Soctech seminar, Winter 2005

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Society and technology seminar

At the August 6 meeting we resolved to plan a seminar (in CSE lingo, a "590", after the course number under which irregular seminars are listed) for Fall 2004 or Winter 2005.

The topic for the first offering will be the cluster of issues surrounding law, society, and software security.

Schedule overview

  1. tech intro: thinking about security
  2. tech intro: software development and software reliability
  3. technical aspects of improving computer systems
  4. law intro: contracts & torts
  5. law intro: economic legal philosophy
  6. vendor liability
  7. certification processes: products, processes, people
  8. market failures in economics of software, and legal approaches
  9. criminal law approaches?
  10. public policy approaches

Notes and discussion