A myriad of students across departments partake in the intro COS program. This spring, 263 people are enrolled in COS 126: Computer Science — An Interdisciplinary Approach, and over the past four ...

The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine are private, nonprofit institutions that provide expert advice on some of the most pressing challenges facing the nation and world. Our ...

BUFFALO, N.Y. — The University at Buffalo is among 22 colleges and universities to create a guide on how schools can update curricula to place more emphasis on ethics when designing technology ...

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 ...

Fairfield University has been awarded a three-year, $231,958 grant by the National Science Foundation to lead a collaborative ...

Brian Patrick Green is the director of Technology Ethics at the Markkula Center for Applied Ethics. Views are his own. There are many ways to integrate ethical education into the software ...

It’s clear that artificial intelligence is powerful and cost-effective in the public cloud. However, it can be weaponized for unethical tasks. Just ask any marketing person—it’s their job to keep ...

Irina Raicu is the director of the Internet Ethics program (@IEthics) at the Markkula Center for Applied Ethics. Views are her own. Earlier this month, Mozilla published a blog post titled “Higher ...

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 ...

As automatic decision-making systems are integrated into the judicial system and workplace, people could potentially be sent to prison or fired, in part, by automated forces. Without people in the ...

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 ...