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Mandatory first meeting is Monday 24 January in room 'Postscript'. We start at 12:15!

Exam information Inf5011 (Spring 2011): deadline individual essay 18 May; oral exam 30 May.

INF5010 IS NOW CALLED INF5011

BECAUSE OF A HICK-UP SOMEWHERE ALONG THE LINE, THE NEW PAGES ARE NOT VISIBLE.

IF YOU WOULD LIKE TO TAKE THIS COURSE THIS SPRING (2011) AND YOU CAN'T FIND THE COURSE ON STUDENTWEB, PLEASE CONTACT THE IFI ADMINISTRATION:

Kristin Broch Eliassen - krishbr (at) ifi.uio.no or Kristin Br?then - kristinb (at) ifi.uio.no

Here is a PDF file with course information. See you this Spring!

The deadline for submitting the group essay (per email to Christina and Maja) is Friday, May 7 midnight!

The schedule for the presentations on Tuesday, May 11 is as follows:

09:00 - 09:30 group Tina, Magdalena, Hogne

09:30 - 10:00 group Brendan, Peter, Effat

10:00 - 10:15 break

10:15 - 10:50 group Elise, Manuela, Remi, Guro

10:50 - 11:15 group Edwin and Thanh

11:15 - 11:30 break

11:30 - 12:00 group Tone, Michal, Ivan

We will begin our next meeting, Tuesday April 13, at 09:30 (this does NOT mean we will start at 09:45). This gives us the extra time we need to look at the evaluation and project work. Send Maja a message if you can't make it at 09:30!

As announced will Rop Gonggrijp be guest lecturer on the 20th of April and talk about electronic voting machines (computers and via Internet). He is recently in the news as co-producer of a secret Pentagon video. This video was 'leaked' to Wikileaks and shows how, among others, two Reuter journalists are killed by indiscriminate weapon fire from an US helicopter. You can watch the video at Collateral Murder

I hope you all had a nice Easter/Spring break and that you are now working on your group essays. For next week, please read both articles and bring photos and images that, in your opinion, visualise these texts. We will discuss what it means to take an ethical perspective in our research and work. If you have the interest and time to read a bit more, please look at this article by Rafael Capurro: Information Technology as an Ethical Challenge

An example of how difficult it is to keep clear boundaries between society and science. The minister announced a moratorium on the introduction of Bt-eggplants in India: ¡°As a responsible minister I had to take a considered decision. It is responsible to science, it is responsive to society,¡± he said. Here you can read the (short) article.

Here is a link to a documentary on radiation: A Radiant Day. It is about safety levels for radiation, about how scientific facts about radiation are established. Do you see connections with the articles by Callon and Star?

We made groups today and group members will interview each other using the four questions in the hand-out. Bring the answers in a format that is suitable for the group-network you will begin to map out on the wall. We have the following groups:

Tina, Magdalena, Hogne (present article by Callon on 09.02)

Brendan, Peter, Effat (present article by Verran et al. on 16.02)

Kjell, Guro, Naveed (present article by Haraway on 02.03)

Ivica, Tone, Michal (present article by Heath on 09.03)

Elise, John, Manuela, Edwin (present article by Moser & Law on 16.03)

There is a small change in the order we read the texts for the course, see the Teaching Plan

Welcome to the first meeting! Please note that we will meet Tuesday Jan. 26 from 10:15 -12:00 in the 'Visningsrom', 澳门葡京手机版app下载sparken II, Hus 4, 2nd floor, room 4202.