slimick@unix.cis.pitt.edu (John C Slimick) (10/15/90)
I would like to recommend the videotape Billion Dollar Bubble for courses dealing with ethics or social implications. This is a sixty minute documentary (from the BBC) which is a recreation of the computer misdoings at Equity Funding Corporation of America (in the mid Sixties). Although Hollywood actors (James Woods for one) are used, the script is based on trial transcript and interviews. The use of the computer was obvious, as well as exactly how the fraud was perpetrated -- anyone who has had COBOL I could understand exactly how it was done. My group seemed to understand all that happened. The tape is available from the University of Illinois film library for $30.50 for one week's rental. Address: University Film Center 1325 S. Oak St. Champaign IL 61820 1-800-367-3456 John Slimick university of pittsburgh at bradford bradford pa slimick@unix.cis.pitt.edu "See -- the prefix 99 means that the policy was one of the generated ones." ---from Billion Dollar Bubble