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 ...

RSS’s Hosabale Highlights Ethics And Equality At Stanford Event. STANFORD, CA -Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh General Secretary Dattatreya Hosabale on April 17 told a Silicon Valle ...

For many, the coronavirus pandemic made clear how much technology has infiltrated aspects of our work and home lives—from Zoom calls and classes, to ordering groceries online and streaming ...

A humanities degree for a STEM world. This concentration prepares students to write and reason in a world increasingly driven by computers and data, as well as understand the ethical implications of ...

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 ...

Northwestern Engineering’s Sara Owsley Sood has been named a 2024 recipient of The Alumnae of Northwestern University’s Award for Curriculum Innovation. Administered by the Office of the Provost, the ...

Over the past decade and a half, Facebook and its social brethren have rushed to connect the world, rushed to commercialize our private data and now are rushing to make our most sensitive information ...

I didn’t come up in computer science; I began my career as a physicist. That transition gave me a specific perspective on this situation. That the field of computer science, unlike other sciences, has ...

No one expects a keyboard, a hammer or a scalpel to have built-in ethical standards that guide its work. Only the users of such tools can chart those paths. But artificial intelligence (AI) — the term ...

In recent weeks, we’ve told you about efforts to explore and map the human brain through tissue donations, and the troubling tale of a bionic eye implant startup that left users without tech support.

Undergraduate training for data scientists - dubbed the sexiest job of the 21st century by Harvard Business Review - falls short in preparing students for the ethical use of data science, our new ...