douglas@bcsaic (Douglas Schuler) (04/21/89)
Call for Papers
DIRECTIONS AND IMPLICATIONS OF ADVANCED COMPUTING
DIAC-90 Boston, Massachusetts July 28, 1990
Computer technology significantly affects most segments of society,
including education, business, medicine, and the military. Current
computer technology and technologies that seem likely to emerge soon 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.
We seek to address directly the relationship between technology and policy.
We solicit papers that address the wide range of questions at the
intersection of technology and society.
Within this broad vision, we request papers that address the following
suggested topics. Other topics may be addressed if they are relevant to
the general focus.
RESEARCH DIRECTIONS DEFENSE APPLICATIONS
+ Research Funding Sources/Effects + AI and the Conduct of War
+ Software Development Methodologies + Autonomous Weapons Systems
COMPUTING IN A DEMOCRATIC SOCIETY COMPUTERS IN THE PUBLIC INTEREST
+ Community Access + Computing for the Disabled
+ Computerized Voting + Uses of Models and Simulations
+ Civil Liberties + Arbitration, Conflict Resolution
+ Computing and the Law + Computing in Education
+ Computing and Workplace + Software Safety
Submissions will be read by members of the program committee, with the
assistance of outside referees. The program committee includes Alan
Borning (U. WA) Christiane Floyd (Technical University of Berlin),
Jonathan Jacky (U. WA), Deborah Johnson (Renssalaer Polytechnic), Eric
Roberts (DEC), Richard Rosenberg (SIGCAS, U of British Columbia), Ronni
Rosenberg (Harvard), Marc Rotenberg (CPSR), Douglas Schuler (Boeing Com-
puter Services), Lucy Suchman (Xerox PARC), and Terry Winograd (Stanford).
Complete papers should include an abstract and should not exceed 6000
words. Papers on ethics and values are especially desirable. Reports on
work in progress or suggested directions for future work as well as
appropriate surveys and applications, will also be considered. Submissions
will be judged on clarity, insight, significance, and originality. Papers
(4 copies) are due by March 1, 1990. Notices of acceptance or rejection
will be mailed by April 15, 1990. Camera ready copy is due by June 1, 1990.
Send papers to Douglas Schuler, Boeing Computer Services, MS 7L-64, P.O.
24346, Seattle, WA 98124-0346. For more information contact Doug Schuler
(206-865-3226).
Proceedings will be distributed at the symposium, and will be available
during the 1990 AAAI conference. The DIAC-87 and DIAC-88 proceedings are
published by Ablex Publishing Company. Publishing the DIAC-90 proceedings
is planned.
Sponsored by Computer Professionals for Social Responsibility
P.O. Box 717
Palo Alto, CA 94301
DIAC-90 is partially supported by the National Science Foundation under
Grant No. 8811437, through the Ethics and Values Studies Office.