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Name: Gray Matters for the Hughes Aircraft Case
ID: m14036
Language: English (en)
Summary: The Hughes case has been extensively researched by Chuck Huff from St. Olaf College with the results published at www.computingcases.org. It will also be one of 10 cases to be included in a textbook on computer ethics entitled, Good Computing: A Virtue Approach to Computer Ethics under contract with Jones & Bartlett with Chuck Huff, William Frey, and Jose Cruz as authors. This module takes three decision points from the case and has students evaluate these using three ethics tests (reversibility, harm/beneficence, and publicity) and a feasibility test. This module is designed to give students experience integrating ethical considerations into real world decision making. This module is being developed as a part of an NSF-funded project, "Collaborative Development of Ethics Across the Curriculum Resources and Sharing of Best Practices," NSF SES 0551779.
Subject: Science and Technology
Keywords: Computer, Decision, Ethics
Document Type: -//CNX//DTD CNXML 0.5 plus MathML//EN
License: Creative Commons Attribution License (CC-BY 2.0)

Authors: William Frey (wfrey@uprm.edu)
Copyright Holders: William Frey (wfrey@uprm.edu)
Maintainers: William Frey (wfrey@uprm.edu)

Version: 1.7 (history)
Created: Oct 1, 2006 12:26 pm GMT-5
Revised: Mar 7, 2007 5:58 am US/Central

Version History

Version: 1.7 Mar 7, 2007 5:58 am US/Central by William Frey
Changes:
Added Scenarios and Solution Evaluation Matrix

Version: 1.6 Mar 5, 2007 5:24 am US/Central by William Frey
Changes:
Added Socio Technical System Grid

Version: 1.5 Mar 4, 2007 12:46 pm US/Central by William Frey
Changes:
Added References

Version: 1.4 Mar 4, 2007 12:36 pm US/Central by William Frey
Changes:
Added section headers.  Added materials on Whistle-blowing taken from Good Computing manuscript, onlineethics, and Richard De George.  Also added links.

Version: 1.3 Mar 4, 2007 11:34 am US/Central by William Frey
Changes:
Stylistic Changes.  Addition of Hughes Case timelines taken from Computing Cases 

Version: 1.2 Mar 2, 2007 8:26 am US/Central by William Frey
Changes:
Updated abstract

Version: 1.1 Oct 1, 2006 1:27 pm GMT-5 by William Frey
Changes:
This is a new module designed to use the Hughes Aircraft case as an exercise in decision making.  Students are provided with three scenarios, solution alternatives, and ethics and feasibility tests.  They use the tests to evaluation solution alternatives and, if they are so inclined, to design a newer and better solution to the scenario.

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