Week of June10, 2002:

1)  Final papers are due on June 10th, 2002, by noon in Gates B28.  Please submit two copies, along with the preliminary draft with feedback from us.

2)  We will use the final exam time for student presentations.  Lunch will be provided.  Please plan on arriving by noon.
      Final Exam:  June 11 (Tuesday) 12:15-3:15pm, Gates 498

3)  See article about our class:  "Programmers enroll in political training" by Lisa M. Bowman

Week of June 3, 2002:

1)  Rough drafts of your final projects are due on June 3rd.   Please submit a hard copy in class.

2)  Please submit two hard copies for the final submission.

Week of May 27, 2002:

1)  Tentative Plan:  we will use the final exam time for student presentations.  Lunch will be provided.
      Final Exam:  June 11 (Tuesday) 12:15-3:15pm, Gates 498

Week of April 29, 2002:

1)  Materials from Caspar Bowden's lecture is available.  Caspar Bowden is the Director of the Foundation for Information Policy Research (FIPR).

2)  We will have weekly meetings with Professors Simons and Felten to discuss our projects.  For the first one (which is either this Thursday or Friday for most of us), please come with a written plan and schedule. 

3)  The ACM Workshop on Digital Rights Management addresses technical problems faced by rights holders (who seek to protect their intellectual property rights) and by end consumers (who seek to protect their privacy and to preserve access they now enjoy in traditional media under existing copyright law).

http://crypto.stanford.edu/DRM2002/

November 18, 2002 
The Wyndham City Center Washington DC, USA

Held in conjunction with the Ninth ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security (CCS-9).

Week of April 22, 2002:

1)  Please see assignment updates.

2)  We would like to devote the first portion of Wednesday's class to the discussion of project proposals. We apologize for the lateness of this request, but we'd like for all of you to come to class prepared to discuss your proposal. We realize that in some cases you have not yet finalized your decision. If you aren't sure, we'd still like to have you tell us what you are thinking about. This should be informal, but as specific as you can make it at this time.

Professor Simons will probably talk about some other intellectual property issues with the time that remains after our projects discussion.

3)  The presentation on how Congress works will be given next week by Professor Patrick Windham. Professor Windham teaches in Stanford's Public Policy Department and is a seasoned public policy analyst with 17 years experience in the United States Senate. He was a former staffer to Senator Hollings, though Professor Windham left DC before the SSSCA, let alone the CBDTPA.

Week of April 15, 2002:

1)  Please feel free to attend the Computers, Freedom, and Privacy Conference. Professors Simons and Felten are on a panel on copyright which is taking place Thurs. afternoon (3:45-5:30pm Plenary Session #8 The DMCA and You Grand Ballroom). They have arranged for the class to attend without paying a registration fee (but please be prepared to pay for meals).

Week of April 8, 2002:

1)  Please feel free to attend the People v. Cooper court case (San Mateo County Case no. SF314440A), though you are not required to attend it.  The case is essentially about criminalizing the circumvention of security methods  (see the newsgroup: su.class.cs401 for more information).
      When:  April 9, 2002 at 9:00 AM
      Where:  400 County Center (prelim department, probably on the 2d floor), Redwood City

2)  Professor Jennifer Granick (Litigation Director, Center for Internet and Society, Stanford Law School) will be lecturing on Wednesday.

3)  Lecture slides can found here.  

Week of April 1, 2002:

1)  Questionnaires will be distributed and collected on the first day of class (April 3^rd).  Based on the responses, we will select the members of the class and notify people via email prior to the next class.

We wish we could take all interested students, but the structure of the class simply will not allow that.