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A Young Profession Coping With Ethical Debt

The concept of professional ethics is not new to the world, but it is fairly new to computing because computing itself is so new. Ethics and its requirement as a part of professionalism started with monks and quickly embraced the three occupations of importance: religious service, law, and medicine. Today most professional trades have a code of ethics that is uncontested. Computing does not. How did we get here, why must we change, and how?



Speaker

Theo Schlossnagle

Founder and CEO @Circonus, Editorial board of ACM's ‘Queue’

Theo founded Circonus in 2010, and continues to be its principal architect. After earning undergraduate and graduate degrees from Johns Hopkins University in computer science with a focus on graphics and randomized algorithms in distributed systems, he went on to research resource allocation...

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St James, 4th flr.

Track

Tech Ethics in Action

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Interview AvailableTech EthicsDesignCollaborative Technologies

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