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Computer Professionals for Social Responsibilty
DIAC-90 SYMPOSIUM
Directions and Implications of Advanced Computing
July 28, 1990
Computer technology significantly affects most segments of society, including
education, business, medicine, and the military. Current and emerging computer
technology will exert strong influences on our lives, in areas ranging from
work to civil liberties. The DIAC symposium considers these influences in a
broad social context - ethical, economic, political - as well as a technical
context seeking to address directly the relationship between technology and
policy.
Gutman Conference Center / Monroe C. Gutman Library
6 Appian Way Cambridge, Massachusetts
Opening Remarks
9:00 - 9:15
Keynote Address
9:15 - 10:15
Dr. Michael Rabin
Computer Security and Privacy
Computer security is essential not just for the protection of valuable assets
but also for safeguarding privacy. To this end technical tools are needed for
correctly specifying who will access what personal data and for enforcing and
monitoring the specified regime. These new technical tools as well as a new
legal framework for defining the status of personal data will be presented.
Michael Rabin is a Turing Award winner who is T.J. Watson Sr. Professor of
Computer Science at Harvard. He teaches and conducts research in the fields
of computer algorithms and computer security.
PAPERS
COMPUTING IN SOCIETY (Parallel session) 10:30 - 12:00
The Rainbow Pages - Building Community with Voice Technology
- Paul Resnick and Mel King
Thinking about Computers and Schools: A Skeptical View
- Hank Bromley
Affectionate Technolology
- David Durlach
SOCIETAL USE OF COMPUTERS (Parallel session) 10:30 - 12:00
The Effects of Computer Models of Global Warming on Regional Environmental
Policies in East Africa and Southeast Asia
- Judith Perrolle, Glenn Pierce, Michele Eayrs, A. Gilbert, Nightingale
Rukuba
Software R&D in the Department of Defense in the 1980s: Institutional
Resistance to the Demand of New Information Technology
- Nance Goldstein
AI at War: A Preliminary Analysis of the Aegis System in Combat
- Chris Hables Gray
Lunch (provided)
12:00 - 1:15
LOOKING AT COMPUTERIZATION (Parallel session) 1:15 - 3:00
Reading "All About" Computerization: Five Common Genres of Social Analyses
- Rob Kling
Language, Logic and Expertise: The Human Interface of Expert Systems
- Doris Schoenhoff
Machine-, Human-, or Culture-centered Computing? A View from the Trenches
- David Hakken
ETHICAL AND MORAL ISSUES (Parallel session) 1:15 - 3:00
Software for the Detection of Fraudulent Medical Insurance Claims:
Answers and Issues
- Sue Stafford
Moral Issues Involved in Protecting Computer Software as Intellectual
Property
- Natalie Dandekar
A Conduct Code: An Ethics Code with Bite
- Joel Wolfson
Developing an International Participative Code of Computer Ethics
- Harold Sackman
PANEL DISCUSSION
3:15 - 4:15
Virtual Reality: What Does it Really Mean?
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William Bricken, Human Interface Technology Laboratory, University of
Washington
David Zeltzer, MIT Media Laboratory
Other panelists to be determined
Closing Remarks
4:15 - 4:30
Reception
4:30 - 6:00
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Co-Sponsored by American Association for Artificial Intelligence, American
Philosophical Association, Boston Computer Society, Harvard University Science, Technology and Public Policy, MIT Science, Technology and Society Dept. in
cooperation with ACM SIGCAS and ACM SIGCHI. DIAC-90 is partially supported by
the National Science Foundation under Grant No. 8811437, Ethics and Values
Studies Office.
The symposium will run from 9:00 am to 6:00 pm. Registration will start at
8:15 am. Lunch will be provided. A reception will follow.
For additional information, contact symposium co-chairs: Coralee Whitcomb
(617-891-3103 (weekdays), 508-945-0360 (weekends), or Peter Russo
(206-965-1976, prusso@atc.boeing.com).
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DIAC-90 Registration Form
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Conference Fees:
CPSR Member $40 __
Non-member $50 __
New CPSR Membership $80 __
Student $25 __
Proceedings Only $20 __
Additional Donation __
Please make checks payable to DIAC-90. Send registration to
CPSR/DIAC-90
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Los Angeles, CA 90066-0038
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