Preface

Acknowledgments

What Is Computer Ethics?

What Is Computer Ethics?

James H. Moor

Coming into the Country

John P. Barlow

Computer Ethics: Responsibility Regained

Donald Gotterbarn

Computer, Ethics, and Social Responsibility

Terry Winograd

Paramedic Ethics for Computer Professionals

W. Robert Collins

Keith W. Miller

Crime, Abuse, and Hacker Ethics

The Computer Worm: A Report to the Provost of Cornell University

Ted Eisenberg

Rogue Computer Programs and Computer Rogues: Tailoring the Punishment to Fit the Crime

Anne W. Branscomb

Are Computer Property Rights Absolute?

A Dialog on Hacking and Security

Dorothy Denning

Frank Drake

Are Computer Hacker Break-Ins Ethical?

Eugene H. Spafford

Computer Virus Legislation

Marc Rotenberg

Ownership of Computer Software

Introduction written

John W. Snapper

Evolution of Case Law on Copyrights and Computer Software Office of Technology Assessment

Moral Foundations of Intellectual Property Rights

Arthur Kuflik

Intellectual Property Protections for Computer Software

John W. Snapper

Why Software Should Be Free

Richard Stallman

Should I Copy My Neighbor's Software?

Helen Nissenbaum

The Software Patent Crisis

Brian Kahin

Tales from the Algorithm War

Richard H. Stern

Lotus Development Corporation v. Paperback Software International and Stephenson Software, Limited United States District Court

D. Massachusetts

How to Interpret the Lotus Decision (and How Not to)

Pamela Samuelson

Privacy and Databases

Lotus Marketplace: Households...Managing Information Privacy Concerns

M. J. Culnan

H. J. Smith

Information Systems in a Democracy

Kenneth Laudon

Public Image

Larry Hunter

The Government Needs Computer Matching to Root Out Waste and Fraud

Richard P. Kusserow

Computer Matching Is a Serious Threat to Individual Rights

John Shattuck

Private Life in Cyberspace

John P. Barlow

Preserving Individual Autonomy in an Information-Orientated Society

James B. Rule

Privacy and the Limits of Law

Ruth Gavison

Why Privacy Is Important

James Rachels

An Economic Theory of Privacy

Richard A. Posner

A New Paradigm for Individuals in the Information Age

David Chaum

A Federal Right of Information Privacy: The Need for Reform

Jerry Berman

Janlori Goldman

The Risks of Computing

Computer System Reliability and Nuclear War

Alan Borning

On Building Systems That Will Fail

Fernando J. Corbato

The Risks of Software

Bev Littlewood

Lorenzo Strigini

Evaluation of Safety-Critical Software

David L. Parnas

From Slide Rule to Computer: Forgetting How It Used to Be Done

Henry Petroski

The Limits of Correctness in Computers

Brian Cantwell Smith

Responsibility, Liability, and Professional Codes

An Investigation of the Therac-25 Accidents

Nancy G. Leveson

Clark S. Turner

Responsibility and Retribution

H. L. A. Hart

Computing and Accountability

Helen Nissenbaum

Liability for Defective Electronic Information

Pamela Samuelson

On the Impact of the Computer on Society

Joseph Weizenbaum

Professional Ethics

Deborah G. Johnson

Programming and the Public Trust

W. Robert Collins

Keith W. Miller

Codes of Ethics

Michael Martin

Roland Schinzinger

The Quest for a Code of Professional Ethics: An Intellectual and Moral Confusion

John Ladd

Thinking Like an Engineer: The Place of a Code of Ethics in the Practice of a Profession

Michael Davis

ACM Code of Ethics and Professional Conduct

The Networked World

The United States vs. Craig Neidorf

Dorothy Denning

Global Information Infrastructure

Vice President Al Gore

The National Information Infrastructure: A Public Interest Opportunity

Gary Chapman

Marc Rotenberg

Civil Liberties in Cyberspace

Mitchell Kapor

Battle of the Clipper Chip

Steven Levy

Rationales for Freedom of Speech

Kent Greenawalt

An Electronic Soapbox: Computer Bulletin Boards and the First Amendment

Eric Jensen

The Machine Stops