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STS.THG Graduate Thesis

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Prereq: Permission of instructor
Units arranged
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Program of graduate research leading to the writing of a PhD thesis, to be arranged by the student with an appropriate MIT faculty member, who is the thesis advisor.
D. Fitzgerald
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STS.487 Foundations of Information Policy

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(Subject meets with 6.4590[J], STS.085[J])
Prereq: Permission of instructor
Units: 3-0-9
Lecture: R1-4 (4-153)

Studies the growth of computer and communications technology and the new legal and ethical challenges that reflect tensions between individual rights and societal needs. Topics include computer crime; intellectual property restrictions on software; encryption, privacy, and national security; academic freedom and free speech. Students meet and question technologists, activists, law enforcement agents, journalists, and legal experts. Instruction and practice in oral and written communication provided. Students taking graduate version complete additional assignments. Enrollment limited.
H. Abelson, R. David Edelman, M. Fischer, D. Weitzner
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Total units: 12+

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