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Volume 21 Number 1
Spring 2002
Spring 2002 Issue

Departments

    3   President's Message - Hi Want to Participate?

    4 Past President's Message - Bylaw Changes

    5 Opinion - Suicide Bombers and Their Diety

    7  Book Reviews - The Code Book; Swarm Intelligence; Decrypting Mathematics; The Cosmic Inventor.

    27   Call for Papers - Special Issue of T&S Magazine on the Precautionary Principle

    48 ISTAS 2002


Feature

    13 Star Wars Revisited - Ethics and Safety-Critical Software*
    A debate over the feasibility of a ballistic missile defense system forms core lessons in this engineering course on ethics and software safety.
    Kevin W. Bowyer
      

Articles

    28   The Internet in Iran*
    The introduction of the Internet in Iran has brought cultural changes to that society.
    Majid Shoraka and Mohammand Reza Omidi

    33 Technological Complexity and Ethical Control*
    How the development of increasingly complex systems creates vastly increased challenges for ethical control of those systems.
    Vincent di Norcia

    40 Improving Ethical Engineering Practice*
    Incorporating teaching techniques such as mentoring, and improved communication networks between student and practicing engineers, would increase adherence to engineering codes of ethics.
    Bruce Perlman and Roli Varma
     

    * Refereed Articles.

    Cover Image: Rob Magiera/Image Bank.