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Preface and Acknowledgments
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Editors’ Note: Computing Curricula 2001 Guidelines of IEEE-CS and the ACM

Editors’ Introduction: Ethics in the Information Age

• PART I: What Is Computer Ethics?
  1. Reason, Relativity, and Responsibility in Computer Ethics – James H. Moor
  2. Unique Ethical Problems in Information Technology – Walter Maner
  3. Ethical Decision-Making and Case Analysis in Computer Ethics – Terrell Ward Bynum
• Additional Readings and Web Resources

• PART II: Professional Responsibility
  4. Unintentional Power in the Design of Computing Systems – Chuck Huff
  5. Informatics and Professional Responsibility – Donald Gotterbarn
  6. The Ethics of Software Development Project Management – Simon Rogerson
• Case to Analyze: The London Ambulance Case
• Additional Readings and Web Resources

• PART III: Codes of Ethics
  7. No, PAPA: Why Incomplete Codes of Ethics are Worse than None at All – N. Ben Fairweather
  8. On Licensing Computer Professionals – Donald Gotterbarn
• Case to Analyze: The Chemco Case
• Additional Readings and Web Resources

• Appendix: Example Codes of Ethics
  • A1 – The Software Engineering Code of Ethics and Professional Practice
  • A2 – The ACM Code of Ethics and Professional Conduct
  • A3 – The ACS Code of Ethics
  • A4 – The BCS Code of Conduct
  • A5 – The IEEE Code of Ethics
  • A6 – The IMIS Code of Ethics

• PART IV: Sample Topics in Computer Ethics
• Computer Security
  9. Computer Security and Human Values – Peter G. Neumann
  10. Are Computer Hacker Break-Ins Ethical? – Eugene H. Spafford
• Case to Analyze: A Flight of Fancy at Aero Wright
• Additional Readings and Web Resources
• Privacy and Computing
  11. Towards a Theory of Privacy in the Information Age – James H. Moor
  12. Data Protection in a Changing World – Elizabeth France
• Case to Analyze: A Small Matter of Privacy
• Additional Readings and Web Resources
• Computing and Intellectual Property
  13. Proprietary Rights in Computer Software – Deborah G. Johnson
  14. Why Software Should Be Free – Richard Stallman
• Case to Analyze: Free-Range Property
• Additional Readings and Web Resources
• Global Information Ethics
  15. The Computer Revolution and the Problem of Global Ethics – Krystyna Gorniak-Kocikowska
  16. Giving Offence on the Internet – John Weckert
• Case to Analyze: A Clever Idea
• Additional Readings and Web Resources

A Final Case to Analyze: Corner Shop Goes Virtual

Bibliography
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