douglas@bcsaic.UUCP (Douglas Schuler) (01/06/88)
Call for Papers
DIRECTIONS AND IMPLICATIONS OF ADVANCED COMPUTING
DIAC-88 St. Paul, Minnesota August 21, 1988
The adoption of current computing technology, and of technologies that seem
likely to emerge in the near future, will have a significant impact on the
military, on financial affairs, on privacy and civil liberty, on the medical
and educational professions, and on commerce and business.
The aim of the symposium is to consider these influences in a social, economic,
and political context as well as a technical one. The directions and
implications of current computing technology, including artificial intelligence
and other areas, make attempts to separate science and policy unrealistic. We
therefore solicit papers that directly address the wide range of ethical and
moral questions that lie at the intersection of science and policy.
Within this broad context, we request papers that address the following
suggested topics. The scope of the topics includes, but is not limited to, the
sub-topics listed.
RESEARCH DIRECTIONS DEFENSE APPLICATIONS
+ Ethical Issues in Computing Research + AI and the Conduct of War
+ Research Funding - Sources and Effects + Limits to the Automation of War
+ Responsible Software Development + Automated Defense Systems
COMPUTING IN A DEMOCRATIC SOCIETY COMPUTERS IN THE PUBLIC INTEREST
+ Community Access + Computing for the Handicapped
+ Computerized Voting + Resource Modeling
+ Civil Liberties + Arbitration and Conflict Resolution
+ Risks of the New Technology + Software and the Professions
+ Computing and the Future of Work + Software Safety
Submissions will be read by members of the program committee, with the
assistance of outside referees. The program committee includes Stephen Berlin
(A.I. Architects), Jonathan Jacky (U. WA), Richard Ladner (U. WA), Bev
Littlewood (City U., London) Nancy Leveson (UCI), Peter Neumann (SRI), Luca
Simoncini (U. Reggio Calabria, Italy), Lucy Suchman (Xerox PARC), Terry
Winograd (Stanford), and Elaine Weyuker (NYU).
Complete papers, not exceeding 6000 words, should include an abstract, and a
heading indicating to which topic it relates. Reports on in-progress or
suggested directions for future work will be given equal consideration with
completed work. Submissions will be judged on clarity, insight, significance,
and originality. Papers (4 copies) are due by April 1, 1988. Notices of
acceptance or rejection will be mailed by June 1, 1988. Camera ready copy is
due by July 1, 1988. Send papers to Professor Nancy Leveson, ICS Department,
University of California, Irvine, Irvine, CA 92717.
Proceedings will be distributed at the symposium, and will be available during
the 1988 AAAI conference. The DIAC-87 proceedings are being published by
Ablex. Publishing the DIAC-88 proceedings is planned. The program committee
will select a set of papers to be considered for publication in the
Communications of the ACM.
For further information contact Nancy Leveson (714-856-5517) or Doug Schuler
(206-865-3226).
Sponsored by Computer Professionals for Social Responsibility
P.O. Box 717
Palo Alto, CA 94301
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