Ethics for the Information Age

Abstract

Information technology has grown at an astounding rate in recent decades, and with it have grown ethical questions and difficulties which did not exist thirty years ago. While in the past, society's laws have been in sync with the community's ethical mores and capable of addressing ethically significant issues such as theft, the rapid growth of computing capabilities and related issues has outstripped the law-making process in the United States and elsewhere, leaving many with no firm guidelines for behavior and no legal recourse when victimized. This paper describes two courses developed at the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga to deal with these issues, and how they can be used for ABET assessment.