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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, 17th 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=ntY01qoIdus
– The Singularity
• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QJsHRltEVBc
– 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!!!