ComputingCases.org: a web site designed to help you teach ethical issues in computing [The Online Ethics Center for Engineering & Science]

[Syllabi and Other Resources for Designing Courses in Computer Ethics that include Issues of Professional Ethics for Computer Scientists and Engineers]

[The Case of The Killer Robot] Also .

Extra prelude articles to the above, .

[The Ariane 5 Failure] ARIANE 5 Flight 501 Failure, report by the Inquiry Board

[The Ariane 5 Failure] A Bug and a Crash, report by James Gleick.

[The Ariane 5 Flight 501 Failure--A Case Study in Systems Engineering for Computer Systems (INRIA)] An independent report by the French Research Institute INRIA. This report reaches different conclusions from the report from the Inquiry Board.

[The Ariane 5 Failure] Inquiry Board Traces Ariane 5 Failure to Overflow Error [UCITA: The Act] Uniform Computer Information Transactions Act (UCITA)

[UCITA: InfoWorld report]

[UCITA: Concerns for Public Libraries]

[UCITA Fact Sheet] Computer Professionals for Social Responsibility

[UCITA list of articles] Bad Software: A Consumer Protection Guide

[The Tacoma Narrows Bridge Disaster, November 1940]

[Evaluation of the Collapse of the Tacoma Narrows Bridge]

[Lots of goodies about privacy/ethics]

[Article About Hotmail (MS) sharing personal details of its members]

[More newsflashes about Napster and software developers creating loopholes around possible court injunctions.]

[Hackers breaking into ecommerce sites and stealing *toooo* many CC numbers]

[Establishment of national body to monitor internet based crime]

[Another article about the possible explosion of Net Crime]

[Cyberspace Law]

[Ethics In Computing]

[Web Clearinghouse for Engineering and Computing Ethics]

[Software Ethics]

[Software Engineering Ethics Research Institute]

[Should computer scientists worry about ethics?]

[Software Ethics at Santa Clara University]

[Software Engineering Ethics Research Institute]

[Let's Create a Theory of Free Software Ethics]

[Free Software is More Reliable]

[The Ethical Spectacle]

[Hackers] A report on the exploits of hackers and how they have highlighted the internet's insecurities.

[Silicon Valley Ethics] Microsoft's Smart Tags threaten Web

[Microsoft Appeals] The Appeals Court Ruling: What's in it for Linux?

[Computer Crime?] State of Oregon v. Randal Schwartz; Washington County Circuit Court C94-0322CR. Complaint brought by Mr. Schwartz's client, the Intel Corporation.

[Project Gutenberg] Slashdot interview of Michael Hart, director of Project Gutenberg.

[DMCA (Digital Millenium Copyright Act) links] EFF Electronic Frontier Foundation.

[A summary of the problems with the DMCA] Active EFF Legal Cases and Efforts.

[EFF's master archive on the DMCA]

[The Australian EFF]

[Your rights on line]

[League for Programming Freedom]

[The history of SE] Dagstuhl Seminar 9635.

[Philosophy and Engineering] The Importance of Philosophy to Engineering.

[Open Information] Does Publicly Funded Research Have to Result in Open Source Code?.

[The (im)possibility of ethics in the information age] This paper is concerned with the possibility that the ethical claim of the other, that sense of being bound to the other, may becoming more and more difficult to experience as information technology increasingly mediates our social being.

[NATO Software Engineering Reports]

[NATO 1968 Software Engineering Conference]

[NATO 1969 Software Engineering Conference]

[Unconscionable Conduct and Consumer Protection Legislation]

[Software Integrators vs Roadrunner]

[When a computerisation project goes wrong