General Information

My Information

Name:	Jonathan Misurda
Office:	6404 Sennott Square
Phone:	(412) 624-9129
Email:	jmisurda@cs.pitt.edu
Office Hours:	TH 1:30-4:30

You can find a copy of the syllabus here.

Announcements

• (07/26/06)- Reading assignments for Thursday:

  http://people.csail.mit.edu/brooks/papers/ascona.pdf

  The following are for fun (not quizzable):

  http://www.stanfordalumni.org/news/magazine/2006/mayjun/features/knuth.html

  http://www.theonion.com/content/node/50902

• (07/13/06)- Due to the power outage, class will be cancelled today, even if it manages to come back on before class time. I'm not forcing anyone to walk up 6 flights of stairs.

• (07/11/06)- Assignment 2 is available below, due Tuesday, August 1, 2006 by the start of class. Reading assignments for Thursday:

  http://niels.xtdnet.nl/stego/usenet.php

  http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/localnews/2003062386_danny15.html

  http://www.theregister.co.uk/2006/07/07/illegal_ms_software_trader_sued/

• (06/27/06)- Reading assignments for Thursday:

  Grodzinsky, Miller, Wolf - RCE pp. 351-366

  http://www.fsf.org/licensing/essays/free-sw.html

  http://www.groklaw.net/article.php?story=20060625001523547

• (06/20/06)- Reading assignments for Thursday:

  http://fairuse.stanford.edu/Copyright_and_Fair_Use_Overview/chapter9/9-b.html

  Also, bring your own arguments and evidence (articles, etc.) for your position on the various copyright issues.

• (06/18/06) - Assignment 2 is available below, due Thursday, July 6, 2006 by the start of class

• (06/07/06)- Reading assignments for Thursday:

  http://www.ala.org/ala/washoff/WOissues/civilliberties/cipaweb/cipa.htm

  http://www.todayonline.com/articles/122942.asp

  http://www.acsblog.org/ip-and-tech-law-2883-11th-circuit-to-webmasters-telling-someone-to-go-away-doesnt-make-them.html

• (06/07/06)- Class on Thursday is cancelled. Read the 2 links below and the reading on the syllabus for Tuesday.

• (06/06/06)- There is a new reference example document to help you produce citations for URLs. It also corrects the pdftex/pdflatex issue on unixs.

  Your first paper's revisions are due Tuesday, June 13th, 2006 by the start of class

  Reading assignments for Thursday:

  http://www.ajc.com/metro/content/metro/fayette/stories/0521sting.html
  
  http://www.courts.state.va.us/opinions/opncavtx/0250053.txt

• (05/30/06) - Reading assignments for Thursday:

  Trying to Resolve Jurisdictional Rules on the Intenet - New York Times (Available from the library website)
  
  Lipinski, et al. RCE (pp. 214-246)
  

• (05/23/06) - Reading assignments for Thursday:

  http://www.villagevoice.com/specials/0543,50thdibbell,69273,31.html
  http://www.cato.org/pubs/pas/pa507.pdf
  

• (05/18/06) - Assignment 1 is available below, due Tuesday, May 30, 2006 by the start of class
  
  
• (06/16/06) - Welcome to the Summer Term (2067)

Assignments

• Assignment 3 (PDF)
  Assignment 3 (source tex for another example)
• Assignment 2 (PDF)
  Assignment 2 (source tex for another example)
• Assignment 1 (PDF)
  Assignment 1 (source tex for another example)

Handouts

• Example LaTeX output (PDF)
• Source for the above example

Links

• Writing Center
• MikTeX - Windows LaTeX Distribution
• LaTeX reference (PDF)
• BibTeX reference
• 1st edition of The Elements of Style (1918)