CMPE
80E
Engineering
Ethics
University of California, Santa Cruz
Spring
Quarter 2003
Lecture Outlines
These outlines are a general tool for
the instructor to outline the material discussed during class. They are meant
as a convenience for your note taking. They will be posted AFTER the lecture.
But they will not substitute for coming to class. They are by no means thorough
and are in fact often cryptic.
These notes are in Microsoft Power Point format.
- April 2 and 4 –
Introduction to Course and Ethical Theories
- April 9 – Ethical Analysis
- April 16 – Ethics and Design
- Week of April 21 –
Safety, Risk and Liability.
The following presentations discuss various aspects of this topic.
- Risk and Design
- Acceptable Risk and Informed Consent
- Liability
- May
2 -- Professionalism
- May 21 – Social
Implications of Technology. We
discussed several items in class today, software agents, blogs, and
connectivity via cell phones, and other devices. The related articles are:
- This is a link to a postscript
file: Are
Agents an Answer or a Question?, by Joseph Goguen, a brief position
paper on the debate about agent technology, in proceedings of the JSAI-Synsophy
International Workshop on Social Intelligence Design, 21-22 May 2001,
held in Matsue, Japan. Includes an analysis of the historical and social
context of agent research, and a critique of agent technology based on
the social behavior of real (human) agents. Somewhat augmented in July
2001.
- “All About the
Blog: Young People's Adoption of Internet Technologies and the Marketers
Who Love Them” by Sara M. Grimes, University of Ottawa, Department
of Communication, in Computers and
Society Magazine, Volume 32, Issue 5, (March -2003). The article is located at: http://www.computersandsociety.org/AccessController/sigcas/subpage/sub_page.cfm?article=741&page_number_nb=1
- “The Next
Revolution: Smart Mobs” by Richard Koman An interview with Howard Rheingold
about his key note address at 2003 O'Reilly Emerging
Technology Conference, April 22-25 in Santa
Clara, California. The article is located at: http://www.openp2p.com/pub/a/p2p/2003/03/13/howard.html
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