Compsci 182s, Spring 2006, Syllabus

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Code, Internet, End-to-End, Standards, ICANN, IANA, IETF, ITU, ...

Monday Wednesday Friday
1/9
1/11
Patents/Berners-Lee
Wired Patents
1/13
ICANN
Patents Today
The Right to Read
1/16
Martin Luther King Day
1/18
Tussle in Cyberspace
Internet History
Code, ch1-2
1/20
BellSouth controversy

Code/NYTimes article

Intellectual Property: Patents, Copyright, Open Source, GPL, Creative Commons

1/23
Warriors of the Net
Triump of the Nerds
A Brief History of the Internet, Volume I
1/25
Intellectual Property for CS students

Software Patents

Debunking I (Graham, IEEE)
(Duke access only)

Debunking II (Heckel, CACM)
(Duke access only)
bitlaw I
bitlaw II
bitlaw III

1/27
Litman Copyright
(Duke only)
Software and Copyright
Information and IP
DMCA and copyright
Code, ch10
1/30
IP videos

2/1
Code, ch 8
Open Source Definition
OSD history
Licenses
CatB
Stallman speech
Microsoft reacts
GPLv3 draft
GPLv3 changes

topics
2/3
DMCA topics
EFF/DMCA (Duke only)

P2P, Napster, Gnutella, eDonkey, BitTorrent, Chord, Anonymity

2/6
Open Source As a Business Model
2/8
p2p readings

2/10
more p2p readings

2/13
Guest lecture by Landon Cox
2/15
Technical Readings

Kademlia for today.

2/17
Law School Hot Topics

Technical Readings (Pastry only)

DMCA and DRM, Secure and Trusted Computing

2/20
Elliott and the DMCA
2/22
Darknet (pp.1-10)
2/24
Darknet (full paper)
DRM readings
2/27
DRM Presentations
3/1
DRM readings (continued)
3/3
DRM presentations (continued)

Catch up

3/6
TPM readings
3/8
3/10
3/13
Spring Break
3/15
Spring Break
3/17
Spring Break

Databases, Privacy, Security, PATRIOT Act, Encryption and PKI

3/20
3/22
Crypto readings and H20
3/24
3/27
Internet Privacy 1
3/29
First two chapters of No Place to Hide
3/31
Chapter 11 (Privacy) from Code
Privacy H2O

Computer Security, Worms, Viruses, SPAM, Phishing, DDOS

4/3
Schneier's security tips (mirror)
4/5
Full Disclosure (mirror)
SANS top 20
4/7
Security Patch Treadmill (mirror)
Worm fingerprinting (mirror)
4/10
Project proposal presentations
4/12
smashing the stack (mirror)
4/14
Distributed Denial-of-Service Attacks (mirror)
Morris worm: RFC 1135, pp1-10 (mirror)

TBA

4/17
Voting intro, survey
4/19
Schneier on anonymity (mirror)
More anonymity is good (just Kelly's essay; mirror)
What's in a Name? (mirror)
4/21
Anti-spam techniques: 1 2
CAN-SPAM summary
EFF on AOL's "email tax"
A Plan for Spam (optional)
4/24
Guest lecture: Justin Moore
4/26
Last Day of Class
4/28

Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday
5/1
5/2
Final Exam 2:00-5:00 PM
5/3
5/4
5/5

Owen L. Astrachan
Last modified: Fri Mar 31 12:57:46 EST 2006