Website for CS4001, taught in Barcelona Summer 2009
Instructors: Frank Dellaert and Grant Schindler
Summary: Although Computing, Society and Professionalism is a required course for CS majors, it is not a typical computer science course. Rather than dealing with the technical content of computing, it addresses the effects of computing on individuals, organizations, and society, and on what your responsibilities are as a computing professional in light of those impacts. The topic is a very broad one and one that you will have to deal with almost every day of your professional life. The issues are sometimes as intellectually deep as some of the greatest philosophical writings in history - and sometimes as shallow as a report on the evening TV news. This course can do little more than introduce you to the topics, but, if successful, will change the way you view the technology with which you work. You will do a lot of reading, analyzing, and communicating (verbally and in writing) in this course. It will require your active participation throughout the semester and should be fun and enlightening.
UPDATE: The following textbooks are required:
We were late in getting the textbook orders into the B&N bookstore, but Amazon (links above) has second-hand copies as well. However, we put in a request to the Georgia Tech bookstore and will keep you posted.
