This assignment requires research. You must cite the research you do every time you use the words or ideas of others, and include a bibliography of your references at the end of your paper. If you quote directly from a source, be sure to use quotation marks. List your sources as described in the Computer Science Research Guide (click on the “Citations and Style Guides” tab and choose APA) at: http://guides.spsu.edu/computer_science and illustrated in the writing example that you will find in the “Course Resources” section of this course. You may also google APA and find several other sources, including a tool that helps you with your citations. You must have both citations (in the text) and a reference list (at the end). NOTE: YOU MUST USE THE CORRECT APA FORMAT FOR CITATIONS OR REFERENCES TO GET A GRADE ABOVE A B ON THIS AND EVERY ASSIGNMENT.
You may want to do some more research into this and future assignments than just reading the two textbooks. An excellent source for technical research is the ACM digital library at http://portal.acm.org/portal.cfm. You will be able to get access to the articles themselves as well as conference proceedings from any computer with Internet access by using the Hornet Connect system. To access this system, go to https://connect.spsu.edu then login with your SPSU email id and password; after getting into the system select library resources, then ACM digital library, which will give you access to all ACM resources. Note also that anything that appears in Communications of the ACM is also available in the SPSU library. You may search online or in the library. You can also access all the library holdings in the stare of Georgia via the library resources link. Another good source of scientific literature is Cite Seer: http://citeseer.ist.psu.edu/cs. (In a few cases, Cite Seer may point you to sites that charge for downloading material; don’t do it. You aren’t expected to pay for access to research materials.)

One of our course outcomes is to “appraise liabilities and legal consequences of negligence regarding software patents and copyright issues by software engineers.” For this assignment, I want you to explore the issues of negligence in the software engineering life cycle and explore the liabilities we have as software engineers. Consider the following questions when formulating your essay, but you do not have to “answer” each question. Instead use the questions as guidelines to help you think about the problem.
​Should software companies be liable for software failures?
​What is the definition of negligence with respect to software development? ​
​What ethical responsibilities do software engineers have to users? ​​​What can be done to mitigate the risk of negligence liability?
​Try to find one example of negligence (not Therac) to explore in this context.
Please limit your essay to no more than TWO double-spaced pages for the entire assignment. READ THIS AS: NO MORE THAN 3 Pages, including the reference list. I will not grade this based on weight, but rather am looking for well-written, well-thought-out ideas that demonstrate a thorough analysis of the concepts. Really — more is not always better.

Note: Please use Textbook as one of the references. I will email you the PDF when I have your email address because the tablet doesn’t allow me to download the file.