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Exploring Markets for Assistive Technology for the Elderly
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This study published by Gendered Innovations describes the following challenge:
The world population will age dramatically by 2050. The increasing need for ambulant care and home health services places a growing strain on human caregivers, insurance companies, and social systems. New technologies are needed to support independent living for the elderly.
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Mobile location data 'present anonymity risk'
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Article
BBC News 25 March 2013
"Scientists say it is remarkably easy to identify a mobile phone user from just a few pieces of location information"
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Caring Capital Websites
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This article by Ronald E. Anderson was published in Information, Communication & Society on March 12, 2012. It explores the care-oriented sector of the internet and examines 77 websites related to caring capital.
‘Caring capital’ is that subset of social capital characterized by caregiving, charity and compassion when these actions are given out of a concern for the welfare of others. The relationship between caring and various forms of capital has scarcely been noticed by social scientists, either theoretically or empirically. After reviewing the concepts of caring and capital, 77 websites related to caring capital were analyzed to explore these types of questions: How large, influential and effective is the care-oriented sector of the web? How is it best to categorize the diversity of websites promoting caring capital? What social or interactive and user-generated opportunities are offered by these web sites? What implications for the future do these web organizations have? ...
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Self-Driving Cars Now Legal in California
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CNN Sept. 25, 2012
California is the latest state to allow testing of Google's self-driving cars on the roads, though only with a human passenger along as a safety measure.
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Creating "Companions" for Children: The Ethics of Designing Esthetic Features for Robots
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Article
By Yvettte Pearson and Jason Borenstein
Published in AI & Society August 21, 2012.
Abstract: Taking the term “companion” in a broad sense to include robot caregivers, playmates, assistive devices, and toys, we examine ethical issues that emerge from designing companion robots for children. We focus on the relative importance and potential ethical implications of creating robots with certain types of esthetic features. We include an examination of whether robots ought to be made to appear or act humanlike, and whether robots should be gendered. In our estimation, this line of ethical inquiry may even provide insight into the nature and appropriateness of existing institutions and widely accepted interactions among human beings.
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Occidental Engineering
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This Ethics Case Study and Commentary were written by Michael McFarland, S.J. during his time at Markulla Center for Applied Ethics in June of 2012. It includes a case plus a full Tutoriial on Ethical Decision Making as well as information on the Foundations of Ethical Judgement, Ethical Conflict, Ethical Reasoning, Derived Sources of Ethical Wisdom, and Responsibility.
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Ethics in Computing
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This site is a survey of the ethical issues involved in computing, administered by Dr. Edward F. Gehringer of North Carolina State U. It discusses the way that computers and software pose new ethical questions or pose new versions of standard moral problems and dilemmas. It stresses case studies that relate to ethical theory
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Online Resources Dealing with Electronic Privacy
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New privacy issues spring up continually. This group of links provides access to information available on the topic. The sites are maintained by advocacy groups, and although they contain some of the most up-to-date news and issues, they may also have strong pro-privacy or anti-privacy agendas.
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Ethics and the Internet 2.0
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Syllabus
This in an online syllabus from a course taught by Wendy Robinson at Duke University in 2002. It is a very extensive site and includes assignments, notes, readings, and links to online resources. The material covers cyberculture, intellectual property, privacy, security, encryption, censorship, pornography, terrorism, and other interesting topics.
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The Law in Cyberspace
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Syllabus
This is the webpage for a seminar given at Wayne State Univ. Law School. An extensive site, it includes a bibliography of online sources, a general description of the seminar, a syllabus with links to most of the assigned reading, student seminar papers, links to other courses at other institutions (mostly the Law and Ethics in Cyberspace courses). The topics covered include intellectual property, regulation, civil liability, Net "crime", privacy and anonymity, economics in cyberspace, international law, utopian and dystopian visions.
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Ethics and Law on the Electronic Frontier
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Syllabus
This is the course webpage for a class taught jointly at Harvard Law School and MIT. Instructors include Abelson, Fischer and others. Includes a syllabus, very complete notes on in-class discussions, assignments, student papers, the class online discussion list, readings and source material, links to many other sites, list of related courses and links to them. The main areas discussed in the course are computer crime, information and intellectual property, encryption and national security, privacy implications of computer networks, computer communications and freedom of expression.
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Computers, Ethics, and Social Responsibility
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Syllabus
This is an older course that was taught by Helen Nissenbaum at Princeton Univ. The page includes very complete notes on lectures and presentations, syllabus, assignments, paper topics and guidelines, final examination, links of general interest in the area of computer ethics; links sorted by course topics, which include risk and responsibility, ethical theory, intellectual property and computer software, privacy and information technology, crime by computer, the networked world.
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Professionalism in Computing
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Syllabus
A course taught at Virginia Tech. Page includes syllabus (from multiple years), assignments, projects, class notes, readings, extensive bibliography list, resources, many useful links, index of pages in the collection of course materials. Topics covered include ethics, codes of ethics, hacking, netiquette, privacy, the impact of computerization, Therac 25 incident, responsibilities, liabilities, copyrights and patents, personal relationships.