Term Group Project:

Please Submit/E-mail Dr. Kopec with the following information, ASAP, about your Group Project and provide the following information:

Title
Name of Members
Responsibilities of each member
Brief description of what your project is about
References

The course group term project with a paper will be due at the beginning of December. The topic can be almost any matter related to Computer Ethics. We would like students to select a topic, form groups, and research the topic by mid-term. By the beginning of November, the topic should have been fully researched. Groups (preferably of 2 to 4 students) will participate in a debate to present, discuss, argue, and defend an ethical issue where two teams will argue the opposite sides of the spectrum. For example, there could be a “discussion about the merits of a city / town offering free wireless computer access to a whole town or city. These presentations will be worth 5% of the course grade.

Papers for projects should be no longer than 20 double-spaced pages long (about 7 pages per student) including references and academic reference style throughout the paper. Any paper which does not employ academic reference style will be lowered by at least one letter grade. Plagiarism of any kind will not be tolerated. Groups should provide a brief (1-2) page summary of their presentations

Suggested Topics:
 
1)   Ethics in Cheap Labor in Hi-Tech Industries
2)   Nuclear Energy /   Energy Ethics
3)   Outsourcing: cheap skilled labor
4)   Ethics of the Drug Industry
5)   Technical Whistle-Blowers / Case Studies
6)   Digital Rights & Music Industry
7)   Computers and Medical Ethics
8)   Google and Privacy
9)   Ethics: Robots for Humans
10) Ethics: Technology Industry responsibilities to consumers
11) Cyber Security Ethics
12) Peer to Peer Ethics
13) Space Program Ethics

There will be a talk on October 25th in 3209 Ingersoll Hall at 1:45 pm by Andrew Strobert, Councel, Skadden, Arps, Meagher & Flom LLP. Anyone who can attend, write a one page and make a 10 minute presentation on this talk and its highlights can receive significant extra credit.