CS 492/CS 692 W23 Course Timetable

Tentative meeting times: in person MC 4060: MWF: 2:30-3:20 (sec 1) , MWF: 3:30-4:20 (sec 2).

Course topics may include:

  • Technology Change and Social Impact
  • The Internet and how it changes communication
  • Personal identity, security and computer technology
  • The impact of computers on work environments
  • Electronic Commerce
  • Computers and social interactions
  • Ethics and computing
  • Reliable computing
  • Security and computing
  • Certification and responsibility of software professionals
  • Electronic learning environments
  • Intelligent software

    Timetable of topics and assignments

  • Week 2
  • Week 3
  • Week 13
  • Week 14
  • Paper: on rabbit holes
  • Paper: On The Weirdest Entries of Wikipedia
  • Paper: On Nokia and Russia
  • Paper: The language of geometry
  • Paper: What Does It Mean to `Yassify' Anything?
  • Paper: Halifax gamer is the 13th black belt in computer coding
  • Paper: What are text memes
  • Paper: Governments and Spyware
  • Paper: History and Chatbots
  • Paper: The Internet Saved Their Lives
  • Paper: Search and Advertising