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CSE 500/490B -- Schedule
CSE 500/490B -- Schedule
Alan Borning
- Jan 2: Overview (Alan Borning)
Readings: Miller, Chapters 1-3
- Jan 4: Internet Technology and History (Terry Gray)
- Jan 9: guest speaker -- Phil Bereano
- Jan 11: public policy issues
Readings: Miller, Chapter 4;
Howard Besser, "From Internet to Information Superhighway",
in Resisting the Virtual Life; Gary Chapman's article
Barbed Wire
from the New Republic;
and if you have time, start reading Bill Gates, The Road Ahead
- Jan 16: project planning; public policy issues continued
Readings: Miller, Chapter 5
- Jan 18: guest speaker -- Marlin Blizinsky, "The Regulatory Framework
for the NII"
Readings: George Guilder, Into the
Fibersphere, in Forbes ASAP Dec 7 1992; John Browning,
Universal
Service (An Idea Whose Time Is Past), Wired, Sept 1994.
Other background reading:
Seattle
Information Infrastructure Proposal
- Jan 23: government and industrial agendas
Readings: Miller, Chapters 6-7
- Jan 25: guest speaker -- James Anderson, UW School of Fisheries,
"Environmental Conflicts and the World Wide Web".
See the UW Columbia Basin
Research Pages, in particular the online models.
- Jan 30: universal service
Readings: Miller, Chapter 8; John Browning article (see Jan 18)
- Feb 1: discussion of Bill Gates, The Road Ahead
- Feb 6 guest speaker -- Sheryl Burgstahler, "DO-IT: developing an
electronic community"
See the DO-IT home page
- Feb 8: project presentation -- Information Haves and Have Nots
(Paul Bock, Richard Chinn, Darrin Curtis, Joe Heitzeberg)
Relevant links: see the Libraries and Information Haves and Have-Nots
sections of the class links page.
- Feb 13: discussion of Miller, Chapter 9, "Democracy and Free Speech"
In this session I'll also talk about politics and the Web, using the
following pages as examples. Federal government: Senator Slade Gorton;
Senator Patty Murray; Representative Rick White. City
government: Norm
Rice. Campaigns: Bob Dole for
President (not to be confused with Bob
Dole for President). Issues (guns): National Rife Association. Issues
(progressive politics):
WebActive. Issues (conservative
Christian politics): Christian Coalition.
Issues (prison activists): Prison Legal
News, Stop Prisoner Rape.
- Feb 15: guest speaker -- Doug Klunder, American Civil Liberties Union
- Feb 20: the media, politics, and the NII; continuation of discussion of
Miller, Chapter 9, "Democracy and Free Speech"
Also: talk by Martin Tompa on public key cryptography, Sieg 224, 3:30 pm
- Feb 22: Miller, Chapter 10, "Privacy, Civil Liberties, and Encryption"
- Feb 27: guest speaker -- Ellen Spertus, "Gender Issues". Relevant
links: see the Gender Issues section of the
class links page.
- Feb 29: project presentations: Becky Westbrook, "The Internet and
Foreign Language Education".
Relevant links:
WWW
Foreign Language Resources;
Teaching
with the Web;
Academic
Organizations (for FL teachers).
John Davis, "The Evolution of the Internet into a Commercial Entity".
Relevant links:
GVU's WWW User
Survyes,
Aardvark Internet Marketing
Group,
Commerce Net,
DigiCash
Publications - Online Cash Checks,
DigiCash
Publications - Security Without Identification: Card Computers to
Make Big Brother Obsolete,
Internet@crossroads.$$$.
Also recommended: "Manufacturing Consent", a video about Noam Chomsky's
thinking and writing about the media. Available in
Odegaard library Media section (free but you have to watch it there), or
rent it from Scarecrow Video.
- Mar 5: project presentations: Daniel Wood, "Advertising on the Net";
Erik Selberg, "Copyright and Intellectual Property issues"
- Mar 7: project presentation: Shuichi Koga and Sachin Bhatia,
"Telecommunication Issues from an International Perspective".
Course evaluations and wrapup.