From Academia to Industry
summary
Career path moves from Google and IBM into founding the US Digital Service and teaching product management at Harvard while co-leading initiatives like the Responsible Computer Science Challenge. Argues computer science curricula still silo ethics despite 112 universities 200+ courses crowd-sourced examples, cites cases like Cambridge Analytica, Amazon Prime delivery bias, and facial recognition errors. Recommends hiring social scientists and philosophers, redesigning biased interviews, and using engineers’ internal influence to embed human-centered evaluation and metrics.
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chapters (6)
- 0:00Introduction to tech ethics
- 1:09Bridging academia and industry
- 2:25The origin of engineering
- 4:09The hierarchy of disciplines
- 5:23The state of CS education
- 7:21Call to action for engineers
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