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Changes to ethics in computer science will spring new debates and philosophies in IT. Here's what you need to consider when thinking through computer ethics.
Explore 80s computer ethics: software piracy, hacking, and the consequences of digital actions. Featuring 'Oil's Well' game copyright issues & medical database hacking.
Princeton’s COS department can and should follow the lead of its counterparts at other universities. Just like a special lecture was dedicated in COS 126 to Machine Learning, someone versed in ...
Research interests include information security, reliability of computer systems, computer crime, and liability and professional ethics. Has written three books and developed the COPS and Tripwire ...
David Rancourt didn't break ethics laws when lobbying for a computer company, officials say.
Former Harvard Ethics Student Charged With Hacking MIT Computer Aaron Swartz allegedly stole over 4 million documents from an academic database.
In April 2019, Santa Clara University was awarded a grant as one of the winners of the Mozilla Responsible Computer Science Challenge, which promotes innovation and experimentation in the integration ...
In 2017, two Harvard professors launched the Embedded EthiCS program, hoping to “bring ethical reasoning into the Computer Science curriculum.” But few students take the program seriously, and ...
It treats ethics as a thing that is separate from Computer Science. And it’s difficult not to think that way, because ethics is missing, clearly.
Dynamite and the nuclear bomb led to soul-searching among chemists and physicists. Computer scientists have not yet witnessed negative consequences of their work — and behave accordingly.