There is little denying that computers and the rapid development of the internet and other communication technologies are becoming increasingly important in all aspects of life and society. As IT-professionals, we are part of driving this paradigm shift. This course is about asking ourselves questions such as what the consequences of the technology we develop might be, how it affects society and what responsibility we ourselves have, as experts in the field.
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Description
The seminars are on Wednesdays 10.00 – 12.00 (with the exception below when we start at 9.00 as two people are presenting). Remember to circulate your text at least one week before your seminar so everybody has time to read it. Attendance to seminars is obligatory for those taking the course for credit. However, if you need to miss some seminar, just notify me in advance and I'll set you a small homework assignment instead.
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Date |
Topic |
Presenter |
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15/04/15 |
Introduction [Slides] |
Moa Johansson |
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22/04/15 |
Hacking, hacktivism
and counterhacking. [Slides] |
Guilhem Moulin |
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29/04/15 |
Superintelligence and
Artificial Intelligence [Slides] |
Inari Listenmaa |
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06/05/15 |
Privacy in Social Networks [Slides] |
Raul Pardo |
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13/05/15
|
Ethical Interest in Free and
Open Source Software [Slides] |
Ivan Walulya |
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20/05/15 9am |
Email Spam [Slides] File Sharing [Slides] |
Behrooz Sanfchoolie Madhavan Manivannan |
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27/05/15 |
Online Anonymity |
Eugenio Massa |
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03/06/15 |
Intellectual Property [Slides] |
Daniel Schoepe |
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10/06/15 |
Postponed, due to clash with
HamidÕs licenciate. |
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17/06/15 9am |
Internet Censorship [Slides-Evgeny] |
Evgeny Kotelnikov Hamid Ebadi |
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01/07/15 |
Final
Assignment Due. |
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á Choose one (or two, depending on length) paper(s) or book chapter(s), and send a link to me so I can circulate to the whole group for everybody to read before the seminar.
á Prepare a 30 minute presentation of your paper, summarising the main points.
á Prepare a few discussion questions about ethical or philosophical aspects related to your paper. If appropriate, link this to a news story (or several), there are quite a lot out there! Also circulate these before the seminar.
á During the seminar, you will chair the discussion, making sure everybody are given fair time to speak, and keeping it generally civilised :)
I will post
announcements on this mailing list. Please feel free to also share links,
discussions and other interesting material related to the course here.
https://groups.google.com/d/forum/fdat065
There will
be a final written assignment, which is due
on 1 July. You should write an essay of approximately 5-8 pages (including
references) on a topic of your choice (presumably that of your seminar, but
this is no requirement, you may change topics), taking into account your own
opinions, opinions raised in related research papers
and perhaps things that comes up in discussions during the seminars. The purpose of the essay is not to say
exactly the same things as in your seminar, but rather to go into a bit more
depth in your own argumentation and probably including some more references.
You may also want to connect it to your own research or research field. The essay is more about asking interesting questions and argue
around them, you are not expected to have all the answers, open questions are
fine too.
Submit your
essay to Moa by email (moa dot johansson at chalmers) with ÒFDAT065-EssayÓ as the subject. After the deadline, you will be asked to
read and comment on two other essays written by your peers.