Readings

CSC 105 - The Digital Age - Spring 2014

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Computing ethics

• Stamatellos, G. (2007). Preface, What is computer ethics?, and Ethical issues. In Computer ethics: A global perspective (pp. ix-x, 1-10). Sudbury, MA: Jones and Bartlett. (e-Reserves)
• Barger, N. (2008). The ethical decision-making process. In Computer ethics: A case-based approach (pp. 70-79). New York: Cambridge University Press. (e-Reserves)
• Association for Computing Machinery (1992). ACM Code of Ethics and Professional Conduct.
• McFarland, M. (2012). Occidental engineering: An ethics case study and commentary.
• OPTIONAL: McBride, N. (2012, August). The ethics of software engineering should be an ethics for the client. Communications of the ACM, 55(8), 39-41. http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/2240236.2240250

Data mining and prediction

• Zarsky, T. Z. (2012, September). Automated prediction: Perception, law and policy. Communications of the ACM, 55(9), 33-35.
• Savage, N. (2012, October). Digging for drug facts. Communications of the ACM, 55(10), 11-13.
  • OPTIONAL VIDEO: Altman, R. (2012). Data mining electronic medical records to understand drug response and interactions. At Personalized Medicine World Conference. http://vimeo.com/36973003.
• Hoffmann, L. (2012, June). Data mining meets city hall. Communications of the ACM, 55(6), 19-21.
• Greengard, S. (2012, March). Policing the future. Communications of the ACM, 55(3), 19-21.
• Savage, N. (2012, January). Better medicine through machine learning. Communications of the ACM, 55(1), 17-19.

Artificial intelligence and robotics

• Vardi, M. Y. (2012, January). Artificial intelligence: past and future. Communications of the ACM, 55(1), 5.
• Kirkpatrick, K. (2013, November). Legal issues with robots. Communications of the ACM, 56(11), 17-19.
  • OPTIONAL VIDEO: Stanford University (2009, November 12). Legal challenges in the age of robotics. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P021944l2LA
• Ford, M. (2013, July). Could artificial intelligence create an unemployment crisis? Communications of the ACM, 56(7), 37-39.
• Wright, A. (2012, May). Robots like us. Communications of the ACM, 55(5), 12-13.
• Geller, T. (2012, April). Talking to machines. Communications of the ACM, 55(4), 14-16.
• Geller, T. (2011, October). Seeing is not enough. Communications of the ACM, 54(10), 15-17.
  • OPTIONAL VIDEOS: Draper, B. (2012). Video event recognition. http://www.cs.colostate.edu/~draper/research/projects.php
• Kroeker, K. L. (2011, July). Weighing Watson's impact. Communications of the ACM, 54(7), 13-15.
• Wright, A. (2011, July). Automotive autonomy. Communications of the ACM, 54(7), 16-18.

Global development

• Best, M. L. (2013, April). Peacebuilding in a networked world. Communications of the ACM, 56(4), 30-32.
• Heeks, R. (2012, April) Information technology and gross national happiness. Communications of the ACM, 55(4), 24-26.
• Toyama, K. (2011, December). On turbocharged, heat-seeking, robotic fishing poles. Communications of the ACM, 54(12), 29-31.
• Goodman, S. & Harris, A. (2010, December). The coming African tsunami on information security. Communications of the ACM, 53(12), 24-27.
• Heeks, R. (2012, December). IT innovation for the bottom of the pyramid. Communications of the ACM, 55(12), 24-27.
• Hoffmann, L. (2011, May) Data optimization in developing nations. Communications of the ACM, 54(5), 18-20.

Intellectual property

• Samuelson, P. (2011, March). Do you own the software you buy? Communications of the ACM, 54(3), 26-28.
• Samuelson, P. (2012, March). Do software copyrights protect what programs do? Communications of the ACM, 55(3), 27-29.
• Samuelson, P. (2012, November). Oracle v. Google: Are APIs copyrightable? Communications of the ACM, 55(11), 25-27.
• Samuelson, P. (2013, November). Is software patentable? Communications of the ACM, 56(11), 23-25.
• Stallman, R. (2009, June). Why open source misses the point of free software. Communications of the ACM, 52(6), 31-33.

Software reliability

• Cerf, V. G. (2013, January). What's a robot? Communications of the ACM, 56(1), 7.
• Kamp, P.-H. (2011, November). The software industry is the problem. Communications of the ACM, 54(11), 44-47.
• Greengard, S. (2009, December). Making automation work. Communications of the ACM, 52(12), 18-19.
• Cusumano, M. A., (2004, March). Who is liable for bugs and security flaws in software? Communications of the ACM, 47(3), 25-27.

Privacy

• Lindley, D. (2010, December). A matter of privacy. Communications of the ACM, 53(12), 23.
• Moglen, E. (2013, February). The tangled web we have woven. Communications of the ACM, 56(2), 20-22.
• Greengard, S. (2012, August). Advertising gets personal. Communications of the ACM, 55(8), 18-19.
• Spiekermann, S. (2012, July). The challenges of privacy by design. Communications of the ACM, 55(7), 39-41.
• boyd, d. (2012, August). The politics of "real names." Communications of the ACM, 55(8), 29-31.
• Soper, D. (2012, April). Is human mobility tracking a good idea? Communications of the ACM, 55(4), 35-37.
• Michael, K., & Michael, MG. (2013, November). No limits to watching? Communications of the ACM, 56(11), 26-28.
• OPTIONAL: Wicker, S. B., (2011, July). Cellular telephony and the question of privacy. Communications of the ACM, 54(7), 88-98. http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/1965724.1965745

Security

• Hong, J. (2012, January). The state of phishing attacks. Communications of the ACM, 55(1), 74-81.
  • OPTIONAL VIDEO: Wombat security technologies. (2012, February 13). Anti-Phishing Phil training Game by Wombat Security Technologies. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kLUS5H3V0yg
• Denning, T., Kohno, T., & Levy, H. M. (2013, January). Computer security and the modern home. Communications of the ACM, 56(1), 94-103.

Energy and sustainability

• Kurp, P. (2008, October). Green computing. Communications of the ACM, 51(10), 11-13.
• Mone, G. (2012, October). Redesigning the data center. Communications of the ACM, 55(10), 14-16.
  • OPTIONAL VIDEO: Google (2011, May 23) Google's Hamina data center. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VChOEvKicQQ.
• Watson, R. T., Corbett, J., Boudrea, M. C., & Webster, J. (2012, July) An information strategy for environmental sustainability. Communications of the ACM, 55(7), 28-30.
• Goth, G. (2011, February). Chipping away at greenhouse gases. Communications of the ACM, 54(2), 13-15.

Cookies

• Berghel, H. (2001). Caustic cookies. Communications of the ACM, 44(5), 19-22.
• Berghel, H. (2002). Hijacking the Web. Communications of the ACM, 45(4), 23-27.

Electronic voting

• Dill, D. L., & Castro, D. (2008, October). The U.S. should ban paperless electronic voting machines. Communications of the ACM, 51(10), 29-33.
• Schürmann, C. (2011, October). Modernizing the Danish democratic process. Communications of the ACM, 54(10), 27-29.
• Olsen, K. A., & Nordhaug, K. A. (2012, August). Internet elections: Unsafe in any home? Communications of the ACM, 55(08), 36-38.
• Simons, B., & Jones, D. W. (2012, October). Internet voting in the U.S. Communications of the ACM, 55(10), 68-77.
  • OPTIONAL VIDEO: Simons, B. (2012, August 8). Internet voting: An idea whose time has not come. http://research.microsoft.com/apps/video/default.aspx?id=171182

Cyber conflict

• Lin, H. (2012, June). Why computer scientists should care about cyber conflict and U.S. national security policy. Communications of the ACM, 55(6), 41-43.
• Lin, P., Allhoff, F., Rowe, N. C. (2012, March). War 2.0: Cyberweapons and ethics. Communications of the ACM, 55(3), 24-26.
• Conway, M. (2011, February). Against cyberterrorism. Communications of the ACM, 54(2), 26-28.
• Arquilla, J. (2011, October). From blitzkrieg to bitskrieg: The military encounter with computers. Communications of the ACM, 54(10), 58-65.

History of computing

• Campbell-Kelly, M. (2010, March). Victorian data processing. Communications of the ACM, 53(10), 19-21.
• Campbell-Kelly, M. (2010, April). Be careful what you wish for. Communications of the ACM, 53(4), 25-26.
• Haigh, T. (2014, January). Actually, Turing did not invent the computer. Communications of the ACM, 57(1), 36-41.
• Campbell-Kelly, M. (2009, January). Computing in the depression era. Communications of the ACM, 52(10), 21-22.
• Hyman, P. (2012, July). Lost and found. Communications of the ACM, 55(7), 21.
• Ross, M. (2009). A pioneer woman. Communications of the ACM, 52(1), 17.
• Haigh, T. (2013, January). Five lessons from really good history. Communications of the ACM, 56(1), 37-40.
• Smotherman, M., & Spicer, D. (2010, December). IBM's single-processor supercomputer efforts. Communications of the ACM, 53(12), 28-29.
• Haigh, T. (2012, January). The IBM PC: From beige box to industry standard. Communications of the ACM, 55(1), 35-37.
• Campbell-Kelly, M. (2009). The rise, fall, and resurrection of software as a service. Communications of the ACM, 52(5), 28-30.