Social, Ethical, and Professional Issues in Computing

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• Social, Ethical, and Professional Issues in
  Computing
• Introduction
• CS492a Lecture Note
• by Jin Hyung Kim
• Computer Science Department
• KAIST

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Introduction (TFPM I)

• Computer is core technology of our times
• 40 years of history, central to industrialized
  societies
• Computers are most important technology
• information technology revolution gtgt industrial
  revolution
• will have greater impact on the new millennium
• Society becomes more and more vulnerable to
  computer malfunctions and misuse
• usually unreliable software and human error
• whole new range of social problems
• computer crime, software theft, hacking, virus,
  privacy, over-reliance on intelligent machines,
  workplace stress
• Ethical dilemmas for computer professionals and
  users
• special responsibility to ensure more ethical
  behavior for future generation of computer users