CSCI 494 Abridged Readings

A quad

[Lam88]

David Alex Lamb. Software engineering: An emerging profession? External Technical Report 88-233, Department of Computing and Information Science, Queen's University, September 1988. Available at http://research.cs.queensu.ca/TechReports/Reports/1988-233.pdf.

[Den01]

Peter J. Denning. The profession of IT: who are we? Communications of the ACM, 44(2):15-19, February 2001.
ACM library, local PDF

[AJGP93]

Ronald E. Anderson, Deborah G. Johnson, Donald Gotterbarn, and Judith Perrolle. Using the new ACM Code of Ethics in decision making. Communications of the ACM, 36(2):98-107, February 1993.
ACM library, local PDF

[Pos90]

Neil Postman. Informing ourselves to death, 1990.
http://w2.eff.org/Net_culture/Criticisms/informing_ourselves_to_death.paper .

Property

[Man98]

Charles C. Mann. Who will own your next good idea? Atlantic Monthly, 282(3):57-82, September 1998.
http://www.theatlantic.com/issues/98sep/copy.htm

[Les06]

Lawrense Lessig. Code: And Other Laws of Cyberspace, version 2.0. Basic Books, 2006.
Available via a link from the author's web site, http://www.lessig.org/.

[Les06b]

Lawrense Lessig. Intellectual Property. Chapter 10 of [Les06].
Local PDF excerpt.

[Bar93]

John Perry Barlow. Selling wine without bottles: The economy of mind on the global net, 1993.
http://www.eff.org/Misc/Publications/John_Perry_Barlow/HTML/idea_economy_article.html.

[Tou01]

David S. Touretzsky. Free speech rights for programmers. Communications of the ACM, 44(8):23-25, August 2001.
ACM library, local PDF

[Vai02]

Siva Vaidhyanathan. Copyright as cudgel. The Chronicle of Higher Education, page B7, August2 2002.
http://chroicle.com/free/v48/i47/47b00701.htm.

Privacy

[Rac75]

James Rachels. Why privacy is important. Philosophy & Public Affairs, 4(4):323-333, 1975. Accessible via the library (JSTOR) as http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=0048-3915%28197522%294%3A4%3C323%3AWPII%3E2.0.CO%3B2-G.

[D+93]

Dorothy E. Denning et al. To tap or not to tap. Communications of the ACM, 36(3):24-44, March 1993.
Opening: ACM library, local PDF
Comments: ACM library, local PDF
Closing: ACM library, local PDF

[Dif93]

Whitfield Diffie. The Impact of a Secret Cryptographic Standard on Encryption, Privacy, Law Enforcement and Technology. Testimony before the US House of Representatives, 11 May 1993. http://epic.org/crypto/clipper/diffie_testimony.html.

[Zim99]

Philip Zimmermann. Why I Wrote PGP. http://www.philzimmermann.com/EN/essays/WhyIWrotePGP.html.

[FB98]

Dan Froomkin and Amy Branson. Deciphering Encryption. A Washington Post special report, at http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/politics/special/encryption/encryption.htm.

[Fal08]

James Fallows. “The connection has been reset”. Atlantic Monthly, Mar 2008. At http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2008/03/-ldquo-the-connection-has-been-reset-rdquo/6650/

[Mad11]

Alexis Madrigal. The Inside Story of How Facebook Responded to Tunisian Hacks. The Atlantic online, Jan 24, 2011. At http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2011/01/the-inside-story-of-how-facebook-responded-to-tunisian-hacks/70044/.

[BBC11a]

BBC. Egypt severs internet connection amid growing unrest.
At http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-12306041.

[Rho11]

Christopher Rhoads. Syria's Internet Blockage Brings Risk of Backfire. Wall Street Journal, June 3, 2011. At http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052702304563104576363763722080144.html.

[SS11]

Paul Sonne and Steve Stecklow. U.S. Products Help Block Mideast Web. Wall Street Journal, Mar 28, 2011. At http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704438104576219190417124226.html.

[Sta97]

Richard Stallman. The right to read. Communications of the ACM, pages 85–87, February 1997. ACM library, local PDF, or http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/right-to-read.html.

B quad additions

[Tur11]

Sherry Turkle. Alone Together: Why We Expect More from Technology and Less from Each Other. Basic Books, 2011.

[Tur11a]

Sherry Turkle. Growing up tethered. Chapter 9 (pp. 171-186) in Alone Together: Why We Expect More from Technology and Less from Each Other. Basic Books, 2011.
Local PDF (restricted access).

[You11]

Jeffrey R. Young. Programmed for love: The unsettling future of robotics. The Chronicle of Higher Education, 57(20), 21 Jan 2011.
http://chronicle.com/article/Programmed-for-Love-The/125922/.

[Tal95]

Stephen L. Talbott. The machine in the ghost. In The Future Does Not Compute: Transcending the Machines in Our Midst, chapter 2. O'Reilly & Assoc., 1995.
http://netfuture.org/fdnc/ch02.html.

[Car08]

Nicholas Carr. Is Google Making Us Stupid? Atlantic Monthly, (302)1:56-63, July/August 2008.
http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2008/07/is-google-making-us-stupid/6868/.
Via Buswell Library's online resources.

[For11a]

Martin Ford. Anything you can do, robots can do better. The Atlantic, online only, 14 Feb 2011.
http://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2011/02/anything-you-can-do-robots-can-do-better/71227/.

[For11b]

Martin Ford. Can a computer do a lawyer's job? The Atlantic, online only, 15 Feb 2011.
http://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2011/02/can-a-computer-do-a-lawyers-job/71238/.

[For11c]

Martin Ford. Artificial intelligence is the next killer app. The Atlantic, online only, 17 Feb 2011.
http://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2011/02/artificial-intelligence-is-the-next-killer-app/71265/.

[Tur50]

Alan Turing. Computing machinery and intelligence. Mind, LIX(236):433-460, October 1950.
Local PDF (restricted access).

[Hal06]

Mark Halpern. The trouble with the Turing test. The New Atlantis, Winter 2006.
http://www.thenewatlantis.com/publications/the-trouble-with-the-turing-test.

[Joy00]

Bill Joy. Why the future doesn't need us. Wired, April 2000. http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/8.04/joy.html.

[Forster]

E.M. Forster. The machine stops.
In the public domain, text available from Wikisource.
(This is also the first story in Fairy Tales for Computers. My copy is in the CS lounge; it is a small volume with a bluish cover.)

[Everett]

Percival Everett. The fix. In Best American Short Stories 2000.
(My copy of this book is in the CS lounge. It has an orange cover.)

[Hoa81]

C.A.R. Hoare. The emperor's old clothes. Communications of the ACM, 24(2):75-83, February 1981.
ACM library, local PDF

[Tho84]

Ken Thompson. Reflections on trusting trust. Communications of the ACM, 27(8):761-763, August 1984.
ACM library, local PDF

[Wei95]

Mark Weiser. The technologist's responsibilities and social change. Computer-Mediated Communications Magazine, 2(4):17, April 1 1995.
http://metalab.unc.edu/cmc/mag/1995/apr/last.html.