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IT & Public Policy
  • Ed Lazowska, University of Washington
  • Steve Maurer, UC Berkeley
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An experiment
  • New course
  • New instructor collaboration
  • New sites (UCB and UCSD) joining two previous sites (UW and Microsoft)
  • Double the number of sites
  • Evolving technology
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Course web
  • http://www.cs.washington.edu/education/
  • courses/csep590tu/04au/
    • Announcements
    • Readings/schedule
    • Lecture archive
      • Backup for technology glitches
    • Project information
      • More on this shortly
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Threaded email archive
  • Join through the course web
  • Do it today!
  • Currently ~34 UW, ~14 UCB, ~19 UCSD, ~9 ?
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Course expectations
  • Do the reading prior to class
  • Participate in class to the extent possible given the technology
  • Produce a small-group term paper
    • A “balanced policy brief” on some topic within the IT & Public Policy sphere
    • We will wait a couple of weeks for course enrollment to stabilize
    • We will use a Wiki to exchange ideas, form groups, and write papers


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Tonight
  • Catch the debate at 11
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