JonJun 30, 2023
J. Nathan Matias 🦣

Ten years ago, in 2013, Computer Professionals for Social Responsibility was dissolved after decades of important work because they couldn't find enough people to sustain it.

A sign of the times that we're now re-inventing institutions that computer science was unable/unwilling to sustain during one of its most lucrative periods.

https://www.publicsphereproject.org/content/cpsr-dissolution-and-gary-chapman-winner-cpsrs-norbert-wiener-award

CPSR Dissolution and Gary Chapman, Winner of CPSR's Norbert Wiener Award | Public Sphere Project — Liberating Voices Pattern Language

Jun 30, 2023 at 4:29amWeb
Show threadJ. Nathan Matias 🦣Jun 30, 2023
Many of today's proposals around tech ethics and accountability have already been developed, implemented, and then dropped by a previous generation of computer science. Sigh.
Show threadGreg WilsonJun 30, 2023
@natematias I remember CPSR's heyday - looking back, I think the big mistake was not figuring out how to get ethical issues into the curriculum in a way that students would actually pay attention to.