CSE 303, Spring 2009

Ethics and Society Readings

Students who lost points on readings so far did so for reasons such as:

Lack of clarity (writing something which did not sense)
Does not answer the question (talks about something else)
Too short answers: We are expecting at least a couple of sentences of explanations, or a very compelling single sentence.
Incorrect answers (getting the wrong idea from the article)

Reading #4 Questions Reading 4: Electronic Voting Machines

Due Wed May 20, 9:00am. No late submissions accepted.

Articles:	Part 1: Electronic Voting Machines Could Skew Elections (abcnews.com) Part 2: Diebold / Premier Election Solutions (Wikipedia) (read "History", "Ethical questions about Diebold personnel", and "Security issues" sections only)

Reading #3 Questions Reading 3: Digital Rights Management (DRM)

Due Mon Apr 20, 9:00am. No late submissions accepted.

Articles:	Part 1: DRM definition (About.com) Part 2: Fair use FAQ (EFF) Part 3: DRM vs. fair use (Ars Technica / Wired)

Reading #2 Questions Reading 2: Intellectual Property and Software Licenses

Due Mon Apr 13, 9:00am. No late submissions accepted.

Articles:	Part 1: Intellectual property definitions Part 2: Comparison of open source licenses (comparison chart) Part 3: "Copyleft" explanation

Reading #1 Questions Reading 1: Open Source Software

Due Mon Apr 6, 9:00am. No late submissions accepted.

Article:	Advantages of open source software

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