SCI 199Y: The Impact of Society Upon Computers

Alan J Rosenthal
[e-mail address removed from web page because of spam harvesting -- you can guess it from the URL]
BA 4234

My office hours during the winter term are Mondays, 4:30-6:00, and Tuesdays, 12:30-1:30, or by appointment, in my office in BA 4234. We may move to a larger room sometimes, in which case I will leave a note on my door.

I won't be holding my office hours during reading week (week of February 20th), and my regular office hours end with the end of classes on April 13. After that, please send e-mail to make an appointment.

The best way to contact me is by e-mail. I usually read my e-mail quite frequently.

Announcements and frequently-accessed items

debate exercise in tutorial time: topics and positions assigned

Presentation advice, updated for the winter term (PDF)

There is now a message for everyone for the cryptography exercise. The list of messages is at http://www.dgp.toronto.edu/~ajr/199/ex/prv/messages.html. (If you forget the password, please ask.)

The netgrade-results system includes status information about the short reports, winter term presentation dates (under "status of all term work"), tutorial and lecture participation grades, and fall term presentation feedback.

Student presentation blurbs are posted along with the day-by-day log at http://www.dgp.toronto.edu/~ajr/199/diary/

Cryptography exercise handout and other data appears below in "other exercises" section

Course information

Course topic blurb
Course information sheet (PDF)
Some possible project topics (HTML) (or as distributed on paper (PDF)), and other notes about your project presentation, discussed in the first few classes.
Instructor e-mail policy
Grading scheme
Grades information system

Course content

What we've been doing so far, day by day
Some possible course project topics (discussed in the first few classes -- my titles don't always explain what I had in mind -- of course many topic variations are possible; please ask!)
The cute quotes presented during the introduction of the possible project topics

In-class presentations

Some presentation notes (PDF)
A few example "blurbs", for SCI 199 L0161 presentations and other seminars/talks

Other exercises

Cryptology exercise (PDF)
- Keypairs for the cryptography exercise are available in the netgrade-results system.
- Public keys (as submitted) in http://www.dgp.toronto.edu/~ajr/199/ex/prv/publickeys.html (requires password)
- Messages (as submitted) in http://www.dgp.toronto.edu/~ajr/199/ex/prv/messages.html (requires password)