Christina Harmon & ChuckHuff St. Olaf College huff@stolaf.edu ; harmon@stolafiedu Teaching Computer ethics with detailed historical cases: a web site with cases and instructional support. http ://www. ComputingCases.org St. Olaf College in Northfield, Minnesota, an NSF nded project intended to support courses about ethical issues in computing is currently underway. The purpose of the project is to build a web site, ComputingCases.org, to be utilized by computer science instructors and their students, starting in the fall of 2000. The importance of teaching ethics in computing courses is increasing rapidly as society begins more and more to depend on information technology. Although significant progress in the area of social and ethical issues in computing is consistently being made, computer science curricula still rarely integrate ethical and social issues with the technical aspects such as systems design. While the technical material is essential to any student wishing to enter the computing profession, students need also to understand the context in which the technology will be used. An advantage of the material presented in computingcases.org is that it will be indexed according to a variety of computer science curricula: the ACM/IEEE Curricula 1991 and 2001, ImpactCS' recommendations for teaching social and
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