craig@comp.lancs.ac.uk (Craig Wylie) (03/04/86)
In the recent past there has been a large amount of traffic on the problems, both moral and technical, of the SDI project. Many scientists all over the world have stated their objections and refused to work on the project or accept money from the SDI fund. In the UK there has been the formation of several groups, based at Universities, who are worried about the social consequences of computing science. These groups have often been prompted by the SDI question although they do not limit themselves to this question. The group here at Lancaster is interested in areas such as : SDI Women in Computing Education Health and Safety Privacy and Security Although the subjects are catered for in several different groups I wish to propose that a separate group be set up to tackle this particular area. I am for example not particularly interested in Women Composers but I am interested in areas addressing Equality of Opertunity and Employment in Computing. Furthermore we don't get net.women in Europe unless cross posted to net.music or the like. Proposal : ^^^^^^^^^^ The creation of net.csr (I'm open to suggestions about the name) Votes and comments to me and I will summarise. Thanks Craig. -- UUCP: ...!seismo!mcvax!ukc!dcl-cs!craig| Post: University of Lancaster, DARPA: craig%lancs.comp@ucl-cs | Department of Computing, JANET: craig@uk.ac.lancs.comp | Bailrigg, Lancaster, UK. Phone: +44 524 65201 Ext. 4146 | LA1 4YR Project: Cosmos Distributed Operating Systems Research Group