Thoughts and Issues ] An "Off by One" Error Don Gotterbarn Chair, ACM Committee on Professional Ethics East Tennessee State University Computer and Information Science Johnson City, Tennessee gotterba@etsu-tn.edu ecently there have been several significant activities related to the increased impact of computing on society. Governments are developing ethics policies related to computing. The Netherlands government has established an institute to study the impact of computing. The European Community is developing a privacy policy. The Australian government is supporting the development of a computer ethics center and the exchange of computer ethicists with the United States. United States efforts seem to be focused on the Internet and on copyright issues. Many industries are responding to the concern about the social impact of computing with the establishment of the position Corporate Ethics Officer. Over 40% of the Fortune Five Hundred industries have ethics officers, mostly at the corporate vice presidential level. Their job is to develop corporate ethics policies and provide training for their employees. (See Lockheed Martin's http:\\www.lmo.WQW for example). Professional computing societies are also responding. The IEEE-CS and the ACM have a joint committee looking into the professionalization of software engineering. All of these organizations feel a
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An “off by one” error
Gotterbarn, Don
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, Volume 29 (4)
Association for Computing Machinery – Dec 1, 1997
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