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INFO 300
Intellectual Foundations of Informatics

Course Syllabus
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Readings by Topic

  1. Informatics - Definition and Scope
  2. The History of the  Internet
  3. Representation
  4. Manipulation
  1. Classification
  2. Interfaces and Interactive Design
  3. Containers: Documents, Augmented Reality, and Ubiquitous Computing
  1. Human Values: Privacy, Security, and Property
  2. Globalization, Community, and Cultural Diversity Online
  3. Biology, Information and Computation

Readings

Warren, S. D., & Brandeis, L. D.  (1985).  The right to privacy.  In D. G. Johnson and J. W. Snapper, (Eds.), Ethical Issues in the Use of Computers (pp. 172-183).  Belmont, CA: Wadsworth Publishing.  (Originally published in Harvard Educational Review, 4, 5 [December 5, 1890], pp. 193-220.)

Nissenbaum, H.  (1998).  Protecting privacy in an information age: The problem with privacy in public.  Law and Philosophy, 17, 559-596.

Gotlieb, C. C.  (1996).  Privacy: A Concept Whose Time Has Come and Gone.  In D. Lyon and E.  Zureik (Eds.), Computers, Surveillance, and Privacy (pp. 156-171).  Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press.

Sheehan, K. B.  (2002).  Toward a typology of Internet users and online privacy concerns.  The Information Society, 18, 21 – 32.

What Will Be, Chapter 4: Computer security schemes (pp. 98-107).

Friedman, B., Felten, E., & Millett, L. I.  (2000).  Informed consent online: A conceptual model and design principles.  CSE Technical Report 2000-12-2, University of Washington.

Becker, L. C.  (1977).  Property Rights: Philosophic Foundations.  London: Routledge & Kegan Paul.  (pp. 18-23)

Litman, J.  (1999).  Electronic commerce and free speech.  Ethics and Information Technology, 1, 3, 213-225.

Friedman, B., Kahn, P. H., Jr., and Borning, A.  (2002).  Value sensitive design: Theory and methods.  Unpublished manuscript.  Seattle, WA: University of Washington.