Computer Science 491/492
Senior Seminar

Dickinson College
Academic Year 2007/08
Grant Braught

General Course Information

Course Schedule

August:

08/28/07 - Course Introduction; Software Engineering and Introduction to Scrum

September:

09/04/07 - Introduction to XP
09/11/07 - SVN/Scrum/TDD Workshop
09/18/07 - Project Definition Presentations
09/25/07 - Q & A with Vinton Cerf and Priestly Celebration

October:

10/02/07 - GenJam with Al Biles
10/09/07 - Project Architecture / Annotated Bibliography
10/16/07 - Fall Pause
10/23/07 - Initial Product Backlog Review
10/30/07 - Discussion: Ethical Theories

November:

11/06/07 - Sprint Reviews & Planning / Research Status Meeting
11/13/07 - Discussion: Professional Ethics for Software Engineers
11/20/07 - Sprint Reviews & Planning / Research Status Meeting
11/27/07 - Discussion: The Case of the Killer Robot

December:

12/04/07 - Email Sprint Review and Planning or Research Project Update
12/16/07 - 9:00am Final Exam Time

January:

01/22/08 - Project re-Startup
01/29/08 - Discussion: Privacy and the Government (Katie Lang)

February:

02/05/08 - Sprint Reviews & Planning / Research Status Meeting
02/12/08 - Discussion: End User Licensee Agreements (EULAs) (Luke Maffey)
02/19/08 - Discussion: DMCA and Censorship (Ryan Zeigler)
02/26/08 - Sprint Reviews & Planning / Research Status Meeting

March:

03/04/08 - Discussion: Network Neutrality (Ben Krause)
03/11/08 - Spring Break
03/18/08 - Sprint Reviews & Planning / Research Status Meeting
03/25/08 - Discussion: File Sharing and the Music Industry (Andy Hulme)

April:

04/01/08 - Discussion: The Ethics of Hacking (Mark Veronda)
04/08/08 - No Class (See next line!)
04/09/08 - Poster Session and Science Dinner
04/15/08 - Sprint Reviews & Planning / Research Status Meeting
04/22/08 - Discussion: Internet Censorship and Free Speech (Mike Olasin)
04/29/08 - Discussion: Open Source Software and Backwards Compatibility (Andrew Townsend)

May:

05/02/08 - Final Project Reports due
05/05/08 - 2:30 pm Project Presentations


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