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Hacking might occupy a special position-that gray area between the darkness and the light-because it touches not only on ethical issues but also on the very nature of computing itself. Beyond the topics under discussion, all of which concerned how to exploit the flaws of commercial software, the conference strayed from its more conventional cousins in the exhibits room. The hacking community, for...
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We are beginning to assess the impact of digital technologies and are starting to devise strategies to handle the changes that computers have wrought upon the environment. It is not an easy task. Too much of what we do in the name of green computing merely moves the problem out of our sight and puts it in the hands of distant technicians with little incentive to dispose of the waste in a way that...
We are told that we must learn from failure, but agreement with this principle does little to foster its enactment in the face of persistent psychological and organizational barriers.
The content community, which arises from the Internet's unique communication characteristics, contrasts in significant ways with territorial communities.
A study examining data from 1993 through 2004 indicates that people of color and women are slowly assuming a larger percentage of faculty positions within the computer sciences.
In Madrid neighborhood, some guys had a brilliant idea. They sprinkled the area with wireless routers so that each subscriber could buy Internet time from home. The service is a bit on the expensive side, but if you use the Internet at home only sparingly, like the author did, it is an excellent deal.
Banks and other financial institutions work by transferring and otherwise manipulating money. The modern financial systems used by the employers of quants harness modern digital technology to work with money of various kinds, and in increasingly diverse ways. The Internet makes it easy for money of different kinds to be bought and sold, to be sent and received, and to be amplified and hidden away...
Building an adaptive power grid requires cooperation, getting a common agreement among a large collection of engineers, investors, policy makers, corporate executives, and voters.
The authors identify, categorize, and name nine specific ethical and professional dilemmas in software engineering, placing them in the context of the IEEE code of conduct, with the hope that giving such behavior a name will increase awareness and decrease the frequency with which these dilemmas occur.
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