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From: mrm@sceard.UUCP (M.R.Murphy)
Newsgroups: news.sysadmin
Subject: Re: The Internet Virus--A Commentary
Keywords: ethics
Message-ID: <849@sceard.UUCP>
Date: 10 Nov 88 20:22:40 GMT
References: <1460@ucsfcca.ucsf.edu> <236@bigbroth.UUCP> <5365@medusa.cs.purdue.edu>
Reply-To: mrm@sceard.UUCP (0040-M.R.Murphy)
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In article <5365@medusa.cs.purdue.edu> spaf@cs.purdue.edu (Gene Spafford) writes:
|In article <236@bigbroth.UUCP> rk@bigbroth.UUCP (rohan kelley) writes:
|>What rick rogers has done is make a strong case for requiring a course
|>in ethics for every CS major.  It may not work, but a little more
|>ethics in all our professions wouldn't hurt.  We put some pretty
|>powerful stuff in the hands of some pretty young (and sometimes
|>immature) individuals in the CS courses across the country.  
|
|Funny you should mention that.  I'm on a taskforce of ACM & IEEE-CS
|members working to define "Curriculum 90" for CS & CS undergraduate
|programs.  The members of the netire committee have been in agreement
|for the last year that there will be a substantial, required amount of
|work in ethics and professionalism as part of the recommended undergrad
|major.  We have been worried that many schools would fight such
|a recommendation.  Thanks to the worm incident, I doubt we'll
|have quite so much resistance.
Lawyers-To-Be attend required ethics courses. Draw your own conclusions about
the efficacy of ethics courses.
|
|Now if only we could get some Thorazine into Weemba and teach him
|about professionalism....
We're all amateurs.
|-- 
|Gene Spafford
|NSF/Purdue/U of Florida  Software Engineering Research Center,
|Dept. of Computer Sciences, Purdue University, W. Lafayette IN 47907-2004
|Internet:  spaf@cs.purdue.edu	uucp:	...!{decwrl,gatech,ucbvax}!purdue!spaf
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