Abstract: Computer science applications touch all aspects of life. The people involved in computer science development and applications and the users of these applications have tremendous responsibilities to honour the ethical values as specified in many codes of conducts and in their belief for their own benefit and for the benefit of humanity in general. We study the applications of ethics for computer professionals and users alike in terms of a number of realistic potential scenarios which are difficult to encircle or categorize in terms of their ethical boundaries. In a world where the reward for ethical conduct and the penalty for unethical acts tend to go unnoticed, we attempt make a case for a better ethical conduct by making the effect of unethical conduct more apparent through carefully chosen and applied scenarios. We have achieved this by using popular codes of conducts linking them to realistic scenarios and then surveying a sample of computer professionals, users and selected members of society and then challenge their belief and their standing. We expect that our work will have effect on the application of computer technology on all concerned.

Brief Biography of the Speaker:
Mansoor Al-A'ali finished his B.Sc. in Computer Studies from the University of Teesside, UK in 1982. He received his M.Sc. in Computer Science from the University of Aston in Birmingham, UK in 1984. He received his Ph.D. from the University of Aston in Birmingham, UK in 1989. Mansoor is currently working in the department of computer science at the University of Bahrain. His research interests include: Computer Ethics, AI, algorithms, software engineering, computers in education and Arabization. He has over seventy refereed publications in these areas. More recently, Mansoor has been especially interested in the areas of computer ethics from an Islamic point of view and in new methods for teaching computer ethics.
Mansoor was for four years the chairman of the department of computer science at the University of Bahrain and was for another four years the director of continuing education. Since 1989 he has been working as a consultant for a number of leading Bahraini organizations leading the design and quality assurance issues of major industrial computer systems.