Introduction to Current Issues
and Applications

Assignment for Tues 1/18/2000

Utopic visions -
Bush and Greenberger

Dystopic vision
Read Orwell through Section 1

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Martin Luther King Holiday

Assignment for Thursday 1/20/2000
Complete Orwell

AntiTrust in the New Economy
Joel Klein, US Assistant Atty. General
4:30 PM
216 Poe Hall
NCSU
 

Assignment for Tuesday 1/25/2000

Read Open Sources

Assignment for Thursday 1/27/2000
Begin Neuman - read through Section 2 "The Logic of Electronic Integration"

Hobbes' Internet Timeline
Tomita's Discovery
Neuman's Reformulation
Neuman's Tensions

Assignment for Tuesday 2/1/99
Complete Neuman
Choose issues topics 
Choose application topics
 

Neuman - How True? 
How Foresighted? 
How Misguided?

What about Open Source and Neuman?

Preparing for your presentations
What questions to ask of your topic and of us.

Richard Stallman:
"What is Free Software"
"Why Software Should NOT have Owners"
"GNU Manifesto"

Atlantic Monthly's Charles Mann on "Living with Linux"

Assignment of topics

Warren Robinett does research in applications of interactive computer graphics at the Computer Science Department at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Specific areas of interest are micro-teleoperation, augmented reality, and educational software. At UNC, he co-invented the nanoManipulator, a virtual-reality interface to a scanning-probe microscope, which allows a scientist to be virtually present on the surface of a microscopic sample within the microscope. In the mid-1980's at NASA Ames Research Center, Robinett designed the software for the Virtual Environment Workstation, NASA's pioneering virtual reality project. In 1980, he co-founded of The Learning Company, now a major publisher of educational software. There he designed Rocky's Boots , a computer game which taught digital logic design to upper grade-school children, using an interactive, visual simulation. Rocky's Boots won Software of the Year awards from three magazines in 1983. In 1978, he designed the Atari video game Adventure, the first graphical adventure game. Robinett is Associate Editor for the journal Presence.

Phil Zimmerman speaking at NCSU on Privacy and the Internet 4:30 136 Engineering Graduate Research Center (136 EGRC)

RIAA's Soundbyting.com
Wired Report on Canada's Audio Video Licensing Agency

Database concentration and data mining - 1
Forbes: The End of Privacy by Adam Penenberg
1984 in 2004 - Was Orwell Correct? by Russell Anderson
The Nation: PRIVACY AND THE NEW TECHNOLOGY by Simson Garfinkel
BusinessWeek: 1984 in 2000: Getting Too Personal by Heather Green

the standard for internet commerce that was developed by Global Information Infrastructure (GII), in association with Ziff Davis.
FTC's report on Self Regulation and Privacy Online

Spring Break begins

Spring Break ends

Digital Diploma Mills: The Automation of Higher Education by David Noble 1997
DDM-2 The Coming Battle Over Online Instruction 3/1998
DDM-3 The Bloom Is Off the Rose 12/89
DDM-4 Rehearsal for the Revolution 11/99
Noble rallying the troops at the California Faculty Association 10/25/99

Debate on Noble at UVa
Response to Noble from Educause
NetFuture on Nobel

Good Friday Holiday

Final Class Meeting