Florence Appel
Abstract
Back in 1988, when my department chair encouraged me to pursue my interest in developing a course on the social and ethical impact of computing, I was thrilled at the prospect but had no idea how difficult it would be to find resources to support my teaching. I did some pre-Web digging and found two organizations that delivered on their promises to provide me with valuable sources of material: ACM SIGCAS (ACM's Special Interest Group for Computers and Society, and the publisher of this newsletter) and CPSR (Computer Professionals for Social Responsibility). I quickly joined each group, subscribed to each one's publications, and the rest, as they say, is history. Over the past twenty years, I have enjoyed a rich and rewarding career in the area of computer ethics and its pedagogy, and have benefited professionally and personally through my affiliation with a vibrant interdisciplinary community of computer ethics scholars. I am happy to report that Computers and Society continues to provide my students with thought-provoking material, and is now part of a large and growing body of literature.
- Agrawal, R., Kiernan, J., Srikant, R., Xu, Y., Hippocratic Databases, Proceedings of the 28th VLDB Conference, Hong Kong, China, 2002, http://www.almaden.ibm.com/cs/projects/iis/hdb/Publications/papers/vldb02_hippocratic.pdf, visited 4/09. Google Scholar
Digital Library
- Appel, Privacy for Database Design, http://csmaster.sxu.edu/privacy, 2008, visited 6/10.Google Scholar
- Johnson, Computer Ethics, Prentice Hall, 1985, 1994.Google Scholar
- Martin, From Awareness to Responsible Action (part 2): Developing a Curriculum with Progressive Integration of Ethics and Social Impact, SIGCSE Bulletin, Vol. 31, No. 4, December 1999. Google ScholarDigital Library
- Martin & Weltz, From Awareness to Action: Integrating Ethics and Social Responsibility into the Computer Science Curriculum, Computers and Society, Vol. 29, No. 2, June 1999. Google ScholarDigital Library
- Moor, Towards a Theory of Privacy in the Information Age, Computers and Society, Vol. 27, No. 3, September 1997. Google ScholarDigital Library
- Rachels, Why is Privacy Important?, Philosophy and Public Affairs, Summer 1975.Google Scholar
- Tavani, Cyberethics Biliography 2001: A Select List of Recent Works, Computers and Society, Vol. 31, No. 2, June 2001. Google ScholarDigital Library
- Tavani, SIGCAS at 30: Computer Ethics Textbooks: A Thirty-year Retrospective, Computers and Society, Vol. 29, No. 3, September 1999. Google ScholarDigital Library
Index Terms
- Revisiting Moor's Towards a Theory of Privacy in the Information Age
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