CS 464

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Topics in Societal and Ethical Impacts of Computer Technology

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Credit: 3 hours.

Topics selected from key current areas of impact of computer technology on aspects of society and ethics such as: freedom versus the rule of law in cyberspace; social discourse; privacy; livelihoods and automation; fairness; security; political change; business models; technology divide.

3 undergraduate hours. No graduate credit. May be repeated if topics vary. Credit is not given towards a degree from multiple offerings of this course, if those offerings have significant overlap, as determined by the CS department. Prerequisite: CS 225. One of CS 210 or CS 211 or ECE 316 or PHIL 316. One of CS 361 or STAT 400 or STAT 200. Restricted to students with senior standing.

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CS 464 class schedule data for fall 2025
	CRN	Type	Section	Time	Day	Location	Instructor	Section Details
	74739	Lecture	CD1	11:00AM -12:15PM	TR	1214 Siebel Center for Comp Sci	Gunter, C	Part of Term: 1 Date Range: 08/25/25-12/10/25 Credit: 3 hours Section Title: Cyber Dystopia Section Info: Most university training in Computer Science focuses on technology advancement: writing more efficient programs, mining over bigger data, teaching a computer to more accurately distinguish a cat from a dog, and so on. The Cyber Dystopia course focuses instead on the downsides of such technology advancement. Course participants will explore history and context, characterize key problems, assess their severity, predict their future, speculate on how much of what we are facing is inevitable, and think about what steps might avoid or mitigate the most undesirable outcomes. This will be guided by reading and class discussion of recent works on the topic. Topics include Freedom and the Rule of Law Social Discourse Fate of Humanity Information Technology Industry Fairness Privacy and Surveillance Political Change Security For up-to-date information about CS course restrictions, please see the following link: http://go.cs.illinois.edu/csregister Restriction(s): Restricted to Undergrad - Urbana-Champaign.