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All reading and homework assignments are due the day of. Click on the link for more info. The readings with a &dagger next to them are optional, though recommended.

Computer Ethics
DAY TOPIC READING FILM H/W
Tue 7/31 Intro to unit; Property rights A Very Shory History of Computer Ethics
CyberEthics 23-33 (also available online: What is Computer Ethics?)
CyberEthics 222-235
tbd
Wed
8/1
Should programs be owned? The Economy of Ideas
The Open Source Movement
So you want to be a pirate?
Intellectual Property Law
USPTO
Thu 8/2 Napster, P2P Napster overview
– Napster's Copyright Policy
skim the RIAA's Digital Music Laws
The Next Economy of Ideas
speakout at napster
EFF article on court decision
– Poke around StopNapster.com
student project on Napster
P2P pages
Digital Milennium Copyright Act
Fri 8/3 Censorship Free Speech Online
Censorware [EFF's site on internet filters]
Reading, Writing, and Cyberporn [Concerned Women for America]
Some good censorship links
Mon 8/6 Privacy; Democracy; Virtual Communities – Toward a theory of privacy in the information age CyberEthics 200-212
– Litte Brother is Watching You CyberEthics 155-162
– Is the Global Information Structure a Limited Technology? CyberEthics 304-318
– The Artificial Intelligentsia and Virtual WorldsCyberEthics 142-151
HW 5
Tue 8/7 Expert Systems and Moral Responsibility Think About It: Artificial Intelligence & Expert Systems
AI and Expert Systems
When HAL Kills, Who's to Blame?
2001 (HAL clip)
Wed 8/8 Robot Ethics How Computers Extend Artifical Morality by Peter Danielson [in phil. dept. folder]
Toward the Ethical Robot [figures in phil. dept. folder]
Bladerunner (replicant test clip)
Thu 8/9 Do Robots have rights? – The Ethics of Autonomous Learning Systems [in phil. dept. folder]
Robots and Rights
Could Computers Be Kantian Persons?
Alienable Rights by Marvin Minsky
A.I. Artificial Intelligence [go see it in theaters]
Fri 8/10 Computing and Philosophy Conference HW 6