The new fall semester is upon us, and at elite private colleges and universities, it’s hard to find a trendier major than Computer Science. It’s also becoming more common for such institutions to ...

Early this year, research fellow Hilary Cohen and professors Jeremy Weinstein, Mehran Sahami and Rob Reich were pictured in a copy of The New York Times. They stood together in the atrium of the Gates ...

This story is part of a series on how we learn—from augmented reality to music-training devices. For the students in Emanuelle Burton’s ethics class, the story is tricky to grok. “They’re like, you ...

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 ...

When Computer Science professor Barbara J. Grosz opened enrollment for Computer Science 108: “Intelligent Systems: Design and Ethical Challenge” for its second year in fall 2016, she received 140 ...

Throughout 2025, Computer Weekly’s technology and ethics coverage highlighted the human and socio-technical impacts of ...

Computer science students at the University of Toronto are learning how to incorporate ethical considerations into the design and development of new technologies such as artificial intelligence with ...

This story was originally published on September 7, 2018. The technology we use involves design decisions that encourage some outcomes and discourage others. That is a fact that big tech companies ...

The following essay is reprinted with permission from The Conversation, an online publication covering the latest research. Computing professionals are on the front lines of almost every aspect of the ...

Erika Gimbel is a Chicago-based freelance writer who specializes in B2B technology innovation and educational technology. In all of these cases, personal data is accumulated — and manipulated — ...

These are common sentiments expressed across the tech industry: People are classified into binary categories of engineering or non-engineering, software engineering or support. This classification ...