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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!!!