Fostering Interest in Computer Science

Today in ethics class, we had a presentation on women in computer science. The presenter mentioned that all women in the computer science field had a father and/or a brother in the computer field, which sparked their interest. I believe that this is because of two things. First, fathers exposed their daughters to computer science, creating an [...]

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The Case of the Missed Deadline

Yesterday, I participated in a mock trial for my ethics class. Dan Deadline was put on trial for missing a project deadline which delay caused the company to lose market share. His excuse was that feature creep, changing requirements, and interruptions made it impossible to meet deadlines. As a district attorney, I made the case [...]

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Passwords and Security

With more and more security tools coming out, we feel more secure. Yet, the truth is that it is a false sense of security, because hackers find ways to get around everything. To get around this, you can require people to do more things, but the trick is balancing security with how much extra people [...]

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Faster, Faster!

When I discovered that biking to campus from my apartment saved me 5 minutes over driving a car, I was ecstatic. 5 minutes may not be much time to do anything more in my morning routine, but I have been tardy much less now verses when I drove. I think improving efficiency even in little [...]

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Internet Safety

I truly believe that there is a need for a filtering service on the internet. Not only will it help to protect my children from things such as pornography, but it will protect my husband and me from seeing it too. We have absolutely no desire to see it, and would like something to stop [...]

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Need for Validation

When a computer breaks down and it costs somebody’s life, whose responsibility is it? Many fingers would go to those who designed the computer, saying that they were wrong for not taking this circumstance of events happening and planning for it. This is not necessarily wise though, since it is impossible to test hardware or [...]

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Our Digital Age

I love our digital age. Not only can I keep in contact cheaply and immediately with friends and family that are thousands of miles away, but I can also look up answers to questions instantly if I don’t have any relevant books around. As a writer, I can send the word out efficiently to millions [...]

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Communication Issues

Xerox could have grown to be a huge company today if the computer developers had been able to convince their managers that they had the products of the future. Why did Apple see what the Xerox managers didn’t? It could be due to the fact that Steve Jobs knew computers, and the Xerox managers didn’t. [...]

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Ethics of Copying

<< Author’s note >> I know in my last blog that I said that I would try to be more concise. I only submitted the first two paragraphs below for a grade. I just had more to say on the topic, so I expanded it here. << end note >> 
The history of computers is filled [...]

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Improving Writing

Today’s ethics class was a writing workshop, where we discussed how to write well and critiqued a few people’s blogs, including mine. I’m always interested in improving my writing, as I love writing fantasy stories. The biggest flaw in my blog was that I had too many themes going every which way. For these blogs, [...]

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