Resources by Discipline: Computer & Information Science and Engineering (General)
Ethics CORE Resources
Scientific computation is emerging as absolutely central to the scientific method. Unfortunately, it's error-prone and currently immature—traditional scientific publication is incapable of finding a...
Documentary short on the link between the free culture and free software movements, featuring Vincent Moon (Petite Planetes), Richard Stallman (Free Software Foundation), Lawrence Lessig (Harvard / Cr...
A graduate student preparing his thesis discovers a serious error in a paper he and his supervisor are about to publish. The professor wants to put in an error notice quickly before the volume goes to...
Natasha Balac of the San Diego Supercomputer Center speaks in the Center for Ethics in Science and Technology public engagement forum, "Exploring Ethics." Time: 34:33 Date: July 1, 2009 ...
New digital technologies that are transforming the conduct of science create challenges regarding access, ownership, quality, and validation of data. Katherine Kantardjieff, the dean of the College of...
In November of 1996 the Business Software Alliance, a trade organization, based in Washington, began to conduct an advertising campaign in Manhattan, which involved placing poste...
A graduate student, Daniel Burnstein, developed an equation for encrypting information that could be used to scramble messages on the Internet or other computer networks. However...
In late March 2012, a flurry of blog entries and articles focused on a smartphone app called 'Girls Around Me", which used publicly available from people's Foursquare and F...
This short article describes how science fiction literature can provide an excellent variety of interdisciplinary case studies. The author describes how cases in these stories ca...
This lengthy paper discusses when conflicts arise over the collection and use of personal data. The author looks at the case of a fictional development of a national AIDS registry and ...
International companies are expected to play by the legal rules of where they do business. but what if playing by those rules means that companies are helping repressive governme...
Two of the distinctive ethical issues that arise for computer users (as opposed to computer programmers) have to do with the file formats that are used to encode information and the li...
As part of an effort to help students begin to think about ethical issues that come up in the course of research, the Center for the Study of Ethics in the Professions at the Ill...
According to the American Library Association, over 15% of public libraries in the United States who provide their patrons access to the internet has filtering software to preven...
Software ownership allows the owner to restrict the distribution of software and to prevent others from reading the software�s source code and building upon it. However, free software is re...See More
Expert-Recommended Resources
Articles
Bynum, T. (2008). Computer and information ethics. In E.N. Zalta (Ed.), Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy (Spring 2011 Ed.). Retrieved from http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/ethics-computer/
Coleman, K.G. (2004). Computing and moral responsibility. In E.N. Zalta (Ed.), Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy (Spring 2011 Ed.). Retrieved from http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/computing-responsibility/
Floridi, L. (2004). Open problems in the philosophy of information. Metaphilosophy, 35(4),554-582. doi:10.1111/j.1467-9973.2004.00336.x
Loui, M.C. & Miller, K.W. (2009). Ethics and professional responsibility in computing. In B.W. Wah (Ed.), Wiley Encyclopedia of Computer Science and Engineering (p.1131-1142). New York: Wiley. doi:10.1002/9780470050118.ecse909
Moor, J. (1985). What is computer ethics? Metaphilosophy, 16(4), 266-275. doi:10.1111/j.1467-9973.1985.tb00173.x
Cases
Books
Baase, S. (2008). A Gift of Fire: Social, Legal, and Ethical Issues for Computing on the Internet (3rd ed.). Upper Saddle River, NJ: Pearson Prentice Hall.
Johnson, D.G. (2009). Computer Ethics (4th ed.). Upper Saddle River, NJ: Pearson Education.
Quinn, M.J. (2011). Ethics for the Information Age(4th ed.). Boston: Addison-Wesley.
Tavani, H.T. (2011). Ethics and Technology: Controversies, Questions, and Strategies for Ethical Computing (3rd ed.). New York: Wiley.
Other
Ethics in Computing, a resource managed by Dr. Edward F. Gehringer at North Carolina State University.
Computing Cases, a collection of online learning modules by William Frey.
Association for Computing Machinery, Code of Ethics and Professional Conduct
Association for Computing Machinery, Policy and Procedures on Plagiarism
Association of Internet Researchers, Ethics Guide
