• Readings tied to the syllabus:
  • "Power and Interdependence in the Information Age," R. O. Keohane and J. S. Nye, Jr., Foreign Affairs, Sept/Oct 1998
  • "A New Battle Shapes Up Over Internet Smut," John Schwartz, Washington Post, August 10, 1998
  • "E-Mail With a Stamp of Security," John Burgess, Washington Post, August 10, 1998
  • "The Internet's Challenge to Privacy," George Lawton, IEEE Computer, June 1998
  • "Put Your Pants On, Demonboy," Barbara Ehrenreich, Time, October 23, 1995
  • "A Search for the Net Impact on Human Social Life," John Schwartz, Washington Post, September 7, 1998
    "Spam!" Lorrie Faith Cranor and Brian A. LaMacchia, Communications of the ACM, August 1998
  • "Law Enforcement in Cyberspace Address," Janet Reno, June 1996
  • Risks Forum
  • Cargo Cult Science by Richard Feynman
  • Wall Street Journal article "Human Error Causes System Glitches That Embarrass New Asian Airports," Wayne Arnold, Wall Street Journal, July 13, 1998
  • The Wired Classroom," Ralph Ginsburg and Kenneth Foster, IEEE Spectrum, August 1998.
  • "Who Will Own Your Next Good Idea?" Charles C. Mann, Atlantic Monthly, September 1998.
  • "Kids and Computers," John Schwartz, The Washington Post, September 8, 1998.
  • "Stalking the Wily Hacker," Clifford Stoll, Communications of the ACM, May 1988.
  • "Are Computer Hacker Break-ins Ethical?" Eugene Spafford, in Internet Besieged by D. Denning and P. Denning, Addison- Wesley, Reading, Massachusetts, 1994
  • "Cyberspace Attacks and Countermeasures," D. Denning, in Internet Besieged by D. Denning and P. Denning, Addison- Wesley, Reading, Massachusetts, 1994
  • "An Investigation of the Therac-25 Accidents," N. Leveson and C. Turner, IEEE Computer, July 1993
  • Beyond Calculation: The Next Fifty Years of Computing, P. Denning and R. Metcalfe, part II, Springer-Verlag, 1997
  • "Art and Technology," Paul Miller, special report in IEEE Spectrum, July 1998.
  • "A New World of Images," Philip Manchester, Financial Times, October 7, 1998.
  • "Clinching Deals with Digital Signatures," Tom Foremski, Financial Times, October 7, 1998.
  • "After the PC," The Economist, September 12, 1998.
    "Home Appliances Get Smart," Vivek Badami and Nicolas Chibat, IEEE Spectrum, August 1998.
  • "Photography in the Age of Falsification," Kenneth Brower, Atlantic Monthly, May 1998.
  • "Science in the Courts," Richard Meserve, IEEE Spectrum, June 1998.
    
• Guidelines for "explication" papers
• Guidelines for term paper
• Other pertinent information about the course, listed below:

Class location and meeting times:

Tuesdays, 2 to 4:30pm, in room Math 0401.

Instructor:

Shari Lawrence Pfleeger

Last updated on Thursday 5 November, 1998