Ethical and Legal Aspects of Computing
A Professional Perspective from Software Engineering
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This essential textbook presents an overview of the critically important ethical and legal issues that arise in the computing field and provides a professional perspective from software engineering. The author gained exposure to these aspects of computing while working as a software engineer at Motorola in Ireland, where he coordinated the patent programme and worked with several software suppliers.
Topics and features:
- Presents a broad overview of ethics and the law
- Includes key learning topics, summaries, and review questions in each chapter, together with a useful glossary
- Discusses the professional responsibility of computer professionals
- Explores ethics in various civilisations and religious traditions
- Discusses ethical software engineering and ethical outsourcing
- Considers what is fair and ethical in data science
- Describes ethical challenges that arise in social media and the AI field
- Reviews intellectual property including patents, copyright and trademarks
This practical and easy-to-follow textbook/reference is ideal for computer science students seeking to understand legal and ethical aspects of computing. The text also serves as a concise self-study primer for software engineers and software managers.
Dr. Gerard O’Regan is an international lecturer in Maths/Computing with research interests in software quality and software process improvement, mathematical approaches to software quality, and the history of computing. He has authored several books in the Mathematics and Computing fields with Springer, including the bestselling, A Brief History of Computing.
This textbook presents an overview of the critically important ethical and legal issues that arise in the computing field and provides a professional perspective from software engineering. The author gained exposure to these aspects of computing while working as a software engineer at Motorola in Ireland, where he coordinated the patent programme and worked with several software suppliers.
Topics and features:
- Presents a broad overview of ethics and the law
- Includes key learning topics, summaries, and review questions in each chapter, together with a useful glossary
- Discusses the professional responsibility of computer professionals
- Explores ethics in various civilisations and religious traditions
- Discusses ethical software engineering and ethical outsourcing
- Considers what is fair and ethical in data science
- Describes ethical challenges that arise in social media and the AI field
- Reviews intellectual property including patents, copyright and trademarks
This practical and easy-to-follow textbook/reference is ideal for computer science students seeking to understand legal and ethical aspects of computing. The text also serves as a concise self-study primer for software engineers and software managers.
Provides broad overview of legal and ethical issues in computing Supplies relevant case studies Explores topics in terms of computing history
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Gerard O'Regan
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“With this book, O’Regan efficiently addresses a wide range of ethical and legal issues in computing. It is well crafted, organized, and reader friendly, featuring many recent, relevant examples like tweets, fake news, disinformation, and artificial intelligence (AI), which are especially pertinent for undergraduate students.” (Michael Oudshoorn, Computing Reviews, October 17, 2024)
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