The new fall semester is upon us, and at elite private colleges and universities, it’s hard to find a trendier major than Computer Science. It’s also becoming more common for such institutions to ...

This story is part of a series on how we learn—from augmented reality to music-training devices. For the students in Emanuelle Burton’s ethics class, the story is tricky to grok. “They’re like, you ...

Irina Raicu is the director of the Internet Ethics program at the Markkula Center for Applied Ethics at Santa Clara University. Views are her own. "the conceptualization, development, and piloting of ...

Google has created an ethics department that will try and make sure super-smart computers don’t wipe out humanity. Artificial intelligence has the power to vastly improve our lives but could bring ...

As automatic decision-making systems are integrated into the judicial system and workplace, people could potentially be sent to prison or fired, in part, by automated forces. Without people in the ...

Early this year, research fellow Hilary Cohen and professors Jeremy Weinstein, Mehran Sahami and Rob Reich were pictured in a copy of The New York Times. They stood together in the atrium of the Gates ...

Erika Gimbel is a Chicago-based freelance writer who specializes in B2B technology innovation and educational technology. In all of these cases, personal data is accumulated — and manipulated — ...

The story of modern computer ethics begins, strangely enough, in wartime. As Nazi Germany escalated its bombing raids on England, American mathematician and physicist Norbert Wiener volunteered his ...

In April 2019, Santa Clara University was awarded a grant as one of the winners of the Mozilla Responsible Computer Science Challenge, which promotes innovation and experimentation in the integration ...