This story is part of a series on how we learn—from augmented reality to music-training devices. For the students in Emanuelle Burton’s ethics class, the story is tricky to grok. “They’re like, you ...

Data scientist Mark Madsen has been programming and crunching data long before buzzwords like artificial intelligence and machine learning were common. So when the field really started expanding ...

Over the past decade and a half, Facebook and its social brethren have rushed to connect the world, rushed to commercialize our private data and now are rushing to make our most sensitive information ...

For many, the coronavirus pandemic made clear how much technology has infiltrated aspects of our work and home lives—from Zoom calls and classes, to ordering groceries online and streaming ...

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 ...

If you are looking to pursue a career in computer science, you may have wondered what, if any, discussion exists around ethics in this field. The good news is that computer science ethics is an ...

"California Cloning: A Dialogue on State Regulation" was convened October 12, 2001, by the Markkula Center for Applied Ethics at Santa Clara University. Its purpose was to bring together experts from ...

Erika Gimbel is a Chicago-based freelance writer who specializes in B2B technology innovation and educational technology. In all of these cases, personal data is accumulated — and manipulated — ...

"You're OK with doing business with evil people, right?" One of Australia's leading venture capital advisers had asked me that question back when the first dotcom bubble was about to burst, in the ...

Visit NAP.edu/10766 to get more information about this book, to buy it in print, or to download it as a free PDF. Genome editing 2 is a powerful new tool for making precise additions, deletions, and ...

I didn’t come up in computer science; I began my career as a physicist. That transition gave me a specific perspective on this situation. That the field of computer science, unlike other sciences, has ...