Compsci 82, Fall 2009, Readings

Free/online books we'll use in the course. Other readings will be linked here as well.

August 24 -- August 28

Internet Background and Governance

No assigned group synopsis, there is a Blackboard quiz.

Code is Law by Lawrence Lessig
Tussle in Cyberspace by Clark, Wroclawski, Sollins, and Braden
The Future of the Internet is ... regulation?, by Nate Anderson

August 31 -- Sept 4

IETF, Protocols, ICANN, DNS

Group 1 assigned synopsis, due Sept 3

Who Controls the Internet? by Kenneth Kukier, Foreign Affairs, 2005
Who Should Govern the Internet? by Nanda Kumar and Abbe Mowshowitz, CACM, 2006.
skim this Introduction to Internet Architecture and Institutions, by Ethan Zuckerman and Andrew McLaughlin, Berkman Center, 2003.
completely optional, quantitative End-to-End Arguments in System Design by Seltzer and Reed

Sept 7 -- Sept 11

Open Source, Copyright, Intellectual Property

Group 2 assigned synopsis, due Sept 10

IBM's Pragmatic Embrace of Open Source by Pamela Samuelson
skim this Wikipedia on Open Source and the dispute about the neutrality of the article.
Choose one of the next two for your synopsis
Open Source Baselines: Compared to What? by Lawrence Lessig.
The Economics of Technology Sharing: Open Source and Beyond, Journal of Economic Perspectives, 2005, Lerner and Tirole.
completely optional, quantitative The Scope of Open Source Licensing by Lerner and Tirole.
completely optional Gift Economies in the Development of Open Source Software: Anthropological Reflections, Research Policy 2003, Zeitlyn.
completely optional The Architecture of Information: Open Source Software and Tactical Poststructuralist Anarchism by Michael Truscello.

Sept 14 -- Sept 18

Patents, Software, Intellectual Property

Group 3 assigned synopsis, due Sept 17

skim this Intellectual Property for CS Students
A New Paradigm for Intellectual Property Rights in Software, Duke Law & Technology 2005, Mark Webbink.
Software Patents -- Obstacles to Software Development, talk by Richard Stallman
completely optional, quantitative An Empirical Look at Software Patents by Bessen and Hunt

Sept 21 -- Sept 25

DMCA, GWAP

No group assigned synopsis, turn in extra

(if you haven't read this yet, read 10 years under DMCA, that link was posted 9/20/09 -- if you already read 7 years under DMCA, that's fine)
Unintended Consequences: Seven Years under the DMCA 2006, EFF.
Unintended Consequences: Ten Years under the DMCA 2008, EFF.
Designing Games with a Purpose by Luis von Ahn and Laura Dabbish
completely optional, quantitative I Tube, You Tube, Everybody Tubes: Analyzing the World's Largest User Generated Content Video System my M. Cha, H. Kwak, P. Rodriguez, Y.Y. Ahn, S. Moon

Sept 28 -- Oct 2

We have the midterm exam this week, there are no extra readings. The midterm will cover all readings and class materials. There will be both in-class and a take-home parts to the midterm.

Oct 5 -- Oct 9

Fall break is this week, we'll have surveys and polls but no required readings for this week.

Oct 12 -- Oct 16

Privacy and Anonymity

Group 1 assigned synopsis, due Oct 15

Exposed: The Erosion of Privacy in the Internet Era, Harvard Magazine, Sept. 2009
Examining Internet Privacy Policies Within the Context of User Privacy Values, IEEE Transactions on Engineering Management, Earp, Anton, Aiman-Smith, Stufflebeam.
'We are Legion': An Anthropolical Perspective on Anonymous, Alex Blair, 2008 Senior Symposium in Anthropology, Idaho State University
skim this Cybersecurity and Authentication: The Marketplace Role in Rethinking Anonymity---Before Regulators Intervene, C. W. Crews, CEI.
completely optional, quantitative Revisiting the Uniqueness of Simple Demographics in the US Population, Philippe Golle
OR
completely optional, quantitative Tor: The Second-Generation Onion Router Dingledine, Mathewson, and Syverson.

Oct 19 -- Oct 23

Peer-to-Peer Systems

Group 2 assigned synopsis, due Oct 22

Give and Ye Shall Receive! The Copyright Implications of BitTorrent, Bob Rietjens, SCRIPT-ed, 2005.
Illegal P2P File Sharing on College Campuses---What's the Solution", Antionette Bishop, Vanderbilt (Law School) Journal of Entertainment and Technology, v. 10, n. 3, 2008.
skim this IALL: What Peer-to-Peer Developers Need to Know about Copyright Law, Fred von Lohmann, EFF.

completely optional, quantitative
Influences on Cooperation in BitTorrent Communities by Andrade, Mowbray, Lim, Wagner, and Ripeanu.
OR
Free Riding in BitTorrent is Cheap, Locher, Moor, Schmid, Wattenhofer. HotNets 2006.

Oct 26 -- Oct 30

Cybercrime, Cyberwar, Botnets

Group 3 assigned synopsis, due Oct 29

Why Phishing Works, CHI 2006, Dhamija, Tygar, Hearst
Cybercrime 2.0: When the Cloud Turns Dark, CACM, April 2009, Provos, Rajab, Mavrommatis.

completely optional, quantitative
An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Internet Miscreants, Franklin, Perrig, Paxson, Savage, 2007.
OR
Spamalytics: An Empirical Analyis of Spam Marketing Conversion Kanich, Kreibich, Levchenko, Enright, Voelker, Paxson, Savage

Nov 2 -- Nov 6

Internet Censorship

Group 1 assigned synopsis, due Nov 5

Firewalls and Power: An Overview of Global State Censorship of the Internet, Deibert and Villeneuve.
mirrored PDF of Iranians and Others Outwit Net Censors, John Markoff, NY Times, April 30, 2009. (NY times site may request login, use mirrored-pdf too)
skim China's Green Dam: The Implications of Government Control Encroaching on the Home PC, opennet.net, Open Net Initiative.

completely optional, quantitative
Search Monitor Project: Toward a Measure of Transparency, Nart Villeneuve, Citizenlab.
OR
Mapping the Blogosophere: Professional and citizen-based media in the global News Arena Reese, Rutigliano, Hyun, and Jeong

Nov 9 -- Nov 13

Crowdsourcing, Journalism, Blogs, Politics

Group 2 assigned synopsis, due Nov 12

Deep Throat Meets Data Mining, John Mecklin. The link is to a pdf version of this online article
Blogging and Political Information: Truth or Truthiness, Michael Munger, Public Choice 2008.
completely optional, quantitative Toward a Model of Political Participation among Young Adults: The Role of Local Groups and ICT Use, ICEGOV 2007, Kim, Kavanaugh, and Pérez-Quiñones.

Nov 16 -- Nov 20

Online Auctions and Advertising

Group 3 assigned synopsis, due Nov 19

Three short articles from EFF:
Testimony of Ed Felten at Behavioral Advertising Hearing (Congress), 2009
How do Behavioral Networks Work?
completely optional, quantitative Behavioral Targeting: A Case Study of Consumer Tracking on levis.com, Catherine Dwyer, 2009.

Nov 23 -- Nov 27

This week is Thanksgiving, there are no required readings for this week.

Nov 30 -- Dec 4

No readings this week. We will have practice for the final, online quizzes, and surveys.