Examples of Phenomenology in Computing
The branch of philosophy known as phenomenology can broaden our understanding of what is really going on in the tasks we address with computing.
Robin K. Hill
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Ethics for Tech must address how professional issues play out in the workplace, in real life.
Our behaviors often seem to mimic the procedures that we induce in computers. What questions does that raise?
Manipulating Word Representations, and Preparing Students For Coding Jobs?
Robin K. Hill mulls an aspect of natural language processing research, while Mark Guzdial ponders why coding is taught in public schools.
It’s Not the ‘Why’ Chromosome, It’s the ‘How’
Women do like the raw technical aspects of computer science.
Assuring Software Quality By Preventing Neglect
Robin K. Hill suggests software neglect is a failure of the coder to pay enough attention and take enough trouble to ensure software quality.
Keith Abney of the Ethics + Emerging Sciences group of California Polytechnic State University surveys the moral landscape of cyberwar.
The abstraction from big data on English words of distributed vector representations computing simple semantic aspects has drawn interest from the computing community.
The Ethical Problem of Software Neglect
We call the problem of mediocre sofware "neglect," and we pitch it in ethical terms by noting that it illustrates a failure of the ethics of care.
Operating Systems as Possible Worlds
Is a comparison between operating systems, which are analyzed by software engineers for conditional execution paths, and possible worlds, which are analyzed by philosophers for consequences under assumptions, rich enough to shed philosophical light on either one?
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