{"621419":{"#nid":"621419","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Ellen Zegura Receives Mozilla Grant to Teach Social Responsibility in Computing","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003ESchool of Computer Science Professor \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.cc.gatech.edu\/~ewz\/Welcome.html\u0022\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EEllen Zegura\u0026rsquo;s\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E project to incorporate ethics in undergraduate computer science classes has been \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/blog\/2019\/04\/30\/2-4-million-in-prizes-for-schools-teaching-ethics-alongside-computer-science\/\u0022\u003Eselected\u003C\/a\u003E for Mozilla\u0026rsquo;s \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/foundation.mozilla.org\/en\/initiatives\/responsible-cs\/\u0022\u003EResponsible Computer Science Challenge\u003C\/a\u003E.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EWith $150,000 in funding, Zegura will teach social responsibility in computing through role-playing games (RPG) that show students how a new technology could impact the public. One RPG will simulate an internal company discussion about the ethics of new technology such as facial recognition. The other RPG models a community meeting about allowing a new technology, like self-driving cars, into an area.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EZegura, the Stephen Fleming Chair for Telecommunications, will supplement the RPGs by creating a Responsible Computer Science Fellows Program for training undergraduate teaching assistants and lecturers on how to build ethics into a lecture. She will also conduct video interviews with College of Computing faculty members to show the ethical considerations they make in their work, which students will watch in class.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;I am delighted to work with the \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.cc.gatech.edu\/about\/administration\/instruction\u0022\u003EDivision of Computing Instruction\u003C\/a\u003E, colleagues across the College of Computing, and ethics experts in public policy on bringing ethical considerations to our undergraduate students as they learn what it means to think like a computer scientist,\u0026rdquo; Zegura said.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThe project is one of 17 initiatives receiving $2.4 million in prizes for the first phase of the program from Mozilla, Omidyar Network, Schmidt Futures, and Craig Newmark Philanthropies. Nineteen independent judges chose projects that change teaching style or course requirements to integrate ethics into current undergraduate computer science classes.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":"","field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"Ellen Zegura received a $150,000 Mozilla grant."}],"uid":"34541","created_gmt":"2019-05-06 21:03:51","changed_gmt":"2019-05-06 21:03:51","author":"Tess Malone","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2019-05-06T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2019-05-06T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"618036":{"id":"618036","type":"image","title":"Ellen Zegura","body":null,"created":"1550524714","gmt_created":"2019-02-18 21:18:34","changed":"1550524714","gmt_changed":"2019-02-18 21:18:34","alt":"Ellen Zegura","file":{"fid":"235261","name":"zeguraellen.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/zeguraellen.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/zeguraellen.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":60255,"path_740":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/zeguraellen.jpg?itok=IvZFtnxW"}}},"media_ids":["618036"],"groups":[{"id":"47223","name":"College of Computing"},{"id":"50875","name":"School of Computer Science"}],"categories":[],"keywords":[],"core_research_areas":[{"id":"39501","name":"People and Technology"}],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003ETess Malone, Communications Officer\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022mailto:tess.malone@cc.gatech.edu\u0022\u003Etess.malone@cc.gatech.edu\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","format":"limited_html"}],"email":["tess.malone@cc.gatech.edu"],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}