Second Topic: Responsibility for Bugs and Errors
Content
- Ethical norms and practices governing responsible acknowledgment
of errors, mistakes, and ``bugs''; and field-dependent practices
governing the dissemination of results and corrections.
- Resources for raising concerns about possible misconduct
- Resources for resolving disputes about responsibility within a
research group
Method
- Scenarios (Scenario 1: the Missing
Step, Scenario 2: Responsibility for Work
that Carries Your Name) distributed to students and faculty in the
computer science graduate program
- Faculty panel discussing the sorts of mistakes and errors that are
made in their specialties, the criticality of those errors and
appropriate ways of correcting or notifying others once such errors
are discovered
Objectives
- Increased ability to identify moral ambiguities in a problem
situation
- Increased ability to identify and negotiate responsibilities
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