Class is held every Tuesday at 9:30 am.
The course has covered the following topics:
- Tues., 8/28/01
Definitions of ethics, moral, law
Syllabus point distribution decisions
Weakest Link!
Homework #1 assigned
- Tues., 9/4/01
- Definitions continued
- Harvard Dean's PC discussion
- Handouts: Syllabus, Notes
- Tues., 9/11/01
- Handouts: Patent & Articles about Mo Cell line
- Homework: Questions 2 & 3 on last page
- Quiz in four parts!
- Homework #1 due
- Rest of class cancelled due to cowardly attacks.
- Tues., 9/18/01
- Tues., 9/25/01
- Tues., 10/2/01
- Tues., 10/9/01
- Tues., 10/16/01
- Class is really noisy, so midterm given early even though
W. gives a blanket apology for the class.
- Lecture notes
- Tues., 10/23/01
- Tues., 10/30/01
- Intellectual Property, see handout
- Trademarks
- Copyright
- Patents
- Group Project, see handout
- Tues., 11/06/01
- Tues., 11/13/01
- Game! The winner is Ms. O's team! Congratulations!
- Handouts:
- What are Patents, Trademarks, Servicemarks, and Copyrights?
- The Polygraph Test Meets Its Match & Molecule-Size
Transistor, both from the Washington Post,
Monday, Nov. 12, 2001
- Box Twelve: Technology & Virus, from Saved by the Light, by Dannion Brinkley, 1994.
- Assignment: Project Status Report, due 11/20/01.
- Read: Chapter 6, Cyberage
- (By this time, you should have read Chapters 1-4 in I-Way Robbery
and Chapters 1, 2, and 4 in Cyberage.)
- Tues., 11/20/01
- Tues., 11/27/01
- Computer Professionals
- Fire Alarm!
- Final will be December 18, Tuesday, from 8 am to 10 am,
in class!
- Survivor is down to two: Mr. A. and Mr. W.
The class will vote on Tuesday which wins!
(This is the class' opportunity to hit both survivors up
for:
in exchange for votes!)
- Tues., 12/4/01
- Hackers and Viruses
This is the lecture I prepared for 11/27, but there was
a fire alarm. If I do not get to it on 12/4, you are
still responsible for this material!
It is Chapter 9 of Cyberage.
- Class project presentations today!
- We didn't have the review for final.