Most students know how to work a computer. But do most students know how a computer works? No, says Richard Weiss, a visiting assistant professor of computer science. That’s why he created a course in ...

A student goes over an article in University of Washington’s computer ethics class, taught by Prof. Dan Grossman. Credit: Ken Lambert/The Seattle Times The Hechinger Report covers one topic: education ...

Brian Patrick Green is the director of Technology Ethics at the Markkula Center for Applied Ethics. Views are his own. There are many ways to integrate ethical education into the software ...

Northwestern Engineering’s Sara Owsley Sood has been named a 2024 recipient of The Alumnae of Northwestern University’s Award for Curriculum Innovation. Administered by the Office of the Provost, the ...

The story of modern computer ethics begins, strangely enough, in wartime. As Nazi Germany escalated its bombing raids on England, American mathematician and physicist Norbert Wiener volunteered his ...

EDITOR’S NOTE: Technological innovation has spurred revolutions, and the military has played a key role in advancing technology’s potential. Notably, the armed forces invented the internet and radio– ...

Let me start with two questions. Do you think ethics is important in the development and application of algorithms or artificial intelligence (AI systems? And do you find it easy to integrate ethics ...

This paper deals with the need, the difficulty, and the present direction of determining what is and is not ethical in dealing with the creation and exchange of materials to be used on computers.

This article was originally featured on The Conversation. Imagine that a soldier has a tiny computer device injected into their bloodstream that can be guided with a magnet to specific regions of ...