"[IBM's] machines were used to understand how many [...] Jews lived in any district. They also helped the Third Reich understand that as they imposed harsh regulations [...] many Jews would leave to neighboring regions"
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"I started my [PhD] in computer science in 2002. [...] I think this is an utter failure, utter lack of ethics education. Any ethical considerations I picked up during graduate school[,] were not necessarily sound." http://blogs.oregonstate.edu/glencora/2017/11/27/ibm-holocaust/ …
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A majority of our students will go on to work for companies just like IBM. And if they aren’t taught that tragedies like the Holocaust happen because everyone was just doing their job, we are liable for the continued abuse of computer science." http://blogs.oregonstate.edu/glencora/2017/11/27/ibm-holocaust/ …
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