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- A Case of Academic Plagiarism
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Authors: Knock, Ned
Publication Type: Journal Article
Secondary Title: Communications of the ACM
Abstract: The author of the article describes a plagiarism case that happened to him when he found a paper submitted to a prestigious journal was virtually copy of an paper that he had co-authored and published in a research journal months e...
Year: 1999Biblio - KBL781 - 2009-10-07 10:59
- Using the New ACM Code of Ethics in Decision-Making
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Authors: Perrolle, Judith ; Gotterbarn, Donald. ; Anderson, Ronald E. ; Johnson, Deborah G.
Publication Type: Journal Article
Secondary Title: Communications of the ACM
Abstract: Discusses the development of the 1992 ACM Code of Ethics and Professional Conduct, and describes how it can be used to solve a series of ethics case studies included in the article. ...
Year: 1993
URL: http://www.acm.org/about/p98-anderson.pdfBiblio - KBL781 - 2009-09-11 16:41
- Will software engineering ever be engineering?
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Authors: Davis, Michael
Publication Type: Journal Article
Secondary Title: Communications of the ACM
Abstract: This article argues that software engineering and engineering are not the same profession, and bases this on a discussion of the senses of the term,"engineering," the differences between the codes of ethics of the two professions, a...
Year: 2011
DOI: 10.1145/2018396.2018407Biblio - KBL781 - 2012-11-29 12:31
- Proposed ACM Code of Ethical Conduct
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Authors: Ralston, Anthony
Publication Type: Journal Article
Secondary Title: Communications of the ACM
Abstract: The article discusses proposed code of ethical conduct by the Association of Computing Machinery (ACM). The ACM has long been aware of the importance of ethical conduct in computing. It had a Committee on Professional Standards and ...
Year: 1973Biblio - KBL781 - 2011-02-07 16:07
- Privacy and Security An Ethics Code for U.S. Intelligence Officers
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Authors: Snow, Brian ; Brooks, Clinton
Publication Type: Journal Article
Secondary Title: Communications of the ACM
Abstract: The article presents information on the development of a proposed ethics code for United States Intelligence Officers. It is noted that intelligence work is necessarily conducted in secret, and can involve unusual ethical problems. ...
Year: 2009
DOI: 10.1145/1536616.1536630Biblio - KBL781 - 2011-02-07 16:09
- Applying Ethics to Information Technology Issues
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Authors: Mason, Richard O.
Publication Type: Journal Article
Secondary Title: Communications of the ACM
Abstract: Focuses on ethical issues arising from the use of information technology in society. Fact that all ethical questions arise initially out of human agency; View that technology, due to its capability to augment mental and physical pow...
Year: 1995
DOI: 10.1145/219663.219681Biblio - KBL781 - 2011-02-07 16:04
- Software Engineering Code of Ethics
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Authors: Gotterbarn, Donald ; Miller, Keith
Publication Type: Journal Article
Secondary Title: Communications of the ACM
Abstract: Report on the establishment of a steering committee in May 1993 by the Board of Governors of the IEEE Computer Society for the planning and coordination of software engineering as a profession. Association and society involved in th...
Year: 1997
DOI: 10.1145/265684.265699Biblio - KBL781 - 2011-02-07 15:59
- Emerging Markets: IT and the World's "Bottom Billion"
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Authors: Heeks, Richard
Publication Type: Journal Article
Secondary Title: Communications of the ACM
Abstract: In this article the author discusses the application of information technology in addressing the problems of people living in the world's poorest countries. Simple ethics dictates that applying new technology to the large problems o...
Year: 2009
DOI: 10.1145/1498765.1498776Biblio - KBL781 - 2011-02-07 16:00
- Computing Ethics: Work Life in the Robotic Age
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Authors: Borenstein, Jason
Publication Type: Journal Article
Secondary Title: Communications of the ACM
Abstract: The author reflects on the ethical implications of advances in robot technology. He notes that labor-saving devices are often promoted as freeing people from drudgery, but they also eradicate job sectors. Automating time-consuming t...
Year: 2010
DOI: 10.1145/1785414.1785428Biblio - KBL781 - 2011-02-07 15:55
- Academic Freedom and the Hacker Ethic
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Authors: Cross, Tom
Publication Type: Journal Article
Secondary Title: Communications of the ACM
Abstract: The article discusses academic freedom and the relationship of computer hackers to government, business and academic establishments. It critically examines the interest, usually with good intentions, of computer hackers to examine c...
Year: 2006
DOI: 10.1145/1132469.1132498Biblio - KBL781 - 2011-02-07 15:56
- Computing Ethics The Ethics Beat
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Authors: Hollander, Rachelle D.
Publication Type: Journal Article
Secondary Title: Communications of the ACM
Abstract: Information bout several topics that were discussed at a workshop titled "Ethics Education in Scientific and Engineering Research: What's Been Learned? What Should Be Done? " which was held by the Center for Engineering, Ethics, and...
Year: 2010
DOI: 10.1145/1666420.1666433Biblio - KBL781 - 2011-02-07 16:01
- Self-Plagiarism or Fair Use?
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Authors: Samuelson, Pamela
Publication Type: Journal Article
Secondary Title: Communications of the ACM
Abstract: This article examines the legal and ethical aspects of self-plagiarism and fair use of material use. Self-plagiarism is sometimes both unlawful and unethical. Other times it is unethical but not unlawful. Their are also times when r...
Year: 1994
DOI: 10.1145/179606.179731Biblio - KBL781 - 2011-02-07 16:08
- The Ethical and Legal Quandary of Email Privacy
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Authors: Sipior, Janice C. ; Ward, Burke T.
Publication Type: Journal Article
Secondary Title: Communications of the ACM
Abstract: This article examines the potentially conflicting expectations of employers and employees regarding the ethical and legal aspects of privacy invasions in electronic mail communications. The controversial nature of these areas demand...
Year: 1995
DOI: 10.1145/219663.219679Biblio - KBL781 - 2011-02-07 16:08
- Ethics, Schmethics
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Authors: Munro, Neil
Publication Type: Journal Article
Secondary Title: Communications of the ACM
Abstract: The article focuses on the issue of unethical acts of companies to accumulate financial benefits of an unethical innovation. Ethical debates have little significance, other than to enshroud sometimes unpleasant ambitions of scientis...
Year: 2000
DOI: 0.1145/348941.348961Biblio - KBL781 - 2011-02-07 16:05
- A Uniform Code of Ethics : Business and IT Professional Ethics
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Authors: Payne, Dinah ; Landry, Brett J. L.
Publication Type: Journal Article
Secondary Title: Communications of the ACM
Abstract: The article focuses on the creation of a uniform code of ethics for Information Technology (IT) professionals. The authors argue that IT workers have become integrated in all areas of business operations and are represented in nearl...
Year: 2006
DOI: 10.1145/1167838.1167841Biblio - KBL781 - 2011-02-07 16:06
- Evaluating Ethical Decision Making and Computer Use
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Authors: Loch, Karen D. ; Conger, Sue
Publication Type: Journal Article
Secondary Title: Communications of the ACM
Abstract: In this article, authors present the results of an exploratory survey identifying user's attitudes and behavior when computer privacy and resource-ownership situations are encountered. The theory of Reasoned Action (TRA), frequently...
Year: 1996
DOI: 10.1145/233977.233999Biblio - KBL781 - 2011-02-07 16:04
- Computing Ethics Computer Experts: Guns-for-Hire or Professionals?
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Authors: Johnson, Deborah G.
Publication Type: Journal Article
Secondary Title: Communications of the ACM
Abstract: The article discusses the ethics in the field of the computing industry and computer experts, exploring the question of whether the field is composed of professionals or merely guns-for-hire. The author defines both terms, professio...
Year: 2008
URL: http://www.stanford.edu/class/cs181/Materials/p24-johnson.pdf
DOI: 10.1145/1400181.1400190Biblio - KBL781 - 2011-02-07 16:02
- Ethics Online
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Authors: Johnson, Deborah G.
Publication Type: Journal Article
Secondary Title: Communications of the ACM
Abstract: Online communication has been evolving and growing at an unprecedented pace, and there is every indication the demand for it will continue. Its evolution, however, has not been without problems and the most disturbing of these invol...
Year: 1997
DOI: 10.1145/242857.242875Biblio - KBL781 - 2011-02-07 16:01
- The Ethics of IT Professionals in China
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Authors: Davison, Robert M. ; Martinsons, Maris G. ; Lo, Henry W. H. ; Yuan, L. I.
Publication Type: Journal Article
Secondary Title: Communications of the ACM
Abstract: The article discusses research that employs a model of ethics proposed by ethicist Lawrence Kohlberg to examine the ethical values of IT (Information Technology) professionals in the People's Republic of China. Modern information so...
Year: 2009
DOI: 10.1145/1538788.1538823Biblio - KBL781 - 2011-02-07 15:56
- How We Profess: The Ethical Systems Analysts
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Authors: Wood-Harper, A. T. ; Corder, Steve ; Wood, J. R. G. ; Watson, Heather
Publication Type: Journal Article
Secondary Title: Communications of the ACM
Abstract: Information technology is increasingly being used in systems with potential for societal impacts, such as medicine, or as enabling tools for the changes associated with business process reengineering. A basis and rationale for condu...
Year: 1996
DOI: 10.1145/227234.227244Biblio - KBL781 - 2011-02-07 16:11
- A Web of Fuzzy Problems: Confronting the Ethical Issues
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Authors: Wagner, Ina
Publication Type: Journal Article
Secondary Title: Communications of the ACM
Abstract: This article deals with ethical problems in systems development. Ethical problems can emerge in a systems design project whenever the legitimacy of the values and moral principals on which the participants base their acts and decisi...
Year: 1993
DOI: 10.1145/153571.163290Biblio - KBL781 - 2011-02-07 16:10
- Software Piracy: A View from Hong Kong
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Authors: Moores, Trevor ; Dhillon, Gurpreet
Publication Type: Journal Article
Secondary Title: Communications of the ACM
Abstract: Software piracy accounts for billions of dollars in lost sales. But for many nations, U.S. price tags make legal ownership impossible. The main problem areas include Eastern Europe, Latin America and Asia-Pacific region, while the p...
Year: 2000
DOI: 10.1145/355112.355129Biblio - KBL781 - 2011-02-07 16:05
- How Men and Women View Ethics
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Authors: Cronan, Timothy Paul ; Kreie, Jennifer
Publication Type: Journal Article
Secondary Title: Communications of the ACM
Abstract: This article deals with the security and safety aspects of information systems, the tendency of people for breaching them and factors determining this behaviour. According to the authors, information systems are increasingly becomin...
Year: 1998
DOI: 10.1145/285070.285084Biblio - KBL781 - 2011-02-07 16:02
- Making Ethical Decisions
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Authors: Kreie, Jennifer ; Cronan, Timothy Paul
Publication Type: Journal Article
Secondary Title: Communications of the ACM
Abstract: The article presents a survey on how companies might influence choices one makes. Businesses are concerned about the ethical behavior of their employees and the security of their information systems. Therefore, businesses are intere...
Year: 2000
DOI: 10.1145/355112.355126Biblio - KBL781 - 2011-02-07 16:02
- Software Engineering Code of Ethics is Approved
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Authors: Gotterbarn, Donald ; Miller, Keith ; Rogerson, Simon
Publication Type: Journal Article
Secondary Title: Communications of the ACM
Abstract: The article presents information on the software engineering code of ethics which has been approved and adopted by both the ACM and the IEEE-Computer Society. The article discusses the major changes that took place between version 3...
Year: 1999
DOI: 10.1145/317665.317682Biblio - KBL781 - 2011-02-07 16:00
