'Silicon Valley' star scared of what he sees as tech's ethical failings

Re:'Silicon Valley' star scared of what he sees as tech's et... by manyxcxi on Thursday November 02, 2017 @07:54AM (#15609521)

That’s interesting to me that you guys didn’t have any ethics classes. At my uni (10 years ago) we actually had a 200 level CS class specifically focused on ethics in technology.

Granted, one class in four years still isn’t much, but it was a part of the curriculum if you were going for a CS or Computer Eng degree.

I’d never been fully exposed to a class on ethics before and enjoyed it enough to seek out some similar classes while fulfilling my general ed requirements.

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Re:'Silicon Valley' star scared of what he sees as tech's et... by WorldMaker on Thursday November 02, 2017 @12:21PM (#15611793)

ABET accrediting has nearly always required an ethics class for all engineering fields, including Computer Science/Computer Engineering degrees when ABET accredited.

Maybe there are some CS degrees out there that warrant investigation into why they aren't ABET accredited? (Or if they are accredited, maybe should have that reviewed?)

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