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Contingency Plans for CS Students in Large Classes
Some of our students will get sick before the end of the term. We need a plan.
From BLOG@CACM
Voting as Tallying in Public
Voting requires common acknowledgement. Can that be achieved in automation?
From BLOG@CACM
The Vote as a Declared Datum
A vote is a datum that sheds its original identity but persists.
From BLOG@CACM
Vice Epistemology of the Internet
How can we apply virtue epistemology to the problem of fake news?
From BLOG@CACM
Lessons from a First-Year Seminar
Teaching a first-year seminar to a mixed group musters the basics of computer science.
From BLOG@CACM
Variable Vagaries
The variable, construed as an L-value, makes some offbeat appearances.
From BLOG@CACM
The Artificialistic Fallacy
Ethics discussions of artificial intelligence reveal a fallacy of omission.
From BLOG@CACM
What Is a Variable?
A stab at a definition, for outsiders, of what we in computing mean by the term "variable" raises more questions than it answers.
From BLOG@CACM
FictionStein
Science fiction like Frankenstein nudges readers to confer humanity but nudges them away from moral fortitude.
From BLOG@CACM
Tech User Responsibility
User support presents serious challenges that are aggravated by indeterminate client responsibility.
From BLOG@CACM
First-Class Philosophical Failure
Interrogation of "first-class object" as an analog to human life goes nowhere.
From BLOG@CACM
Articulation of Decision Responsibility
Can we establish a locution for the results of a program that does not ascribe decision-making power?
From BLOG@CACM
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.
From BLOG@CACM
Tech Ethics at Work
Ethics for Tech must address how professional issues play out in the workplace, in real life.
From BLOG@CACM
Human Acts and Computer Apps
Our behaviors often seem to mimic the procedures that we induce in computers. What questions does that raise?
From BLOG@CACM
It's Not the 'Why' Chromosome, It's the 'How'
Women do like the raw technical aspects of computer science.
From BLOG@CACM
On the Ethics of Cyberwar
Keith Abney of the Ethics + Emerging Sciences group of California Polytechnic State University surveys the moral landscape of cyberwar.
From BLOG@CACM
Deep Dictionary
The abstraction from big data on English words of distributed vector representations computing simple semantic aspects has drawn interest from the computing community...
From BLOG@CACM
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.
From BLOG@CACM
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...12