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The Human and Ethical Aspects of Big Data

By Grady Booch

By Grady Booch on
December 9, 2013

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Every line of code represents a moral decision; every bit of data collected, analyzed, and visualized has moral implications.

From IEEE Software's Issue No. 01 - Jan. / Feb. 2014


About Grady Booch

Grady Booch is a Chief Scientist of Software Engineering at IBM. He is recognized internationally for improving the art and the science of software development and has served as architect and architectural mentor for numerous complex software-intensive systems around the world. The author of six best-selling books and several hundred articles on computing, he has lectured on topics as diverse as software methodology and the morality of computing. He is an IBM Fellow, an IEEE Fellow, an ACM Fellow, a World Technology Network Fellow, and a Software Development Forum Visionary.

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