CS 440 Computers, Ethics and Society

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CS 440 Computers, Ethics and Society

• Class 21
• March 21, 2001

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Thought for the Day

• Perhaps we will all get a free taco!

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 Reading Assignment

• Today
• AE 27
• Baase chapter 8 Computers Work
• After Break
• AE 6, 8, 9, 10, 13, 14, 15

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Term Paper

• Final paper due today.
• Turn in draft, critique (name!), and final paper.

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Thought for the Day

• Beware of ultracrepidarians!
• (And dont become one, yourself!)

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Announcement

• Advising this week and next week.
• Make an appointment and pick up your packet.
• The more you have filled out before you come in,
  the easier and quicker it is for you and me.
• The more that others have filled out before they
  come in, the shorter your wait will be!

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Graduation Announcement

• If you plan on graduating in May or August and
  havent applied for graduation, shame on you!
• If you plan on graduating in December, apply for
  graduation now!
• Unless you are working under the 2000 curriculum,
  you must have 3 CS 4XX courses!

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Todays Cartoon

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Debate Topics April 9 11.

• CIPA is/is not a good thing.
• DeCSS code should be posted on the net.
• Companies should be liable for information hacked
  from their web sites servers.
• Web pages should be forced to include a content
  flag. Search engines could not index pages
  without a flag.
• US Postal Service should charge for every e-mail
  they send/receive.
• Government should subsidize PCs and net access
  for underpriviledged.

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Debate Topics

• All public places should be videotaped for
  security monitoring purposes.
• ID credit cards should be replaced by
  fingerprint technology.
• Digital cash Benefits outweigh negatives.
• Anonymity Pseudonymity should be accepted
  Internet practice.
• Cell phone technology should allow the phone
  company to locate any phone at any time.
• Professors should be required to post class
  outlines, including information not included in
  class or text.

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Debate Teams III

• A
• Nathan Protz
• Andrea Sims
• Brian Tramel
• Greg Williams
• Arthur Ward

• B
• Daniel Dillard
• Andy Freeman
• Seema Mane
• Jacqueline Sewell
• Je-Seung Yoo

• C
• Jason Box
• Brandon Gibson
• David Lang
• Chad Luker
• Joey Westover

• D
• Kevin James
• Greg Patterson
• Geoffrey Rodgers
• Tim Simmons
• Jason Webster

• E
• Jared Box
• Gabriel Brooks
• Kenya Davis
• Jon Gerth
• John Hammock

• F
• Darrin Alcorn
• Russ Cantrell
• Scott Hunter
• Nick Timkovich
• Zach Williams

• G
• Joseph Cotton
• Darnita Martin
• Hamid Mashayekh
• Michael McKenna
• Jamie Price

• H
• Jason Annerton
• Amanda Colburn
• Michael Davis
• Nick Duckett
• Chris Franklin

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In the News

• Internet filters are improving.
• The ACLU ALA are filing suit against the
  Childrens Internet Protection Act (CIPA), which
  requires schools and public libraries to install
  filters or lose federal funds!

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AE 27 The Tide of Prints

• Fingerprint databases How cheap easy?
• What are the late developments?
• What does NCIC 2000 do with fingerprints? (What
  did the old NCIC do?)
• What happens next?

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Chapter 8

• Changing nature of work
• Impact of computers on employment
• Work environment
• Employee monitoring
• Health issues

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Impact of computers on employment

• Less jobs due to computers?
• More jobs?
• Different types of jobs?
• The original Luddites (early 1800s) burned the
  new weaving looms.

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Income, Productivity Comfort

• How big was your grandparents house?
• How comfortable was their car?
• How big comfortable was your parents first
  house?
• How much free time do we have?
• The Good Old Days are Now!
• Figure 8.1, page 267

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Work environment

• Do computers boost productivity? (AE 6)
• Networking Effects (AE 8)
• Teleworking (Baase, AE 9)
• Benefits
• Problems

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Employee monitoring

• Which employees have always been monitored?
• Which have not?
• How have computers changed the face of
  monitoring?
• Smart badges ? Monitoring physical location!
• Monitoring email, computer files, web surfing

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Health issues

• RSI
• Repetitve Stress Injury
• CTS
• Carpal Tunnel Syndrome
• One instance of RSI
• Others include tennis elbow

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Class Feedback (Anonymous)

• What helps you learn in this class?
• What hinders your learning in this class?
• What changes, if any, would improve your learning
  in this class?

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Reading Assignment

• After Break
• AE 6, 8, 9, 10, 13, 14, 15