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 ...

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 ...

Click to share on X (Opens in new window) X Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Facebook The University of Michigan’s brand new Center for Ethics, Society and Computing opened in January ...

Computing technology is increasingly woven into our personal and professional lives, physical infrastructure, and societal fabric. Ethical concerns arise where computing technologies lead to ...

To put these questions in context, Nascimento says, consider what happened at the Christchurch mosque in New Zealand earlier this year, when a gunman livestreamed an attack in which dozens of people ...

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 — ...

Last spring, the Department of Computer Science announced the inaugural hiring of 10 Ethics Teaching Assistants, who will develop and deliver curricula around ethics and society in five of the ...

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 ...

Released in May 2023, Australia's new Quantum Strategy builds on decades of pioneering research. It will tap into a $1 billion fund, to help generate commercial outcomes and position the country as a ...