Summer 2010: TuesWedThurs 3:35-5:45, Corboy Law Room 323 (formerly 25EP)
Text:
The textbook will be A Gift of Fire, 3rd Edition, by Sara Baase,
Prentice-Hall, 2008. This is also available in an e-book format.
Spring 2025:
I am generally in my office on Mondays from 10:00 to noon, and from 1:45 to 3:45.
Sometimes I have meetings or come in late, so check first.
I am also available other times via Zoom, by appointment. Contact me via email for the Zoom meeting ID.
There will be three writing assignments,
plus a takehome midterm and maybe a final.
The papers will count for about 50-70% of your grade.
The midterm exam is now here.
It is due by midnight at the end of Tuesday, June 15.
The supplemental final-exam questions are here,
for those whose average on the midterm and first two papers was less
than 17.0. The supplemental questions can only be used to bring that
average up to 17.0.
My general course groundrules are here. Loyola's academic integrity rules are here; you are expected to be familiar with the rules for quoting other sources in papers.
| Week 1: May 25 | May 26 |
May 27 |
| Week 2: June 1 | June 2 |
June 3 |
| Week 3: June 8 | June 9 |
June 10 |
| Week 4: June 15 | June 16 |
June 17 |
| Week 5: June 22 | June 23 |
June 24 |
| Week 6: June 29 | June 30 |
no class |
Organizations
Association for Computing Machinery -- The professional organization for computer professionals (oriented towards programmers). See their USACM subgroup for public-policy issues. See also the ACM Code of Ethics.
Electronic Frontier Foundation -- Founded to fight for citizens' rights in the areas of privacy, cyberspace freedom (specifically, freedom of speech), copyrights, and encryption.
American Civil Liberties Union -- Not specifically concerned with cyberspace law, but nonetheless very involved in the fight against the Communications Decency Act. The ACLU has long fought against censorship in any form, and for personal liberties in general.
Electronic Privacy Information Center -- They are concerned with both government surveillance (directly and by searching your records), the scope of government databases, and encryption.
Computer Professionals for Social Responsibility -- "CPSR is a public-interest alliance of computer scientists and others interested in the impact of computer technology on society." Includes privacy issues but also professional responsibilities of programmers and workplace empowerment issues.
Ethics Center for Engineering and Science A useful compendium of ethics case studies and other information pertaining to science and engineering.
US Copyright office home page All sorts of information on copyright legislation, including the Digital Millenium Copyright Act.
2600, the Hacker Quarterly, leader in the fight for DeCSS.