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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

The Responsible Computer Science (RCS) 2019-20 project at Santa Clara University is a collaboration between computer science and software engineering faculty and staff members of the Markkula Center ...

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 ...

Drawing from diverse disciplines, including computational social science, computer science, complex systems, and networks, ...

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 ...

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 ...

Microsoft caught a lot of flak when it shut down its artificial intelligence (AI) Ethics & Society team in March 2023. It wasn’t a good look given the near-simultaneous scandals engulfing AI, but the ...