[comp.ai] Implications of AI and advanced computing

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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?
                ---------------------------------------------

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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