Ethics in computing, science, and engineering : a student's guide to doing things right /: a student's guide to doing things right. (2020)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Barry G. Blundell.
• Authors: Blundell, Barry G
• Contents: Intro -- Foreword -- Preface -- Contents -- About the Author -- 1 Professional Ethics: A Hallmark of Best Practice -- 1.1 Introduction -- 1.2 The Technology Roller Coaster -- 1.2.1 Predictive Modelling: Student Selection -- 1.2.2 Control: Smart In-vehicle Technology -- 1.3 So How Would You React? -- 1.3.1 Ethics by Instinct -- 1.3.2 Ethics by Logic -- 1.4 Ethics: What's It All About? -- 1.4.1 Ethics: So Many Questions-So Few Answers -- 1.4.2 Deontological Theories -- 1.4.3 Consequentialist Theories -- 1.4.4 Theories and Motivations -- 1.4.5 Personal Faith -- 1.4.6 Social Contract Theory 1.5 Ethics and Empathy -- 1.6 Professional Ethics -- 1.7 Ethical Responsibility -- 1.8 Organisational Failures: Radiation Overdose -- 1.8.1 The Misnomer of Technology Infallibility -- 1.9 Discussion -- 1.10 Additional Reading -- References -- 2 Ethics and the Organisation: Pervasive Best Practice -- 2.1 Introduction -- 2.2 Ethics and Organisations -- 2.2.1 The Organisation and the Individual -- 2.3 Ethics in Organisational Leadership -- 2.3.1 Indicative Styles of Leadership -- 2.3.2 Ethical Leadership Characteristics -- 2.3.3 Benefits of Ethical Behaviours 2.3.4 Ethically Based Behaviours: Why Bother? -- 2.4 Ethics: When Technical Skills Are Not Enough -- 2.5 Organisational Failures: Flight TK981 -- 2.5.1 The Cargo Door -- 2.5.2 Correcting the Problem -- 2.5.3 Who Really Knows? -- 2.6 Discussion -- 2.7 Additional Reading -- References -- 3 Privacy: An Outdated Concept? -- 3.1 Introduction -- 3.2 Privacy -- 3.2.1 The Nature of Privacy -- 3.2.2 Privacy and Transparency -- 3.2.3 The Right to Be Left Alone -- 3.2.4 Privacy and Freedom -- 3.2.5 Privacy Loss and Conformance -- 3.2.6 Privacy and Self-realisation -- 3.2.7 Privacy Loss to the Machine 3.3 The Misnomer of Complete Security -- 3.4 EULAs: Who Bothers to Read Them? -- 3.5 The Stasi: A World of Surveillance -- 3.5.1 Zersetzung: Gaslighting -- 3.5.2 A More Enlightened World? -- 3.6 On Being an 'Other' -- 3.6.1 The 'Robbers Cave' Experiment -- 3.6.2 A Shocking Experiment -- 3.6.3 Dealing with 'Others' -- 3.6.4 The Stanford Prison Experiment -- 3.7 Edward Snowden: Hero or Villain? -- 3.7.1 Fallout -- 3.8 Organisational Failures: Challenger-STS-51-l -- 3.8.1 Destruction -- 3.8.2 The Technology -- 3.8.3 Russian Roulette -- 3.8.4 Human Factors 3.8.5 Optimism and Realism: When Communication Fails -- 3.9 Discussion -- 3.10 Additional Reading -- References -- 4 Surveillance: Technologies, Techniques and Ramifications -- 4.1 Introduction -- 4.2 Surveillance and the Internet -- 4.2.1 Direct User Activity -- 4.2.2 Internet of Things Based Input -- 4.2.3 Other Sources of Input -- 4.3 Camera-Based Surveillance -- 4.3.1 Traditional CCTV-Based Surveillance -- 4.3.2 Smart Video Monitoring Systems -- 4.3.3 Who Watches the Watchers? -- 4.4 Biometrics -- 4.4.1 Biometric Techniques -- 4.4.2 General Considerations -- 4.5 Augmented (Mixed) Reality
• Publisher Details: Cham : Springer
• Publication Date: 2020
• Extent: 1 online resource (xxv, 897 pages), illustrations (some color)
• Subjects: 174/.9004; Computer science -- Moral and ethical aspects; Science -- Moral and ethical aspects; Engineering ethics; Electronic books; Electronic books
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9783030271268; 3030271269
• Related ISBNs: 9783030271251
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.; Note: Online resource; title from PDF title page (SpringerLink, viewed February 26, 2020).
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