CSE 490ab: Undergraduate Computers, Ethics, and Society Seminar
Winter 2000
Seminar time: Fridays 3:30-4:20, EE1 045
Organizer:
Alan Borning
This is the continuation of the Computers, Ethics, and Society Seminar. In
this seminar we'll look at a wide range of topics related to computers,
ethics, and society. The seminar will be a mix of guest lectures and
discussion.
Ethics Resources
Plan for the Year
The plan is to have the seminar in its current form during autumn 1999 and
winter 2000. Potential topics include:
- professional ethics (including working through some scenarios)
- universal and differential access
- impacts on social capital (e.g. the HomeNet results from CMU)
- free speech online
- distance learning
- the impact of the internet on the political process
- reliability and risk
- privacy
- participatory design
- value sensitive design
- issues of trust and responsibility for automated systems
- modelling and simulation and its limits
- computer crime
- virtual reality
- artificial intelligence implications
- international perspectives on all of the above
Administrivia
CSE 490AB is 1 credit pass/fail. The required work for credit is showing
up and participating, some reading, and helping with a presentation
sometime during the year. One credit of the 490 seminar can be used as
senior elective credit. You can participate for multiple quarters (and
this is encouraged), but the additional credits are only available as free
electives.