Hours:
20 hours (5 credits)

Room:
Aula Riunioni del Dipartimento di Ingegneria dell’Informazione, Via G. Caruso 16, Pisa – Ground Floor and Aula Magna Pacinotti, Largo Lucio Lazzarino 1

Short Abstract:
This course deals with the application of ethical theories to problems created, aggravated or transformed by computer technology. It is intended to give students a chance to reflect on the ethical, social, and cultural impact of computer technology by focusing on the issues faced by and brought about by computing professionals.

Course Contents in brief:

The course will cover different topics both from a theoretical and a more practical point of view. We will start with a broad analysis of the concept of responsibility, in particular in an engineering perspective, and of normative ethics and its tools. We will introduce codes of conduct. Then ethics in IT-configured societies will be discussed and technology as the instrumentation of human action will be presented.
Within this context we will focus: on information flow, privacy, and surveillance, on digital intellectual property and on digital order.

Schedule:

January 21st 2019

• 09:00 – 13:00: responsibility; normative ethics; codes of conduct - Aula Magna Pacinotti, Largo Lucio Lazzarino 1
• 14:00 – 17:00: Q&A session; discussion and exercises - Aula Riunioni del Dipartimento di Ingegneria dell’Informazione, Via G. Caruso 16

January 22nd 2019 - Aula Riunioni del Dipartimento di Ingegneria dell’Informazione, Via G. Caruso 16

• 09:00 – 13:00: ethics in IT-configured societies; information flow, privacy, and surveillance; digital intellectual property; digital order
• 14:00 – 17:00: Q&A session; discussion and exercises

February 11th 2019 - Aula Riunioni del Dipartimento di Ingegneria dell’Informazione, Via G. Caruso 16

• 09:30 – 12:30: students’ presentations
• 13:30 – 16:30: students’ presentations