Teaching a first-year seminar to a mixed group musters the basics of computer science.
Robin K. Hill From [email protected] | July 27, 2019 at 02:02 PM
A stab at a definition, for outsiders, of what we in computing mean by the term "variable" raises more questions than it answers.
Robin K. Hill From [email protected] | January 31, 2019 at 08:40 PM
Science fiction like Frankenstein nudges readers to confer humanity but nudges them away from moral fortitude.
Robin K. Hill From [email protected] | November 21, 2018 at 03:03 PM
User support presents serious challenges that are aggravated by indeterminate client responsibility.
Robin K. Hill From [email protected] | September 30, 2018 at 12:02 AM
Can we establish a locution for the results of a program that does not ascribe decision-making power?
Robin K. Hill From [email protected] | May 21, 2018 at 11:12 AM
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 From [email protected] | March 29, 2018 at 07:39 AM
Ethics for Tech must address how professional issues play out in the workplace, in real life.Robin K. Hill From [email protected] | January 29, 2018 at 12:02 PM
Our behaviors often seem to mimic the procedures that we induce in computers. What questions does that raise?Robin K. Hill From [email protected] | November 28, 2017 at 12:23 PM
Keith Abney of the Ethics + Emerging Sciences group of California Polytechnic State University surveys the moral landscape of cyberwar.Robin K. Hill From [email protected] | July 26, 2017 at 06:13 PM
The abstraction from big data on English words of distributed vector representations computing simple semantic aspects has drawn interest from the computing community...Robin K. Hill From [email protected] | June 20, 2017 at 09:56 PM
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.Robin K. Hill From [email protected] | May 31, 2017 at 07:58 PM
Is a comparison between operating systems, which are analyzed by software engineers for conditional execution paths, and possible worlds, which are analyzed by...Robin K. Hill From [email protected] | April 29, 2017 at 08:32 PM
Some of the prevailing theories of ethics surface in modern high tech. We take a quick and rather superficial look at their tracks on the ground, noting especially...Robin K. Hill From [email protected] | March 16, 2017 at 10:28 AM
Facebook, for the sake of its own business integrity and for the sake of the public, should give up any attempt to guarantee veracity in items posted by users.Robin K. Hill From [email protected] | February 26, 2017 at 10:27 PM