[Note: Prior to 2008-09, this course was offered as CS 201.]
2007-08
Communism, Computing, and China
Technology in Developing Economies
Early Acquisition of Computer Science
Ethics of Social Networks
The Ethics (or not) of Massive Government Surveillance
Firefox Market Dynamics: The Evolving State of the Browser Business
Google Books
Implementing Sovereignty on the Internet
International Freedom of Information on the Electronic Commons
One Laptop Per Child
Blogs and Freedom of the Press
The Productivity Paradox
Trusted Computing
Virtual Worlds
2006-07
Anonymity and Plurality in the Internet Age
Electronic Voting
Better Late than Never: Internet Usage in Latin America
Social and Economic Evolution of Online Gaming
Dealing with Pop-ups
2004-05
Crunch Mode: Programming to the Extreme
Distance Education
Effects of Internet Use
Online Communities and Governance
Political Action on the Internet
Corporate Privacy Policies
2003-04
Blogging
High School Computer Science Education
India’s Response as a Non-Western Society to the Computing Age
The Economics Behind Offshoring
The Future of Peer to Peer Filesharing
Costs of Computer Security at Stanford
2000-01
The Uniform Computer Information Transactions Act: Ethical Issues in Software Commerce Law
Women and Computer Science at the College Level
The Shortage of Female Computer Science Faculty at Stanford
The Effects of the Internet on the Personal Lives of Stanford Students
The Open-Source Movement
Rage With The Machine: Grassroots Democracy in the Digital Age
Not Just Dirty Pictures: The Social and Legal Implications of Online Pornography
Privacy: Implications of "Cookies" and Other Clickstream Capture Technologies
The Web vs. the Honor Code
Participatory Design: An Approach for Systems Design
A Retrospective on Computer Viruses
Packet-Monitoring Software
DVD Encryption: A Survey of the Current State of Affairs
The Impact of the Internet on Developing Countries
Ethical Issues Surrounding Napster
1999-00
China vs. the Internet
A Study of Critical Systems in Military and Commerce
Repercussions of Digital Technology on Artistic Media
The Digital Divide
The Digital Divide: Gender
DMCA: A Review
DMCA2K: An Analysis of the Effect of Changes in Copyright Law
DVD/CSS Issues
Intellectual Property Law
Internet Censorship: Can it be done? Should it be done?
Software Patent Case Studies
Software Piracy
The Dangers of Technological Development
Technorealism - Understanding the Limits of Information
The Ethics of Anonymous Computing
1998-99
Computing and the disabled
The Y2K problem
Risks and implications of automatic transactions on financial markets
Online pornography: Is filtering software the answer?
The programmer shortage
Reevaluating U.S. technology export controls
Controlling the virtual world
Computer crime
The "Nuremberg Files" decision
Should we shoot the messenger? What to do with technologies that indirectly
encourage copyright infringement
1997-98
The Changing Nature of Work
Databases in Cyberspace
Defamation and the Internet
Internet Domain Names
The Effect of the Internet on Interpersonal Skills
The Gender Gap in Education
Microsoft vs DOJ
Optical Media
Photoethics
Pricing of the Internet (#1)
Pricing Of The Internet (#2)
Race And Class Barriers
Spam
1995-96
Autonomous Weapons
Clipper Chip
Computer Addiction
Computers in Education
Corporate Monopolies
Electronic Monitoring
Electronic Vote Counting
Global Networks
Internet Terrorism
Liability Law
Public-Key Encryption