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This page lists articles for you to read in preparation for Class in the weeks indicated.

 

Day 1 – Class overview

 

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Week 1 – Voting – Problems Arise

 

1. Cranor, L.F., Voting after Florida: no easy answers, Ubiquity, Volume 1 Issue 47, February 2001.     

Note: this article should be generally accessible here.

 

2. Bederson, B., Lee, B., Sherman, R., Herrnson, P., Niemi, R., Usability of large scale public systems: Electronic voting system usability issues, Proceedings of the conference on Human factors in computing systems (CHI 2003—Fort Lauderdale, FL), April 2003, pp. 145-152.

Note: you may access this article from your UCI account and clicking here and selecting the PDF link.

 

3. Finnegan, M., Court Restores Oct. 7 Recall Vote, The Los Angeles Times, September 24, 2003.

Note: this article is made available for your individual use here.

 

Week 2 – Voting 2 – Internet Voting and More Problems

 

1. Mohen, J., Glidden, J. The case for internet voting, Communications of the ACM, Volume 44 Issue 1, January 2001.

Note: you may access this article from your UCI account and clicking here and selecting the PDF link.

 

2. Schulte, B., Security Review Finds 328 Flaws in AccuVote, The Washington Post, September 25, 2003.

Note: this article is made available for your individual use here.

 

3. Kohno, T., Stubblefield, A., Rubin, A., Wallach, D., Analysis of an Electronic Voting System, Johns Hopkins Information Security Institute Technical Report TR-2003-19, July 23, 2003.

Focus on the Web page (http://avirubin.com/vote/response.html) and if you are really curious, check out their link to their report by clicking on the PDF link near the top of the page.

 

4. Smyth, J.C., Voting machine controversy, The Cleveland Plain Dealer, August 28, 2003.

Note: this article is made available for your individual use here.

 

 

Week 3 – Privacy

 

1. Thuraisingham, B. Data mining, national security, privacy and civil liberties, ACM SIGKDD Explorations Newsletter,  4(2), December 2002.

Note: you may access this article from your UCI account and clicking here and selecting the PDF link.

 

2. ACLU, The Five Problems With CAPPS II: Why the Airline Passenger Profiling Proposal Should Be Abandoned.

Note: this article is made available for your individual use here.

 

3. AP, JetBlue Gives Away Data on Passengers, The Los Angeles Times, September 20, 2003.

Note: this article is made available for your individual use here.

 

4. Rosenzweig, D. JetBlue Is Sued Over Release of Data on Its Passengers to U.S.Contractor, The Los Angeles Times, September 23, 2003.

Note: this article is made available for your individual use here.

 

5. Piller, C., Alonso-Zaldivar, R. A Suspect Computer Program, The Los Angeles Times, October 2, 2003.

Note: this article is made available for your individual use here.

 

Week 4 – Privacy and the Patriot Act

 

1. Department of Justice, USA Patriot Act Overview, from http://www.lifeandliberty.gov/.

Note: this article is made available for your individual use here.

 

2. ACLU, USA Patriot Act, fact sheet, available at http://www.aclu.org/Files/OpenFile.cfm?id=11812.

Note: this article is made available for your individual use here.

 

3. ACLU, Fact Sheet on PATRIOT Act II, available at http://www.aclu.org/SafeandFree/SafeandFree.cfm?ID=12234&c=206.

Note: this fact sheet is made available for your individual use here.

 

4. US National Archives, The Bill of Rights, available at http://www.archives.gov/national_archives_experience/bill_of_rights.html.

Note: this transcription is made available for your individual use here.

 

5. Department of Justice, The Privacy Act of 1974, see http://www.usdoj.gov/04foia/04_7_1.html.

Note: this information is made available for your individual use here.

 

6. Mikulan, S., The Wages of Fear, LA Weekly, August 8-14, 2003.

Note: this article is made available for your individual use here.

 

 

Week 5 – Privacy and Voting Review

 

1. Slides for Privacy Review

 

2. Slides for Voting Review (TBA)

 

Week 6 – Midterm on Monday

 

Week 6 – Computing in the World

 

Slides from class are available here and here.

 

1. Mark Weiser, The Computer for the 21st Century, Scientific American, September 1991, V. 265, N. 3, pp. 66-75.

Note: this article is made available for your individual use here.

 

2. Wolfgang Broll, Leonie Schδfer, Tobias Hφllerer, Doug Bowman, Interface with Angels: The Future of VR and AR Interfaces, IEEE Computer Graphics and Applications, November/December 2001, pp. 2-5.

Note: this article is made available for your individual use here.

 

3. Terril Yue Jones, Intel Finds Method to Plug 'Leaky' PC Chips, LA Times, November 5, 2003.

Note: this article is made available for your individual use here.

 

Week 7 – Computing in the World

 

Slides from class are available here.

 

1. Turner, C.S., Richardson, D.J., Software and Strict Products Liability: Technical Challenges to Legal Notions of Responsibility, Proceedings of the IASTED International Conference on Law and Technology, October 31, 2000, San Francisco, CA.

Note: this article is made available for your individual use here.

 

2. Carmien, S., DePaula, R., Gorman, A., & Kintsch, A. (2003, to appear). Increasing Workplace Independence for People with Cognitive Disabilities by Leveraging Distributed Cognition among Caregivers and Clients. Paper presented at the ACM 2003 International Conference on Supporting Group Work (GROUP '03), Sanibel Island, Florida, USA.

Note: this article is made available for your individual use here.

 

3. Oviatt, S. L. Ten myths of multimodal interaction, Communications of the ACM, Vol. 42, No. 11, November, 1999, pp. 74-81.

Note: this article is made available for your individual use here.

 

Week 8 – General Ethics

 

1. IEEE-CS and ACM, Code of Ethics, http://www.computer.org/tab/seprof/code.htm

A PDF version of this page is made available here.

 

2. Brookings Institute, Code of Ethics,

http://www.cpsr.org/program/ethics/cei.html

A PDF version of this page is made available here.

 

3. AOL, Interactive Page on Ethics,

http://members.aol.com/internetethics/

A PDF version of this page is made available here.

 

Week 9 – Intellectual Property

 

1. Davis, R., Samuelson, P., Kapor, M., Reichman, J. A New View of Intellectual Property and Software, Communications of the ACM, Vol. 39 ,  No. 3, March 1996, pp. 21-30.

Note: you may access this article from your UCI account and clicking here and selecting the PDF link.

 

2. Smoot, O. Tension and Synergism between Standards and Intellectual Property, StandardView, Vol. 3 ,  No. 2, June 1995, pp. 60–67.

Note: you may access this article from your UCI account and clicking here and selecting the PDF link.

 

3. Healey, J. Consumer Fights Subpoena Seeking File Sharers' Names, LA Times, August 14, 2003.

Note: this article is made available for your individual use here.

 

4. Menn, J. Microsoft Loses UC Patent Case, LA Times, August 12, 2003.

Note: this article is made available for your individual use here.

(Also note: student in class commented there were further developments in this case).

 

5. Free Software Foundation, GNU General Public License, http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/copyleft.html.

 

Week 10 – review for final