The Research Center on Values in Emerging Science and Technology

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Join Us: September 23rd at 4pm!
Panel discussion: a collective questioning about quantum ethics

Click here to hear a recording (podcast) of the event! Event time: Thursday, September 26, 2024 – 4:00pm to 5:00pm Audience: Faculty, students, staff, researchers, community members, general public. Location: Southern Connecticut State University – Engleman Hall – Room A120 See map Panelists Colleen Bielitz Assoc. VP for Strategic Initiatives & Outreach, SCSU Florian Carle Managing Director, Yale Quantum Institute Matthew Enjalran Professor of Physics, SCSU Rye Howard-Stone Lecturer of Contemporary Issues in Computer Science and Engineering, UConn Sarah M. Roe (moderator) Director, Research Center on Values in Emerging Science and Technology, SCSU The panel will be followed by a reception to continue the conversation. As quantum technology advances rapidly, it is crucial to consider its ethical implications. While quantum applications hold the potential to transform industries, they also pose significant moral challenges. Quantum computers, for instance, could dismantle current encryption methods, jeopardizing data privacy and cybersecurity. Their ability to solve complex problems at unprecedented speeds might create unfair advantages in sectors like finance or defense, further deepening existing inequalities. By addressing these ethical concerns early, we can ensure that quantum technology develops in ways that uphold fairness, privacy, and security for all. Join us for a discussion hosted by the Research Center on Values in Emerging Science and Technology and the Yale Quantum Institute, with co-sponsorship Details

A Software Development Solution

Posted on August 31, 2018 by Eric Gossett

AUTHOR David H. Gleason President, Information Ethics, Inc. ABSTRACT This paper will address issues of software engineering and systems development and the relationship between quality, risk and ethics. For small to medium-sized software projects, basic project management (PM) principles and attention to subsumption ethics can significantly reduce the risk of project failure. Software project management […]

The Role of Imagination in a Course on Ethical Issues in Computer Science

Posted on August 31, 2018 by Eric Gossett

AUTHOR William M. Fleischman Department of Computing Sciences Villanova University Villanova, Pennsylvania, U.S.A. ABSTRACT This paper is a series of reflections on three years experience teaching a course on ethical issues in computer science to an audience primarily composed of third- and fourth-year computing sciences majors. The major themes explored in the course include privacy, […]

How to be a European non-European

Posted on August 31, 2018 by Eric Gossett

AUTHOR László Fekete Budapest University of Economic Sciences and Public Administration Department of Philosophy 1828 Budapest, POB. 489. ABSTRACT “Ah! ah! monsieur est Persan? C’est une chose bien extraordinaire! Comment peut-on être Persan?” Montesquieu, Lettres persanes, xxx. The paper analyses the proposal and the request of the European Union about the creation of a new […]

Censorship and Freedom of Speech and of Information

Posted on August 31, 2018 by Eric Gossett

AUTHOR László Fekete Budapest University of Economic Sciences and Public Administration Department of Philosophy 1828 Budapest, POB. 489. ABSTRACT At the beginning of the net, the systems operators had the power to control the content and the fair communication and to enforce the consensual rules of the small and informal communities of netizens in order […]

Privacy in the Age of Bigger Brother

Posted on August 31, 2018 by Eric Gossett

AUTHOR N Ben Fairweather ABSTRACT This paper re-examines the nature of privacy in an age when technology is having fast-moving effects on levels of privacy. The pitfall of conflating the question of the appropriate extent of privacy with the question of what the concept means is highlighted. Drawing on the logical distinction be-tween associative privacy […]

An historical review of the teaching of appropriate norms of behaviour to novices by professional groups, with emphasis on the teaching of computer ethics, and some observations for the future.

Posted on August 31, 2018 by Eric Gossett

AUTHOR Dr. Jenny Davies ABSTRACT Despite the many definitions in existence for the term profession, it is difficult to derive a clear conceptual category. Pavalko (1971) invokes the notion of a continuum between occupation and profession. Where a particular work activity is situated on the continuum depends upon its adherence to eight traits, one of […]