Lectures

Announcements

1. Friday 20 June 4pm: Oral presentation marks and explanatory comments are sent by email to the student. All marks should be mailed out by 4pm Friday 20 June; if you do not receive your marks by this time please send email to the instructor and we will resend.
2. Friday 6 June 4pm: Term papers and term project reports due at the Computer Science Department office, room 303.384. There is a drop-off box labelled COMPSCI 725 at the counter.
3. Wednesday 28 May 2003, 1pm to 5:45pm, Room 303.279: Microsoft in conjunction with the University of Auckland will be holding MyFirstJob.Net. Presentations from Microsoft NZ, Cap Gemini NZ, Orbiz, Unisys and Datacom.
4. Thursday 22 May 2003: End of public consultation on the Copyright (Parallel Importation of Films and Onus of Proof) Amendment Bill. "... The bill will also amend the principal Act: ... [to] amend the existing requirement that the defendant in civil proceedings concerning the act of importation 'knows or has reason to believe' to a requirement that the defendant 'knows or ought reasonably to know' that the imported object was an infringing copy in relation to sound recordings, films and software products."
5. 15 May: Application deadline for the Bates Scholarship in Computer Forensics.
6. 29 April: Health Warning for Students -- Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS): OHP, advisory of 29 April. See also Health Warning for Students -- Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS)
7. Monday 7 April 2003: Close of public consultation on the NZ Government's authentication concepts and plans.
8. Friday 14 March 2003: deadline for adding or dropping First Semester courses.
9. The Student Learning Centre offers a wide range of workshops for postgraduates, see their current newsletter.

List of Handouts

1. Handout 1: General information and term schedule.
2. Handout 2: Student information sheet.
3. Handout 3: first set of readings (available in hardcopy only)
   • C. Pfleeger, "Is there a security problem in computing?", Chapter 1 of Security in Computing, 2nd edition, Prentice Hall, 1997, pp. 1-19.
   • K. Nichols, "The Age of Software Patents", IEEE Computer, April 1999, pp. 25-31.
   • Anon., "Patent Law Basics", Office of Technology Transfer, University of Arizona, 2001. Available: http://www.ott.arizona.edu/patbasics.htm, 4 March 2001.
   • C. Collberg, C. Thomborson, D. Low, Obfuscation Techniques for Enhancing Software Security, Published International Patent Application WO9901815, World Intellectual Property Organization, filed June 9, 1998; see also WO9964973.
   • P. Samuelson, "Encoding the Law into Digital Libraries", Comm. ACM, April 1998.
4. Handout 4: Lecture slides set 1.
5. Handout 5: Suggestions for Oral Reports and Term Projects.  (Revised to Version 2.1 on 11 March 2003).  Random numbers for enrolled (and waitlisted) students.
6. Handout 6: Algorithm for choosing papers.
7. Handout 7: Partial assignments after 14Mar03.
8. Handout 8: Lecture slides set 2: Instructions for oral reports and term papers. Lecture and tutorial schedule.
9. Handout 9: Final papers assignments for presentation.
10. Handout 10: Lecture slides set 3: Software Law and Ethics, and second set of readings:
    • Pfleeger, "Ethical issues in computer security," section 11.5 of Security in Computing, 2nd edition, Prentice Hall, 1997.
    • Ethical statements from IEEE, CPSR, and RSNZ.
    • C. Mann, "Who will own your next good idea?", The Atlantic Monthly, 57-82, September 1998.  Available: http://www.theatlantic.com/issues/98sep/copy.htm, March 2003.
    • H. Rosner, "Steal this software," The.Standard.com, June 19, 2000.
    • P. Radatti, "Cybersoft, Incorporated Moral Guidelines," Cybersoft, Inc, 1996.
    • Bruce Schneier, "Foundations", pp. 1-10 of Chapter 1 in Applied cryptography : protocols, algorithms, and source code in C, 2nd edition, Wiley, 1996.
11. Handout 11: First ten papers to be presented in student oral reports. See Handout 9 for authors and titles.
12. Handout 12: Last ten papers to be presented in student oral reports. See Handout 9 for authors and titles.
13. Handout 13: Deadlines (revised 29 April 2003) for giving draft oral presentations, and detailed schedule of oral presentations. See also Lecture and tutorial schedule of Handout 8.
14. Handout 14: Lecture slides set 4: First Steps in Report Writing; readings:
    • U W-Madison Writing Center, "Chicago Style: Works Cited, or References". Available: http://www.wisc.edu/writing/Handbook/DocChiWorksCited.html, April 2003.
    • J Lester, "Numbering Electronic Sources in the CBE Style". Chapter 6 of Citing Cyberspace, Addison-Wesley, 1997. Available http://www.apsu.edu/~lesterj/CYBER6.HTM, April 2003.
    • U of Auckland Library Instructional Services, "Evaluating Web Sites". Available http://www2.auckland.ac.nz/lbr/instruct/evaluate.htm, April 2003.
    • F. Woodford, excerpts from Scientific Writing for Graduate Students, Rockefeller University Press, New York 1968. (Out of print.)
    • A Eisenberg, "Importance of Organizational Patterns", in Writing Well for the Technical Professions, Harper & Row, pp. 39-40 and 46-51, 1989.
    • U of Richmond Writer's Web, "Effectively Using Direct Quotations". Available: http://www.richmond.edu/~writing/wweb/dq.html, April 2003.
    • M Spears, "What is Plagiarism", and "Quoting, Summarizing and Paraphrasing". Grosse Point North High School, Michigan (USA), 2 pp., undated. Available http://www.ehhs.cmich.edu/~mspears/plagiarism.html, April 2003.
    • E Papadakis, "Why and What for (Four): The Basis for Writing a Good Introduction", Materials Evaluation 41, 20-21, Jan 1983.
    • A Eisenberg, "Techniques for Writing Definitions", in Writing Well for the Technical Professions, Harper & Row, pp. 208-215, 1989.
15. Handout 15: Lecture slides set 5: Finalising Your Term Report; Sample Final Exam Questions for 2003.
16. Handout 16: Sample Comments on Oral Reports and Synopses.
17. Handout 17: Slides from Juergen Brendel's talk.
18. Sample Answers to Sample Final Exam Questions for 2003.

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