dschuler@cs.washington.edu (Douglas Schuler) (12/29/89)
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Call for Papers
DIRECTIONS AND IMPLICATIONS OF ADVANCED COMPUTING
DIAC-90 Boston, Massachusetts July 28, 1990
Computer technology significantly affects most segments of society, includ-
ing 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. 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
+ Funding Sources & Effects + AI & the Conduct of War
+ Development Methodologies + Autonomous Weapons Systems
COMPUTING IN A DEMOCRACY COMPUTERS IN THE PUBLIC INTEREST
+ Community Access + Computing for the Disabled
+ Computerized Voting + Uses of Models & Simulations
+ Civil Liberties + Arbitration & Conflict Resolution
+ Computing & the Law + Computing in Education
+ Computing & Workplace + Software Safety
Submissions will be read by members of the program committee, with the as-
sistance of outside referees. The program committee includes Alan Borning
(U. WA), Christiane Floyd (Technical University of Berlin), Eric Gutstein
(U. WI), Jonathan Jacky (U. WA), Deborah Johnson (Rensselaer Polytechnic),
Eric Roberts (DEC), Ronni Rosenberg (Harvard), Richard Rosenberg (SIGCAS, U
of British Columbia), Marc Rotenberg (CPSR), Douglas Schuler (Boeing Comput-
er 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 sur-
veys and applications, will also be considered. Submissions will be judged
on significance, clarity, insight, 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 (206-634-2771,
dschuler@june.cs.washington.june) or Symposium Co-Chair Coralee Whitcomb
(617-891-3103 (weekdays), 508-945-0360 (weekends), CWHITCOM@BENTLEY.BITNET).
Proceedings will be distributed at the symposium, and will be available dur-
ing the 1990 AAAI conference. The DIAC-87 and DIAC-88 proceedings are pub-
lished by Ablex Publishing Company. Publishing the DIAC-90 proceedings is
also planned.
Sponsored by Computer Professionals for Social Responsibility
P.O. Box 717
Palo Alto, CA 94301
DIAC-90 is co-sponsored by the American Association for Artificial Intelli-
gence, the American Philosophical Association, the Boston Computer Society,
Harvard Kennedy School Science, Technology, and Public Policy Program, MIT
Science, Technology and Society program in cooperation with ACM SIGCAS and
ACM SIGCHI. DIAC-90 is partially supported by the National Science Founda-
tion under Grant No. 8811437, Ethics and Values Studies Office.