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 ...

In April 2019, Santa Clara University was awarded a grant as one of the winners of the Mozilla Responsible Computer Science Challenge, which promotes innovation and experimentation in the integration ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

No one expects a keyboard, a hammer or a scalpel to have built-in ethical standards that guide its work. Only the users of such tools can chart those paths. But artificial intelligence (AI) — the term ...

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 ...

This story was originally published on September 7, 2018. The technology we use involves design decisions that encourage some outcomes and discourage others. That is a fact that big tech companies ...

Undergraduate training for data scientists - dubbed the sexiest job of the 21st century by Harvard Business Review - falls short in preparing students for the ethical use of data science, our new ...

"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 ...