Computer Ethics (CS 335) Syllabus

Robert H. Sloan

August 23, 2004

Class Lecture: Monday-Wednesday, 10:00-10:50, 118 DH
Instructor: Prof. Robert H. Sloan, 1132 SEO. Phone: 6-2369.
Email: Prof's last name at host uic.edu.
Professor's office hours: Mon. 1:30-2:30, and by appointment.
(Exception: First day of classes, office hours are 12:45-1:45.)
TA: Shun Liang.
TA Office Hours: Wednesday, 3:30 to 4:30, 907 SEO
TA IM: MSN messenger: liangshun@msn.com
Email: sliang2 at host uic.edu

This course also has a UIC Blackboard page, although right now it contains only a link to this information. We will definitely use it for its grade book, and probably that is where I will post additional reading assignments, etc, later in the course.

• Scenarios we will discuss in our first class.

• General guidelines for all writing for this course (i.e., the short assignment due the second Monday of class, the book report, and the term paper).
• Book Report information.
• Term Paper information.

• Debate (or presentation) group assignments information.

• PDF slides of talk by Prof. Dan Bernstein on Bernstein v. U.S..

• Powerpoint slides of talk by Prof. Nancy John (UIC Library) from Spring Term 2004 on Internet filtering issues for libraries.

  (With most browsers, you will need to right click to download them and then open them. Note that Microsoft does put out a free Powerpoint viewer that you can Google for.)

• Reading for Monday, Oct. 18 (changed from original textbook assignment!) Patent and Trademark computer law issues: Please complete the reading before class. This class will be led by Maurine Neiberg, an attorney practicing in Chicago in computer law and insurance law.

• Reading for Oct. 25: Copyright liability and P2P file sharing. Please complete the reading before class. This class will be led by Ethan Preston, an attorney practicing in Chicago in commercial litigation and computer law.

For a printer-friendly PDF of this start-of-semester information, which is (not updated as the course goes on, although this web page is), click here.