Teaching social implications of computing
Brian W. Harvey · ACM SIGCAS Computers and Society · 2008
I'm Brian Harvey; I'm a Lecturer with Security of Employment in the EECS Department at the University of California at Berkeley. (The strange title means that I'm a full-time teacher, but basically tenured, although I'm not supposed to call it that. There aren't very many of us: 17 on the Berkeley campus.) My main teaching assignment is our first course for CS majors, based on the Abelson and Sussman text from MIT. But I also teach "Social Implications of Computers," a course that was retired along with the professor who first taught it, and that I campaigned unsuccessfully to revive for several years until ABET, our accrediting agency, won the battle for me by complaining about the lack of ethics in our curriculum.