Ethics for Computing

Předmět je náhradou za:

Etika pro výpočetní techniku (X16EVT)

Přednášející:

Cvičící:

Předmět zajišťuje:

katedra ekonomiky, manažerství a humanitních věd

Anotace:

Subject Ethics for Computing introduce students to the ethical, moral, social, psychological, neural, fyziological and other aspects when using computers and computer networks in modern world and today's society. This subject should educate such informatics which would know of their responsibilities, which would meet different problems and their solutions in the areas of ethics and moral in informatics; at home, at work, according to the subordinates and superordinates.

Požadavky:

active participance during excercices - relevant join to the discussion

elaborate semestral tasks (ST) - at least 10 pages of A4

elaborate presentation of ST and present it

fulfill the terms

to be present at least at 75% of lessons

pass final test

Osnova přednášek:

Osnova cvičení:

1.Subject and problem introduction, general ethics - basic terms

2.Ethical codes

3.Critical thinking skills

4.Modern world considerations

5.Hacking, cracking, and computer viruses

6.ethics and moral history and evolution

7.(elaborated by Students): Whistle Blowing

8.OSS, FSF, and proprietary software | Informatic Profession - responsibilities and problems

9.intellectual property - copyright vs. copyleft, software patents, trade secret??

10.The problem of encryption and decryption - what the government can and cannot

11.Health and Computers

12.Privacy and intimacy in cyberspace

13.Women in Computing - their rights and equality, problems

14.final exam, subject ending

Cíle studia:

to understand what to be an informatics means in real world

to learn that it is important to be responsible for own behavior

to meet possible ethical, moral and other problems when using computers and comp. networks

to know how to solve basic ethical problems with superodinates

to grasp that responsibility cannot be shifted to another one

viz. https://ekonom.feld.cvut.cz/web/index.php?option=com_content&task=section&id=7&Itemid=236

Studijní materiály:

Bowyer W. K., Ethics for Computing - living in responsibly computerized world, 1996, Univ. of California

Poznámka:

https://ekonom.feld.cvut.cz/web/index.php?option=com_content&task=section&id=7&Itemid=236

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Pro tento předmět se rozvrh nepřipravuje

Předmět je součástí následujících studijních plánů:

• Computer Technology- structured studies (povinný předmět)
• Computer Science and Engineering (jazykový a humanitní předmět dohromady)