• Room : Peterson 102
• Days : Tuesday/Thursday
• Time : 5:30p - 6:50p

Class will meet (same time) in the SDSC Auditorium on the following days :

• April 9, 11 18, 23, 25 & 30
• May 7, 14, 16.
• Presentation dates: May 28, 30 & June 4,6. Class will be extended on these days to accomodate all scheduled presentations for the day.

NOTE: No class will be held the week before presentations start i.e. on May 21 (Tuesday) and May 23 (Thursday).

NOTE: SDSC is located at the north end of the campus, between the Social Sciences building and RIMAC, across the Ridge Walk from IRPS.

• You should be able to access your current grade and other class statistics from GradeSource using your secret number emailed to you.

• The class email list address is : cse190a-l@ucsd.edu

• Older announcements are archived here.

• Presentations: You will have 30 minutes in all. You can use pdf/ppt (or transparencies if you want) slides. If you want to use a laptop, please arrive atleast 15 mins. early on the presentation day to ensure that it works with the SDSC AV equipment.

• Paper submissions for the final project are due on: June 6 in class.

• Project Presentation dates: May 28, 30 & June 4, 6.

• Project Presentation schedule. Please email Sid & the TAs if you have a preference for a time. Allocations will be FCFS. If you don't choose a time/date, the empty slots will be alloted to you by us.

• Project Timeline is here.

• Presentation 1 : PVRs

• Presentation 2 : Disclosure

• Presentation 3 : MPAA vs. 2600.com

• Presentation 4 : Napster

• Presentation 5 : The USA Patriot Act

• Presentation 6 : Carnivore

• Presentation 7 : Adobe vs Elcomsoft

• Presentation 8 : Amazon

• Presentation 9 : MP3.com

• Presentation 10 : DMCA

• Presentation 11 : Blizzard Inc. vs. Bnetd.org

• Presentation 12 : Ed Felten Case

• Lecture 1 : pdf , ps , ppt
• Lecture 2 : ppt ps(Dr. Kalichman's Presentation)
• Lecture 3 : ppt ps
• Lecture 6 : ppt ps [Laws]
  Relevant Links:
  The U.S. Constitution
  The Bill of Rights
  Amendments 11-27
• Lecture 7 : ppt ps
  Relevant Links:
  Historical Copyright Timeline
  The Digital Dilemna, Intellectual Property in the Information Age
• Lecture 9 : ppt ps[Erin Kenneally's Presentation]
• Lecture 13 : pdf ppt html [DMCA]

• Books
  • Code And Other Laws Of Cyberspace by Lawrence Lessig
    Basic Books, 1999.
    Amazon book recommendation.
    Barnes & Noble book recommendation.
  • The Transparent Society by David Brin
    Perseus Books, 1998.
    Amazon book recommendation.
    Barnes & Noble book recommendation.
    Web-page : http://www.davidbrin.com/
• Declan McCullagh's Politech technology and politics news list.
• Dave Farber's Interesting People news list archives
• Additional Reading: Codes of Ethics around the World