 | Security vs. Privacy |
| C | 15 | Searching for Answers | |
| Feb 15 | D | 16 | Is That a Computer in Your Pants? |
| D | 17 | Dating a Blogger, Reading All About It, | |
| Feb 22 | A | 18 | From Virtual Communities to Smart Mobs |
| A | 19 | Lure of Data: Is It Addictive? | |
| Feb 27 | B | 20 | Want to Rule the World? |
| B | 21 | Making Meaning: As Google Goes, So Goes the Nation | |
| Mar 1 | C | 22 | The World According to Google |
| C | 23 | The Copyright Paradox | |
| Mar 6 | D | 24 | You Bought It. Who Controls It? |
| D | 25 | Bad Documents Can Kill You | |
| Mar 8 | Midterm Exam | ||
| Mar 13 | A | 26 | Why Women Avoid Computer Science |
| A | 27 | Point, Click…Fire | |
| Mar 15 | B | 28 | The Doctrine of Digital War |
| B | 29 | Star Wars by '04? Forget It. | |
| Library Research Document Due | |||
| Mar 27 | C | 30 | As Goes Software… |
| C | 31 | Homeland Insecurity | |
| Mar 29 | D | 32 | Code Red For The Web |
| D | 33 | The Virus Underground | |
| Survey Document Due | |||
| Apr 3 | A | 34 | The Spam Wars |
| A | 35 | Spammers Can Run but They Can't Hide | |
| Apr 5 | B | 36 | The Level of Discourse Continues to Slide |
| B | 37 | Immigration And The Global IT Work Force | |
| Apr 10 | C | 38 | The Quiet Revolution |
| C | 39 | Dot Com for Dictators | |
| Apr 12 | D | 40 | Kabul's Cyber Cafe Culture |
| D | 41 | The Hackers' Lure | |
| Apr 17 | A | 42 | Japan's Generation of Computer Refuseniks |
| A, B | 43 | Humanoid Robots | |
| Apr 19 | B | 44 | The Real Scientific Hero of 1953 |
| C | 45 | The Race to Computerise Biology | |
| Apr 24 | C, D | 46 | Why Listening Will Never Be the Same |
| D | 47 | Minding Your Business | |
| Apr 26 | Presentation of Group Projects | ||
| May 1 | Review | ||
| May 8 | 10:40 | 12:40 | Final Exam |
When your group has been assigned two chapters, divide them between you and each report on one. The report should consist of several PowerPoint slides containing the main points of the article and a summary of a related article found on the Internet, in a magazine or a newspaper. The related article should, if possible, be more recent and bring the topic up to date. Hand in the summary of the related article and a copy of it. If you have any problems printing, email the summary to me, and I will print it out for you. You may also send me the PowerPoint slides and I will make sure that they can be shown on the classroom equipment.
Summaries should be double-spaced and brief. One or two pages are all right, but 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.
Additional Resources:
Herman T. Tavani, Ethics and Technology, Chapter 2, Wiley, 2004.
MLA Citation Style, 6th ed. (2003), http://www.pace.edu/library/pages/instruct/guides/mla6.htm
I. Lee. A Research Guide for Students. http://www.aresearchguide.com/ Feb. 4, 2004.
ACM Code of Ethics, http://www.acm.org/constitution/code.html
John L. Sullivan and Richard G. Niemi, editors, Quantitative Applications in the Social Sciences, Sage Publications Inc., 1983.
http://www.cooper.com/alan/homonym_list.html
Link to Postman's Five Things We Need to Know about Technological Change