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Last week’s news that a study from North Carolina State University found that a code of ethics did not appear to make any difference in the decisions made by computer scientists was a depressing ...

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This article originally appeared on Pacific Standard magazine’s website. When Irina Raicu first read about a new software program designed to take just a few details about a person, such as gender and ...

What if your management decides to charge customers 20% more on the .com version of your company’s website than on the .co.au version to meet quarterly numbers? What if your superior asks you to ...

The world's largest computing society, ACM, updated its code of ethics in July 2018 -- but new research shows that the code of ethics does not appear to affect the decisions made by software ...

Revisions includes more guidance for instructors who want to use the materials in one, two, or three class periods, as well as an extended bibliography. Writing in 1999, in an article titled “ABET’s ...

Students in Vincent St-Amour’s new Responsible Software Engineering course are analyzing case studies of software failures and exploring tools and techniques to prevent similar disasters Software ...

In practice when we are faced with an ethical dilemma, we seldom think it through from first principles. We usually draw on existing experience and past judgments. Making a sound ethical judgment is ...

Facebook recently announced it is implementing new steps to improve its research procedures. One of them is incorporating education on “research practices” into the training program that all engineers ...