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=**Computer Ethics**= The Course: Computer Ethics addresses a definition of ethics, provides a framework for making ethical decisions, and analyzes in detail several areas of ethical issues that computer professionals are likely to encounter. Topics include philosophical, business, and professional ethics, privacy, criminal conduct, property rights, speech, and reliability. Ethics cannot be memorized, but must be debated and lived. Thus, an important part of the class is the inter-active class discussions and exercises. During each class, the instructor will include a presentation on the topic for the day and will review the homework assignment. Students will then use the lessons from the reading materials, assignment, and presentation in an inter-active in-class discussion and exercise. The exercises range from analyses of hypothetical ethical dilemmas to practical applications in business.