A Critique of Positive Responsibility in Computing.
It has been claimed that (1) computer professionals should be held responsible for an undisclosed list of “undesirable events” associated with their work and (2) most if not all computer disasters can be avoided by truly understanding responsibility. Programmers, software developers, and other compu...
| Publicado en: | Science & Engineering Ethics Vol. 14; no. 2; pp. 219 - 234 |
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Springer Nature
Jun2008
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