Due: February 3 and 5
Read the ACM Code of Ethics, which you can find here: https://www.acm.org/code-of-ethics. Come to class ready to discuss the ACM code and your own perspective on the responsibility of computer scientists and technology developers. Also read our policies page for more information on how to prepare for class discussions.
Optional reading:
Andrew McNamara, Justin Smith, and Emerson Murphy-Hill. 2018. Does ACM’s code of ethics change ethical decision making in software development? In Proceedings of the 2018 26th ACM Joint Meeting on European Software Engineering Conference and Symposium on the Foundations of Software Engineering (ESEC/FSE 2018), 729–733. https://doi.org/10.1145/3236024.3264833
pdf available here: https://people.engr.ncsu.edu/ermurph3/papers/fse18nier.pdf