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16800
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| Year |
3
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| Semester |
S2
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| ECTS Credits |
6
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| Workload |
PL(30H)/T(30H)
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| Scientific area |
ENGENHARIA INFORMÁTICA
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Entry requirements |
N/A
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Learning outcomes |
The main general objective is the following:
1) instil in students the importance of ethical and legal issues in the design, development and use of software and hardware.
The following are the minimum specific objectives (or goals):
1) identify different types of ethical issues and challenges, including technical, legal, commercial, and public relations;
2) understand and apply adequately specific concepts of normative ethics such as duties, rights, virtues, values, justice utility, risk, harm, etc. to CS contexts;
3) identify the relevant moral stakeholders and some of the important moral values, interests, hazards, and conflicts at stake;
4) identify specific software, hardware, or UI design choices, processes, requirements, implementations and interventions that affect ethical risks;
5) identify and explain fundamental ethical concerns in computing (privacy, security, fairness, transparency, accountability, safety, control, manipulation/deception, trust, etc.).
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Syllabus |
1) What is responsible computing?
2) Professional Computer Science (CS) organizations and its scope.
3) The ACM and IEEE code of ethics.
4) Legislation on privacy and data rights, and on the use of computers.
5) Intellectual property law, including Copyright, Copyleft, Creative Commons licenses, Patents and contracts in CS.
6) Tools and methods for security, safety, privacy, justice, transparency, responsibility, accountability, control and trust.
7) Ethics in the use of physical computational resources.
8) Ethics of processes, of software and of data.
9) Ethics in AI and Explainable AI.
10) Computation for humans.
11) Ethics in the organization and out of the organization.
12) Conflict resolution in CS.
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Main Bibliography |
1) F. Bott, A. Coleman, J. Eaton, and D. Rowland (2007), Professional Issues in Software Engineering (3rd edition), Taylor & Francis.
2) T. Bynum and S. Rogerson (2008), Computer Ethics and Professional Responsibility (1st edition), Wiley-Blackwell.
3) M. Zimmer and K. Kinder-Kurlanda (2017), Internet Research Ethics for the Social Age; New Challenges, Cases, and Contexts, Peter Lang US.
4) L. Florini (2010), The Cambridge Handbook of information and Computer Ethics, Cambridge University Press.
5) L. Scherling and A. DeRosa (2020), Ethics in Design and Communication: New Critical Perspectives (1st edition), Bloomsbury Visual Arts.
6) R. von Schomberg and J. Hankins (2019), International Handbook on Responsible Innovation, Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd.
7) K. Iatridis and D. Schroeder (2015), Responsible Research and Innovation in Industry (1st edition), Springer.
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Language |
Portuguese. Tutorial support is available in English.
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