Software Engineering Ethics

Good Computing: An overview of research in Moral Exemplars in Computing in Scandinavia and the UK.

The look and feel of ethical computing: A chance to use a complicated case in computing to practice moral imagination and moral creativity.

Dr. Chuck Huff is Professor and Chair of the Psychology Department at St. Olaf College. He has published research in the areas of moral reasoning, computing and education, gender and computing, social aspects of electronic interaction, and ethics in computing. He is associate editor of the journals Computers and Society and Social Science Computer Review. He teaches the course Ethical Issues in Software Design in the Computer Science program at St. Olaf College. He is currently doing empirical research on the moral development of computer professionals in collaboration with Simon Rogerson of the Centre for Computing and Social Responsibility at Demontfort University in Leicester, UK.

Human-Computer Interaction: Research in a Triangle Bounded by Technology, Design, and Behavioral Science

Human-Computer Interaction (HCI) research addresses problems of applying computing technology to address human challenges through principled and careful design. The University of Minnesota has several ongoing HCI efforts at different points in this space. In this talk, we will discuss the technology of personalization (specifically recommender systems), the design of systems to elicit greater user participation in and contribution to online communities, the application of HCI principles to the design of online HIV-prevention materials, the design issues in emerging location-aware and mobile computing applications, and other research examples.

Dr. Joseph A. Konstan is Professor of Computer Science and Engineering at the University of Minnesota. His research addresses a variety of human-computer interaction issues, including personalization (particularly through recommender systems), eliciting on-line participation, and designing computer systems to improve public health. He is probably best known for his work in collaborative filtering recommenders (the GroupLens project), and for his work in online HIV prevention. He is co-author of Word of Mouse: The Marketing Power of Collaborative Filtering, a book that reviews three dozen good and poor examples of personalization in research and deployed systems.

Dr. Konstan received his Ph.D. from the University of California, Berkeley in 1993. He is an ACM Distinguished Lecturer and a former IEEE Distinguished Visitor. He is Past President of ACM SIGCHI, the 4500-member Special Interest Group on Human-Computer Interaction, and a member of ACM's Council and Executive Committee. Dr. Konstan is an active consultant who has worked for more than 15 companies on issues related to human-computer interaction, personalization, and general software issues. He has traveled and lectured extensively, giving over 200 talks in more than 25 countries worldwide.

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Enterprise Architecture: Challenges and Opportunities

Enterprise applications are applications that are used within an enterprise or across multiple enterprises. Enterprise architecture programs enable enterprises to develop enterprise applications which enable them to transform their application landscape with many stove-pipe applications to the one which enables horizontal integration of process, data, and applications across the enterprise. The challenge in the development and deployment of enterprise architecture program is not just IT but involves process, organization, culture and politics within the enterprise. In this talk, I will discuss why realization of the enterprise architecture is difficult and how those difficulties can be overcome through governance, cultural changes, training right skills, integration of process, data, & applications, and obviously Enterprise Service Oriented Architecture.

In addition to his position as an adjunct professor in the MSSE program, Dr. Jamshid Vayghan has 28 years of industrial experience, of which the last 22 years has been in software industry. His work in software industry has been on both embedded and enterprise systems with a focus in bridging the gap between technology and business. He currently leads IBM's Enterprise Data Architecture and Innovation group as Chief Architect, Senior Technical Staff Member and Manager. His research, teaching and professional interests are in software engineering, database systems, data mining, system engineering, development of large enterprise systems, security, privacy, Web development including Service Oriented Architecture and Web Services. He is co-author of book chapters and papers in data mining and database systems. He holds an undergraduate degree in Chemical Engineering, and MS and Ph.D. degrees in Computer Science.

Recommended reading:

1. Federal Enterprise Architecture Reference Model.
2. The Open Group Architecture Framework (TOGAF).
3. Mapping TOGAF Architecture Development Method (ADM) to Zachman Framework.
4. IBM System Journal Special Issue on SOA.
5. Zachman Framework.
6. Enterprise Architecture: Critical Problems.
7. Enterprise Architecture (If you build it right, IT will work).
8. CIO Magazine Special Issue on Enterprise Architect.

Method & Apparatus for Handling Intellectual Property

This seminar presents an overview of intellectual property issues encountered by software developers and managers. We will discuss the nature of intellectual property rights, how to acquire and protect intellectual property as well as how to avoid infringing the intellectual property rights of others. We will also address wider public policy issues involved in expansive IP protection, such as protection for patents on so-called "business methods".

Roy Truelson is an intellectual property attorney in private practice, practicing primarily in the field of patents of computer hardware and software technologies. He has ten years experience as in-house intellectual property attorney for IBM Corporation, during which time he addressed a wide range of intellectual property issues typical of a large technology company. He was previously an engineer for IBM, an attorney in general private law practice, and a law clerk for the Minnesota Supreme Court. He received his J.D. magna cum laude from the University of Minnesota Law School in 1976. His other degrees include a M.S.E.E. (1993), B.M.E. with distinction (1982), and B.A. magna cum laude with major in math (1973), all from the University of Minnesota.