Room: Cobb 115

Time: MWF 10:00-11:50 am

Gabriella Coleman

email: egcolema@midway.uchicago.edu

Office Hours: Tuesday and Thursday mornings by appointment.

Requirements

Class Participation 10%

Twice Weekly Write-ups 40%

Final Take-Home Exam 50%

Aside from class discussion, students are required to turn in a one page (single or double spaced) summary of the readings, which should include a basic summary, your own comments, and 1-2 questions. You will be required to turn in two a week. The questions have to be e-mailed to me by 9 a.m., the morning of class and the summaries can be turned in class or emailed to me before class.

Introduction

Monday June 25

* Introduction

* Movie: Nerds 2.01

Hackers Before Hacking: A Historical Perspective

Wednesday June 27

Standage, Tom

1999 The Victorian Internet. New York: Berkeley Books

Singh, Simon

1999 The Code Book. New York: Double Day. Chapter 1

The Early Years of Computing

Friday June 29

Ceruzzi, Paul

2000 A History of Modern Computing. Cambridge: MIT Press. Chapters

1-3

Singh, Simon

1999 The Code Book. Chapter 4

The "Formation" of the Hacker Ethic and New Developments in Hardware and Software

Monday July 2

Levy, Steven

1984 Hackers. New York: Delta

Wednesday July 4

No class

Friday July 6

Levy, Steven

1984 Hackers. New York: Delta

Monday July 9

Segaller, Steven

1998 Nerds 2.0.1: A Brief History of the Internet New York: TV Books.

Chapters 1-4

Katz,Jon

2000 Geeks. New York: Villard

The Culture of UNIX

Wednesday July 11

Salus, Peter

1994 A Quarter Century of UNIX New York: Addison Wesley.

Skim Part I "Genesis." Read Chapters 5-9, 11, 12, and Finale.

McKusick, Marskak

1999 "Twenty Years of Berkeley-Unix: From AT&T-Owned to Freely

Redistributable." In OpenSources. pp. 31-52. On E-Reserve.

Stephenson, Neal

1999 In the Beginning...Was the Command Line.

Additional References

Richie, Denise and Ken Thompson

The UNIX Time-Sharing System. http://www.cs.berkeley.edu/~brewer/cs262/unix.ps

Scoville, Tom

1998 The Elements of Style: UNIX as Literature.

Available at http://www.wenet.net/~scoville/PCarticle.html

Raymond, Eric.

Philosophy Matters. Available at http://www/tuxedo.org/~esr/writings/taoup/chapter1.html

Freedom, Privacy, and Property

Friday July 13

Locke, John

Two Treatises of Government. Chapter V Of Property. On E-reserve

Mill, John

On Liberty. Selected Pages. On E-Reserve

Monday July 15

(Review of Intellectual Property Rights and Computing)

Patents for Software-Related Inventions

http://www-swiss.ai.mit.edu/6805/articles/int-prop/kuester-swpat.html

Copyright FAQ's

"http://www-swiss.ai.mit.edu/6805/articles/int-prop/carroll-copyright"http://www-swiss.ai.mit.edu/6805/articles/int-prop/carroll-copyright- faq.txt

Other IP Resources (just for reference)

http://www.eff.org/pub/Intellectual_property/

http://www-swiss.ai.mit.edu/6805/readings-ip.html

Lessig, Lawrence

1999 Code and Other Laws of Cyberspace. Chapter 1, 10, 11 (pp. 3-9, pp. 122-142, 142-164).

On E-Reserve

Ludlow, Peter

1996 "Piracy, Property Rights etc: Does Information "Want

to Be Free" In High Noon On the Electronic Frontier Cambridge

MIT University Press. pp. 1-9. On E-Reserve

Barlow, John Perry

1996 "Selling Wine without Bottles: The Economy of Mind on the

Global Net." In High Noon On the Electronic Frontier Cambridge

MIT University Press pp. 9-34. On E-Reserve

Gilmore, John

n.d "Privacy, Technology, and the Open Society. " Electronic Document

available at ww.toad.com/gnu.

Additional References

*The following two selections have a wide array of articles that deal with the issues of privacy, property, freedom, and intellectual property

Ludlow, Peter (Ed.)

1996 High Noon on the Electronic Frontier: Conceptual Issues in Cyberspace. Cambridge:

MIT Press.

Johnson, Deborah and Helen Nissenbaum

1995 Computers, Ethics, and Social Values. Englewood, NJ: Prentice-Hall Inc.

Wednesday July 17

Documentary: Cult of the Dead Cow

Denning, Dorothy

1996 "Concerning Hackers Who Break into Computer Systems." In High Noon On the Electronic Frontier Cambridge: MIT University Press pp. 137-164

"Congressional Testimony by Emmaneul Goldstein" In High Noon On the Electronic Frontier Cambridge MIT University Press pp. 165-172

Zimmermann, Philip

1996 "How PGP Works/Why Do You Need PGP?" In High Noon On the Electronic Frontier Cambridge MIT University Press. pp. 179-184

The League for Programming Freedom

1991 Against Software Patents. Document available at http://lpf.ai.mit.edu/Patents/against- software-patents.html

Free Software: The Hacker Ethic, Internet, PC, and Freedom Revisited

Friday July 20

Coleman, Gabriella

1998 The Politics of Survival and Prestige: Hacker Identity and the Global Production of an Operating System. On E-Reserve.

Stallman, Richard

1999 "The GNU Operating System and the Free Software Movement." In OpenSources

pp. 53-70. On E-Reserve.

Moglen, Eben

1999 Anarchism Triumphant. On E-Reserve.

Stallman, Richard

199 What is the Copyleft? Available at "http://www/"wwwcopyleft.org

Monday July 23

Leonard, Andrew

2000 The Free Software Project. Available at www.salon.com

Raymond, Eric

1999 The Cathedral and the Bazaar. Available at http://www.tuxedo.org/~esr/writings/cathedral-bazaar/

1999 The Revenge of the Hackers. In OpenSources. pp. 207-219

Debian

The Debian Social Contract. Available at www.debian.org

Wednesday July 25

Stephenson, Neal

1992 Snow Crash New York: Bantam Books

Final Exam Questions Given

Friday July 27

Exam Due