CS 492 - Spring 2023 - Assignment 2

Ethics and Tech

Description

Assignment 2 is due on Wednesday June 7th (Please note those with earlier RPEs should plan accordingly and take advantage of the 5 day deadline. This should be the only difficuly deadline for those with early RPEs so please plan ahead). It should be approximately 1000 words in length and is worth 10 marks. Please submit to the LEARN dropbox in pdf format and include a title page with your name and student id.

Briefly describe, in your opinion, the ethical standards according to which computing professionals should behave. Then comment on how your ethics match or differ from those of the ACM and/or the IEEE Computing Society standards which can be found on the Timetable for S23 page. Do you think your ethics match well with the actual behaviour of tech professionals and tech companies?

Your essay should have a title and it should be largely self contained; that is, please explain the context and any assumptions needed to understand the points you are making. Provide bibliographic information as needed.

Purpose

The purpose of the essay is to discuss the role that ethics play in the professional lives of computing professionals.