CSC 379

Formatting Resources

Formatting Help Guide from MetaWiki

ACM Technews Search

Google Site Specific Search

IEEE Xplore

http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/search/advsearch.jsp

Google Scholar

http://www.google.com/scholar

Professional Codes of Ethics

National Academy of Engineering

Debate Arguments Pyramid

An outline of argument types.

HTML to MediaWiki Converter

You may find this tool helpful in converting the content on existing pages of the ethics.csc.ncsu.edu website to MediaWiki markup for your research assignment. http://labs.seapine.com/htmltowiki.cgi

http://blog.createdebate.com/2008/04/07/writing-strong-arguments/

Work Examples

Wiki Assignment: [1] [2]

Research Assignment: CSC 379:Research Assignment Sample

Research Assignment Topics

Research Topics

Week 1 pages

• Week 1 Debate Topic

• Netiquette Best Practices: Online Communities (CSC 379 SUM2008:Week 1, Group 1)
• Political Uses of Spam for Special Interests and Influencing Elections (CSC 379 SUM2008:Week 1, Group 2)
• Spam (CSC 379 SUM2008:Week 1, Group 3)
• The Effects of Spam-Countermeasures (CSC 379 SUM2008:Week 1, Group 4)

Week 2 pages

• Week 2 Debate Topic

• Turn-it-in and MOSS (CSC 379 SUM2008:Week 2, Group 1)
• Alternative Intellectual Property Models (CSC 379 SUM2008:Week 2, Group 2)
• Search Engines (CSC 379 SUM2008:Week 2, Group 3)
• File Sharing Countermeasures (CSC 379 SUM2008:Week 2, Group 4)

Week 3 pages

• Week 3 Debate Topic

• Markets for Bug Reports (CSC 379 SUM2008:Week 3, Group 1)
• Costs and Benefits of Malware Countermeasures (CSC 379 SUM2008:Week 3, Group 2)
• Costs and Benefits Password Regulations (CSC 379 SUM2008:Week 3, Group 3)
• Bundling Malware (CSC 379 SUM2008:Week 3, Group 4)

Week 4 pages

TBD

Week 5 pages

TBD