Greg Epstein, TechCrunch; Teaching ethics in computer science the right way with Georgia Tech's Charles Isbell
"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 prioritize integrating ethics into their CS studies, so students don’t just learn about how to build software, but whether or not they should build it in the first place.
Of course, this begs questions about how much the ethics lessons such
prestigious schools are teaching are actually making a positive
impression on students.
But at a time when demand for qualified
computer scientists is skyrocketing around the world and far exceeds
supply, another kind of question might be even more important: Can
computer science be transformed from a field largely led by elites into a
profession that empowers vastly more working people, and one that
trains them in a way that promotes ethics and an awareness of their
impact on the world around them?
Enter Charles Isbell
of Georgia Tech, a humble and unassuming star of inclusive and ethical
computer science. Isbell, a longtime CS professor at Georgia Tech,
enters this fall as the new Dean and John P. Imlay Chair of Georgia
Tech’s rapidly expanding College of Computing."
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