Curriculum Library

Hardware Backdoors and Responsibility

module focuses on hardware backdoors, which allow agents to bypass normal security measures on a device.

Health and Artificial Intelligence

One in five adults living in the United States uses fitness trackers and health-related applications daily. With this continuously growing statistic, arise ethical concerns of big data collection, and how our fitness data can be used.

Role Play: A City Decides On Self-Driving Buses

This scenario asks students (role-playing stakeholders at a committee meeting) to decide whether to introduce autonomous buses into a community.

Human Contexts and Ethics Toolkit

The HCE Toolkit is a set of concepts and methods from Science, Technology, and Society (STS) and History selected to build understanding of the datafied world, helping students to identify where human power structures and value choices get built into technical work, and empowering them to discover h

Algorithmic fairness

Ausitn's cake cutting algorithm as an example of an inherently fair algorithm.

Role Play: An Academic Institution Decides on an AI Admissions App

A technology company has approached a state university about an app that is in the testing phase of development. Before deciding on whether to use the app, state and university policies stipulate that the convening of a committee must occur in any situation involving the selection of a vendor whose

ProPublica Machine Bias article and Object-oriented programming

Topics: objects, classes, ArrayList, data structure design, reading in data

Conversations about Responsible Computing and Employment Choices

Choosing Computing Courses

Introducing responsible computing material in required courses has the advantage of reaching every student in a computing program.

Polling Data, Binary Trees, and Heaps

Topics: recursive binary tree design, array-based heaps