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 ...

A myriad of students across departments partake in the intro COS program. This spring, 263 people are enrolled in COS 126: Computer Science — An Interdisciplinary Approach, and over the past four ...

Two Bowdoin faculty members have teamed up with a colleague at Colby College to announce the launch of a website designed to embed ethical narratives into the teaching of computer science. In April ...

Irina Raicu, director of the Internet Ethics program (@IEthics) at the Markkula Center for Applied Ethics, in conversation with Professor Navid Shaghaghi. Since 2017, Navid Shaghaghi has taught ...

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 ...

Andy Z. Wang ’23, an Associate News Editor, is a Social Studies and Philosophy concentrator in Winthrop House. His column, ‘Cogito, Clicko Sum," runs on triweekly Wednesdays. Harvard is “in dire need” ...

Now, in the wake of fake news and other troubles at tech companies, universities that helped produce some of Silicon Valley’s top technologists are hustling to bring a more medicine-like morality to ...

Cases of academic misconduct are rising at the University of Alabama’s main campus, and students in computer-science courses appear to be doing most of the cheating. For campus officials, it is a ...

IN A very general sense, ethics is the name give to our concern for good behavior. We feel an obligation to consider not only our own personal well-being but also that of others and of human society ...