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Association for Practical and Professional Ethics Annual Conference PostedOctober 20, 2017 AT 9:58 AM The Association for Practical and Professional Ethics announces the 27th Annual APPE International Conference Thursday March 1 - Sunday March 4, 2018 at the Chicago Palmer House Hilton. The conference program features multiple tracks. APPE was founded in 1991 to encourage high-quality, interdisciplinary scholarship and teaching in practical and professional ethics. Members and conference participants enjoy connecting and networking with people in their own fields and related fields who share an interest in applied ethics. The Annual Conference helps Association members and nonmembers from all disciplines stay up-to-date on scholarship, pedagogy, and professional strategies in applied ethics. Click here for Submission Guidelines The submission deadline for all categories is October 27, 2017 Programming and special events provide great opportunities for professional development. For ... Read More
Rachelle Hollander, National Academy of Engineering Senior Advisor, Center for Engineering Ethics and Society Retired Call for Vignettes: Ethics, Data, and International Research Collaboration PostedOctober 20, 2017 AT 9:22 AM The International Research Collaborations Working Group (I-Group) of the National Academies’ Government-University-Industry Research Roundtable (GUIRR) is hosting “Data Matters: Ethics, Data and International Research Collaboration in a Changing World”, to be held March 14-16, 2018 in Washington, DC. The I-Group is seeking input from the community in the form of case studies, research vignettes, or illustrative examples that will aid in identifying ethical issues in the collection, sharing, curation, access, and use of data in any of a variety of research and data collection contexts. Read More
Release Date07/10/2020 CopyrightCreative Commons License Strengthening Pathways to Faculty Careers in STEM: Recommendations for Systemic Change to Support Underrepresented Groups Added07/10/2020Updated07/10/2020This report from a project funded by the National Science Foundation examined university efforts to support access to, retention of, and progress for members of underrepresented groups in becoming faculty members in STEM. The report discusses how universities need to continue to support students throughout their PhD and early career journey, continue to address the hardest challenges of diversifying the faculty, and the need for federal-level data to follow aspirants to the STEM professoriate. Year 2020 More Info
Social and Ethical Impact of Computing: Reports from the ImpactCS Project, 1994-1998 https://impactcs.gwu.edu/synopsis-of-impactcs-project/ Added06/24/2020 Updated06/24/2020 The primary purpose of the ImpactCS Project was to define the core content and methodology for integrating social impact and ethics topics across the computer science curriculum. Over the course of four years it addressed three major problems that hampered the implementation of across-the-board ... Author(s) C. Dianne Martin Chuck Huff Donald Gotterbarn Keith W. Miller Year 1998 Read More
Deepfakes and the Value-Neutrality Thesis https://www.seattleu.edu/ethics-and-technology/viewpoints/deepfakes-and-the-valu... Added05/07/2020 The creator of FakeApp says it would be wrong to condemn the technology. How could we not? Author(s) Michael J. Quinn Nathan Colaner Year 2020 Read More
Therac-25 Teaching Introduction Added04/24/2020 This introduction to the Therac-25 case is for teachers of the case and provides a guide to the case from the inside or from the teacher’s perspective. Year 2003 Read More
A History of the Introduction and Shut Down of Therac-25 Added04/24/2020 The case history is an overview of the case from the design of Therac-25 to the eventual shut-down of the machine pending redesign. It serves as a short history and guide to the case to give you your bearings. Year 2003 Read More