Professionalism and Personal Skills

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Professionalism and Personal Skills

• Lecture
• Ethics

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Professionalism and Personal Skills

• Objectives
• By the end of this lecture the student should
• Appreciate the Ethical Issues

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Professionalism and Personal Skills

• Overview
• What part do Ethics play?

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Professionalism and Personal Skills

• Aim of Computer Ethics
• Make Computer Professionals
• More thoughtful
• More careful
• Produce better computer scientists
• Provide usable concepts and material for use in
  an integrated approach for teaching and applying
  computer ethics

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Professionalism and Personal Skills

• Aim of Computer Ethics (cont)
• Aim to have Computer Ethics Applied across all
  computer science
• Make Computing and People who use Computers more
  Socially Responsible

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Professionalism and Personal Skills

• Other Ethical Issues
• Electronic Commerce
• E-Mail
• Ethics Policies
• Software/Hardware
• Copying/Pirating Software

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Professionalism and Personal Skills

• Other Ethical Issues
• Most computer security systems are a result of
  competition between hackers and those attempting
  to maintain security
• New challenges appear on every technological
  horizon
• WWW programming language JAVA has created an arms
  race between security protection experts and
  hackers

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Professionalism and Personal Skills

• Other Ethical Issues
• Surreptitious malicious applets that delete files
  and send private information are causing major
  concern
• Known Java based attacks can be summarised into
  five categories

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Professionalism and Personal Skills

• Computer Professionals and Computer Ethics
  Education
• Gotterbarn (1995)
• Positive guides to ethical behaviour need to be
  in place in current software engineering courses
  starting in the early stages and running through
  the entire program
• Discussion of ethics interactively throughout the
  course is likely to be most effective

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Professionalism and Personal Skills

• Computer Professionals and Computer Ethics
  Education
• Martin Martin (1990)
• Ethical dimensions should be integrated into the
  early stages of education and linked to managing
  technology
• Computer education now begins in elementary
  school, this is where computer ethics education
  should begin

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Professionalism and Personal Skills

• Computer Professionals and Computer Ethics
  Education
• Lu Lin (1999)
• Challenge to the Educators - integrating computer
  ethics topics into various modules could be the
  most effective way

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Professionalism and Personal Skills

• Computer Professionals and Computer Ethics
  Education
• Johnson (1998)
• Proactive integrated approach to ethical issues
  in computing
• Enhanced ethical behaviour by creating awareness
  of computer ethics and responsibility in young
  users of computers

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Professionalism and Personal Skills

• What Using Computer Ethics and Aspiring to
  Professionalism Can do for YOU
• Help you get a better JOB
• Improve the standard of your WORK
• Help Society make best use of Technology
• Create Safe environments for people working with
  and using Computer Technology
• Create Computer Ethics policies
• Trust Confidence

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Professionalism and Personal Skills

• Objectives
• Appreciate the Ethical Issues