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Embedded EthiCS: integrating ethics across CS education

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A Harvard-based pilot program integrates class sessions on ethical reasoning into courses throughout its computer science curriculum.

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Communications of the ACM  Volume 62, Issue 8
August 2019
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DOI:10.1145/3351434
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