This schedule is tentative and subject to change!
Week Day Date Topic Reading Homework
Introduction
1 Mon August 31 Intro to Ethics
Wed Sept 2 Intro to Fairness A1
2 Mon Sept 7 Labor Day
Wed Sept 9 Intro to Privacy A2
Software Systems
3 Mon Sept 14 Anonymity
Wed Sept 16 Differential Privacy A3
4 Mon Sept 21 Privacy Engineering
Wed Sept 23 Privacy Rights A4
5 Mon Sept 28 Manipulative Design
Wed Sept 30 Manipulative Design A5
6 Mon Oct 5 Online Tracking
Wed Oct 7 Private Advertising A6
7 Mon Oct 12 Heterogenous Data
Wed Oct 14 Power and Waste A7
Machine Learning Systems
8 Mon Oct 19 Fall Break
Wed Oct 21 Intro to ML A8
9 Mon Oct 26 Unfairness and Bias
Wed Oct 28 Explainable AI A9
10 Mon Nov 2 Privacy Attacks
Wed Nov 4 Private ML A10
11 Mon Nov 9 Local ML
Wed Nov 11 Federated ML M1 - Project Proposals
12 Mon Nov 16 LLMs and Energy
Wed Nov 18 LLMs and Copyright
13 Mon Nov 20 Problematic Uses
Wed Nov 22 Thanksgiving
Wrapping up
14 Mon Nov 30 Responsibility
Wed Dec 2 Responsibility
15 Mon Dec 7 Presentations
Wed Dec 9 Presentations Final Projects Due

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