{"id":6056,"date":"2023-01-15T23:47:35","date_gmt":"2023-01-16T04:47:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cds-faculty\/?page_id=6056"},"modified":"2025-07-30T14:20:45","modified_gmt":"2025-07-30T18:20:45","slug":"pledge","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cds-faculty\/culture-community\/pledge\/","title":{"rendered":"Our Pledge"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>Pledge of the Computing and Data Science Professional<\/h3>\n<p><strong><em>As a responsible computing and data scientist, I aspire to<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><em>bring algorithms and data-driven software systems to bear on the challenges of our time;<\/em><\/li>\n<li><em>improve public understanding of computing technologies and their potential for good and ill.<\/em><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong><em>As a practicing professional, I will always strive to<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><em>respect and protect the dignity, privacy, and agency of all users, subjects, or objects of my work;<\/em><\/li>\n<li><em>recognize and disclose the limitations of my work and seek help from experts as needed;<\/em><\/li>\n<li><em>submit that knowingly or unknowingly my work may impact lives now and into the future; and<\/em><\/li>\n<li><em>uphold my moral obligations and use my skills ethically for the public good and wellbeing of all.<\/em><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong><em>With my actions, I pledge to honor my discipline and to pursue my career with the highest level of integrity and competence.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pledge of the Computing and Data Science Professional As a responsible computing and data scientist, I aspire to bring algorithms and data-driven software systems to bear on the challenges of our time; improve public understanding of computing technologies and their potential for good and ill. As a practicing professional, I will always strive to respect [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4210,"featured_media":0,"parent":2645,"menu_order":5,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cds-faculty\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/6056"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cds-faculty\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cds-faculty\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cds-faculty\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4210"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cds-faculty\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6056"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cds-faculty\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/6056\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6787,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cds-faculty\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/6056\/revisions\/6787"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cds-faculty\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2645"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cds-faculty\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6056"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}