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 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 ...
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 ...
Andy Z. Wang ’23, an Associate News Editor, is a Social Studies and Philosophy concentrator in Winthrop House. His column, ‘Cogito, Clicko Sum," runs on triweekly Wednesdays. Harvard is “in dire need” ...
Let me start with two questions. Do you think ethics is important in the development and application of algorithms or artificial intelligence (AI systems? And do you find it easy to integrate ethics ...
In this week’s Computer Weekly, we examine the steps being taken to ensure the future development of the web is ethical and open. We discuss the UK’s cyber security skills gap and ask what more the ...