Role

Teaching Assistant

Course

CS 492 (Social & Ethical Implications of Computing)

Terms(s)

• Spring (May - Aug.) 2024
• Winter (Jan. - Apr.) 2024
• Spring (May - Aug.) 2023

Topics

Focus on fostering professional responsibility and critical thought about the social and ethical impact of computing / deployment of computing technologies on individuals, organizations, and society. Themes may include, depend on the offering:

• Privacy and social control
• Security and safety
• Utopianism and dystopianism
• Social interactions
• The workplace
• Crime
• Intellectual property issues
• Public perception of computers
• Professionalism and responsibility
• Human rights

Duties

• Moderated in-class discussions and debates
• Co-wrote script to automate attendance-tracking using Optical Character Recognition
• Marked essays