Note that the class decided to meet on Sunday 23 Nov in place of the Wednesday 26 Nov before Thanksgiving. Meet at the CS seminar room promptly at 1:15. Please mark this on your calendars. Depending on our session, we may not get back to Swarthmore until 4:30.

Reading, thinking, and playing due by seminar on Weds, Oct. 1
Draft of 5-7 page paper due by noon Friday, Oct. 3

1. Read Big Brother?. For this you must be logged in from Swarthmore.
2. Read Domestic spying quietly goes on.
3. Read ACLU Challenges Unconstitutional Spying Law.
4. Reread P&P pp. 115-137 carefully--it should make more sense now.)
5. Read P&P pp. 138-145, 155-171, 177-189.
6. Play around with the LC-3 simulator. For CS15 purposes, you should be in one of the CS student labs SciCtr 240 or 238 to run it. You start the LC-3 simulator by typing lc3sim-tk & at the command prompt on one of the CS machines. Documentation is available by typing acroread /usr/local/doc/lc3tools/LC3_unix.pdf & at the command prompt on one of the CS machines.
7. Skim S pp. 324-412
8. Read S pp. 329, 386-387, 389, 393-394, 405, 408, 412.
9. Read page 251 of "Alan Turing: The Enigma".
10. Read the page 266 of "Alan Turing: The Enigma".
11. Read the page 290-293 from these pages for last week.
12. Read the pages 318-320 of "Alan Turing: The Enigma".
13. Read the pages 326-7 of "Alan Turing: The Enigma".
14. Read the pages 358-361 of "Alan Turing: The Enigma".
15. Read the page 405 of "Alan Turing: The Enigma".
16. Read the page 415 of "Alan Turing: The Enigma". This page is especially important. It presents the "Turing test" for intelligence.
17. On H page 266 we see the following: "He was now fascinated with the idea of a machine that could learn. ... states of a machine could be regarded as analogous to states of mind. ... To avoid philosophical discussions about what 'mind' or 'thought' or 'free will' were supposed to be, he favored the idea of judging a machine's mental capacity simply by comparing its performance with that of a human being. It was an operational definition of 'thinking' ... if a machine appeared to be doing as well as a human being, then it was doing as well as a human being. "

    For seminar discussion on Weds, 1 Oct.: You have read and/or reread in Hodges about Turing's ideas with respect to machine learning, intelligence, and thought. Think hard about mind, brain, and the possiblility of machine learning, intelligence, and thought. Try to formulate your thoughts on these issues so that you can express them clearly in seminar on Wednesday.

18. The 5-7 page paper

    Pick one interesting and significant topic that we have discussed or read about in seminar so far (you may include material for 1 Oct.).

    If you are uncomfortable picking a topic or cannot think of one, you may write in support of or in opposition to the following statement: "the world will be a better place in 2018 due to the greater transparency of people and institutions afforded by computers and the internet".

    I would prefer for you to pick a topic related to Privacy and Trust in Cyberspace that interests you.

    Do some additional research and/or reading about your topic. Write a 5-7 page paper about it assuming the audience for your paper has participated in our seminar. Give your paper a title. Use the introduction of your paper to engage our interest in the issue you choose to address. What makes your topic interesting and significant? The body of your paper may be a reporting of others' thoughts on the topic (appropriately referenced). But preferably, it will be your own response to the issue (possibly synthesizing the ideas of others). In any case, you should make your work as convincing as possible by means of appropriate analysis, argumentation, and the use of evidence.

    Provide a Reference list at the end of your paper following the CBE name-year reference list standard. Use CBE name-year in-text citations.

    Email your draft to me at cfk@cs.swarthmore.edu by noon Friday, Oct. 3.

    You will meet with our WA (Anne-Marie Frassica) starting Oct. 4. A sign-up sheet will be available in seminar on Sep 24.
    

    The final version of this paper should be emailed to me and handed in on paper,along with your WA's comments, and your draft on Weds, Oct. 22 . You may use whatever word processing and printing you want for the final draft.