COMP 2903 Course Overview Danny Silver JSOCS Acadia
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COMP 2903 Course Overview Danny Silver JSOCS, Acadia University
Agenda • Welcome! • Introductions • Webpages – Contacts, Schedule, Marking Scheme, Assignments, Projects, etc • Things you need to get • Things you need to do
Welcome! What this course is about … • Through readings, presentations, writing, and various forms of discussion • We will identify and explore cultural, social, political, and economic impacts • Effects of information and communications technology • On individuals, groups, and society
Welcome! Coverage … • Broad array of topics in computers in society – Economy, work and work place, social impacts, law and politics, ethics, privacy and risks, international issues, future challenges • Historically relevant aspects of computing and current trends • Moral and ethical issues and responsibilities that members of society (particularly computer scientists) must understand
Introductions • Let’s get to know each other …
Course Webpages • ACORN (Moodle) http: //acorn. acadiau. ca/ • COMP 2903 webpage – http: //socrates. acadiau. ca/courses/comp/dsilver/2903/
Things You Need to Get • Course textbook – Annual Editions: Technologies, Social Media and Society 11/12, 17 th Edition – Editor: Paul De Palma – ISBN: 978 -0 -07 -352868 -7, February 2011 • Was previously: – Annual Editions: Computers in Society
Things You Need to Do • Identify a team partner
The Singularity is Near • Ray Kurzweil – http: //www. singularity. com/aboutray. html – Transcended Man • http: //www. youtube. com/watch? v=nt. Y 01 qo. Idus – The Singularity • http: //www. youtube. com/watch? v=QJs. HRlt. EVBc – Your home work for this weekend – watch the Transcended Man video and respond to the ACORN forum question
Let’s Go … From Mozhart to Moe’s Heart: Computer Science is Everywhere!!!
