Required Reading for Monday Jan 31/Tuesday Feb 1

• Article "The Etical Context of Computing" by Mary Williams, Chapters 4 "ACM Code of Ethics and Professional Conduct" and 5 "Using the ACM Code" in text.

Required Reading for Wednesday Feb 2/Thursday Feb 3 [Final!]

• 7 "The Morality of Whistle-Blowing" and 8 "The Ethics of Systems Design" in Text. (Note: We dropped Chapter 6.)

Links for Further Study

• ACM Code of Ethics and Professional Conduct

• Online Ethics Center for Engineering and Science at Case Western Reserve University. Tons of stuff!

• Online Ethics Center for Engineering and Science's web page on Codes of Ethics and Conduct for many disciplines

• Software Engineering Code of Ethics and Professional Practice

• Report on 'Whistle-blowing' by British Computer Society

• Whistleblowing on the Web

• VOGON International - Whistle Blowing

• Computer Professionals for Social Responsibility (CPSR)

• Roger Boisjoly and the Challenger Disaster Roger Boisjoly blew the whistle on Shuttle problems but was ignored.