brent@media-lab.media.mit.edu (Brent C.J. Britton) (10/11/90)
Dunno if this has been posted here, but the two-day meeting described below is quite apropos (note Barlow is speaking). The person who sent this info to me included these comments: >As a member of CPSR and Stanford staffer I'd like to extend a person a >invitation for you to attend the annual meeting at Stanford University >this month. While CPSR started life as what one member referred to as >"nerds against nukes" they are getting more and more into the area of >computers and civil liberties and less into SDI. --- Forwarded mail follows Please post the following wherever appropriate, or forward it to interested parties. 1990 Annual Meeting of Computer Professionals for Social Responsibility October 20, 21, 1990 Stanford University and Palo Alto, California. The general public is invited. For more information, please call the CPSR National Office at (415) 322-3778. The CPSR Annual Meeting is a substantive, two-day conference addressing critical issues facing society because of the impact of information technology. The meeting will feature well-known speakers on subjects such as civil liberties in electronic communication, using computers for democratic oversight of government, women in the computing profession, and how the public learns about computers through the popular media. Speakers will include: John Perry Barlow, "Civilizing Cyberspace: Computers, Civil Liberties and Freedom." John Perry Barlow, a self-described "techno-crank," has been a Wyoming cattle rancher, a Republican Party official, and a lyricist with the Grateful Dead. He writes articles on computers for MicroTimes and The Whole Earth Review, and he co-founded the Electronic Frontier Foundation with Mitch Kapor. David Burnham, "Turning the Tables: Computer Oversight for Citizens." David Burnham, a former investigative reporter for The New York Times, is author of The Rise of the Computer State (1980) and A Law Unto Itself (1990), an inside look at the Internal Revenue Service. Burnham also works with the Transactional Records Access Clearinghouse at Syracuse University, which examines computerized records of Federal enforcement agencies. Panel discussion: "Women in Computing: Where We Are, Where We Want to Be, and How to Get There." Shari Lawrence Pfleeger, Chair, ACM Committee on Women and Minorities Donna Lehnoff, Women's Legal Defense Fund Barbara Simons, National Secretary, Association for Computing Machinery Dr. Sheila Humphreys, Department of Computer Science, UC Berkeley Moderated by Dr. Anita Borg, DEC Western Research Laboratory Panel discussion: "The Media and 'Mythinformation': How and What Does the Public Learn About Computers?" Bob Abel Multi-media expert, Synapse Technologies Michael Rogers General editor, Newsweek magazine Dr. Rudy Rucker, Science fiction author Brenda Laurel Consultant, interactive entertainment Moderated by Paul Saffo, Institute for the Future James Fallows will be the speaker at the banquet Saturday evening. "The Cold War is Over: Who Won?" The Sunday, October 21, program of the CPSR Annual Meeting will feature workshops on issues such as computing and civil liberties, education, workplace issues, computers and the environment, and other subjects, most self-organized by meeting participants. There will also be a workshop on "Organizing for Change in the 90s." For more information, please call the CPSR National Office at (415) 322-3778. --- End forwarded mail Brent C.J. Britton <brent@media-lab.media.mit.edu> "I never expect to see a perfect work from imperfect man." -- Publius (Alexander Hamilton)