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Ethics and Etiquette in Scientific Research, Rules of Conduct, Avoid Improprieties, Persons in Authority, Use of Animals, Moral Debates, Professional Issues, Use of Human Subjects in Research, Avoiding Ethical Dilemmas, Rights and Responsibilities are the important points of lecture slides of Introduction to Computer Science.
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Use of human subjects in research
− Informed consent, IRB oversight
Use of animals in research
− Appropriate care/use, IACUC oversight
Moral debates
− Stem cell research, impact of technology (nuclear weapons, genetic screening), etc.
Professional issues (today's topic)
− Authorship, IP rights, confidentiality, etc.
mistakes. − Misappropriation of text or ideas. − Deceptive reporting of research results. − Breach of confidentiality.
research group. − Or resolve them quickly with minimal discomfort.
− But not computer science?
CMU's Center for the Advancement of Applied Ethics and Political Philosophy
− Peter Madsen offers several ethics courses
Many ethics education programs use case studies to foster discussion.
Lots of good material on the web, e.g., http://bioethics.od.nih.gov http://onlineethics.org
CMU Faculty and Student Handbooks contain policies on: − Plagiarism − Conflict of interest − Use of human subjects in research − Handling of allegations of misconduct in research − Ownership of intellectual property − Privacy of computer accounts − Sexual harassment
http://www.cmu.edu/policies
Two forms of credit in a paper:
− Co-authorship − Acknowledgments
Who gets listed as a co-author?
− Lab director is co-author on all papers?
− Student “owes” his advisor co-authorship on at least one journal paper?
Generally: authors ordered by the amount of their contribution. − But in the Theory community, author list is sometimes alphabetical.
Contributions may include:
− Providing key ideas − Doing the implementation − Running experiments / collecting data − Analyzing the data − Writing up the results
No special honor to be last author?
No general consensus on lab directors getting co-authorship.
Papers typically have 1-4 authors.
− Rarely see large author lists as in physics.
But many computer scientists do interdisciplinary work: HCI, computational neurosci. Culture clash?
− Contribute a good idea or coin a useful term
− Provide pointers to papers for the bibliography
− Help with debugging some tricky code
− Help with typesetting or illustrations
− Provide significant resources, e.g., loan of equipment, tissue samples, etc.