About the Final
SYCS 390 Ethical & Social Impact of Computing
Final Date: December 18, 2001, Tuesday, from 8 am until 10 am.
The final is open book, open notes, and you will be given from 8 am until 10 am to finish the exam. The exam can include anything given, discussed, or assigned in the course. The exam consists of ten questions, each worth ten points, for a total of one hundred points for the entire exam. The questions may have multiple parts.
Handouts:
- Notes on Systematic Philosophies
- Morality Law & Ethics
- A Brief Introduction to Morality & Ethics
- From Redesigning Creation: Debating the Biotech Revolution, pages 54-77, Homo Economicus: Considerations in the Commercialization of Body Tissue, Owning Tissue: The Point, and, Owning Tissue: The Counterpoint
- Pages 1-11 of patent: Unique T-lymphocyte line and products derived therefrom, 4,438,032
- Notes from class - Who Owns Body Tissue?
- Brain & Biological Chips handouts: Polygraph Test Meets Its Match, Saved by the Light, and Molecule-Sized Transistor.
- What are Patents, Service Marks, and Copyrights?
- Barbie® Information
- And any other handouts not mentioned above.
Lectures:
- Introduction/What is Ethics?
- Dean's P.C.
- Email
- Body Tissue - Mo Cell
- Privacy
- Intellectual Property
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Intelligent Machines
Brain & Biological Chips
Computer Professional Ethics
Hackers (see web)
And any other material given not mentioned above
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Books & Chapters:
Computers and Ethics in the Cyberage - Chapters 1, 2, 4, 6, and 9, and Appendices
I-Way Robbery: Crime on the Internet - Chapters 1, 2, 3, and 4.
Other Comments
- Seats may be assigned prior to the exam.
- Nothing will be shared during the exam - no sharing of calculators, notes, handouts, etc.
- All work must be completed on the exam itself and other sheets of notes, etc. will not be collected.
- No one will be allowed to leave the room during the exam without permission.