CSE 490ab: Undergraduate Computers, Ethics, and Society Seminar

Seminar Schedule for Winter 2000

• Jan 7: Emer Dooley, UW Business School, "The Microsoft Antitrust Case"

• Jan 14: professional ethics (overview and organizing for student presentations for following weeks).
  Readings:
  • Ronald Anderson, Deborah Johnson, Donald Gotterbard, and Judith Perrolle, "Using the New ACM Code of Ethics in Decision Making", CACM Feb 1993.
  • Eric Weiss, "Self Assessment Procedure XXII (Ethics)", CACM Nov 1990.
  • John Ladd, "The Quest for a Code of Professional Ethics: An Intellectual and Moral Confusion"
  • Richard Rosenberg, "Beyond the Code of Ethics: The Responsibility of Professional Societies", Ethics and Social Impact, ACM Policy '98

• Jan 21: professional ethics (student presentations). We will talk about "Scenario II.5 (Computer Scientist accepting a grant on a possibly unachievable program)" from the Self Assessment Procedure.

• Jan 28: professional ethics (issues regarding how the UW ACM chapter interacts with companies)

• Feb 4: Simson Garfinkle, talking about his new book Database Nation: The DEATH of PRIVACY in the 21st CENTURY. Exploring issues of privacy, autonomy, identity, and property in the next century.

• Feb 11: Gerald Barnett, UW Office of Technology Transfer, "Software Patents and Copyright"

• Feb 18: Paulynn Schaff, FBI

• Feb 25: Steve Albertson, One Northwest (Online Neworking for the Environment)
  Steve's presentation: Powerpoint slides; html.

• March 3: Stuart Sutton, UW School of Library and Information Science

• March 10: wrapup (Alan Borning)