Ethics in Computer Science

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Privacy and Cryptography

• Limiting On-Line Speech On Campus -- An outline of a session at the Sixth Conference On Computers, Freedom, and Privacy. Listen to the session on RealAudio. Maintained by conference staff.
• Privacy and the Global Information Infrastructure -- An outline of a session at the Sixth Conference on Computers, Freedom, and Privacy. Listen to the session on RealAudio. Maintained by conference staff.

Intellectual Property Issues

• Copyright And Freedom Of Expression In Digital Networked Environments -- An outline of a session at the Sixth Conference On Computers, Freedom, and Privacy. Listen to the session on RealAudio. Maintained by conference staff.
• The David LaMacchia Case -- The story of an MIT student who alledgedly used university hardware to distribute commercial software over the Internet.
• Intellectual property -- Copyrights and Patents -- Texas Instruments' policies on "software piracy."
• Role Play Material From MIT's EECS Department -- An introductory computer science exercise at MIT. The exercise is designed to make students explore the impact of copyrights and patents on computer scientists, and the various conflicts which they can pose.
• Software, Bringing Your Own to Work -- Texas Instruments discusses its employees using their own software for business use.
• Software Piracy v. Legal Copying -- Texas Instruments differentiates betweeen illegal and legal software copying, and describes how employees should handle discovery of illegal software.
• 10 Big Myths about copyright explained -- Maintained by the author, Brad Templeton.

Social Impacts of Computers

• Computer Professionals For Social Responsibility -- Maintained by CSPR itself.

Safety Critical Systems

• The Therac-25 Case -- The lessons to be learned from a series of severe injuries resulting from a malfunctioning medical accelerator used for cancer treatments.

Unfair Business Practices

Other Computer Science Related Topics

• Sixth Conference on Computers, Freedom, and Privacy -- held at MIT, March 27-30, 1996. The sessions above are only ones which address ethical issues most relevant to users of the Ethics Center. Other sessions are available on this home page maintained by the conference staff.
• Information on Repetitive Strain Injuries. Maintained by Mary J. Ziegler at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

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