more on "professionalism"

[Strata Rose Chalup <strata@virtual.net>]

It's worth noting that in my deep webdig lately on "professionalism" I
am finding that most of the other computing organizations I look at
(ACM, IEEE, and similar) seem to treat it as roughly 50% ethics/codes of
behavior, 30% - 35% body of knowledge, and 20 - 15% certification.  

I wonder if we are allocating resources in the correct priority by
placing certification above both BoK and ethics development.  I don't
wish to waste energy already spent getting certification "up to steam"
and moving.  I do want to make sure that we don't spend ALL our energy
on it, though. 

Check out http://onlineethics.org/, the Online Ethics Center for
Engineering and Science for examples of the sorts of material being
developed by engineering and computing folks.  Lots of realistic
examples and case studies, about many real-world events.

Cheers,
_Strata
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