Technology: First Do No Harm
We are stuck with technology when what we really want is just stuff that works.-Douglas Adams, The Salmon of Doubt More often than not I've had to deal with projects where I sincerely wondered whether...
View ArticleBig Data and Ethics
In reading 'Big Data, Machine Learning, and the Social Sciences: Fairness, Accountability, and Transparency', something came back to me from some years ago.Sometime in the year before I last left...
View ArticleCode is Ethics: Part I
It's long past time that there was a discussion on Ethics within the context of software development, particularly since it is no longer the isolated area of expertise that it was prior to, and in the...
View ArticleCode is Ethics: Part II
Ethical guidelines for software developers exist. Code is effectively a regulatory construct (Lessig). The ethics that build the code define the ethics in an ever increasing technological world. This...
View Article
More Pages to Explore .....